Russian President Vladimir Putin's participation in the G20 summit in Rome, scheduled for late October, is under consideration, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday

Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said on Friday that she was concerned about extremism from the anti-vaccination movement and those who protest against government measures to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic

The Afghan Embassy in Rome is still flying the Islamic Republic's black-red-green flag and does not recognize the interim government announced by the Taliban (a terrorist group banned in Russia), a representative of the diplomatic mission told Sputnik

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, whose country holds the rotating G20 presidency, spoke by phone on Tuesday about ways of resolving the Afghan crisis