US Coordinator for Counterterrorism Nathan Sales on Thursday accused Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Lebanese movement, of stockpiling across Europe ammonia nitrate - an explosive fertiliser that destroyed the port in Beirut

Italy's Liguria region should create a separate ambulance service dedicated only for elderly people in order to raise the efficiency of health care, Marika Cassimatis, candidate for the presidency of the Liguria Region with the electoral list from the civic society "Constitutional Basis" (Base Costituzionale) told Sputnik

Anastasia Levchenko - Italy's Liguria region must create special help desks to assist businesses that are willing to access European funds and have projects with which they can try, to do so, since in many cases it is the red tape and numerous formal procedures that prevent entrepreneurs from participation, Alice Salvatore, candidate for Liguria presidency at the upcoming regional elections, told Sputnik in an interview

Anastasia Levchenko - Italy's Liguria region needs a complete overhaul of its sanitary system, which at the moment lacks disease prevention initiatives and is designed in a way that encourages people to turn to private centers rather than public service providers, Alice Salvatore, the candidate for Liguria presidency at the upcoming regional elections, told Sputnik in an interview

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her first state of the union speech on Wednesday, offering a recipe of steering the bloc out of the "fragility" exposed by the pandemic toward a "new vitality