Italy PM Meloni urges Gaza aid flotilla to ‘stop now’

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni speaks at the Global Summit World Travel and Tourism Council in Rome, Monday, Sept. 29 , 2025. (AP)
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni speaks at the Global Summit World Travel and Tourism Council in Rome, Monday, Sept. 29 , 2025. (AP)
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Updated 30 September 2025
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Italy PM Meloni urges Gaza aid flotilla to ‘stop now’

Italy PM Meloni urges Gaza aid flotilla to ‘stop now’
  • Insisting on a confrontation with Israel could upset the current “fragile balance” that could lead to peace based on the plan proposed by US President Donald Trump, Meloni said

ROME: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday called on the international aid flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza to immediately stop their mission.
Insisting on a confrontation with Israel could upset the current “fragile balance” that could lead to peace based on the plan proposed by US President Donald Trump, Meloni said.
“Many would be happy to disrupt” that plan, Meloni said in a statement.
“I fear that the flotilla’s attempt to breach the Israeli naval blockade could provide a pretext for this. Also for this reason, I believe the Flotilla should stop now,” she added.

 

 


NATO's Rutte says nuclear drills showed alliance has strong deterrent

NATO's Rutte says nuclear drills showed alliance has strong deterrent
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NATO's Rutte says nuclear drills showed alliance has strong deterrent

NATO's Rutte says nuclear drills showed alliance has strong deterrent
  • Says "Putin must know that nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought"

BERLIN: NATO chief Mark Rutte said the success earlier this month of the military alliance's annual nuclear exercise gave him "absolute confidence in the credibility of NATO's nuclear deterrence" in the face of Russian threats.
"When Russia is using dangerous and reckless nuclear rhetoric, our populations must know that there is no need to panic, because NATO has a strong nuclear deterrent," he was quoted as saying by German weekly Welt am Sonntag.
"And (Russian President Vladimir) Putin must know that nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought.”
Putin has repeatedly warned the West of potential nuclear consequences since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
He declared last month that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was struck with conventional missiles, and that Moscow would consider any assault on it supported by a nuclear power to be a joint attack.