The Houthis in Yemen also recently announced the possession of hypersonic missiles (probably transferred from Iran) to conduct their maritime interdiction actions in the Red Sea. The range of the Fatah hypersonic missile is compatible with the distances separating Israel from Iran. by Pasquale Preziosa Iran is successfully engaging in […]
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According to Egyptian sources cited by the Qatari media, they are working on a six-week truce agreement in exchange for the release of 40 hostages, with a partial return of the displaced Palestinians to the northern part of the Strip. Editorial Team The optimism is reflected in the Israeli media and Arabs regarding the latest meeting in Cairo between negotiators [...]
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Tehran has promised revenge. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said: “We are certain that this feeling from the heart will lead to the destruction of the Zionist regime.” by Editorial Staff About thirty embassies closed their doors without incident during Quds Day, the international day for Jerusalem proclaimed by Iran. Israel has taken precautions by closing 28 locations [...]
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Niger is essential to stem the migratory flows towards Europe and for this reason every political, diplomatic but also military effort, through assistance and training, is crucial in order not to lose the last outpost, of Western circulation, in the middle of the Sahel by Massimiliano D'Elia Russia, despite the military campaign in Ukraine, does not [...]
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by Editorial Staff The situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate as Russia intensifies its military campaign. Ukraine last week suffered perhaps its heaviest and most destructive attack with 190 missiles, 140 drones and 700 aerial bombs. Russia thus demonstrates to the West that it is highly resilient and persistent in its uninterrupted military campaign that [...]
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by Editorial Staff The director of the Russian security services FSB reported to President Vladimir Putin the arrest of 11 people, including four terrorists involved in the attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow. This was reported by the Kremlin press service cited by Tass. The claim, via social media, by ISIS refers to the fact that Putin has [...]
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by Editorial Staff Defense Minister Guido Crosetto today spoke to the joint Foreign Affairs and Defense Commissions on the occasion of the examination of the analytical report on ongoing international missions and on the state of development cooperation interventions in support of peace and stabilization processes. The use of Italian soldiers in Ukraine The minister [...]
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by Andrea Pinto Nothing stopped Vladimir Putin, with almost 90% (between 87% and 90%) of the votes, the modern day tsar reconfirms himself at the helm of the nation for the fifth time, setting a record: 24 years in power without solution of continuity. What is certain is that the victory was already clearly written […]
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by Francesco Matera It all started with the Tunisia model, when the EU, thanks to the push of the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, found an economic agreement with Tunis to mitigate the phenomenon of migratory flows. Even if the agreement struggled to get started due to the delay in the arrival of the funds, today it is still a reality [...]
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by Francesco Matera Russia continues its special military operation in Ukraine by constantly bombing the occupied territories, demonstrating the stability of its arsenals, apparently inexhaustible and capable of replenishing themselves without interruption. Even if the population, in real life, begins to suffer from the war effort, according to Kremlin propaganda, the objectives remain [...]
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Our intelligence report also sees climate change among the new challenges, as a contributing cause of crises and threats due to its impact on geopolitics, food, water, economic and social security. All factors that can equally fuel the proliferation of terrorism. by Andrea Pinto Yesterday the Italian security services met [...]
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by Editorial Staff The Yemeni Houthi rebel group yesterday attacked the American tanker Torm Thor which was sailing in the Gulf of Aden, where some Stars and Stripes warships were also present. The news was reported by the newspaper Al-Masirah, controlled by the Shiite group. By now we were almost used to attacks by cargo ships, [...]
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For a credible peace, compromise could really make a difference, but triggering unpredictable scenarios because this marks the failure of the West in the face of the Russian dictatorship. by Andrea Pinto Despite Ukrainian efforts, Russia does not give up on the ground, indeed it continues to conquer important slices of territory in Donbass. If you help them and […]
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by Andrea Pinto The accusations, then the denials. The fact is that the opponent of Putin's regime, Alexei Navalny, has died and, according to some rumors revealed by various external sources, there is a noticeable bruise in the center of his chest on his body. Precisely that bruise inspires the different versions/backgrounds that are made in the press [...]
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The attention these days is entirely focused on the feared Russian war capabilities in a space environment. Hypersonic missiles, nuclear-powered satellites equipped with electronic weapons are considered concrete threats to the security of states due to the damage they could cause to Western satellites dedicated to providing essential services such as those in the field of telecommunications and [...]
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by Editorial Staff The Turkish defense company Baykar has begun construction of a plant near Kyiv that will employ around 500 people. The factory will most likely produce the TB2 or TB3 drone models. Baykar CEO Haluk Bayraktar declared this to Reuters during meetings during the World Defense Show in Riyadh. […]
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NATO's commitment to supporting Ukraine and defending freedom and democracy marks a new era in collective defense, with a global approach that extends well beyond the defense of member countries' borders. by Editorial Staff The scope of NATO's Steadfast Defender 2024 exercises marks an "irrevocable return" of the Alliance to the patterns [...]
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By now terms linked to the development of the super technology of the future, Artificial Intelligence, have forcefully entered our vocabulary, sparking heated debates between experts, politicians, consumer associations and high tech industries. The citizen is disoriented and would like to understand more about this revolution which could soon upset his real life: For better or worse it depends [...]
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by Editorial Staff Iran conducted a drone attack against a merchant ship in the Arabian Sea, off the coast of India, as announced by the US Department of Defense. The chemical tanker MV Chem Pluto, flying the Liberian flag, was targeted by an attack drone from Iran, around 10:00 local [...]
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The EU legislation aims to prevent discrimination, massive surveillance and creative manipulation through artificial intelligence. The urgency to regulate artificial intelligence is motivated by the risks of abuse that could threaten democratic regimes and civil life. Despite the success of the agreement, doubts and veiled resentments remain regarding the lack of regulation of virtual assistants already widely used as […]
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by Francesco Matera The final stretch of every negotiation is always the most difficult, as it inevitably involves the need to give in on some positions. The final phase of the negotiations on the reform of the Stability and Growth Pact was entrusted to the financial ministers of the 27 countries of the European Union, gathered during a dinner at the end [...]
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by Editorial Staff The Israeli army, during the offensive south of Gaza, intensified the so-called psyops (psychological warfare) operations. A few days ago the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) announced the death of Wissam Farhat, commander of the Shujaiya Battalion. Images of the faces of the Battalion officers were then disseminated as they sent messages of surrender. A second […]
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by Editorial Staff Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed by telephone with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi late in the evening the day before yesterday, in anticipation of Raisi's arrival in Ankara today for a significant bilateral meeting. The Turkish presidency announced yesterday morning that, during the phone call, the recent acts of [...]
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Yesterday evening, thirteen Israelis, including women and minors, were freed and handed over to the Red Cross who visited them and took them across the Rafh crossing. Secret Service agents escorted the group through the crossing. Gate after gate, the imprisonment finally ends for the thirteen who were freed in […]
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by Editorial Staff Yesterday, around 18.00 pm Italian time, a car exploded on the "Rainbow Bridge", the bridge that joins Canada and the United States at the height of Niagara Falls. The toll shows two deaths, the occupants of the car and one minor injury. The moment of the accident is recorded in the video from the US Customs surveillance cameras: a car [...]
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by Editorial Staff Qatar has broken the news of the existence of an agreement between Israel and Hamas which provides for a pause in the fighting and the release of 50 prisoners, including women and children. “The start time of the pause will be announced within the next 24 hours hours; will last four days and will be subject to extension", said Doha [...]
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Biden-Xi agree for a responsible global confrontation. Reactivated line of communication between military leaders. Coldness over Taiwan
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by Massimiliano D'Elia The images and videos of the intervention of the international coalition in Iraq in 2003 and in Libya in 2011 had impressed us when, in the early stages of the conflict, they showed the enemy night sky illuminated by the tracers of the anti-aircraft defense system, at taken with coalition aircraft sorties. Air operations, often […]
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by Massimiliano D'Elia Yesterday was a difficult day in a Middle East, increasingly in flames, where with each passing hour the situation seems to fall inexorably towards a global conflict between the West and the Muslim world. The voltage indicators are diverse and dramatic. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's mission to Jordan, where he met [...]
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by Massimiliano D'Elia Every evening, on Antonio Ricci's television program "Striscia la Notizia", we witness, amused, political and institutional leaders juggle unlikely dances while singing bizarre songs. The protagonists are illustrious figures such as the Italian Prime Minister in office, the President of the Republic and the various opposition leaders. It is precisely they, alive and well, who pleasantly spread nonsense [...]
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The Islamic State had only two years to prepare the defenses in Mosul, Hamas had 15 years to prepare a dense defense in depth that includes underground and surface. Fortifications, communication tunnels, combat posts and positions, minefields, improvised explosive devices, explosive penetration mines and explosive traps of […]
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Leonardo today announced an order for three AW139 helicopters placed by Monroe County, Florida. The helicopters will be operated by Trauma Star on behalf of the area's public safety, rescue and firefighting authorities and will carry out air rescue missions from the Lower Keys Medical Center and the Florida Keys Marathon International Airport. The AW139s […]
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Analysis from a military strategic point of view (by Pasquale Preziosa) Technology has always had great influence not only on the economic power of nations but also on military strategies, acting as a catalyst in international relations. In the past, nuclear technology applied to weapons characterized the Cold War period. After the fall of the wall of […]
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Once Hamas has been uprooted from Gaza, we are already thinking about phase two, which should begin the process of normalization of the area in favor of the Palestinian people. The idea would be to use the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for humanitarian aid and general government. Security must be guaranteed by a mission authorized by the UN [...]
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The Israeli-Palestinian war reverberates in our societies, which have always been exposed because they are free, multiracial and multiethnic. The attack in France against a teacher who was barbarously beheaded at the hands of a Frenchman of Chechen origin shouting "allahu akbar" and the various bomb scares recorded in England and France (Louvre and palace of [...]
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American media such as CNN and NYT wrote that Biden had been warned weeks before the attack of a resurgence of tensions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A September 28 report warned that the Hamas terrorist group was ready to intensify missile attacks along the border. Another document from 5 […]
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The situation near the Gaza Strip is becoming more and more serious by the hour. Victims on both sides are increasing dramatically following the Israeli bombing of Gaza. The number of displaced people from the Strip is also increasing, reaching the figure of almost half a million. Food is starting to run out in Gaza [...]
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According to a source from the French newspaper Figaro, the Egyptian secret services warned their Israeli colleagues several times that Hamas was preparing something very important. Unfortunately, the Tel Aviv 007s underestimated the important information, according to a former French 007 who knows the Egyptian services in depth. Sources near the Prime Minister's office […]
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The President of the United States Joe Biden, that of France Emmanuela Macron, the German Chancellor Olaf Sholz, the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak express firm and united support for the State of Israel and unequivocal condemnation of Hamas and of its appalling acts of terrorism. The White House reports this in [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) The Hamas group attacked citizens and soldiers by surprise, in the early hours of dawn on 7 October, in the south of the State of Israel, causing a dramatic escalation in the Middle Eastern area, due to the default of the Israeli secret services which have not worked in recent years. The group of Islamic militiamen also seems [...]
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According to data reported by WP, Ukraine, to date, has received the monster amount of 350 billion dollars. The political party headed by the Republicans pushed the US Congress to freeze funds in support of Ukraine to avoid a shutdown, i.e. the blocking of the country's administrative activities. It is a measure […]
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Eni announces an important gas discovery made from the Geng North-1 well drilled in the North Ganal license, approximately 85 km away from the east coast of Kalimantan, Indonesia. Preliminary estimates indicate total volumes equal to 5 thousand billion cubic feet of gas (approximately 140 billion cubic meters) with a content [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) At the international conference for the twentieth anniversary of the UN convention against organized crime, Alfredo Mantovano, Carlo Nordio and Matteo Piantedosi illustrated the plan to 34 foreign delegations. Also present were the German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and the French Minister Gerard Darmanin with whom Italy signed an agreement for the establishment of a cabin [...]
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Shield AI will provide its artificial intelligence system to the Kratos Defense & Security Solutions company to integrate it into the XQ-58 Valkyrie drone, thus marking the start of programs to develop the tactical integration of human-guided weapon systems with autonomous systems managed by the 'artificial intelligence. (by Andrea Pinto) The Shield AI system is already used in […]
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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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The New Silk Road - Belt & Road Initiative -, launched by China in 2013 and which affects 139 countries today loses Australia which canceled the memorandum of intent as it was considered no longer in line with its foreign policy. "This is another unreasonable and provocative move", commented Beijing through the [...]
read moreThe British Chief of Defense General Nick Carter is not at all happy with the American decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by 11 September, after twenty years of military campaign. General Carter, in his first interview since the announcement of Biden's withdrawal, told the BBC last Tuesday: “It's not […]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) The American intelligence community has recently drafted the Global Risk Assessment Report where it warns the government about Chinese initiative in the development of new military space programs, capable of targeting US and allied satellites. The report, drawn up by the Office of the National Director of Intelligence, highlights that the Chinese Defense would be seriously [...]
read moreIn the midst of the alleged Israeli cyber attack against the Natanz plant, there is the resumption, albeit feeble, of talks to resume the nuclear deal between the US and Iran. In Vienna in recent days there are "indirect" talks between the US and Iran to consider a possible approach on the issue. The Iranian Atomic Agency reported that [...]
read moreItaly and Turkey are in deep crisis after the statements of our Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, who defined Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "a dictator". Although diplomacy is moving with less fiery tones, the debate in Turkey does not subside, on the contrary, with the passing of the days it becomes more and more heated. [...]
read more"I swear to be loyal to the Italian Republic, to observe its Constitution and laws and to fulfill with discipline and honor all the duties of my state for the defense of the homeland and the safeguarding of free institutions". Thus says article 575 of the Military Code, with reference to the formula of Oath of men and [...]
read more"The cooperation between Iran and China will help the implementation of the nuclear agreement by the European signatories and the respect of the commitments undertaken as part of the agreement". This was stated by Iranian President Hassan Rohani addressing Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, adding that the agreement with China could certainly change the terms of the nuclear issue. President […]
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The draft of the Italian Recovery Plan is now in the committees of the two Chambers, around 30 March there will be the approval in Parliament of a plan where the common denominator has already been dictated by Draghi: “Spend European funds well, spend them all. Focus on women and young people. Stopping the growing gap [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) The Times reports that Russia has sent "jamming" against RAF planes - Royal Air Force - taking off from the island of Cyprus. Military intelligence sources reported that a "hostile state" has systematically attempted to interfere with the satellite communications of the A400M transport aircraft with [...]
read moreWhile RUSSIA, China and the United States continue to invest in important projects to develop a hypersonic capacity, which now seems destined to completely change the perception of the time needed to travel long distances, "European countries have not invested sufficiently in hypersonic technological research and are not present in this historical change, risking [...]
read more"Triple the daily vaccinations and everyone is waiting for their turn", thus the extraordinary commissioner for the general emergency Figliuolo intends to bring the country to herd immunity as early as the end of September by vaccinating 80 percent of Italians ". The national vaccination plan is expected to end on 29 October next. II National Plan for the vaccination of [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Asia Nikkei website reported that the United States plans to spend $ 27,4 billion on weapons over the next six years to bolster its conventional deterrence against China by establishing a long-range precision missile network. the so-called first island chain in the Indo-Pacific theater. The need [...]
read moreDefense Minister Lorenzo Guerini announced it in Parliament last Tuesday, the Drive trough Defense, the mobile laboratories for swabs, will also be converted into vaccination poles if necessary. Yesterday the plan was presented by the head of the Dicastery himself. Tomorrow, in Milan at the Trenno park, the first experiment in [...]
read moreYesterday Mario Draghi spoke to the Italians with 7 minutes of video: “I do not want to promise anything that is not really achievable, in these days we are facing a new worsening of the health emergency. Our task is to safeguard the lives of Italians by every means and allow a return as soon as possible [...]
read moreFly a small drone to reload and extract data from bugs (bug sensors) abroad. British intelligence studies a solution by relying on small drones capable of carrying out their mission in the dark and in disguise. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) Spy sensors located in distant territories, even non-national ones that work as long as the battery is [...]
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A provocation, the one launched by the CGIA Studies Office, which rests on the particularly significant economic dimension of two phenomena deeply felt by public opinion. Although both are not comparable from a strictly statistical point of view, we can still say with good approximation that the 'tax evasion and social security contributions present in our country - equal, according to the data of the Ministry [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) Draghi has only one goal, 600 vaccinations a day to save the next school year and try to reopen Italy already in the summer. Now it's up to the new head of the Civil Protection Fabrizio Curcio to reorganize a car that had rusted over the months. Let's talk about putting an army back into the system [...]
read more(by Mauro Nicastri, president of AIDR) In these days the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, is working intensely on the launch of the new plan for the administration of vaccines, with the goal of 19 million injections per month. To date, 4,2 million doses have been administered in Italy and almost 1,4 million Italians with two [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The second day of the European Council focused on Defense and Security, relations with NATO and the countries of North Africa. In March, the heads of state and government will speak, in more detail, on the future of EU relations with Turkey and Russia. The words of President Charles Michel [...]
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Milano Finanza wrote about an important step by the ECB in the fight against cryptocurrencies. There is a strong need to submit to an authorization procedure as well as to checks in the various phases of these digital currencies. Argument also taken up by the president of Consob Paolo Savona. The ECB argues that the uncontrolled issuance of these coins can impact on the exercise of [...]
read moreIn Libya, not only the Russian mercenaries of the private company Wagner operate but also the agency of American contractors of the Blackwater agency, whose head is Erik Prince, very close to Donald Trump. The revelation emerged from a 120-page UN report accusing Erik Prince of having violated the arms embargo in Libya [...]
read moreWe will defend the art. 5 of the Atlantic Pact, the one that speaks of mutual defense between the Allies, this is how US President Joe Biden made his debut at the Conference on Defense and Security in Monaco. A blow in the sponge at the idea of the parasitic NATO of the USA that his predecessor Donald Trump had made and then publicly expressed. [...]
read moreDraghi also has confidence in the Chamber with 535 Yes (the record remains in Monti with 556 votes in favor) but also 16 no and 4 abstentions from the M5s, while 12 Grillini deputies did not participate in the vote. In his speech to the House he took up some concepts already expressed in the Senate. Fighting corruption and [...]
read moreThe vote of confidence in the Draghi government is expected for this evening after 22 pm Tomorrow will be the turn of the Chamber. Secretary Dem Zingaretti launches an appeal to the other political forces that support the Executive: 'Now enough quarrels. We are there '. The premier's speech in the hall of Palazzo Madama The first thought I would like to share, in asking [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The reflection of an M5S minister reported by Ansa is emblematic: “we have a majority capable of opposing itself”. The premises after only two days of the Draghi government are these. Inside, the parties have not yet absorbed the earthquake caused by the creation of a majority, I would say, large but gathering. Too many [...]
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The advisor to the Minister of Health, Walter Ricciardi, immediately gave the first grain to the new Draghi government: "It is urgent to immediately change the strategy to combat SarsCov2: an immediate total lockdown throughout Italy is needed, which also includes closure of schools without prejudice to essential activities, but of limited duration. Neither […]
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On the day of the oath in Europe, Draghi is called Super Mario, the man who at the helm of the European Central Bank saved the single currency and who is now preparing to save his country. "His experience will be an extraordinary resource not only for Italy, but for all of Europe, especially in such a difficult time", [...]
read moreAustere, serious and determined, this is how Mario Draghi appeared after dissolving the reserve with President Mattarella. After an hour of conversation with the Head of State he read his team: 23 ministers, 15 men and 8 women while the undersecretary to the Prime Minister will be Roberto Garofalo. Eight are the super technicians [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The outcome of the consultation via the Rousseau platform was taken for granted, the fact that the base was divided into two almost equally, no. Not a small fact considering that Alessandro Di Battista, in a late separation, with a video posted on his Fb profile, left the Movement for good. Looking ahead to elections, [...]
read moreFirst appointment of the year for the National Aerobatic Team of the Italian Air Force The Frecce Tricolori will spread the longest Tricolor in the world over the skies of Cortina: Sunday 14 February on the occasion of one of the most iconic races of the Cortina 2021 Alpine Ski World Championships , the MB339PAN aircraft of the National Aerobatic Team will spread over the finish line [...]
read more(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Today we vote on the Rousseau platform, the 5 Stars want the certification of the base to become part of the Draghi government, a way to clear conscience. The question that will be asked to over 100 thousand subscribers is really well formulated, one cannot but say that "YES": "Approve or [...]
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Over 1000, including members and elected M5s, those who took part, in connection on zoom, in the anti-Draghi V-Day launched by the wing opposed to trust in the government. Among them there are also many parliamentarians, such as Barbara Lezzi, Elio Lannutti, Alvise Maniero, Andrea Colletti, Mattia Crucioli, Elena Botto, Leda Volpi, Primo Di Nicola, Bianca Laura Granato, Pino [...]
read moreThe analysis that emerged from the study "Italian public debt and Covid - 19" carried out by the Council and the National Foundation of Accountants, Among the G20 countries, Italy shows the greatest increase in the debt / GDP ratio (+22,9 %) after Canada (+ 28,9%) and Japan (+ 24,1%). Miani (national president of accountants): "Avoiding new tax shocks" In 2020 the [...]
read moreABI President Antonio Patuelli expressed his deep appreciation for the speech by the Governor of the Bank of Italy at the Forex Congress who, above all, indicated public and private investments for development as the main way out of the critical issues due to the pandemic and inherited from previous crises. In this context - the President underlined [...]
read more(by Francesco Matera) Yesterday the differential between Italian stocks and German Bund fell below 2015 for the first time since 100. An important signal that makes us understand only one thing, this time the path is the right one, to rely on Mario Draghi for the management of the large sum of money made available by the funds [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) President Mattarella left Mario Draghi carte blanche on the choice of ministers and the method to be used for the formation of the new government. Mario Draghi despite not being provided for by the Constitution today begins consultations with the various political forces. A way to feel, without giving in to blackmail, the [...]
read more(by Massimiliano D'Elia) In the end Matteo Renzi won, he turned off the spotlight on Giuseppe Conte and interrupted the common thread between M5S and Pd, the type I created you and I destroyed you. It is no coincidence that what we wrote about a month ago has been confirmed, the Pd with the remote control [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Tonight the explorer, the president of the Chamber Giuseppe Fico will go up to the Hill to give the verdict of the grueling negotiation still underway in these hours. The 5 Stars are perched on their positions, they are afraid of internal splits. The return of Renzi to the Mes Sanitary and the [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The polls commissioned by the Presidency of the Council see Prime Minister Conte at the top of the rankings, before Draghi, a propaganda way to defuse any reference to the former governor of the ECB. The survey was published by Il Fatto Quotidiano raising many doubts about the advisability of using the funds of the Presidency of the Council for [...]
read more(by Massimiliano D'Elia) President Mattarella threw the last card, asked the President of the Chamber Roberto Fico, to test the majority in Parliament in support of the outgoing premier Giuseppe Conte, trying to include the honorable members of the game. Iv. An address that therefore provides for an interview with those of Italia Viva who [...]
read more(by Francesco Matera) Matteo Renzi on Fb removed all doubts from those who thought in a softening of the positions of Iv, lashing out against the authentic scandal of those responsible and the creation of improvised groups. Reiterated after the meeting with Mattarella during the press conference. A move by Renzi that upsets the cards even more to those who [...]
read moreHigh noon, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte went up to the Quirinale to formalize the resignation of the Head of State. The crisis since yesterday, therefore, passes into the hands of the President who will already call the parties to Colle to see if there is room for a new executive, always led by Giuseppe Conte. A count […]
read moreBiden opens to the extension of the Nuclear Treaty with Russia to keep the number of nuclear warheads balanced between the two countries. The treaty, renewed in 2010, will expire on 6 February next. Biden asks for some conditions behind the signature that Moscow considers unacceptable. Meanwhile the UN votes a resolution banning weapons [...]
read more(by Francesco Matera) Count to his followers: "Trust me". On the surface it looks like the Contiana Caporetto, but the Apulian lawyer is sure he has the ace up his sleeve. First of all, Corsera reveals, he will try to ask for an extension of the presentation of Minister Bonafede's report on justice by one day on Thursday. The "dead line" of the Conte government [...]
read more(by Massimiliano D'Elia) After about 50 minutes of conversation with President Mattarella it is clear to Prime Minister Conte the need to strengthen the majority with the creation of a homogeneous group that allows to ensure, over time, in the Chamber and in the Commissions certainty the numbers in favor of his government. What to do then? Search for […]
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The Head of State followed the debate and the vote of the Senate from the Quirinale, carefully observing the fibrillations of recent days. The Agi writes that the President of the Republic is sorry that, in a climate like this, the crisis has not resolved itself. The Senate gave Conte confidence with a majority [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia). It seems political fiction but perhaps one day events will prove me right. Original sin comes from afar, ever since it was decided to form Count 2. How to ally with those of the M5S? "With them never", thundered Zingaretti from the boxes during the pre-Covid electoral rallies. After Papeete, the alliance was taking shape more and more, [...]
read more(by Francesco Matera) The Quirinale was clear, yes to a new majority but also the assurance that there will be a convincing continuity to parliamentary action. As if to say, overcoming the crisis is not the main objective and then the work must proceed with speed especially within the Commissions. In Montecitorio there are no majority problems, in [...]
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"There is a fact that cannot be deleted from our analyzes - said the dem secretary, Nicola Zingaretti, at this point the political unreliability of Italia viva". Zingaretti again: “Iv undermines stability in any scenario you can imagine”. To make matters worse Luigi Di Maio: “Renzi is no longer an interlocutor”. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Conte, stay calm, the synthesis of Renzi's speech to the press yesterday in the late afternoon. He announced the resignation of two of his ministers and an undersecretary but also said he was ready to remain "in the majority, if they want us". Su Conte: "I have no prejudices against him", stating that [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Disappointment, this is proved by the President of the Republic Mattarella, after noting that the government crisis is anything but "frozen" as he would have liked. Today at 21.30 the CDM, after which anything could happen. Renzi has made it clear that he will honor the request of the Head of State to approve the Recovery Plan but immediately [...]
read more(by Massimiliano D'Elia) On Wednesday there will be the Council of Ministers to approve the Italian Recovery Plan after having made the necessary corrections requested by the majority parties, full stop. The Quirinale thus "freezes" the government crisis by having the message delivered directly to Matteo Renzi who would have wanted, instead, to withdraw his two ministers [...]
read moreQatar will not change its relations with Iran and Turkey after signing an agreement with Saudi Arabia and its allies to break the isolation that had lasted since 2017. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, Qatar's foreign minister, has said that "Doha has agreed to cooperate with the other Gulf countries [...]
read more(by Massimiliano D'Elia) On Capitol Hill the parliamentarians were comparing the votes of the 50 American states when around 13.30 local time, the hellishness. No one could ever have thought that the US Congress could be besieged and even attacked by the Trumpian population. The scenes of the demonstrators entering the places of American power [...]
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(by Mario Galati) ANSA announced that the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini, the Secretary of State for Defense of the United Kingdom Ben Wallace and of Sweden Peter Hultkvist, signed a trilateral agreement for development on 21 December of the new Tempest weapon system, decisive for the balance of military capabilities [...]
read moreAnguish and hope were the keywords of the end-of-year speech by President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, who called for a return to normalcy and economic recovery, while recalling the need to maintain precautions until "the vaccination campaign has definitively defeated the pandemic". Let's remain united, is the warning sent to [...]
read moreHundreds of online newspapers praise the holy war by educating lone wolves all over the world. A favorable moment due to the lack of attention of governments struggling with measures to combat the pandemic from Covid-19. (by Andrea Pinto) The holy war jihad has not been affected by the restrictions due to [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) “Hello“, culture, infrastructure, environment, opportunities, these are the 4 priorities identified by the Renzi plan to spend the 209 billion of EU funds destined for Italy. A plan announced yesterday at a press conference in the Senate, Renziano's "Hello" is not only the result of a well-studied acronym but is something more, a kind [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Matteo Renzi does not let go, on Christmas Eve we thought that everything was back in the right direction, but no, the resentments are too many and not only from the leader of IV. They do not show it but the "lonely" Count the "Sun King" does not really like anyone, both inside [...]
read moreOn Friday, Russia opened a criminal case against Lyubov Sobol, ally of the Russian dissident Navalny, accusing her of trying to approach an alleged secret agent who according to Navalny was part of a plot to kill him. Navalny supporters claim that Sobol rang the bell of the alleged FSB agent. The arrest [...]
read moreAccording to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Affairs, a new "highly concerning" variant of the coronavirus has been detected in the UK that is suspected to fuel an increase in cases in South Africa. The announcement was made on Wednesday during the Downing Street press conference heralding a [...]
read moreAfter the identification of the Covid-19 variant in Great Britain, most European countries closed their borders, causing many inconveniences to England, which asked Europe not to be isolated. The European Commission intervened by asking Member States to remove the blocks that prevent the movement of goods with the United Kingdom [...]
read moreRussian dissident Aleksei Navalnyj, after the revelations of an alleged FSB agent, accused President Vladimir Putin of being behind his suspected poisoning with a nerve agent. "I declare that Putin is behind the crime and I have no other version of what happened," Navalnyj told Der Spiegel, in the first [...]
read more“Now more Italian ships in the Mediterranean. Situation changed, we have to protect our interests, we have to defend Italians and Italian interests in a different way because today's Mediterranean is not the same as it was just 3 years ago: we need a new vision, a new presence. No bellicose aggression, but here things have changed, [...]
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To ask again is the CGIA: for SMEs, 2021 must be "tax free", the only possibility to allow these activities, exhausted by the negative economic effects linked to the pandemic, to take a breath and reschedule the recovery. The coordinator of the Studies Office Paolo Zabeo declares: "Excluding local taxes, the Italian tax free year would cost the state coffers [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Last night around 19 pm Matteo Renzi met with Giuseppe Conte, only half an hour, just the time for the pleasantries because Matteo Renzi had already sent his requests to Palazzo Chigi through a letter published entirely on his profile fb. From Recovery to Mes, the five-page letter [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Matteo Salvini marginally shared the contents of the interview made by Corriere della Sera by his "colonel" Giancarlo Giorgetti who spoke of a center-right not ready to govern the country. Salvini, on the sidelines of the presentation of Bruno Vespa's book, in fact said: "If there are no elections, the alternative is [...]
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The information "International Activities" of the Council and the National Foundation of Accountants has been published, which analyzes the economic measures adopted at European and international level in response to the pandemic crisis. An Italian regime of 625 million euros approved by the European Commission to support tour operators and travel agencies affected by the Covid-19 pandemic The Council and [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Last night at Palazzo Chigi real consultations. The M5S was presented with Vito Crimi, Alfonso Bonafede, Luigi Di Maio and Stefano Patuanelli. Nobody wanted to talk about the reshuffle. On Facebook, Di Maio: “Talking about armchairs in the face of a crisis like the one we are experiencing is surreal. We asked for respect [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte yesterday informed the Quirinale on the need to start a confrontation between the forces of the majority to clarify: "We need frankness and transparency". The Colle's position is clear, no change to important ministries without a parliamentary passage to test the existence of trust in the government. Last [...]
read more(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Why do the Chinese not get sick anymore from Covid-19 today? A good question, a question that many of us ask ourselves by looking at the images via social media of Chinese TVs that show the population walking around the street without a protective mask. An oddity? I would say no, they arrive before the others because [...]
read more(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Yesterday a full day dedicated to the Mes, safety decrees and Recovery Plan. The three thorns that make the nights sleepless for Prime Minister Conte and perhaps also for President Mattarella. The vote in the Senate on the ESM reform, with its 156 votes in favor, 129 against and 4 abstentions shows that the [...]
read more(by Andrea Pinto) With the election of Joe Biden, a window has opened to restart talks with Iran and revive the 2015 international nuclear agreement known as JCPOA - Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. A new course that probably has not yet convinced Iran, so much so that it is continuing its [...]
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The Recovery Fund chapter promises to be difficult and not easy and short to solve due to the crossed vetoes of Hungary, Holland and Poland. To the rescue, the ECB could buy government bonds until mid-2022. La Stampa reports the rumors gathered by Bloomberg according to which the next meeting of the ECB's Governing Council, [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Great Britain has launched the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, while in Europe scientific data and assessments from the regulatory body Ema are expected. The British regulatory body MHRA has declared, however, that the vaccine is effective and safe, already ordering 40 million doses. The Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The economy minister Roberto Gualtieri yesterday lifted the veto placed by Italy on the reform of the Mes - European Stability Mechanism. Our country therefore gave the go-ahead to the Eurogroup, a forum made up of the treasury ministers of the 19 EU countries that use the euro. The chairman of the Budget Committee of [...]
read more(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Air of reshuffle? This time it seems that Prime Minister Conte is also convinced. To reveal an indiscretion is the Republic that tells the visit of Matteo Renzi to Palazzo Chigi. He would have been there for at least twice in the past month. At the center of the talks is the relationship to be undertaken with the new president [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) They start to get on the nerves of those of the Democratic Party after the repeated behaviors of Prime Minister Conte which lead him to always decide in a "solitary" version, especially on the hottest dossiers. Not least the extension of the mandate at the head of Dis to the prefect Gennaro Vecchione. A confirmation that did not go down to [...]
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The British are almost as spied on as the Chinese, a team of independent researchers carried out a study that revealed the existence of around 5,2 million CCTV cameras across the country. The report compiled by CCTV.co.uk shows that there is one camera for every 13 people in the UK today. According to activists [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The Democrats are pushing for Trump to admit defeat and initiate the transition between the two administrations and thus allow President-elect Biden to begin receiving confidential intelligence information and government agencies to collaborate with incoming officials . However, nothing suggests a softening of the line adopted [...]
read more(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Isolation tests for Salvini? The clues are there and day by day they come out more and more. Giorgetti in a dialogue with a friend of his from the party pointed out that it is not governed with only popular consent: "The League was in government with 11 percent", clear the dig at [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) In silence without informing our two intelligence agencies Aisi and Aise and not only them, the head of the Dis (Department that oversees the two agencies of the Italian 007s), prefect Gennaro Vecchione sent the Copasir - Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic - a letter to present an unusual [...]
read moreYesterday, the usual weekend slowdown in the number of swabs performed, about 196000, however, highlighted that the coronavirus infection does not let go. 33.979 are the positives identified, 546 victims and intensive care registers an increase of 116 places bringing the total number of people in intensive care to 3.422. We remind you that the [...]
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The Mestre CGIA announces that of the 12 billion euros made available by the Conte government to allow the ASL, the Regions and the local authorities to pay trade payables due by 31 December 2019, only just over 2 billion have been requested from these public entities to the Cassa Depositi [...]
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Prime Minister Conte, on the strength of data that show almost stable data at the moment, will not impose new national restrictions leaving full discretion to the various governors. Arcuri will officially take care of the operational plan for the distribution and storage of the German-American vaccine arriving in Italy as early as January 2021. (by Andrea Pinto) The contagion curve for [...]
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At the end of November, the American FDA will launch the use of the Pfizer Bion Tech vaccine, the first vaccine that has completed human trials. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla talks about 90 percent effectiveness, far exceeding the minimum threshold of 50 percent set by the WHO. The rations of the announcement gave some [...]
read moreTrump hasn't tweeted for hours but has found time to fire the heads of three federal agencies that oversee nuclear weapons stocks, electricity and natural gas regulation, and foreign aid. The head of the Pentagon, the CIA and the FBI are also in the sights. Maybe it won't have the [...]
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Yesterday an earthquake shook the Kremlin when The British Sun reported that Vladimir Putin would be suffering from Parkinson's disease. Government spokesman Dmitry Peskov immediately denied: “A complete nonsense. The president is fine and in excellent health conditions ”. The Sun, according to a source who knows the [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The most expensive election campaign ever, 10,8 billion dollars to guide the decision of the Americans. An astronomical figure never before, revealed by the Center for Responsive Politics. Opinion research institute that, at the time of the coronavirus, tries to rattle off data and contradictions of the most high-tension presidential elections of [...]
read moreThe 'curfew' will start at 22 pm: from that time until 5 the following morning only "travel motivated by proven work needs, by situations of necessity or for health reasons" will be allowed. In any case, it is strongly recommended to all natural persons, for the whole day, not to travel by public transport or [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The presidential elections have always had a unique charm both for the electoral campaigns that every day are colored by a twist to the detriment of one or the other candidate and because in any case you vote for the most powerful man of the Earth. Amid sexual scandals and various impeachments, the two candidates retain [...]
read moreGiuseppe Conte speaking to the chamber today to report on the new Dpcm, which will be launched tomorrow, announced new restrictive measures to stem the spread of the virus. “The curve runs on every continent. The EU within a global framework is one of the areas most affected by the impact of the second wave. In recent weeks, the increase in Covid cases [...]
read moreThe actor died in a Roman clinic at 5,30. His condition had worsened last night. He had been hospitalized for days in the clinic for heart problems. Gigi Proietti, 80 years old today 2 November, was hospitalized in intensive care at a Roman clinic following a heart attack. The conditions of the actor, already hospitalized for 15 days, [...]
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The innovative format, open to all, to grow a community of entrepreneurs. Joule's Human Knowledge program starts today in Open mode, Eni's school for business, open to everyone and designed to train and grow aspiring entrepreneurs and startups for free in the name of innovation and sustainability. Joule wants to be a [...]
read moreThe virus does not loosen its grip, France and Germany are ready for the lockdown in differentiated measures: Only yesterday 230 billion euros were burned from the stock exchanges. Today the Heads of State and Government will meet via video conference to discuss the Von der Lyen anti-CoVid-19 guidelines. Probable delivery of the vaccine to [...]
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The battle continues to the sound of communications between Conte and exponents of Italia Viva, the Dpcm does not really go down to Matteo Renzi who proposes to review him in the points concerning closing times to the detriment of restaurants, bars and pubs. Conte is lapidary: “The Dpcm is that”. (by Francesco Matera) To Giuseppe Conte [...]
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Majority at an all-time low, it is an all against all, Zingaretti has understood that the situation can get out of hand and asks Conte to make the government make a qualitative leap and to involve the opposition: "You cannot just ask them to sign the our decisions ". (by Francesco Matera) It sounds really strange, the [...]
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The American website Axios has revealed the contents of a report that Donald Trump, if re-elected in November, will replace the secretary of defense and the directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The report published yesterday specifies that the US president himself, together with the [...]
read moreThe new lockdown approved today will not only affect bars, pizzerias and restaurants, but also 18.200 ice cream parlors and pastry shops belonging to the craft sector which in Italy employ over 50 employees. The concern for the economic and employment stability of these activities is very high, according to the CGIA. Report the office coordinator [...]
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(by Mario Galati) Even Tom Kington on Defense News spoke from the other side of the world, from the United States, of the "querelle", which is affecting the Italian Navy and Air Force: the object of the dispute is the F-35B, that vertical take-off. The timing of the article makes you smile considering the appeal of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, General Alberto Rosso, who spoke at the hearing at the IV [...]
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The Chief of Staff of the Army takes stock of the situation and operational needs of the Armed Force The Chief of Staff of the Army, General Salvatore Farina, held a hearing before the IV Defense Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, drawing a picture of the situation on the current state of the Armed Force, on the [...]
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“The Dpcm will be used to tackle this new wave of infections that is being severely faced not only in Italy but throughout Europe. We cannot or waste time, we must avoid a new lockdown ”. This was stated by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, during a press conference during which he presented the main provisions contained [...]
read moreThe controversy on the provisions adopted in the school sector continues. The debate that characterized the week just ended could continue with bright tones even today to solve the problem of gatherings in local public transport. We remind you that the DAD is one of the solutions requested by the Regions to deal with the problem in [...]
read moreThe 12th Conference of the Parties to the Palermo Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), held in Vienna from 16 to 2020 October 2000, ended with great success for Italy. The Conference coincided with the celebrations for the twentieth anniversary of the Convention - signed in December XNUMX in Palermo - which, as [...]
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After the boom in infections, the government is studying the curfew at 22 pm throughout Italy and distance learning in high schools, while Lombardy after Campania could impose the closure of schools. Il Fatto Quotidiano reveals an indiscretion from the government: "If in the next few days the new infections spike to 15/20 thousand a day another Dpcm with a sort of curfew [...]
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The availability of MIT and MI to operational - regional and provincial - and coordination tables to address the most critical situations. While the capacity threshold remains at 80%. These are the main conclusions that emerged from the table convened yesterday by Minister Paola De Micheli during which the associations of [...]
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The data emerged from the study of the Council and the National Foundation of Accountants “Analysis of the tax burden in Italy, Europe and the world. Structure and evolution of the main social policy indicators ”The real tax burden is 5,8% higher than the official one (42,4%). Households have not yet recovered from the 2012-2013 fiscal shock. Italy at [...]
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In a press release the Presidency of the Council of Ministers announced that the Technical Scientific Committee met yesterday to analyze the redefinition of quarantine and fiduciary isolation. The CTS, in line with international guidelines and adopting the principle of maximum caution, underlines the need to update the diagnostic path for the identification of positive cases [...]
read moreOn Saturday there was a new leap in infections in Italy. In the past 24 hours, positives have increased by 5.724, with 29 deaths. The experts of the Technical-Scientific Committee and the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza will meet this afternoon in an urgent meeting. The situation and the possibility of adopting new measures will be assessed [...]
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Network security goes to the Pentagon. We are not talking about the physical security of networks but about discovering "fake news" which, as seen, if used massively, can affect political campaigns but also the behavior of the population. Corsera reports that the USAF, the American Air Force would be developing software capable of automatically scanning the contents [...]
read more(by Mario Galati) Gold medal for civil valor in memory. It was granted today by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella who signed the relative decree of recognition on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior, Luciana Lamorgese to Willy Monteriro Duarte 21 years old of Cape Verdean origins but born in Italy, in Paliano where his family resides since over [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Refinancing of measures already in force, such as social safety nets, reserved for the sectors most in crisis, bonus 100 euros, tax reduction in the South and the relaunch of Impresa 4.0. These are the main measures contained in the NaDef (update note to the Def). Basically, we continue on the same path while waiting for European funds [...]
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Ambitious budget maneuver without waiting for funds from the EU Recovery Plan
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(by Andrea Pinto) The news is very weak in the media that 18 Sicilian fishermen since September XNUMXst are being held in Benghazi by circles close to General Kalifa Haftar. Leaving from Mazara del Vallo, they would have been found fishing in Libyan waters. Everyone in the government thought that it was a trivial diplomatic incident, which [...]
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Next week in the Council of Ministers the Update Note to the Def. Il Sole 24 Ore gives the first indiscretions. 8 will be the billions in 2021 and 13 in 2022 which are added to the mandatory expenses with unchanged balance for international missions, salaries of the Public Administration and energy expenses. [...]
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Are you afraid of what happens in the sunlight? Peace of mind, you can live underground safe from viruses, nuclear attacks, asteroids, tornadoes and social unrest. To read this social emergency some American construction companies that offer underground housing solutions complete with swimming pool, cinema and shooting range at a price that varies between [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) The moment of reckoning has come in the Movement, it is an all against all. The internal currents begin to emerge. There are the dimaiani, Di Battista, di Fico and the governists. All with their own ideas and ambitions, all except Vito Crimi have forgotten that they come from ordinary people, [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'ELia) The cut of the parliamentarians, the workhorse of the pentastellati is no longer a dream, the Italians have achieved it with 70 percent of YES. They cut part of the caste, what a great success, the people who send home the "hated", the politicians. At least that's how the grillini described [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Ammonium nitrate, a common fertilizer, is used to build devastating explosives, is not expensive and is easily transportable. A precious resource for terrorist groups so much so that, apparently, they would have it in large quantities already available in various European countries. It is enough that order arrives and the sleeper cells are ready to [...]
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In a note, Eni (operator of the Block), together with its partner bp, announces a new gas discovery in the area previously defined as the “Great Nooros Area”, in the Abu Madi West license in the conventional waters of the Nile Delta. This new discovery, made through the Nidoco NW-1 exploration well, is located at 16 meters of water depth, at [...]
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A large fire with some strong explosions broke out just before midnight in the port of Ancona. The flames and smoke were visible from much of the city. A dense column of smoke rose from the fire that is still in the air. The fire developed in one of the warehouses of the former Tubimar, where they [...]
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THE SEPTEMBER FISCAL MARATHON BEGINS: 270 DEADLINES FROM NEXT WEDNESDAY UNTIL THE END OF THE MONTH
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A Turkish company paid a visit to Tripoli International Airport, the destroyed airport whose reconstruction was entrusted to the Italian consortium "Aeneas". The news of the arrival of the Turks was reported by the Italian agency Nova. An "inspection" was carried out by an "ad hoc" commission appointed by the Ministry of Transport of the Government of [...]
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(by Emanuela Ricci) Since yesterday, #giustiziaperwilly banners have been posted in the streets of Colleferro. The city community was not used to so much hype, to appear on the front page of the major national newspapers. But now it's time for justice for Willy. Investigations into Willy Monteiro Duarte's death continue at a fast pace, [...]
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So Di Maio to the microphones of RTL: "New objective of the party is to build a collegial leadership, strong and legitimized by the vote". (by Massimiliano D'Elia) This sentence contains all the discomfort of the movement's big names in the face of merciless polls that see a haemorrhage of votes lost in many Italian territories. By now the nut is [...]
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(by Emanuela Ricci) It happened in the early hours of September 6, 4 boys (between 20 and 30 years old) from Artena, in the province of Rome, ambushed a 21-year-old boy at the exit of one of the many clubs of the center of Colleferro. The ambush in Largo Oberdan, near the Town Hall and the [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) “We don't send our children to school”. Thus a group of mothers in Velletri, in the province of Rome, in the face of the confusion that has accompanied the opening of schools in recent days. The confusion due to many variables that have now gone mad. Teachers and school staff who refuse to take the tests [...]
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Great success of flight no. 16 which, thanks to an innovative "dispenser", has placed 53 satellites in different orbits (by Mario Galati) Vega stronger and more powerful than all the difficulties that have raged against, first Covid which blocked the activities of the spaceport then the winds at high altitude that [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The decree extending the emergency until October 15 also contains a substantial change to the 2007 law on our Secret Services. With the decree "changing four little words", the Government has guaranteed the top of Italian intelligence the possibility of renewing their office for another four years. Concern was recorded among the oppositions, [...]
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Pupils without a mask, the teachers, yes, but they can take it off to explain the lesson. Lessons shorter than an hour as long as the lost time is made up by the end of the year, perhaps with subjects that can also be done outside the classroom. There are many schools that are not yet ready to welcome [...]
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An American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft violated the ban on overflight imposed by the Chinese authorities in an area of the Pacific intended for a naval military exercise. The Chinese reply lasts: "It was a clear provocation". There was no lack of replication. The Chinese Navy has put in place a show of force by firing one of the new ballistic missiles [...]
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(Adnkronos) - The first single-seater desks made for the safe reopening of schools after the Covid19 pandemic have arrived at their destination. In Nembro (Bergamo) the first 460 stalls were unloaded by the army soldiers from a few minutes ago, inside an institute. The town, one of the most affected by the virus, was chosen by [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) From the body that brings together the presidents of the regional councils we learn a fear: "The indications of the ISS have been shared, but on the rest it is dark and there is a risk that everyone will do as they please". The agreement reached between governors and the ISS does not resolve some decisive points for the reopening of schools such as the measurement [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Last night Musumeci presented a warning to the Sicilian prefectures to request the execution of the ordinance which expired at midnight on Monday. In the absence of an appeal within 48 hours, the prefects are liable for omission. Musumeci: "It is sad and disarming that two sections of the state have to resort to the judiciary to reaffirm the sacrosanct right [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Thus the governor of Sicily Nello Musumeci: “the presence of hundreds of migrants in the structures of the State lying in Sicily is not compatible. So I have to close the structures that are prejudicial to the health of migrants and, with the repercussions on the territory, to the health of Sicilians. In July alone, 7.067 arrived [...]
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“There won't be a new lockdown, I'm optimistic even if prudent and cautious. Our National Health Service has greatly strengthened. The situation is not comparable to that of February-March. When we had an out-of-control contagion curve and we didn't have an apparatus ready to trace and isolate cases ". Thus the minister of [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The appointment with the regional votes becomes more and more a kind of “redde rationem” for the Conte government. But the prime minister himself fears most of the elections. Conte reads between the statements of political leaders and between the fibrillations within the two major government parties the desire [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Perhaps the consultations of the grillina base on the Rousseau platform by Davide Casaleggio will no longer exist. The last consultation could be the one that sanctioned the transformation of the Movement into a real party. “Yes” was chosen for the double political mandate and “Yes” for alliances with anyone, in the style of the First Republic party. I [...]
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan: “We said we would respond to any attack and we responded in the necessary way (the reference is the impact of the Greek frigate Limos against the Turkish military ship Kemal Reis ed) and that they would pay dearly. If this is the case, we will answer again, because our research ship Oruc Reis will continue its [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Last Sunday the newspaper la Repubblica announced that five deputies had requested the 600 euro bonus provided for VAT and self-employed parties. After a few hours it became known that three were from the Lega, one from the 5 Star Movement and one from Italia Viva. Italia Viva then denied it. [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) How much can private individuals contribute to national security? A good question but also a prospect that can be the turning point for those programs whose exorbitant costs can no longer be supported by governments. Especially with the ongoing economic crisis due to the CoViD-19 pandemic. If the most powerful country [...]
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Lebanese President Michel Aoun has rejected requests for an international investigation into the explosion that tore apart Beirut, killing more than 150 people with over 5000 injured. The public protest against a government deemed incompetent is growing by the hour. Yesterday's demonstration caused deaths and injuries, the population praises the revolution, while the [...]
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Lebanese health minister Hamad Hasan sounds the alarm: "Better to leave the city, the air quality is not the best, it could cause permanent damage and even death over time". Two explosions at the port of Beirut that caused more than 100 deaths and 4.000 injuries yesterday caused the end of the world. A figure that must be [...]
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Al Mayadeen, a local television, reports "hundreds" of people injured, while Hamad Hasan, minister of health, reports "a very high number of injured", as also reported by the BBC. The minister also reiterated that the damage caused is considerable. The Italian Defense Staff announces that "A strong explosion occurred within the [...]
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Luigi Di Maio is Minister of the Interior, takes over the dossier of migrants and dictates the political line to be followed by Lamorgese. This is not a joke, but it is what is happening these days. (by Andrea Pinto) With the Sicilian hotspots collapsing Di Maio has decided to take the ball and [...]
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Green light in the Unified Conference for the Guidance and Orientation Document for the resumption of activities in the presence of educational services and preschools for the 0-6 age group. “This is another important step in view of the recovery in September - comments Minister Lucia Azzolina -. We are working every day, without stopping, [...]
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An incredible synchrony that of the majority: on the same day they send Matteo Salvini to trial for the Open Arms affair and then support the changes for the two security decrees, made by the Northern League leader when he was Minister of the Interior. The final text will be submitted to the attention of the local autonomies, but for approval by the Council of Ministers [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Every day there is a real assault on our coasts. 350 arrived tonight with the famous ghost boats, another 85 were rescued by the Coast Guard in waters not under Italian jurisdiction, in the deafening silence of Malta, Libya and France who ignored the distress calls, [...]
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MEF: credit and liquidity for households and businesses Over 295 billion euro applications for a moratorium on loans; over 61 billion the value of applications to the Guarantee Fund for SMEs; € 10,5 billion guarantees issued by SACE Confirmed on high volumes, equal to 2,7 million for a value of [...]
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