Millions of Russians yesterday received a notification from the country's main government portal inviting them to download an app to report security incidents with a focus on drone attacks. The warning in the notification reads: "Contribute to the fight against drones! The Radar app can be used to report suspicious drones or other terrorist emergencies." The news was reported by WP.
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The Russian Interfax agency wrote that representatives of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh separatists will start negotiations tomorrow in the Azerbaijani city of Yevlakh. According to Interfax, Ansa writes, the separatists have decided to lay down their arms as requested by Azerbaijan. The separatist authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh said that the ceasefire was decided on the basis of proposals from the peacekeeper command [...]
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Three years after the truce, Azerbaijan is again targeting Nagorno-Karabakh, launching a military operation against the Armenian enclave. Air raids on Yerevan army positions and besieged cities were thus also intensified.
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Quickly scrolling through the 10 points they seem more like simple and utopian palliatives that are not useful for resolving, or addressing, an epochal emergency which once again seems not to really involve the European institutions which are perhaps most attentive at this moment to the next electoral deadline. Lots of rhetoric and few concrete facts!
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Ukraine's military forces said they attacked two Russian patrol ships operating in the Black Sea and destroyed the sophisticated S-400 "Triumf" surface-to-air missile defense system in Russian-occupied Crimea. Some military analysts have described the loss of such equipment as "tactical failures" on Russia's part.
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The German newspaper DIE Welt has revealed a delicate issue concerning the probable supply of Russian gas to EU countries through a Turkish company that supplies Bulgaria thanks to a 13-year contract, even though the EU has declared that it wants to be totally independent from Moscow gas starting from 2027.
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(by Andrea Pinto) The war in Ukraine and the appeal repeatedly reiterated by NATO to bring the military expenditure of member countries to 2% of national GDP would be leading the EU to a historic decision that would give some breathing space to the economies of some countries that have suffered the most in the post-covid period under a push [...]
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On August 28, the Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources published the 2023 edition of the "National Charter of China", an official document that has become a point of reference for "national sovereignty".
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(by Andrea Pinto) While the Ukrainian attacks by drone in the Crimea and in the western part of Russia continue, Volodymyr Zelensky retracts the feeble openings on a possible path to peace, questioning the cession of some territories in Crimea. Referring to the recent assassination attempt on the head of Wagner Prigozhin, Zelensky thus retracted [...]
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The mess of the meeting between the foreign ministers of Libya and Israel in Rome that caused fierce clashes in Tripoli and forced the suspension and impeachment of the Libyan minister Najla Mangoush, seems not to be a quiet matter from part of the Tripoli government. It is no coincidence, in fact, that the government led by Abdulhamid Dabaiba has rejected the candidacy of a senior Italian diplomat, proposed by Brussels as EU representative in Libya.
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(by Andrea Pinto) The anticipation of the Foglio on the alleged reform of our secret services was also discussed today by Il Giornale. The current information system for the security of the Republic was established with Law 124/2007, which had already reformed the national intelligence sector at the time (Prodi Government). Today in Italy operational intelligence is entrusted [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The Italian premier Giorgia Meloni is still in Puglia for a rest period before tackling, already at the beginning of September, important and very hot dossiers concerning the urgent measures to be put in place to combat the cost of living. Skyrocketing fuel prices, minimum wage, justice reform, migrant emergency, new [...]
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The German newspaper Die Welt has published an article where it reveals that Moscow relies on international shipping companies to transport its oil and many of them fly the Greek flag. A business that Athens does not want to give up and which yields about a quarter of its budget to Russia, compared to about [...]
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Saudi Arabia is trying to become a partner in the consortium of nations that are funding the new generation fighter project called GCAP - Global Combat Air Program. Last December Italy, the United Kingdom and Japan decided to join the efforts of their defense industries to build the fighter of the future, the fighter [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) We feared and in some ways avoided a direct intervention in the affairs of Niger by the private company of Russian mercenaries Wagner. Apparently, however, Wagner and conversely Russia are plotting to set fire to the Sahel. The security and bravado of the Nigerien military junta are proof of this. After […]
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Following Minister Crosetto's complaint, investigations began involving a non-commissioned officer of the Guardia di Finanza accused of having hacked into confidential IT systems, in search of information to accompany the Bank of Italy Alerts relating to suspicious financial transactions, known as Sos. The non-commissioned officer, heard at the beginning of the investigation [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Intervening in Niger? The ultimatum of Ecowas - the community of West African states - launched to the Nigerien coup plotters to return to democratic leadership of the country expires on Sunday. However, just yesterday, the putschists received the support of Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea in the event of a military attack by any block of [...]
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At the end of the meetings in Washington, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni from Villa Firenze, residence of the Italian ambassador to the USA, Mariangela Zappia, explains Italy's new international posture: "I was anticipated by false propaganda, which had recounted the hypothesis of a government as a disaster in the stability of international relations, economic stability and institutions. But […]
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The Interior Ministry of Belarus, in a statement, informed the press that a clear plan of interaction with the private paramilitary company Wagner has been developed. The plan would have emerged following the meeting between the minister Ivan Kurbakov and some representatives of Wagner. “The agenda of the meeting included the issues of interacting with […]
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The bridge over the Strait is not only for Italy but, as told by the newspaper Domani, also for Europe, the Americans and NATO. For this reason the work should be part of the Trans-European Transport Network, a European mobility project designed to improve connections within the Union also from a military point of view as designed for the Turin-Lyon high-speed train. The […]
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In order to avoid isolation from the West, Iran joined the SCO – Shanghai Cooperation Organization – on 4 July last in India, thus becoming the ninth effective member on a par with India, China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan. Until last July 4, Iran was invited to the various meetings of the SCO only as [...]
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“We will not give up” in support for Ukraine, “Vladimir Putin made a wrong bet, namely that support for Kiev would end. We will defend freedom today, tomorrow and for as long as it takes". This is because the idea that the United States can "thrive without a secure Europe is not reasonable," Biden said at the entrance to Vilnius University in Lithuania at [...]
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Before the NATO summit in Vilnius in Lithuania, Joe Biden wanted to send a clear message to the allies on Ukraine's entry into the Alliance: "Kiev is not ready to join NATO ... it must meet other requirements", "there is no unanimity among the member countries" and doing it now "in the middle of a conflict would mean going to war with [...]
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(by Andra Pinto) Yesterday the Ukrainian paramilitaries of the Azov group returned home. They were picked up directly by President Zelensky in Turkey following a very confidential negotiation. So Zelensky on twitter: “We return from Turkey and bring our heroes home. Finally they will be with their relatives. Glory to Ukraine!“. On the presidential flight there were: [...]
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Confirmation from the president of Belarus Lukashenko: "The fighters of the Wagner group are in their camps, their permanent camps, the ones where they have been since they left the front". Prigozhin, Lukashenko added yesterday, is not in the territory of Belarus but he is in St. Petersburg and perhaps this morning he went to Moscow. The news […]
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The policeman who opened fire on Nahel, the 17-year-old boy killed on Tuesday in Nanterre near Paris, was investigated for "intentional homicide" and placed in temporary detention. Clashes between the police and young Frenchmen continued tonight. The tensions had started last Thursday at the end of the "white march" [...]
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Switzerland has vetoed plans to export nearly 100 decommissioned Leopard tanks to Ukraine, citing the country's neutrality laws. The veto could unleash the resentment of the European allies, who for months have been pressuring Bern to loosen its restrictive interpretation of the policy referring to exports in [...]
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The Belarusian news agency Belta reported Lukashenko's words: “Prigozhin is in Belarus today and I asked Vladimir Putin not to eliminate Prigozhin. I told Putin we can kill him, it's not a problem. Either on the first try or on the second. But I asked him not to." The president of Belarus then [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) International experts and observers are still unable to understand the reasons behind Prigozhin's turnaround. He started the march for justice from Rostov, causing corrupt Russian oligarchs and ministers to flee, just 200 km from Moscow he returned back to Rostov and then disappeared into thin air. His loyalists, according to the agreement [...]
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Su Repubblica Gianluca Di Feo tells an indiscretion that could explain the lack of bloodshed at the gates of Moscow. The Airborne Forces, the only ones capable of dealing with Wagner's warriors in the field, did not obey either Defense Minister Shoigu, or Commander-in-Chief Gerasimov. On the basis of the emergency plan "Fortezza" [...]
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Red Square and Lenin's Mausoleum have been closed to visitors due to events, Ria Novosti reports, citing the press and public relations department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. "Security measures have been strengthened in Moscow, the most important sites are subjected to greater security", as well as [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) There are many reasons for friction between the United States and China: Taiwan, free trade, the microchip industry, human rights, support for Russia and the Belt & Road Initiative. Just to mention the most important, leaving aside the question of the alleged spy balloons and the military training base in Cuba. The initiatives are weak [...]
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Yesterday Blinken before meeting President Xi Jinping, a meeting not entirely taken for granted and never confirmed since Blinken landed in Beijing, spent several hours with the highest representative of Chinese foreign policy Wang Yi. The confrontation with Wang Yi was very tough when the Chinese high representative, referring to the States [...]
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Ukraine immediately into NATO with the creation of a Kiev-Alliance Council, to prepare the political and military bureaucratic practices when Ukraine will then become an effective member. So it was decided, with not a little mistrust, in recent days in Brussels at the defense ministerial. Confirmation of the line is expected at the next summit on 11 and 12 July [...]
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At the end of last year, Iran envoy Robert Malley met with UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani, and White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk, who went to Oman to discuss with nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani. According to the WP the day before yesterday the supreme leader Khamenei partially confirmed the contacts, saying [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Silvio Berlusconi's death yesterday shook the chancelleries of half the world. The news bounced in an instant in every corner of the planet. All the most important newspapers worldwide have told the story of a man, of an Italian who wrote, for better or for worse, [...]
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The possibility that the entire satellite system could go haywire all at once and at the same time could be a reality not so much to overlook. In the blink of an eye mobile phones would stop chirping, navigation systems would crash, television screens would go blank and financial transactions would fail throwing all […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Artificial intelligence represents a threat to national security, according to British counter-terrorism experts. The technology could be used to persuade vulnerable people to carry out terrorist attacks, experts warn. The debate in England among legislators is open enough to place the issue among the most sensitive ones concerning […]
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(by Roberto Vescio) Cyber security represents one of the main issues that the digital transition must take into consideration since, alongside the opportunities that new developments in networks and new applications will bring, new threats are appearing above all in the world of newbies who interact with full confidence across networks. An essential condition, shared […]
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Lake Maggiore in Italy at the center of an international intrigue where Italian and Israeli secret service agents "accidentally" died following the sinking of a strange and controversial boat on which they were crowded, beyond the permitted number. It all happened last Sunday, as a Corsera investigation writes, when 21 secret agents both [...]
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Chinese premier Li Qiang praised the "strategic cooperation partnership" between Beijing and Moscow, during the meeting held in the Great Hall of the People with his equal Russian Mikhail Mishustin, welcomed with a grand welcome ceremony held in Tiananmen Square. A Memorandum of Understanding on trade cooperation in services was signed, […]
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The question and answer between Moscow and Kiev to establish the paternity of the clashes in the Russian region of Belgorod is alive. Yesterday, the first messages spoke of Ukrainian forces having penetrated Russian territory and grappling with the forces of Moscow. After a few hours, the Russian partisans of Freedom of Russia and [...]
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The Government of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and Eni start collaboration in the sectors of exploration, Natural Climate Solutions, agriculture, sustainability and health The Government of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau and Eni have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore potential areas of collaboration in the fields of exploration, Natural Climate Solutions, agriculture, sustainability and […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Volodymir Zelensky was on a "diplomatic" pilgrimage to Europe, making short stops in Italy, Germany, France and England. One way to announce to the countries that support the Ukrainian war effort the beginning of something important, definitive and which once started does not foresee a return but only the abyss dictated by the uncertainty of [...]
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The Axios portal has revealed the American project to hinder the Chinese Silk Road. On the table a railway and maritime network capable of uniting the Middle and Far East, Saudi Arabia and India and why not, in the future also Israel. The US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan would have talked about it during the [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Over the years, China has become the largest shipbuilder in the world, accounting for about 41% of global production, according to UNCTAD data (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development). Beijing is also the largest maritime trader in the world, with its port traffic accounting for 32% of traffic [...]
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The island of Christiansö in the Baltic Sea is the Danish outpost in front of the Nordstream 2 gas pipeline, which made world news due to a sabotage that took place on 26 September last. The Danish police are examining several hypotheses. Meanwhile, off Christiansö, a boat specializing in underwater exploration continues to collect clues, escorted by a navy ship [...]
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The joint and inter-agency exercise will be preceded by the NATO Noble Jump '23 exercise From 8 to 26 May 2023 in Sardinia, at the Decimomannu airport, in the polygons of Capo Teulada and Salto di Quirra and in the maritime areas in front of the "Joint Stars" will carry out the most important national and inter-agency joint exercise of the Defense, planned and conducted by the Command [...]
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“I am proud of the teamwork that led to the success of this delicate and complex evacuation operation. I thank the Italian military, intelligence and diplomacy”, said the Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani on twitter. Thus in a note yesterday evening the Farnesina announced the success of the operation: "The first [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The United States has completed the evacuation of the staff of its embassy in Sudan. The American media reported it, quoting some sources, according to which the families of the embassy staff were also evacuated. The evacuation was conducted via a US military aircraft, but it is still unclear where embassy staff are headed. With […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Not publicly but in private rooms, this is the new trend that allows small anonymous groups of people to chat privately. Participation can only take place upon invitation from one of the members of the virtual room. More restrictively, there are rooms where entry is granted only by the administrator […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Online video game platforms, role exchange, exciting challenges that keep you attached to a screen until you lose touch with physical reality. The emotions and involvement are so strong as to make you identify with the character, in your skin that you have created by "paying" hundreds of euros to shape it […]
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Classified Pentagon documents leaking online reveal inconvenient details such as those about Ukraine's air defenses and Israel's Mossad spy agency – it would emerge that the Israeli spy agency encouraged its staff and the public to participate in the protest movement against the reform of the judiciary and the weakening of the powers of the […]
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A secret dossier has ended up on the net, a classified document summarizing the American and NATO commitment to the war in Ukraine. A lightness in the American control systems or the will to divulge what you want the enemy to know in order to confuse him? The fact is that the dossier speaks of about 100 soldiers [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) April 4, 2023 marks a historic date, Finland is officially a member of NATO, thus increasing the borders of the Alliance (another 1340 km) close to Russia. Even if NATO and Western countries celebrate the day by fueling the hopes of entry of Sweden and Ukraine, many believe that this [...]
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Last Friday, the President of the Republic signed the decree law which kicks off the work of dreams, dreams made by almost all governments after the Second World War. The bridge over the Strait of Messina (3666 km) is a sumptuous 10 billion euro project that will open construction sites starting from July [...]
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With an open letter published by the non-profit Future of Life Institute, Elon Musk and a thousand other researchers have sounded the alarm about the dangers of artificial intelligence. The sentence with the highest impact is the one that poses a strong question to the scientific community: "Artificial intelligence poses profound risks for society and humanity and for this it would [...]
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(by Lorenzo Midili and Giuseppe Paccione) On the judicial level, something is moving around the figure of the one who for over a year has set in motion the aggressive war machine against a sovereign and independent country; we are talking about the Russian president Vladimir Putin, on whom an international arrest warrant is pending. This mandate is […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) In the end what we have always avoided is happening. We probably or inevitably favored China's rapprochement with Russia, with unpredictable consequences for the West, with bitter tastes for the future of the economy and for the growth of tensions in the military field. The meeting in Moscow between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping sanctions, of [...]
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There is the strictest secrecy regarding Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow, some revelations in the press say that Xi will propose to Vladimir Putin to seek a common solution to end the war in Ukraine. Many speak, however, of proposing a truce to the Ukrainian counterpart. On the probable truce, the spokesman for the Council for [...]
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Fixed fighters and Ukrainian pilot training. Poland will deliver four Mig-29s to Kiev, tactically they have an irrelevant significance, but symbolically they can be disruptive because Poland is an EU and NATO nation. Slovakia, Finland and the Netherlands could also deliver air defense aircraft. Americans have […]
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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held telephone conversations with his American counterpart Lloyd Austin. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry, specifying that the talks took place on American initiative. While Washington complains about the increasingly aggressive behavior of Moscow, with a statement, the Minister of Defense of Moscow, Sergei [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The defense chiefs of Great Britain and Italy will visit Japan this week to hold meetings with their local counterparts, Japanese defense minister Yasukazu Hamada said yesterday. A trilateral meeting with the British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace and the Minister of Defense is scheduled for Thursday [...]
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The Chinese military is closely watching the warfare techniques used in the Ukraine conflict to enhance its capabilities in possible future conflicts with the United States. The objective of military research is to be able to shoot down the starlink satellites in low orbit in order to be able to defend tanks and helicopters from the deadly Javelin missiles [...]
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In a note, the Air Force General Staff announced that following the accident that occurred in the late morning, Lieutenant Colonel Cipriano Giuseppe and Major Meneghello Marco, both in service at the 60th Stormo of the Air Force, lost their lives. based in Guidonia (RM). The news was communicated to the families of the two officers, [...]
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Moscow oil traffic off the Indian Ocean, away from trade routes. Repubblica resumes an investigation by the WSJ where it is told how Moscow circumvents the sanctions with the complicity of the large global oil companies. Oil companies get 49 percent of their crude oil needs from firms in Moscow. To avoid […]
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Professor Alessandro Orsini spoke in "Cartabianca", on Tuesday 28 February 2023. The expert commented on the latest developments related to the war in Ukraine, considering first of all very difficult that the conflict will spread to Moldova and Transnistria, above all "for a geographical reason. Moldova borders Romania, which is a landlocked NATO country […]
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The Ukrainians fed up with being bombed for over a year dare to send some rudimentary drones with small explosive charges across the borders towards Russia. Some energy infrastructures were affected, while a small drone - Ukrainian UJ-22 - traveled over 600 km and then crashed about 100 km from Moscow. In Moldova […]
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A Russian A-50 military plane was damaged a few hours ago by a drone strike while parked at an airport near the Belarusian capital of Minsk. This was reported to Reuters by some Belarusian partisans and members of the opposition, now in exile. The front and central parts of the aircraft, as well as the radar antenna, were damaged at […]
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After a year of war we are preparing for the showdown: we sharpen our weapons for the spring assault
After a year of war there is no peace. United Nations votes against Russia. Der Spiegel: China ready to sell drones to Russia. The US allocates another 2 billion. G7: ready to give more help. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) The war in Ukraine today enters its first year without being able to see any on the horizon [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Yesterday was a day that will be written in the history books of our children and grandchildren. While Vladimir Putin from the Duma thundered against the Western world, Biden from Poland responded in kind by emphasizing a united and determined West in fighting the invader of Ukraine. Putin has launched the challenge to the United States by suspending the Treaty on [...]
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China is very concerned about the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine which is escalating and also spiraling out of control. We call for dialogue to be promoted, said Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. "We will continue to promote peace dialogue and we will work with the international community for this, to address the concerns of [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) So Zelensky spoke remotely at the security conference in Munich: "We are all David against Goliath. David is the whole free world. Freedom is a value in all parts of the world. And there is no alternative to Goliath's defeat and our victory. Being David means fighting, Ukraine is a […]
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For NATO, the EU, the US and the UK, a new challenge lies ahead, the logistical one, because the Ukrainian armed forces need to be resupplied as soon as possible, given that Russia has intensified its firepower. Russia manages to send an average of 20.000 artillery pieces a day to Ukraine, equal to the European monthly production.
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Washington Post has revealed the American moves "under the table" to try to turn the Ukrainian conflict around. Under consideration by Congress the use of the "1202 Program" which provides for the use of US special forces directly on the ground to assist the Ukrainians in raids and in counter-information, or to lead the Kiev military from [...]
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After meeting with British officials, the Ukrainian leader went to Paris to meet Macron and Scholz. The request is to have fighter planes and long-range missiles as soon as possible. Italian premier Giorgia Meloni was not invited. Nor had the French president told her anything about [...]
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Yesterday morning around 06.00 two earthquakes, four aftershocks of degrees between 6,4 and 7,7 shook ten different cities between Turkey and Syria. Erdogan: "the most disastrous earthquake since 1938". The terrible earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria yesterday morning was devastating with 4372 dead. The bulletin of the deceased unfortunately [...]
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The Civil Protection Department has issued an alert for possible tsunami waves arriving on the Italian coasts following the 7.9 magnitude earthquake with its epicenter between Turkey and Syria at 2:17. In a statement, the Civil Protection "recommends moving away from the coastal areas, reaching the higher nearby area and [...]
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A Chinese hot air balloon over Montana. The American military commands are on alert, reporting the unfortunate intruder in the airspace. China immediately ran for cover, reporting that it was a normal civilian aircraft for meteorological studies, which got out of control. The Pentagon wanted to destroy it but the fear of the fall of [...]
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Russia is ready to launch a massive attack before more than 100 new Western tanks arrive in late March. Therefore, it is urgent to remedy as soon as possible in order not to lose other territories. The Bakhmut area is at the center of the dispute in these hours. The USA have therefore decided to send new long-lasting missiles [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto in the Chamber has outlined the new Italian posture in the face of global challenges. In Defense it is necessary to carry out a Copernican revolution to always be ready to face challenges and new threats that come not only from the East (Russia and Asia) but also from the South, from the African continent [...]
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Italy is at Ukraine's side by sending Israeli weapons, ammunition, drones and intelligence resources. (by Francesco Matera) Rome has decided to send a unit of the Samp-T surface-to-air system to Kiev equipped with about twenty missiles (the others will be supplied by the French), together with pieces of heavy artillery, movement tanks and groups generators. Second […]
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The Military Historical Society under the patronage of the Russian Defense Ministry has set up a traveling exhibition entitled "Heroes with Eternally Russian Hearts". The exhibition consists of 48 panels where the Russian fallen in Ukraine are told. The phrase that stands out at the beginning of the exhibition: “In more than a thousand years of Russia's existence, […]
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Today in Remstein in Germany the Western summit to decide strategies and new military supplies to Ukraine. Yesterday the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev thundered: "The defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke the outbreak of an atomic war". Germany, meanwhile, hesitates and [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested by the Carabinieri del Ros, after 30 years on the run. The investigation that led to the arrest of the Castelvetrano (Tp) mafia boss was coordinated by the Palermo prosecutor Maurizio de Lucia and the deputy prosecutor Paolo Guido. The news, in a few hours, made the rounds of [...]
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Yesterday Frontex, the European Border Surveillance Agency, published a new report according to which the number of "illegal" migrants who arrived in the European Union last year is the highest recorded since 2016. The most traveled route remains the Balkan one, but, especially in recent months, the landings on the Italian coasts of immigrants from [...]
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The Senate approved the sixth decree which extends the shipment of weapons to Kiev until 31 December 2023. With 125 votes in favor and 38 against, the decree for the transfer of military vehicles, materials and equipment to the Ukrainian government authorities was converted. The decree provides that the shipment of weapons can take place in derogation [...]
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An unknown number of classified documents were found by Biden's lawyers in an office he used at Penn Biden Center when he was vice president. The discovery dates back to November 2, just before the Midterm elections. On the same day, Biden's lawyers informed the National Archives, which took possession of [...]
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Thousands of supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Parliament area in Brasilia managing to enter the outer space surrounding the Palace. The area was guarded by the police but the Bolsonarists, many of whom with the Carioca flag on their shoulders, managed to break through the security cordon and several [...]
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According to some familiar with the dynamics of the appointment, Russia is trying to block the reappointment of the Danish head of the main UN environment agency, following a highly critical report on the impact of the war in Ukraine. According to two UN sources, Russia has been acting for several months against the reappointment of Inger Andersen, an economist with […]
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The United States is increasingly looking to Africa after decades of neglect. Joe Biden, also following the acclaimed Chinese and Russian expansionist aims, has recently decided to concentrate every diplomatic effort to bring the needle of regional influence back to the American side. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) The document "Strategy of the United States towards sub-Saharan Africa" published [...]
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Europe and the United States have convinced Serbia to stop the protests in the north of Kosovo where minorities of Serbian origin live, softened by Aleksandar Vucic and invited to remove the barricades in Mitrovica and other northern towns. Vucic then revoked the state of alert for the Serbian armed forces and [...]
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Kosovo has closed its main border with Serbia after Belgrade placed its army on high alert. Brussels and Washington are concerned about the tense situation in northern Kosovo and have called for immediate action to de-escalate. Thus in a joint note: "We ask [...]
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Libya is far from peaceful. It is a powder keg ready to explode which will cause Italy a great deal of trouble, aware of the fact that over 600 refugees from all over Africa and the Middle East are massed in those lands. On the website of the Ministry of the Interior, data on migratory flows affecting our […]
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A chaotic end-of-year manoeuvre, with the vote of confidence in the Chambers and the technicians of the Mef (Giorgetti's department) who do not collaborate. Between realignments of the tables and search for roofing, the first of the Meloni government is to be forgotten net of the few measures that can be implemented due to the absorption of most of the resources [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Space is increasingly sought after by the superpowers every day because it is considered essential for military operations, not only in the defensive phase, for the detection and tracking of missiles, but also in the offensive phase, for geolocation, navigation, identification of targets and detection/control of military activities in general. China, United States […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Russia, the United States, China and Europe are competing to equip their armies with increasingly advanced armaments. Supremacy in the military field is one of the main objectives for competing and asserting one's influence on the international scene, especially after the events of the Russo-Ukrainian war that undermined the old [...]
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Putin yesterday explained to one of the members of the Human Rights Council that Russia possesses nuclear weapons only for deterrent purposes, but it is not certain that it cannot use them first. Russia has specified Putin "will not use the atomic arsenal first under any circumstances, it means that it will not even use it [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The International Legion fights in Ukraine and can count on funding and armaments from the regular army of Kiev. The paramilitaries come from around 52 countries and are mostly of British origin. Their pay varies from 1200 euros to just over 2500 euros. Very interesting is the report […]
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Adolfo Urso, fresh from his mandate on space, took part in the ESA ministerial meeting in Paris last Tuesday together with the representatives of the European governments to shore up the strategies and investment programs for aerospace policies for the next three years. A new challenge, space, is attracting the countries that more than the others are investing resources and […]
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During the G20 in Bali, the bilateral meeting between Meloni and Erdogan appeared very cordial, so much so that, as reported by the Agi, the agreement signed in 2018 between the Turkish defense companies Aselsan and Roketsan with Eurosam (consortium which includes Mbda Italy, Mbda France and Thales). At the basis of the agreement is the update of the […]
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Tehran's secret services are reportedly targeting Iranians abroad more, especially journalists and dissidents. According to Western analysts, a strong response is underway to the popular uprising that is escalating in Iran, triggered by the brutal death of the young woman, Mahsa Amini, who would have been killed in police custody [...]
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At least two Russian missiles hit a farm in the Polish village of Przewodow killing two people. On pro-Russian twitter groups there is talk of missiles that fell in Poland because they were hit by Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire. The Russian Defense Ministry has denied that the missiles that fell on Poland were Russian, emphasizing that they were not [...]
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Eni, as Delegated Operator of the Coral South project on behalf of its partners in Area 4 (ExxonMobil, CNPC, GALP, KOGAS and ENH) informs that the first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced by the Coral field, in ultra -deep waters of the Rovuma basin, has just departed from the Coral Sul Floating Liquefied Natural Gas […]
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In the US Midterm elections, the Republicans do not spread and maintain their positions. The outcome consolidates the Democrats and opens up new scenarios for the race to the White House in 2024 with a Donald Trump coming out with broken bones and Joe Biden ready to reapply. In the evening Biden said that the outcome of the vote is [...]
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The procurement of Russian arms from Iran and North Korea heralds a growing convergence of military and diplomatic interests between Moscow and the two anti-Western and IC-sanctioned countries. Washington has accused Russia of procuring large quantities of artillery ammunition from Pyongyang, as well as missiles and drones which it is already purchasing from Iran. [...]
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Internal tensions remain in the majority, linked to the attribution of proxies between the various ministries and the creation of two inter-ministerial committees set up by the Prime Minister. Meloni is determined to do everything possible to centralize the most delicate dossiers in Palazzo Chigi, so as to be able to personally manage the key games. A strategy [...]
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The United States and NATO will have to provide Farsi language analysts and teach Farsi to Ukrainian intelligence analysts. This will allow Ukrainian intelligence analysts to better identify Iranian military advisors present in Crimea and possibly capture them. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) Tehran has sent its consultants to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in [...]
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Protests against the Iranian government regained vigor after the funeral commemorating the people killed by the security forces. The police initiated a further round of arrests and repression. Dozens of cities in Iran were shaken by protests on Wednesday evening, on the day when the crowd - young boys - remembered [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Heartfelt, sumptuous, all heart and pride for Italy, so the speech of Prime Minister Meloni in front of the Chamber where there was a veiled emotion: before starting to speak for 70 uninterrupted minutes he said between the lines to his two deputies sitting next to him: "I'm dead ... !!". Drank a sip of water he [...]
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The new Italian premier, Giorgia Meloni, wastes no time and meets Emmanuel Macron on the terrace of the Gran Melià in Rome. In a note, Palazzo Chigi makes it known that it was a cordial and fruitful meeting, confirmed by Macron himself in a tweet: "As Europeans, as neighboring countries, as friendly peoples, with Italy we must continue all [...]
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(by Emanuela Ricci and Massimiliano D'Elia) I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother and I am a Christian. So sounded the charge - "thundered" - the new premier Giorgia Meloni during a rally. He had thus publicly launched and, in his own way, the cornerstones of the Brothers of Italy line focused on recognizing the role of women [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Turkey signed a new agreement with Libya a few days ago for the exploitation of gas and oil fields under concession that expels Italy and other international players from Libyan resources. After the 2019 agreement signed by Erdogan and the then president of the Libyan presidential council al Serraj, Turkey and [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) On the last day of September, a ceremony was held in the heart of the Kremlin, in which the tenant Vladimir Putin entered into treaties with the delegations of four entities established on Ukrainian territory, the so-called (farces) republics areas of Donetsk and Luhansk and the oblasts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. Clearly, to reach [...]
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Ansa reported that North Korea today launched two new ballistic missiles towards the Sea of Japan. The alarm was raised by the South Korean army general staff: two short-range ballistic missiles launched from the Samsok area, in Pyongyang, towards the Sea of Japan. The new launches [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) For weeks, the tenant of the Kremlin has been using nuclear weapons against the West that supports Ukraine, in order to obtain a victory that is increasingly distant. Moscow has communicated the outcome of the referendum (farce) for the annexation of the territories where the elections were held illegitimate or obtained by forcing citizens under the threat of [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione and Massimiliano D'Elia) The Born for months with its assets is in constant alarm and almost every day is measured with Russian provocations. Our Air Force planes are garrisoning the Baltic and on more than one occasion have had to intercept Russian fighters that had violated Alliance airspace. Yesterday [...]
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With 114 seats in the Senate, the CDX breakfast can govern with tranquility and autonomy, while in the Chamber it borders on 43 percent. Giorgia Meloni's party is first with almost 26% of consensus, followed by the Democratic Party which with 19,4% does not exceed the psychological threshold of 20%. The Five Movement [...]
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Yesterday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a British Telegraph journalist that in Ukraine we cannot talk about war but still about a Special Military Operation. According to Foreign Minister Lavrov, Ukraine is becoming a totalitarian Nazi state. In the meantime, Putin continues with his strategy, calling for a referendum [...]
Read More(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The war in Ukraine is taking a direction that does not help Vladimir Putin both internally and abroad. The defeat of the Russian forces in the Kharkiv region does not portend a rapid end to the conflict. The Russian army was unable to overwhelm the Ukrainian one with the help of Western intelligence and resources [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Tomorrow morning, Undersecretary for Services, Franco Gabrielli will report to Copasir on the story of the alleged Russian funding to political parties and leaders of about 20 foreign countries. The alarm was raised by the 007 in Washington on the 'soft power' exercised by Moscow, secretly transferring from 2014, the year of the occupation of Crimea, over 300 million [...]
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The purchase of Indian and Chinese oil has offset most of the decline in Russian exports to Europe, thus raising questions about the impact of sanctions on Moscow which have instead led to a skyrocketing energy bills for European consumers. An analysis by the Financial Times on available data from Chinese and Indian customs statistics shows [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The United States is increasingly looking to Africa after decades of disinterest. Joe Biden, recently, also following the overt Chinese and Russian expansionist aims, has decided to concentrate every diplomatic effort to bring the hand of regional influence back to the American side. In fact, since the beginning of the century, China has gone from [...]
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The clashes in Tripoli in recent days have involved militias close to the government of Abdul Hamid Ddeibah, recognized by the UN, and those close to Fathi Bashaga, premier recognized by the parliament based in Tobruck, particularly close to Russia. The first ones prevailed, with Ddeibah who also granted himself, as a sign of strength, a [...]
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The lines written on an article in the investigative newspaper Bellingcat reveal some rumors about the modus operandi of the Gru (one of the Russian intelligence services), in creating a new identity for their operative agents from nothing. On August 8, 2005, the Civil Registry Office of the Independencia District in Lima, Peru received an application for registration […]
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As Ukraine celebrated its 31 years of independence yesterday, Russia, without mercy, attacked the country with ferocity by hitting a railway station. To spoil the party, Moscow launched a missile attack on a railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region. In the meantime, Washington has circulated the news that Moscow is preparing a referendum [...]
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The Afghan Taliban are said to be in talks with Russia to import 1 million tons of petroleum products, giving in exchange raw materials for medicines and mineral resources. A Taliban delegation is currently in Moscow for meetings with Russian officials and private companies to strengthen trade ties and encourage investment in the Asian nation […]
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The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) hosts the “Pitch Black” air drill, a type of large-scale training with 16 other nations including the United States, Great Britain and France. The exercise, which will last until 8 September, foresees the participation of over 100 military aircraft engaged in thousands of combat scenarios conducted by [...]
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Truss: England will continue with the Navy to manage the flow of migrants
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Yesterday Vladimir Putin in Koubinka, a town near Moscow, during an international arms fair boasted those in possession of the Russian army. Although some Western services have pointed out that Russia revealed its weaknesses during the war in Ukraine, the Russian president promised his allies "the most modern weapons of [...]
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From 13 to 27 August next in Venezuela, in the city of Barquisimeto, in the state of Lara, in the north-west of the country, there will be a military exercise advertised as a sporting event called "Army Games" in which Russian troops will participate. China and Iran. It is the first time that Russian-led drones and sniper commando [...]
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken went to Africa two days ago to give a strong response to the trip of his Russian counterpart Lavrov who visited Egypt, Uganda, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the end of July. Lavrov sought support for Moscow after the war events in Ukraine [...]
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Taipei is certain, the Chinese military forces are simulating the invasion of the island. The Defense of Taiwan monitors the moves of the Chinese People's Army with fighters and military ships. In addition to the launch of hypersonic missiles, the use of spy drones and the massive use of special forces, China would be trying new armaments in action, a way to make people understand [...]
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After Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, China did not stand by by organizing an impressive military exercise close to the island which will see ballistic missile launches, fighter jet overflights and tactical movements of warships until Sunday evening. A taste for world public opinion of what Beijing could [...]
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The number of would-be Sudanese migrants to Europe, passing through Morocco, has increased dramatically as the passage through Libya has become increasingly difficult. To write it today is the French newspaper Le Monde which, in detail, tells the story of some who survived a recent shipwreck. Issam has a hand in plaster, shoulder pain [...]
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(by Lorenzo Midili) Cyberwar, also called cyberwarfare, is a war directed by computers, by states or their operators against other states. Known as "cyber warfare," it is usually waged against government and military networks in order to disrupt, destroy or even deny its use. Cyber warfare, often identified as espionage or crime [...]
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Two hours and seventeen minutes, as long as the phone call between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping lasted, it is the fifth time that the two leaders have heard each other over the phone on the hottest issues in the world. Next time, they vowed, they will meet in person. Apparently, reading the press releases launched at the end of the phone call, [...]
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In the end Giorgia Meloni got it right: whoever gets the most votes will have the task of indicating the premier. The polls that see Fdi flying over 25% are could not be ignored by Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini who wisely, this time, have decided to team up to win, clearly, the elections and send [...]
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Ukrainian ports are back to work at full capacity, according to the Ukrainian Navy, while the center for the coordination of operations also begins its supervision activity in Istanbul. A joint center, a kind of operations room, which will have to guarantee the safe passage of Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea, following the agreement between [...]
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In a note, the Russian energy giant Gazprom says that starting from Wednesday it will reduce gas supplies to Germany by another 20 percentage points, which will therefore lose about 33 million cubic meters per day. The reason given by the company refers to the repair of the Siemens turbine. The news leads to [...]
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Ukraine has accused Russia of launching four Kalibr cruise missiles on Odessa, thus threatening the wheat deal signed yesterday in Istanbul. Stop the condemnation of the EU with Borrell and Gentiloni. Zelensky attacks: "Prove only one thing: no matter what Russia says or promises, it will find a way not to implement the agreement". Turkey is concerned "for the [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Italy and its government crisis in the dark worries the chancelleries of half the world. The United States and the European Union are watching the Italian situation very carefully after the latest events in the Chamber which, almost for certain, give rise to the early dissolution of the Chambers by President Mattarella who, without carrying out the [...]
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The dossier on Ukrainian wheat could be resolved shortly, as confirmed by the Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar: "a matter of days and there will be a new meeting, an opportunity to define the details and review the points on which an agreement has already been reached. reached up". It is important that the agreement is reached as soon as possible for [...]
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“We talk about themes, we bring concrete proposals. Isn't this the role of Parliament? Compact forward together with Giuseppe Conte, always on the side of the citizens ”. Paola Taverna, senator and deputy vice president of the M5s writes on Facebook. (by Francesco Matera) That of the Taverna one of the many expressions of the members of the Movement that represents the [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Draghi's resignation is like a cold shower for all Western chancelleries. Only Italy, in its healthy madness, manages to force a personality like Mario Draghi to resign. We have an important figure who is respected, but above all who is listened to, almost with reverence, by Washington and Brussels. To us, […]
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War of energy and wheat (by Massimiliano D'Elia) In the end Putin is probably succeeding in his crazy plan, which is not so crazy: to undermine Western democracies that for years have rested on the conviction of lasting peace guaranteed by NATO and the United Nations. Less convincing, however, is the Union's ability to influence [...]
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, during an election rally in Nara, was shot by a man who has already been arrested by local police. At the moment Abe seems to show no signs of life. According to local authorities, Shinzo Abe was shot in the chest and shoulders twice at close range. The episode is [...]
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The first Statistical Observatory on the Universal Single Check (AUU) will be released today, which reports the data relating to the AUU applications presented in the period January-May 2022 and payments relating to the quarter of competence March-May 2022. The Observatory provides an overview of essential statistical information on the beneficiaries of the measure and on their economic values. The elaborations [...]
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The provisional toll of the victims of the collapse of a huge serac on the Marmolada is six dead, 9 wounded and 16 missing. This was announced to ANSA by Gianpaolo Bottacin, Veneto regional councilor for civil protection. "The situation is evolving - he says - and it is currently difficult to give an account of what happened with certainty". "I'm [...]
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Some Chinese college students work in a secret technology society that has masked the true nature of the business from them: to seek out Western espionage targets and translate hacked documents. The Financial Times identified and contacted 140 potential translators, mostly recent graduates who studied English at public universities in Hainan, Sichuan and Xi'an. [...]
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The Russians advance, conquer new cities after razing them: Mariupol, Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and now they are focusing on Kramatorsk. Putin's missiles again lick Kiev, Kharkiv and Cherkasy, but also the training centers of volunteers in the Lviv region. The big seven yesterday from Berlin decided to apply the embargo [...]
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US President Biden arrived in Germany last night to participate in the G7, a summit of particular value in the light of the new world order, launched by the predominant autocracies, China and Russia. The goal is to continue in Russia's isolation and start a new sanctioning course against China, guilty of indirectly helping [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Sarmat ICBM, the most sophisticated and feared weapon in the Kremlin's arsenal, will be operational by the end of this year. This was announced by Vladimir Putin himself, speaking to young graduates of Russian military academies. A proud and proud Putin announced to the cadets the operation, by the end of the year, of his [...]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday sent another video to talk to his people: "the Black Sea will be safe and ours, everything will be rebuilt, Russia does not have enough missiles to break the Ukrainians' will to live". Meanwhile the Kiev Parliament has banned the import of Russian books and newspapers and [...]
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Faced with a daily request for gas by Eni of approximately 63 million cubic meters, Gazprom has announced that it will supply only 50% of what is requested. Eni itself announced the data which, in response to the requests made by the Italian company, Gazprom informed that it would deliver only 65% [...]
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Russia opens to a peace intervention by the Pope. Poland is wary of a mission in Kiev by the Scholz-Macron-Draghi trio. Ukraine, on the other hand, presents a shopping list at the meeting of defense ministers to be held today at NATO in Brussels. On the ground, Severodonetsk is practically surrounded and the connections with Lisichansk are [...]
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Last Friday in Singapore the US Defense Secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, and the Chinese Defense Minister, General Wei Fenghe, met for the second time. They had spoken last April by telephone. After a couple of jabs on the Taiwan island issue, the talks apparently continued with intentions [...]
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Recently, the Draghi government had to apply the special powers of the golden power to block the foreign sale of Italian entrepreneurial jewels. Legislative Decree no.21 / 2012 marks the transition from a golden share regime to a golden power system. It allows the exercise of special powers with regard to all companies that carry out significant activities [...]
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The Russian newspaper Izvestia revealed Turkey's plan to resolve the Ukrainian wheat issue. It will be the Turkish navy to mine the Black Sea and then escort the Ukrainian ships in neutral waters. The goal is to free up almost 53 million [...]
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An armed attack followed by a series of explosions, yesterday in Nigeria a massacre in a Catholic church: dozens of deaths including women and children. The causes as well as the motive are not yet known but all investigators think of the continuing inter-ethnic and inter-religious tensions between local populations and the Fulani Islamic nomadic shepherds. [...]
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Russia and Ukraine produce only a third of the world's wheat and barley, but most of this is sold to African countries, which import 40% of their needs from them, while Rwanda, Tanzania and Senegal reach 60%. , Egypt at 80%. The grain freeze cost Kiev 11% of [...]
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Vladimir Putin is ill with cancer and escaped an assassination attempt in March. These are the conclusions of a secret report by the US 007 after the rumors that have been running around in recent weeks, according to what 'Newsweek' reveals, citing three executives from three different American intelligence agencies. In detail, the informants of [...]
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Three additional helicopters ordered for rescue missions. The helicopters will be provided by CHC Australia operator to the Emergency Rescue Helicopter Service (EHRS) in Western Australia, with deliveries in early 2023 The AW139 is the most successful helicopter in its class in Australia for helicopter rescue and is was also chosen by several operators in the country [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) The military conduct, corroborated by the aggression by Russia against Ukraine, causing enormous suffering to the civilian population and the destruction of public and private structures, up to the point of razing some Ukrainian cities to the ground, was considered by the international community as falling within the context of a real war. This last word is [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Until yesterday, Russia has flaunted its superiority to the world in the hypersonic armaments sector. Last month, Moscow announced that it was using Kinzhal, hypersonic ballistic missiles with nuclear or conventional capability, launched from a modified Mig-31 for the first time in Ukraine. One of the six "next generation" weapons [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Yesterday from Finland a historic decision by President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin who wrote about their opinion of membership of NATO: "Finland must apply for membership of NATO without delay". On Sunday, after the parliamentary confrontation, the decision will take the expected bureaucratic process of joining the Alliance. The two […]
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Biden signed a law to speed up the supply of arms to Ukraine inspired by a 1941 measure that allowed the United States to arm the British army against Hitler. The 'Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act' had been approved by an overwhelming majority by Congress ten days ago, but Biden wanted to sign it, not surprisingly, today, on [...]
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The countries that have not joined the sanctions against Russia are India, China, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia. But many others, from Mexico to Argentina, have offered facade support to the peremptory American demands to take sides for Ukraine. In Africa openly in favor of Putin's Russia are registered, South Africa, Angola, Algeria, Congo, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, [...]
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(by Giovanni Ramunno) The Preamble of the UN Charter reports that the peoples of the United Nations, "determined to save future generations from the scourge of war which twice in the course of this generation has brought unspeakable afflictions to humanity", constituted the United Nations Organization. To do this, the United Nations Charter identified, in the ban [...]
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Russia is running out of precision missiles and its arms factories are failing to meet demand. The sanctions are having, albeit slowly, a clear impact on Russian war industrial production. Now Moscow is forced to transport its missiles from distant parts of the country to the Ukrainian front. "The […]
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In the hearing of Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini at Copasir - Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic - "the contents of the second interministerial decree authorizing the transfer of military means, materials and equipment to the governmental authorities of Ukraine, on which the Committee agreed with the Government in the affixing of the [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Two antennas were hit in Transnistria, a pro-Russian territory, the country has put the security forces on alert. An ammunition depot went up in flames early this morning near the village of Staraya Nelidovka in the Belgorod region of western Russia, near the border with […]
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Ukraine is in a "crucial phase of the war" with Russia, it is necessary to get the Ukrainians immediately the weapons they need to defend themselves in the new Russian offensive in the Donbass - and, for this, the US will allocate a new package of military aid for Kiev. The amount this time too will be 800 million [...]
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British intelligence has informed the government of the beginning of a new phase in Ukraine marked by a war of attrition that could last several months. A spokesman for Downing Street said this, correcting the shot with respect to forecasts according to which Moscow, in the event of an initial failure, would risk finding itself soon without sufficient resources [...]
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The pressure of the Russians on the city of Mariupol is getting harder, "If they continue to resist, they will all be eliminated". According to what was announced by Interfax, which quoted the spokesman of the ministry Igor Konashenkov, this is the message sent by the Russian Defense Ministry to the Ukrainian resistance barricaded in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, after [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Moscow used the Kinzhal, hypersonic ballistic missiles with nuclear or conventional capability for the first time in Ukraine. It is one of six "next generation" weapons cited by Putin in his March 1, 2018 speech. A demonstration to the world that Russian hypersonic technology is mature and usable on battlefields. A tactical slap at [...]
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GreenIT, the joint venture between Plenitude and CDP Equity for the production of energy from renewable sources, and CI IV, a fund managed by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), have signed an agreement for the construction of two floating offshore wind farms in Sicily and Sardinia , both located over 35 km from the coast, for a capacity [...]
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Yesterday Italy aligned itself with its Western partners by expelling 30 Russian diplomats who worked at the Russian Embassy in Italy. Berlin expelled 40, while France and Spain, respectively 35 and 25. The other countries of Europe follow: Romania, Sweden, Slovenia and Denmark. The spokesperson for the Moscow Foreign Ministry, Maria [...]
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Washington, according to the NYT, is ready to indirectly supply tanks to Ukraine. Contacts are already underway to encourage what is called an arms transfer because these are not American systems. The United States, in fact, will shop in the immense Eastern European market, where they can find material compatible with that [...]
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Tomorrow ends the health emergency that lasted two years from the proclamation of the Conte government. In force since April 1st, many changes that eliminate the green pass and the super green pass in different situations. From May 31st, the green pass institution will definitively terminate its restrictive validity, with one exception: until December XNUMXst the obligation to [...] remains
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Yesterday President Biden at the NATO summit said that if Russia uses chemical agents such as those launched in Syria "we will respond and the nature of the response will depend on the nature of their use". For the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, "Russian rhetoric aims to look for pretexts to prepare for the use of arms [...]
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Yesterday the US president, Joe Biden landed in Europe to participate in the summits of NATO, G7 and the EU Council. An event that has never happened before, that of concentrating the meetings of the major international cooperation fora in a few days. After the alarm raised by the American secret services of a probable use of chemical weapons by [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Moscow has announced that for the first time in Ukraine it has used the Kinzhal, hypersonic ballistic missiles with nuclear or conventional capability that are launched by a modified Mig-31. It is one of the six "next generation" weapons cited by Putin in his speech on March 1, 2018. A demonstration to the world that hypersonic technology [...]
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Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it is appropriate to learn more about the state apparatus that allows the modern Tsar, Vladimir Putin, to keep the whole world in check. Against a GDP of just over 1700 US dollars (year 2020), Moscow spends around 4 percent each year on military spending (70 [...]
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Lockdown in China for Covid-19. Megacities producing high-tech products closed
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The Russian air attack at dawn, near Lviv, targeted a military base (Ivano-Frankivsk) just 25 kilometers from Poland and seems to be a direct message from Russia to NATO and the EU. At the base there is also the International Center for Peace and Security (Ipsc) where the exercises were held last September [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Many NATO countries, including Italy, are sending weapons to Poland in support of the Ukrainian resistance. From information, osint would be the Rzeszow Jasionka airport (100km from the Ukrainian border), the one used to send Western aid to Ukraine. The airport is located close to the E40 motorway which leads directly to Kiev. At the airport there are [...]
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The systems of the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia have stopped transmitting data; yesterday there was a similar interruption from the Chernobyl site: the IAEA says it is "worried". Meanwhile Zelensky believes "that the threat of nuclear war is a bluff" by Putin. "Bombing a children's hospital is proof [...]
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The director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, in a hearing in the US Congress, said that Putin would be ready to double his forces on the ground because at this point in the conflict he cannot lose the war and above all his face both inside and in the front. to the International Community: "We assess that Putin feels afflicted by the fact [...]
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The European Parliament voted with a very large majority the resolution condemning the Russian aggression and proximity to Ukraine which also contains the commitment to grant the country the status of candidate country for EU membership. The text obtained 637 votes in favor, 26 abstentions and 13 against. Among the opponents, several MEPs of the de La group [...]
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It is a truce, but the siege continues. Yesterday, the first round of negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, with Putin calling for the neutrality of Kiev and the recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea. "We have found points on which it is possible to find common ground", say from Moscow. Kiev confirms that there will be a second round of [...]
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Since darkness fell in Kiev, the sirens have continued to be activated repeatedly, warning the population of possible Russian bombings. The bloody war continues, although a faint hope can be nurtured today with the meeting between the delegations from Kiev and Moscow scheduled on the border with Belarus. Belarusian President Lukashenko [...]
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"This war will last a long time" and "we must prepare": French President Emmanuel Macron said today during a visit to the Agricultural Fair. Macron has ensured that weapons will be sent to Zelesky while Biden has sent 350 million dollars. Meanwhile, the Russian para are trying to leave Kiev without light, but they were [...]
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The West is compact in imposing sanctions on Russia, while on the ground the battle is pressing by the hour, with deaths and injuries registered. The Moscow bulletin reports 74 military targets destroyed, including 11 runways. According to the Ukrainian presidency, "more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers and about 10 civilians have been killed". Another 18 victims, including [...]
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Today at 04.00 the rhetoric of diplomacy was replaced by war, Vladimir Putin launched 'the special military operation in Ukraine. The announcement came during a live broadcast where Putin said his goal is to demilitarize but not occupy Ukraine. Then he turned to the West: "Anyone who tries to interfere or threaten us, he must [...]
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Once intelligence could predict the enemy's moves well in advance, now it apparently failed to read Russia's real intentions. You have often told of Putin's bluff. You started talking about the invasion of Ukraine only after the fact, that is when Moscow amassed over 150 thousand men [...]
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Last night Putin went to the facts, on live TV he recognized the independence of the two separatist republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, signing a decree and two collaboration treaties. Late at night the first Russian armored vehicles entered Donetsk, as a peacekeeping force, or to defend pro-Russian citizens from reprisals by the Ukrainians. Every […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) First night of quiet in the Donbass, after days of high tension with sabotage, bomb blasts and the first tests with the artillery attacks of both sides. The tension has risen because diplomacy has not achieved the desired results and because Moscow cannot afford, for a long time, to [...]
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France and its European partners operating in Mali have announced the coordinated withdrawal from the country, where they are present with Operation Barkhane and the European special forces Takuba. "The political, operational and legal conditions are no longer satisfied" and the countries, according to a joint statement, have decided "coordinated withdrawal" from the country [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Conventional attack with aviation bombing and invasion with armored vehicles or simply massive cyber attacks, followed by a coup? The hybrid war has probably already begun, thousands would be fake social accounts that have been making propaganda for the Russian separatists of the Donbass for months. It would therefore be [...]
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General Precious: "Africa, a bedrock of instability"
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A report by the American 007 pushes to accelerate the negotiations, the last diplomatic attempts before the issue is resolved with arms: "Russia is about to complete the military deployment on the border with Ukraine, a prelude to a massive invasion that could cost the life to 50 thousand civilians, behead the government of Kiev within two [...]
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After the annexation of Crimea by Russia, Ukrainian intelligence has established close and confidential relations with the American counterpart. A report, written by Zach Dorfman, Yahoo News national security correspondent, cites the reporting activity of more than half a dozen former US intelligence and Ukrainian national security officials. To manage [...]
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The crisis in Ukraine keeps the international community in suspense with Putin who seems to be screwing up on his own propaganda. While on the one hand NATO, the US and the EU are determined to maintain their position, the various European countries, in no particular order, speak with Putin trying to lead him to take, with conviction, the only path [...]
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Ukrainian security forces arrested alleged Russian operatives who were preparing a riot in the capital to destabilize the situation. On Monday 14 February the Duma will instead decide on the recognition of the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. Meanwhile, six Russian warships, which left in January from the ports of Severomorsk, on the Sea of [...]
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Even if the Pd, IV and Forza Italia pretend nothing has happened and make a square around Prime Minister Draghi for a new phase of the government of national unity, the aftermath of the divisions within the parties begin to make the whole castle creak. The center-right is no longer there and to say so is Giorgia Meloni who gives [...]
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Yesterday at 21.40 pm the presidents of the Chamber and Senate went up to the Quirinale to notify the President of the Republic of his re-election with 759 votes, a record, second only to President Pertini. Mattarella did not escape the unanimous request of the parties to accept a second mandate, after seven days of brawl to forget where, [...]
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The frightening increases in recent months have not only affected electricity and gas, but also diesel fuel. If a year ago the price of diesel at the pump was 1,35 per liter, today it is equal to 1,65 euros (+ 22,3 percent). Therefore, the cost of full tank for one vehicle [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The Italian government participates in NATO exercises with the military to mark the territory in the Baltic and oppose Moscow's ambitions on Ukraine, while industry, also the Italian one, winks at Putin. Yesterday over two hours of "face to face", in remote conference, between the Italian industrial elite and Vladimi Putin who [...]
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Over two million applications submitted to date. The pre-filled ISEE is growing sharply As of January 23, 2022, 2.642.895 single self-certification declarations were presented, necessary to request the ISEE (Indicator of the equivalent economic situation) and obtain subsidized social benefits; almost double the same period of the previous year. Through the Cafs 2.102.458 were presented, while [...]
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The Gao Advanced Operations Base in Mali was hit by mortar fire from forces hostile to the French-led international coalition, which operates in the Sahel as part of Operation Barkhane. , there are no Italian injuries and the staff are safe. The soldiers of [...]
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The discussion between Leonardo and the trade unions concluded positively with the signing today of the Framework Agreement for the management of the cyclical reduction of the workloads of the Aerostructures Division. The continuation of the pandemic crisis and the impacts generated by it on civil air transport, with consequent repercussions in the aerostructures production sector, [...]
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In Israel, Arab-Israelis can also not enlist while the rest of the population has the obligation of conscription for 30 months. A relatively long period where all young people actively participate in what is believed to be the most important service for the nation. A fundamental role in the armed forces of Tel Aviv has [...]
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(by Emanuela Ricci) The Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi reiterates that the decision taken by the Campania Region is in explicit contrast with the law currently in force in Italy, which prohibits the Regions and mayors from intervening except in the red zone and in extreme cases very specific. Now it will be up to the Administrative Court to decide when interested [...]
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School, management of positive cases: the operational note for the application of the decree approved on January 5 has been sent The Ministry of Education has sent schools an operational note with indications for the application of the new measures for the management of cases of positivity contained in the decree approved last January 5 in the Council [...]
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Vaccine obligation for over 50s, who will be able to go to work only if immunized or cured from Covid, this is the provision at the end of the cdm. The majority, however, are divided on the introduction of the obligation of the super green pass to access services or enter shops, with the League that after having threatened to abstention must collect [...]
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The Ministry of Economy and Finance announces that it has entrusted Barclays Bank Ireland PLC, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank AG, Intesa Sanpaolo SpA and JP Morgan AG with the mandate for the syndicated placement of a new 30-year BTP benchmark - maturity 1st September 2052. The transaction will be carried out in the near future, in relation to [...]
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Following 278.654 molecular and antigenic swabs carried out today, there are 61.046 new infections from Covid in the last 24 hours, yesterday they were 141.262. Even if this is a lower number than the daily figures of the tests carried out in the last few days - only yesterday 1.084.295 swabs were carried out - the rate [...]
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There are 141.262 new infections from Covid in the last 24 hours. A figure that brings the number of people currently positive to the virus in Italy to over one million: 1.021.697. According to data from the Ministry of Health, the victims are 111, while yesterday there were 155. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the victims have been a total of 137.513. [...]
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The circulation of the SarsCoV2 virus in Italy is increasingly intense, with a rapid increase in cases for the tenth consecutive week. In this worsening situation, other 4 Regions - Lombardy, Piedmont, Lazio and Sicily - will pass in the yellow band from Monday and there is a new record of positives in Italy: there are 144.243 [...]
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The Omicron variant of the SarsCoV2 virus already records 45% of the cases identified (referring to the data of December 25, ed), as noted by the physicist Roberto Battiston. The Undersecretary to Health Sileri foresees that the cases can reach 100 thousand cases per day within the first 10 days of January. The data of the ministry [...]
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The Malian government last Friday flatly denied the baseless accusations of an alleged deployment of paramilitary elements of a private Russian company, Wagner. The government of Mali asking for evidence on the heavy accusations wanted to specify that some "Russian instructors" were in Mali as part of the strengthening of the operational capacity of the forces [...]
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The Washington Post, after interviewing some senior American military officials, has raised the alarm of a possible civil war following the results of the next presidential elections in 2024. The terrible prediction, after the internal crisis among the American defense apparatuses, to following the attack on Capitol Hill a year ago. To report it to [...]
Read MoreXi Jinping and Vladimir Putin spoke three times this year, the last time yesterday during almost two hours of remote interview via videoconference. The two countries to the east of the globe, anti-American par excellence, have long been pulling the strings to try to build a granite block to oppose the United States and the [...]
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The state of emergency has been extended until March 31, 2022, so, with another decree presented yesterday in the Council of Ministers, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi wants to keep the country safe from the grip of the pandemic. The new Omicron variant, although less dangerous but more contagious, requires governments not to be able to lower [...]
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A senior US State Department official said Iran left the negotiating table in Vienna last Friday, leaving a seemingly unbridgeable void. Indirect meetings have been taking place in Vienna for months between the parties for the return to the 2015 nuclear agreement (JCPOA) - signed by Great Britain, China, France, Germany, [...]
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The Japanese government, worried about Chinese military expansionism, plans to increase its defense spending by $ 6,8 billion. At the instigation of the new Prime Minister Fumfo Kishida, Japan wants to anticipate the purchase of American Patriot missiles upgraded to defend the military bases in the southwestern islands from probable North Korean attacks. Furthermore Tokyo [...]
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French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi signed the Quirinale Treaty in the presence of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella. An important signal for Europe, the two largest economies after that of Germany, will share large-scale projects by systematizing industrial, military, research and [...]
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The umpteenth Dpcm has been approved, the super green pass is underway starting from 6 December until at least 15 January 2022. Extension of the vaccination obligation to some categories, this is the most salient news. A highly impactful way on a social level, the one decided by the Government, to prevent the fourth wave from blocking the country and therefore the economy [...]
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(by Mario Galati) On the deck of the porti Cavour the day before yesterday were present the Chief of Staff of Defense, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Enrico Credendino, the Chief of Staff of the Aeronautics, Air Squad General Luca Goretti and the operational commanders of the Navy and Air Force. [...]
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The Quirinal Treaty comes to life with the signature that will be affixed next Thursday in Rome by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and French President Emmanuel Macron. A full-bodied document consisting of a premise and eleven thematic chapters: Foreign, Defense, Europe, Migration, Justice, Economic development, Sustainability and ecological transition, Space, Education, training and [...]
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The day before yesterday, November 17, an F-35B of the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth crashed in the Mediterranean, in international waters. Thus, in a note from Her Majesty's Ministry of Defense: “A British pilot of HMS Queen Elizabeth F-35B was ejected during routine flight operations in the Mediterranean this morning. The pilot is [...]
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Enrico Letta threw the stone into the pond and all the leaders of the majority followed him to soften the tone on the forthcoming appointment of the President of the Republic and to concentrate seriously on the approval of the Budget Law. Everyone around a table to agree on the tax cut and then sit down at a second table [...]
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NASA is preparing for an experimental mission with the aim of hitting an asteroid. The operation, unique of its kind, is called DART - Double Asteroid Redirection Test - and will use a space probe designed to crash into the flying celestial body at a speed of about 6,6 kilometers per hour. The first planetary defense mission at [...]
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Commemorative day for the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, for the 60th anniversary of the Kindu massacre, a town in the Congo where on 11 November 1961 the killing of thirteen aviators of the then 46th Aerobrigata, on a peace mission on behalf of the UN, took place . The Military Ordinary HE Monsignor Santo Marcianò celebrated a Mass of suffrage in the presence of the Head of State [...]
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Satellite images from the US company Maxar show that China, in a desert in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, transported, by railroad, models of US warships, such as aircraft carriers and destroyers. USNI News, a US Navy specialist site, said the facilities may have been built by the military [...]
Read MoreOne hundred years ago the remains of a soldier, dating back to the First World War, were transferred to the Vittoriano in Rome, which has become for all the monument to the Unknown Soldier or Altare della Patria. The remains traveled on a special train, with five-minute stops at each station. The images of the time show people kneeling in thanksgiving [...]
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Airforcetime has published an article where it tells of a new capacity for the fifth generation F-35A aircraft, also in possession of our Air Force. The US Air Force has recently completed the flight tests necessary to allow the most advanced aircraft in the world to carry the B61-12 thermonuclear bomb. At the moment the airframe of the aircraft, [...]
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Yesterday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to his political supporters: “I have given orders to our Foreign Minister to do what must be done: these 10 ambassadors must be declared persona non grata, they must leave immediately. They will now know and understand Turkey. In fact, 10 countries have signed a public petition asking [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The aim was the constitution of a well-trained group of "mercenaries" to be recruited preferably from newly retired military and policemen. Target? Fighting in Yemen on behalf of Saudi Arabia. The judicial and police authorities, with the collaboration of the intelligence services, managed to tighten the circle and put [...]
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The intelligence chiefs of the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet in Seoul behind closed doors this week. A very important meeting to bring South Korea and Japan closer together after the diplomatic quarrel of the last two years that risked compromising intelligence cooperation between the two countries. The agreement, known as [...]
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(by John Blackeye) The title can be deceiving as there is no intention of talking about the police charges that occurred on the sidelines of a peaceful demonstration held in Piazza del Popolo in Rome, as much as about the moral charge and personal energy that I saw in people I met during this hot mid-October afternoon. [...]
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Italian workers will be obliged from 15 October (DL n.127 of 21 September 2021) to present the green pass in all public or private workplaces. Tension in Rome and Milan between the police forces and protesters No Green Pass Tafferugli and tensions with the police are ongoing during the [...]
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Thus the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini on twitter after meeting the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi: “A very useful meeting: a loyal, frank and direct relationship solves every problem and finds solutions”. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) The expected face to face between Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini took place yesterday [...]
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“The government goes on: the government's action cannot follow the electoral calendar”. This is how Mario Draghi dubbed the tone of Matteo Salvini who chose not to have the fiscal delegation voted in the Council of Ministers. The leader of the League, in front of the press reporters, reads the text, in the part concerning the land registry, and [...]
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North Korea in a recent exercise launched a newly developed anti-aircraft missile. For months, Pyongyang has been testing new weapons including a never-before-seen hypersonic missile, ballistic missiles and a cruise missile with obvious nuclear capabilities. Last Friday the United States asked for an emergency meeting of the UN Council [...]
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(by Davide Maniscalco, Aidr regional coordinator for Sicily) In an increasingly interactive and heterogeneously interconnected digital ecosystem, cyber attacks with the aim of sabotaging strategic European infrastructures in the transport, public services and industry sectors or destabilizing systems democratic or, again, industrial and scientific-technological espionage, have suffered a [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Matteo Salvini apparently is at the showdown. After the farewell of the Lega social campaign guru Luca Morisi, inventor of the "beast", the debate within the party among the top exponents is, at times, very hard and does not bode well when there is a real counter [...]
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Yesterday at the Confindustria Assembly a kind of "ovation" for Prime Minister Mario Draghi, all united in wanting to push the former governor of the Bank of Italy and the ECB to remain in the government until the end of the legislature, but many, including entrepreneurs, are convinced that it would be profitable even further, even with the next executive (March 2023). AND' […]
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Joe Biden at the UN presents the new face of America that relies on a softer approach to global tensions. "A new era of relentless diplomacy" and "peace" in the world after the withdrawal from Afghanistan and ensures that America does not seek "a new cold war" with China, even if the warning remains [...]
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The hacker attack on the servers of the Lazio Region has brought advice, so much so that on the government table there is already discussion on how to better and safely regulate work from home. The password is "protection of personal and business data", after which it will be necessary to guarantee the safety of workers, the right to disconnect with the definition [...]
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The "serious crisis" opened by Australia, with the cancellation of a 66 billion dollar contract for the purchase of French submarines in favor of US supplies, opens a "serious crisis" that "will affect the future of NATO". The French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, rejects the idea of the United States, which expressed the [...]
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Can the most powerful office on Earth, the President of the United States, be prevented from ordering a nuclear attack? Apparently, for precautionary purposes, former President Donald Trump has been inhibited from full control and the ability to order an attack with normal and unconventional weapons. A new book tells the story on [...]
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This week at the next council of ministers (Wednesday, to be confirmed) the government intends to extend the green pass to users of public services. So not only the obligation to public administration employees but also to users, as is the case for schools, where the use of the green card is also foreseen for parents [...]
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On 11 September 2001, a date that changed the history of the West, 4 airliners carried out a sensational terrorist attack on the territory of the United States, this time the natural defense constituted by the immense expanse of water of the Atlantic Ocean not he defended what was considered a world superpower. Below we propose the testimony of an Italian, [...]
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El Salvador is the first country in the world to authorize cryptocurrency in internal trade, yesterday the approval of the Senate which surprised all economic observers in the world. The news was in the air because the measure had already received the endorsement of President Nayib Bukele last June, and immediately transformed into law by [...]
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Yesterday the first aircraft since it was closed following the deployment of Western forces, a freighter from Qatar, landed at Kabul airport. It is clear to everyone that Qatar played a key role in the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan but it also played a key role in organizing flights [...]
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The last flight of the Italian Air Force for the humanitarian airlift between Afghanistan and Italy landed at Fiumicino airport, carrying 110 people, including 58 Afghans. Also on board the ambassador Pontecorvo, the consul Claudi and the carabinieri of Tuscania. Pontecorvo explained that 120 thousand people were taken away from the town and, now that [...]
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While ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack on Kabul airport, according to the group's account on Telegram, all Italian civilians, diplomats and soldiers left Kabul this night. Among others, the consul in Kabul Tommaso Claudi, the ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo, the civilian representative of NATO in the country, will leave Afghanistan. The Chief of Staff of the [...]
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Security officers at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar have discovered that one of the Afghans evacuated from Kabul airport has potential ties to ISIS. The news was given by a US official at Defense One. In addition, the biometric identification system of the Department of Defense has reported at least another 100, of the [...]
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An answer is urgently needed. The deadline of August 31, 2021, as the expected date for the Americans and allies to leave Afghanistan, is close even if there are still thousands of desperate Afghans and foreigners amassed at Kabul airport. It is no coincidence that Biden told the nation last Sunday that the evacuation would be "hard and painful" and [...]
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The Operational Command of the Joint Defense Force Summit is coordinating the phases of the Aquila Omina operation, to bring the Italian personnel and Afghan collaborators back to Italy (to date over 2000 have been transported). In all there are 8 aircraft of the Italian Air Force engaged in this difficult mission which since last August 15 have formed the backbone [...]
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Afghanistan possesses enormous and unspecified mineral riches: oil, iron, gold and precious gems, deposits of copper, lithium and rare earths. A countervalue, writes Il Sole24Ore, estimated by the Americans at three trillion dollars. The US withdrawal from the country, followed by that of coalition allies, is a tempting opportunity for those in [...]
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In an era where computer violations and data thefts become more and more frequent and risk immobilizing the economic and social functions of a state, our country has equipped itself with a National Cybersecurity Agency, with the aim of protecting national interests. in the field of cybersecurity and [...]
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The Bloomberg news agency has revealed the contents of a US intelligence report according to which there are plans to create an autonomous mission center dedicated entirely to China. Today China is monitored by the center for East Asia and the Pacific, which focuses on a larger geographic region that also includes China. The idea [...]
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According to US intelligence forecasts, the Taliban would be close to taking Kabul. This is what officials of the Biden administration report to the Washington Post, explaining that the US military believes that Kabul could capitulate within the next 90 days, while other more pessimistic forecasts bring the date of the Taliban conquest to the next 30 days. The sources of [...]
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Leonardo, an international player dedicated to the development of multidomain operational capabilities in the Aerospace, Defense and Security sectors through the supervision of strategic technologies, adheres to “A Thousand Infrastructures - Business Network”. In this context, Leonardo has the ambition to introduce advanced and integrated technological capabilities for the intelligent management of critical infrastructures. The Thousand Infrastructures - Network consortium [...]
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Matteo Salvini could think of presenting himself as leaders in the next administrative in Milan: “If necessary I apply, they vote in 1300 municipalities, for me Milan is the soul and the heart, they are at the complete disposal of Luca and the city. We will see if as a candidate or as a support to other candidates ". Meanwhile Silvio Berlusconi and Giorgia [...]
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In a few days the "white semester" of the President of the Republic and the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini launches his "out out" to Prime Minister Draghi: "I wrote to Draghi and told him that by August the problem of landings must be solved. If the minister (Lamorgese ed) is not able to solve it, take some [...]
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At the end of the Council of Ministers, the Minister of Grace and Justice Marta Cartabia said: “the commitment remains to withdraw all the amendments presented by the majority forces with the aim of concluding in the coming days. We have made some adjustments, as announced last week with Draghi, in light of the very lively debate that [...]
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Summer break for parliamentary work on 6 August, it will be necessary to accelerate on the reform of the justice and on the measures to be implemented to open the school in complete safety in September. The confirmation of the presence in the classroom for next season directly from the Minister of Education Patrizio Bianchi and the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella who on [...]
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The New York Times has published satellite images, taken in the Xinjiang region, which show the construction of at least 110 silos intended to house intercontinental missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. It is the second site identified in recent weeks. The first journalistic scoop on the subject was made by the Washington Post. The images were taken by [...]
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Against the government's decisions on the "green pass" yesterday there were demonstrations from North to South to 'stop the dictatorship of the slavery passport' and the cry 'liberty', liberty ''. There was tension with the police in Rome. In Milan and Naples also insults to Prime Minister Draghi, slogans against 'Big Pharma' and multinationals. In procession [...]
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Yesterday, Undersecretary of State Di Stefano chaired the meeting of the Special Envoys for Afghanistan from Europe (Italy, France, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom) and the United States at the Farnesina. Also attended by NATO's Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, a representative of the UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and the Special Envoy of Qatar […]
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Since last May there has not been such a black day for world stock exchanges. A day to forget, all the stock exchanges were affected by the setback of Wall Street which yesterday closed in sharp decline due to the effects, not exactly exciting, of the new wave of Covid-19 cases, mainly linked to the spread of [ ...]
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Yesterday appointment at 18.30 on his Fb page, Giuseppe Conte in a river speech unties all the knots that had been intertwined in recent days between him and the founder of the Movement, Beppe Grillo. All together we start again with a new organization that divides the guarantee bodies from the political ones. More squares to listen to [...]
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Apparently there is calm in Libya, everyone is waiting for the first move with the "probable" year-end elections on the horizon. The format of the presidential or parliamentary elections has not yet been decided? Then there is the problem of the mercenaries present in the field who do not intend to leave, on the contrary they continue in their activities as tutors of the various militias [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) For some time now large-scale hacker attacks have occurred in the United States which, in some cases, have targeted critical infrastructures causing problems that are difficult to solve immediately and which have demonstrated, in a disarming way, the extreme vulnerability of States in the face of the virtual threat whose principal (often of state origin) is [...]
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Alessandro Zan recalled how the text of the law, which takes his name, approved at Montecitorio and sent to the Senate "is already the result of a long, tiring but also exciting mediation", where the Renzian parliamentarians were protagonists, with the amendments by Lucia Annibali, Gabriele Toccafondi and Lisa Noja. Because now Davide Faraone asks [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) “More than Conte's party, I think the M5s parliamentarians are much more afraid of the limit of two mandates. Most of the parliamentarians have made two terms, including the big names, and in the M5s it is no longer possible to reapply. I believe that many are interested in Conte's project also for [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) After days of waiting where it was thought of a rapprochement between the people's lawyer and the Genoese comedian, Giuseppe Conte came out with an "out out" that leaves no doubts and interpretations: "It is up to Grillo decide whether to be the generous parent who lets his child grow independently, [...]
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Italy has become all white, even the Aosta Valley joins the other regions. There will no longer be the obligation to wear the mask outdoors if, however, at a safe distance. What is worrying is the Delta variant which has seen cases quadruple compared to last May. To launch an appeal, today, [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Macron last week launched an appeal to the US and other Western countries to form a coalition of special forces to replace the French operation Barkhane, which cost several billion and 55 casualties among French soldiers. Paris has decided to withdraw from the Sahel thus marking the failure of a presence [...]
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Outgoing President Rouhani announced to the Iranians the new president of the Islamic Republic, Ebrahim Raïssi, who won in the first round with 62% of the votes, in a consultation where abstention played a fundamental role. Ebrahim Raïssi, ultraconservative, received congratulatory messages from all opponents, including the moderate candidate and [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) NATO changes its skin, from a purely defensive alliance, under the dictates of art. 5, to a more modern, cooperative and reactive version that directs its attention towards crises, on a global level, capable of destabilizing the peace and security of the allied countries. The Secretary General of NATO, Jean Stoltenberg, in the press conference [...]
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Global plan for the prevention of future pandemics, a plan on infrastructures for low-income countries, these are just two of the main cornerstones of the strategy launched by the G7 countries to establish itself in the world trying to counter, as far as possible, the initiative of the New Chinese Silk Road. To support the new policy [...]
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The Gaza building that housed, among other things, the Associated Press offices was used by Hamas to try to electronically obstruct the Israeli "Iron Dome" missile defense system which saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis targeted by multiple of 4.000 terrorist rockets fired from Gaza. To report the news [...]
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(by John Blackeye) Until the eighties, early nineties, the Italian left was made up of fighters, veterans and workers who filled the squares of the largest Italian cities, waving red flags in their hands under the boxes of political representatives who fought for the rights of workers and families. After [...]
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Islam, Islam, jihadism and many others are the terms that identify a global ideological-religious movement that in some extremist derivations has sworn death to the Western world inhabited by so-called infidels. A careful examination of Islam was made by General Pasquale Preziosa on the Eurispes website, an analysis that of the former Chief of Staff of the Air Force and [...]
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(by Giovanni Di Gennaro, AIDR Member, trainer, counselor, HR management, member of the Dites Research Center of Link Campus University and Roma Tre University collaborator) The digital transformation in progress requires organizations, both public and private, to undergo a profound restructuring of own paradigms. The speed at which technological innovation travels leaves no other choice, [...]
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The American promise to European countries not to commit more wiretapping after the wiretapping scandal that came to light in 2013 from the revelations of Edward Snowden has not been kept. To reveal the background of the recent and incredible American spy story to the detriment of some European countries was the Danish public television DR. The US [...]
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We are desolately last. In Europe, no Public Administration (PA) has such a low level of approval as ours. The data presented by the CGIA Studies Office refer to the sample survey that is periodically carried out by the European Commission among the 27 countries of the Union. From the last survey, held in the months of February-March 2021, some pitiless results emerge; [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The US-China competition is global and every day reveals a strategic novelty in the different environments of confrontation, from the space to the economic one, from the geopolitical to the military positioning. In these days, writes The Times, the first images of a Chinese bomber have emerged, invisible to radar and capable [...]
Read MoreTwo hundred soldiers, 20 land vehicles, 6 helicopters (four Mangusta). Italy is thus ready to strengthen its presence in the Sahel, fully joining the Takuba Task Force, which will be operational by the summer. The mission will be to support local security forces in contrasting the growing jihadist phenomena in the area between [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Olimpio Guido su Corsera speaks outspokenly about the never completed operations of the Israeli Mossad against Hamas militants and against the various supporters of the terrorist group around the world. The so-called Hamas bomb squads, those who supply Hamas with low-cost weapons or study new [...]
Read MoreThe Israeli army has suffered the largest number of rocket attacks, around 2800 since Monday, more than during the escalation of 2019 and during the 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon. The military of the Jewish state claimed to have hit the homes of several Hamas commanders and accused the [...]
Read MoreA war has been going on for several days between the State of Israel and the Hamas organization. Hamas's pro-war narrative is the alleged defense of the shrines of Islam in Jerusalem. In doing so, he seeks to strengthen his political position in Judea and Samaria against the Palestine Liberation Organization [...]
Read MoreHostilities between Israel and Hamas have increased in recent days with at least 35 dead in Gaza and five in Israel. Israel carried out hundreds of air strikes in Gaza, while the Islamist group and other Palestinian militants fired multiple volleys of rockets into Tel Aviv and Beersheba. A residential building in [...]
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In La Stampa Domenico Quirico explains without mincing words the quagmire of the Sahel, an area of the world where the regular armies have failed and where the terrorist militias have a greater hold on the local people, a bit like what happened in Afghanistan after almost 20 years of war. useless, considering the results left on the field [...]
Read More(by Francesco Matera) The EU agrees to the new American strategy. The United States, with the new presidency, has developed the conviction that the "trade war" alone, conducted independently, is no longer sufficient to mitigate the positive growth trends of the Chinese economy. The great magnitude of the problem will require the involvement of the whole community [...]
Read MoreThis week the CDM is expected to receive the 40 billion bis decree. Additional non-repayable contributions, 14 billion, will be provided for companies affected by the Covid crisis (those that have lost more than 30 percent), as well as guarantees on liquidity and incentives for restarting. There will also be new shopping vouchers and [...]
Read MoreAfter more than 160 days in space, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule that detached from the ISS at 20:35 pm US East Coast time returned to Earth. The spacecraft landed successfully, supported by 4 parachutes, brought back the astronauts who had been on the International Space Station for six months. The aerospace company [...]
Read MoreHope is not touched. The Lega and Forza Italia understood this well, voting against the no-confidence motion presented by the Brothers of Italy. The game had already closed yesterday, LaPresse learns, after the conversation between the leader of the League and Prime Minister Draghi. At the center of the talks the time for curfew and voting [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday the official status, the Italian naval attaché at the embassy in Moscow is no longer a welcome person. Thus, today the captain of the vessel, Curzio Pacifici will have to repatriate. The Farnesina's reaction was immediate: “deep regret is expressed for the unilateral decision of the Kremlin”. Our officer unlike the two Russian officials Dmitri Ostroukhov and Aleksey [...]
Read MoreTo pass the exam in Brussels, the president of the Italian Council Mario Draghi had to call the president of the EU Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen for a discussion on the Italian PNNR. After hours of negotiations between the majority forces, the Council finally shored up the plan with some indispensable pillars such as female and youth employment. [...]
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