by Editorial Staff The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, one of the longest bridges in the United States, located on the bay that inspired the national anthem, collapsed in just 20 seconds after one of its central pylons was struck by a huge ship container carrier. The images, taken by a surveillance camera, have [...]

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by Editorial Staff In Italy there is "maximum anti-terrorism alert" even if there is no information on "hostile initiatives in preparation" by jihadist groups. This is what emerges from the Interior Ministry, after the tragedy in Moscow and in view of the meeting of the National Committee for Public Order and Security, which will be held tomorrow [...]

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by Editorial Staff The US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, writes the WP, flew yesterday, in great secrecy, to Ukraine to reiterate the full support of the United States, despite the fact that the US Congress is still deadlocked on additional funds to support the Kyiv's war effort. Sullivan reached Ukraine at a time […]

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The European Council underlines the "imperative" need for "strengthened and coordinated military-civilian preparedness" and "strategic crisis management in the context of the evolving threat landscape". It therefore invites the Council to continue the work and the Commission, together with the High Representative, to propose "actions to strengthen crisis preparedness and response [...]

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by Francesco Matera Is it rhetorical or is something terrible really brewing? The fact is that Putin's threatening proclamations, followed by a trail of counter-arguments from some Western leaders, mitigated by the Pope's hope to "hoist" the white flag of peace and dialogue, are inexorably raising the bar of tension , in […]

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The Swedish flag has been flying at NATO Headquarters in Brussels since yesterday: it was hoisted alongside those of the other members of the Alliance. After two hundred years, Sweden abandons its position of neutrality by fully entering the Transatlantic Organization, alongside the other member countries in a particularly delicate moment for world balances. […]

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The Houthis are intensifying their attacks by testing different tactical options to discover the limits of their enemies' defenses. They therefore experimented with a "swarm" attack by launching flying drones, small boats, underwater drones and mines against the targets by Andrea Pinto The attacks in the Red Sea by the Houthi rebels against ships in transit do not stop, the [...]

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A ship from the NGO Open Arms is already on its way to Gaza. It left Cyprus today with a load of food and medicines supplied by the American organization World Central Kitchen, and tomorrow it will land near the coast of Gaza in the northern part of the Strip. American engineers will build the mobile port. by Francesco Matera Europe, USA, […]

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by Massimiliano D'Elia Benjamin Netanyahu does not loosen his grip on Gaza and continues to call for total victory. Regardless of the pressure from the United States and China but also from all the other Western countries, Tel Aviv continues with its military campaign with the destruction of Hamas on the horizon, even if to the detriment of the population [...]

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by Editorial Staff In the absence of ammunition and new weapons to face persistent wars reminiscent of those of the Great War, the United States is running for cover by looking to Australia. The NYT reveals the US army's plans. Australia is preparing to produce a considerable quantity of artillery shells and thousands of guided missiles, in close collaboration with companies [...]

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by Francesco Matera A powerful rearmament is what Europe sees in the not too distant horizon. The winds of war coming from Ukraine and the threat of a rock-solid Russia, capable of challenging the West, despite the heavy sanctions applied to it, are just some of the factors that push the Old Continent to have to think seriously [...]

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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 Francesco Matera The Head of the Intelligence Committee of the United States House, the Republican Mike Turner yesterday came out into the open, warning American politics and consequently the entire Western world that the Russian threat also and above all comes from space, identifying it as a " serious threat to national security." Turner also […]

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by Editorial Staff A cold shower for all those who believed in a decisive outcome of the war between Israel and Hamas, after the peace talks of the last few hours. Apparently Hamas' proposal was found to be inadmissible. Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken continues his round of meetings in the Middle East to [...]

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by Francesco Matera Following the killing of three American soldiers in Jordan by a drone from Iraqi militias supported by Iran, the United States responded with large-scale military action. The Pentagon has authorized attacks on over 85 strategic targets in Syria and Iraq, including commands, intelligence centers, rocket and drone arsenals, as well as [...]

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by Andrea Pinto The situation in the Middle East continues to heat up. The attack on the American base in Jordan which cost the lives of three soldiers forced President Joe Biden to raise the level of tension, announcing a prompt response towards the perpetrators and, above all, the instigators. Iran, according to intelligence reports, is the [...]

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by Francesco Matera Yemen's Houthi rebels continue to threaten the Red Sea through their attacks against foreign cargo ships, winking at Russian and Chinese companies. Last Friday, a US destroyer, the USS Carney, shot down a ballistic missile fired from an area of ​​Yemen controlled by the Houthis, the Pentagon said, [...]

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Mossad chief David Barnea arrived in Paris today to participate in separate meetings with delegations from the United States, Qatar and Egypt to discuss a possible deal to release hostages in Gaza. Confirmation from three sources cited by Haaretz. Among the participants in the meetings are the director of [...]

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by Editorial Staff Last night, a drone attack hit the US military in Jordan, killing three soldiers and wounding 25 others, CNN reported. It is the first time that casualties have been recorded among US forces in the Middle East since the start of the war in Gaza. The […]

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by Editorial Staff During the air strikes conducted by Iran, explosions in the province of Baluchistan in Pakistan have raised concerns and tensions, as the two countries share a border of almost a thousand kilometers in this region. Although Islamabad's official statement does not specify the precise location of the attack, unofficial reports from social media [...]

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by Editorial Staff The United States recently conducted new attacks against Houthi targets in Yemen, CNN reported. The operation, as stated by the New York Times, would have targeted a radar facility in the country, aiming to limit the Houthis' ability to attack ships transiting the Red Sea. The USS Carney […]

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by Editorial Staff A predictable twist casts more and more shadows on the future of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The news is disruptive and in some ways worrying. The spokesperson of the US Security Council, John Kirby, warned the allies and Ukraine directly, who explicitly said in a press conference that the financing approved by [...]

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by Editorial Staff Fincantieri intends to intensify the production of frigates for the United States Navy through the use of robotic welders. The news comes from the United States, and the company's goal is to triple the productivity of its American construction sites thanks to automation. The Trieste company is currently engaged in the construction of the new class of Constellation frigates for [...]

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by Francesco Matera Last Sunday, three American military helicopters effectively neutralized three Houthi boats that had attempted to attack a cargo ship. The White House thus wants to guarantee security on a strategic trade route, prevent escalation and resist criticism from Congress regarding the too soft line adopted by President Joe Biden. The […]

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by Editorial Staff The Iranian navy has been equipped with cruise missiles with a range of 1.000 km and reconnaissance helicopters. The news was released by state media last night. The Iranian military supply following the accusations made against Tehran by the United States on the attack with a drone on a chemical tanker [...]

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by Editorial Staff The Colorado Supreme Court has decided that Donald Trump cannot be included on the ballot in the state's presidential primaries. This decision is based on the fact that actions related to the attack on the Capitol in 2021 make Trump ineligible, an unprecedented case in the use of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to prohibit [...]

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by Editorial Staff Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, a few hours ago, spoke with his American counterpart Lloyd Austin. According to the indiscretion revealed by Repubblica he would have discussed the possible Italian participation in the multinational mission in the Red Sea, called Prosperity Guardian. The objective of the mission is to protect the stretch of sea from the Houti group which continues from Yemen [...]

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by Francesco Matera The American website Politico has revealed that the United States is thinking of attacking the Houthi terrorist group which is inflaming the Red Sea from Yemen with the indiscriminate launch of rockets and drones against military and commercial shipping sailing on the important stretch of sea ​​that connects the West to Asia. On Saturday the […]

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by Editorial Staff While waiting to gain entry into NATO, Sweden and the United States have recently signed a significant bilateral cooperation agreement in the defense sector. The agreement provides for the availability to welcome 17 US military bases distributed throughout Sweden which will be used for various purposes, including the storage and maintenance of [...]

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by Andrea Cascia Nowadays we don't talk about anything else: "electric". The applications in this field are endless and to date it is the only possible alternative to traditional energy sources. So we are talking about renewables, i.e. energy sources which, unlike coal, oil, natural gas, uranium and plutonium, can be used almost infinitely. So, […]

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by Editorial Staff Yesterday US military forces were attacked four times in Iraq and Syria with rockets and armed drones. One of the military spokesmen told Reuters that the attacks caused no casualties or damage to infrastructure. The official said that US and international forces were attacked 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 The highest Iranian diplomat, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, revealed to the FT that Tehran had warned the United States that it did not want a regional expansion of the war between Israel and Hamas, however he also warned Washington that the regional conflict could be inevitable, where Israel continues with indiscriminate attacks [...]

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by Francesco Matera The meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping in San Francisco, on the occasion of the Apec (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit, favors a "supervised" détente between the two superpowers. In the sense that if on the one hand progress has been made in mutually recognizing the interest in healthy economic competition, on the other the coldness remains [...]

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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 Editorial Staff The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv, in Jordan to meet his counterparts from the Arab countries and then in Turkey to speak with Erdogan. Not only in Tel Aviv, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken was also in Amman where he met his colleagues from Qatar, [...]

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Official visit of the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, to the Department of Justice in Washington on the first day of his mission to the United States and Canada. In the cordial dialogue with his counterpart, Attorney General Merrick Garland, multiple judicial cooperation dossiers were addressed. Minister Nordio invited Garland to the next G7 Justice in [...]

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by Giuseppe Paccione From the day the Hamas group entered Israeli territory carrying out all kinds of illicit acts against innocent people, the first thing Israel exclaimed was the expression "we are at war!", with the implication that a declaration of war would mean for the Tel Aviv government the […]

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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday's news came that the Hamas terrorists who carried out the attack on the kibbutzim on October 7 were carrying al Qaeda information leaflets on the construction and use of rudimentary chemical weapons. In addition to Isis and Hezbollah there would also be al Qaeda alongside Hamas, confirming [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Israel is taking revenge after the cowardly attack by Hamas on 7 September, launching a relentless attack on the Gaza Strip (operation iron sword) with the sole aim of definitively eradicating the militia group in government from 2006. If he ever manages to win the war, what will happen next? To […]

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The United States is strengthening its presence in the Middle East to prevent the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas from spreading and to dissuade Iran from getting involved. The latest and most modern US aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford - the largest in the world - is already located in the eastern Mediterranean [...]

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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 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 Massimiliano D'Elia) Asymmetric war carried out with rudimentary means but which executed a strategy studied down to the smallest detail, perhaps even with the external help of well-trained state elements. There are many hypotheses about the success of Hamas' military initiative on Israeli territory but almost all of them lead to alleged help from Tehran and perhaps also [...]

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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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(by Andrea Pinto) Vladimir Putin on the day of the celebrations for the annexation of the former People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, through the Tass agency, congratulated the residents on this "truly decisive" annual anniversary , historic and fateful." Ukrainian President Zelensky, in response, participated in the International Forum [...]

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The US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) has selected Boeing to develop an interceptor under the Glide Breaker program, awarding $70,6 million over four years. The goal of the project is to build an interceptor missile capable of shooting down hypersonic weapons.

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Following the lessons learned from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, where we saw the massive use of drones, the Western armed forces are trying to take action by studying new types of weapon systems in the UAV sector, as well as suitable defence. With this in mind, the Pentagon has decided to deliver, over the next two years, a large number [...]

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The Ukrainian counter-offensive is proving to be less effective than Kiev had hoped for and Ukraine must accept the fact that it will fail to achieve the main objectives it has set itself. This is supported by US intelligence according to which it is practically impossible for the Ukrainian army to be able to reach the city of Melitopol occupied by the [...]

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Niger: the US talks to the coup plotters for peace and France with Ecowas for war

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The Americans are studying how to modify the mix of chemicals that fuel missiles and rockets to increase the range of munitions in order to gain a tactical advantage in the Pacific. A solution to be able to operate safely and further away from China. The Pentagon and Congress are studying a retrofit that could extend [...]

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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 United States and its allies have warned China that they will jointly defend themselves after discovering a Chinese spy ship off the coast of Australia during the massive military exercise (Talisman Saber 2023) between the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan. The exercise is a real show of strength [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Finally, the Italian premier Giorgia Meloni will have a "one to one" conversation with US President Joe Biden, next Thursday and Friday the Italian delegation will leave Ciampino military airport for Washington DC, where it will land at Andrews military airport. After brief and fleeting meetings at the G7 and at the NATO summit in [...]

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(by Francesco Matera) In the world of military aviation, the search for new generation fighters is a constant commitment. One such project that has gained significant attention is the US Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. With advances in technology and the evolution of threats, the American Defense seeks to maintain its superiority [...]

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On June 17, the United States Department of Defense, in the context of hypersonic tests, launched the first spacecraft, the Rocket Lab. The launch took place at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to test the first suborbital flight of a hypersonic load of the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed program, […]

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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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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Antony Blinken is the first high representative of the Biden administration to have landed in China since 2021. Once the differences have been settled following the story of the alleged Chinese spy balloons, it was necessary to rewind the tape and try to resume talks deemed necessary between two superpowers, especially with an ongoing conflict in the [...]

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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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Next week, the leaders of the G7 countries will discuss China's use of "economic coercion" in foreign relations, according to a high-level US official. The issue will be part of a section of the final joint statement at the end of the May 19-21 summit in Hiroshima, Japan. They will also be referred to as […]

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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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The US Navy has in its fleet a new medium-sized multi-purpose vessel built by Fincantieri through its company in Wisconsin, Marinette Marine Corp. We are talking about the USS Cooperstown LCS-23, a Freedom class frigate, whose acronym stands for Littoral Combat Ships. Docked in the port of New York she is awaiting the ceremony of [...]

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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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(by Andrea Pinto) Putin's propaganda in support of the special military operation in Ukraine is centered on historical reasons, dating back to the empire of Peter the Great and on the narrative of the dangerous enlargement of NATO to Russia's borders. of NATO towards Russia is a thesis studied by many international observers and analysts who, [...]

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Yesterday a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed for the assignment of an Italian liaison officer to the United States Space Command (USSPACECOM). The Air Brigadier General Davide Cipelletti, Chief of the General Space Office of the Defense General Staff (SMD), and General James Dickinson, Commander of the USSPACECOM signed the side agreement of the 38th [...]

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The person responsible for the leak of hundreds of classified Pentagon documents may be a young racist gun enthusiast who worked at a military base and was trying to impress an Internet chat group with his revelations. The Washington Post interviewed a teenage member of the group, who described the man, denoted by […]

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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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Manhattan prosecutors have indicted Trump for paying $130 to porn star Stormy Daniels. He would have paid for silence, or keeping silent about their relationship. The indictment of the porn star is just one of the open investigations against Trump. His legal situation could be complicated by the outcome of other ongoing investigations [...]

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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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China has never supplied weapons to interested parties in the ongoing conflict in the middle of Europe. “Why then threaten sanctions on China? It's absolutely not acceptable." So the Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. Biden spoke about the application of possible sanctions to China during the meeting with German Chancellor Scholz, which took place [...]

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The Russian army continues its "pounding" war characterized by continuous and incessant waves of bombing in various areas of Ukraine which in vast areas of territory has been completely razed to the ground. Whole villages have been reduced to a pile of rubble that has swallowed up their inhabitants, regardless of gender or age. Many observers […]

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Yesterday German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met American President Joe Biden in the White House for over an hour. A meeting marked by the common will to continue to help Ukraine against the aggressor. Biden praised historic German shifts in securing decisive military support and moral support for Ukraine. In addition to the supply of Berlin weapons [...]

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President Joe Biden yesterday from the White House said he wanted to discuss with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping on the story of the alleged Chinese spy balloon that an American jet shot down in early February while transiting US airspace. “We are not looking for a new cold war,” Biden said. "Of course it's not [...]

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According to reports from the Pentagon yesterday US military fighters shot down an octagonal object over Lake Huron. After the Chinese balloon, it was the third flying object to be shot down over North America by a US missile in just over a week. The news was beaten by Reuters. The general […]

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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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President Joe Biden has warned that the United States will protect itself if China threatens its sovereignty. In a bipartisan speech to Congress he warned China by highlighting the expansionary economic policies advocated by the White House. "I am committed to working with China where it can advance American interests and benefit the [...]

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The Pentagon is tracking and monitoring a Chinese reconnaissance balloon over the continental United States. The news was reported by the media following information received from the Pentagon. Pentagon spokesman, Pat Ryder, reported that the US "has detected and is monitoring a high-altitude surveillance balloon that [...]

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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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US military engagement in the Pacific was highlighted in a meeting at the White House between the leaders of the US and Japan. But behind the scenes, this renewed focus on Asia has sparked fierce debate within one of the military's most celebrated corps, the Marines. . Former Marine commanders attack the current leadership […]

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NATO will continue to strengthen its partnership with Japan during the war in Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during a visit to Japan, where he will meet Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. "The war in Ukraine is important for all of us, we are very grateful for the support that Japan [...]

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Yesterday, writes Defense News, Canada announced its intention to purchase 88 F-35A Joint Strike Fighters for a commercial value of 14 billion US dollars. Defense Minister Anita Anand said in an online briefing that the Royal Canadian Air Force will receive its first four F-35s manufactured by Lockheed Martin in [...]

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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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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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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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Leonardo welcomes the announcement by the US Department of Defense with which, as part of the program for the creation of the new advanced training system for the US Navy for which AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp. is responsible, the option for the production and delivery of the fourth batch of 26 TH-73A helicopters, for a value [...]

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The White House has accused North Korea of ​​arming the Russian private military company Wagner Group, which has deployed its mercenaries in Ukraine. John Kirby, US national security adviser, told the FT that North Korean deliveries - rockets and missiles - began last November but [...]

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Zelensky met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. Schumer clarified that, according to the Ukrainian leader, failure to approve the aid that Congress is considering could cost lives. The Democrats are united in wanting to support Kiev, while among the Republican ranks there are [...]

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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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(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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The Pentagon, in an anti-China function, and with the approval of Congress has launched a wide-ranging campaign to supply the military arsenals of the allied countries that have supported Ukraine. The Pentagon last month created a task force (tiger team) made up of senior officials from various Departments in order to speed up sales [...]

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An independent investigation found that hundreds of electronic components in Russian weapons come from Western industries. The weapons the Russians use to bomb Ukraine need a guidance system, RAM and more to achieve their goal. It is estimated that Russia has so far fired more than [...]

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EU officials mediating talks between the US and Iran to revive the 2015 nuclear deal have presented the "final text" of an agreement they hope will persuade Tehran to sign. started in Vienna last week, it had the characteristics of a last attempt to secure an agreement [...]

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The tension between the US and the Chinese government remains high, which has erupted following the visit to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi, president of the United States House of Representatives who, speaking to Parliament, declared "Our determination for democracy is iron". To Pelosi's statement is added that of President Tsai who warns [...]

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The United States has carried out new tests on its hypersonic missiles launched from the air and from the ground, thus confirming the first after the previous three failures. The acceleration of the Department of Defense, in the hypersonic technology sector, to recover the worrying capacitance gap with respect to Russia and China. Last Tuesday he was taken to his destination [...]

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Iran announced last Friday that its military ships have loaded armed drones, thus posing a new threat to American and allied ships transiting the Persian Gulf. The news while US President Joe Biden was visiting the Middle East to reinvigorate some anti-Tehran alliances. The TV of [...]

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Diplomatic relations are fervent between the countries, everyone is looking for a way out for the issue of energy and wheat but also to re-establish a balance in the world order which has become more and more precarious every day and in function of the Ukrainian war. Almost all the states that are facing economic problems are affected by this new course [...]

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The United States called a secret meeting of senior military officials from Israel and Arab countries last March to explore how they could coordinate against Iran's missile growth and possible drone capabilities in the region. The news was reported by the Washington Post. The interviews, never disclosed before, were [...]

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The US, Japan, India and Australia - Quad - have started a maritime surveillance program in the Pacific to control Beijing. Biden spoke with the premier, the Japanese Kishida, the Indian Modi, and the Australian of Italian origin, Albanian, about all the world disputes, including Ukraine, specifying that the latter is more than a question [...]

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Joe Biden in Tokyo, at a press conference, declared himself in favor of the use of force to defend Taiwan in the event of war with China. Furthermore, he argued that this is not a change in US strategy for the self-governing island issue. The feeling, however, is that Washington has taken a clearer stance than in the past to contain [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday before flying to Korea, President Biden met with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, after which he started the work of the Congress for the ratification of the request of Finland and Sweden to join the Born. The only knot to untie to achieve the entry of [...]

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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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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The British secret services are certain: the Russian military is one step away from humiliating defeat in Ukraine, they have already lost 25 percent of their war capacity. The findings from the bulletin published yesterday from London tell us that the Ukrainians, thanks to weapons and Western know-how, are [...]

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Before flying to the United States, the Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, was in the European Parliament. The war in Ukraine causes crises on several fronts and is therefore the cause of a necessary review of the role of the European Union. Draghi has no doubts about what is wrong in the EU and calls for a review of [...]

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The Biden Administration on April 18 announced a unilateral moratorium on anti-satellite missile tests, inviting other nations operating in space to follow the initiative. Vice President Kamala Harris announced a ban on conducting such tests for the United States, after tests conducted in recent years by Russia, China and India which have [...]

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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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(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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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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The Ukrainian military intelligence agency yesterday published a list with the names, addresses and passport numbers of 600 Russian citizens, alleged agents of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). The FSB is the Russian internal security and counter-intelligence agency and its staff also operate in the former Soviet republics, including [...]

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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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(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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On Cusano Tv to 'The Entrepreneur and the Others', General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force and today president of the Eurispes Security Observatory, treated the question of the war in Ukraine with disarming lucidity, giving a most studied version of the global situation. An analysis that differs from that written on [...]

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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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"Full support to President Draghi and the entire government for the advanced measures in defense of Ukrainian sovereignty, presented to the Senate". Thus Senator Marinella Pacifico of CI on the crisis in Ukraine and on the energy emergency that Italy will have to face. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Pacific specified, is to be stigmatized and our solidarity [...]

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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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(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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The very latest on the crisis in the Donbass About 40 thousand refugees have fled the Donbass and arrived in the Russian region of Rostov. This was reported by the Interfax agency citing Alexander Chupriyan, interim minister for emergency situations. “More than 40 thousand people, who had to leave the neighboring regions, arrived in Russia. At this point […]

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(by Andrea Pinto) The invasion of Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the "peace" interventions in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2021 and in Kazakhstan in January of this year, the intervention in Syria in 2015 in support of Bashar Assad, in Libya in 2017 to protect Khalifa Haftar and the Wagner mercenaries scattered from Cyrenaica [...]

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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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After the White House warning of the imminent dispatch of troops to Eastern Europe, the Ukrainian chief of staff called for calm. He was echoed by Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov who, in front of parliament, said: "There is no need to pack up, to date, there is no reason to believe [...]

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France and Germany will be protagonists in 2022, Paris will take over the presidency of the Community semester while Berlin will take over the presidency of the G7. There are many knots to be solved, from the pandemic to the climate emergency, from the strategic contrast with Russia and China to economic growth. Germany wants to make the G7 "forerunner of a climate neutral economy and a fair world", [...]

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The US authorities have asked the two largest telecommunications companies, AT&T and Verizon, to postpone the introduction of the new 5G frequency bands by two weeks. The deadline, initially scheduled for 5 December, had already been postponed to 5 January, but Airbus and Boeing recently returned to express their "concern" [...]

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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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(by Andrea Pinto) Saif al Islam, Gaddafi's son, initially ousted from the electoral competition, was then readmitted to the list of candidates in the elections scheduled for tomorrow and postponed, according to the words of the UN special envoy, Stephanie Williams, at the end next January. The Electoral Commission had excluded him but subsequently the judiciary, with final judgment, [...]

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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 [...]

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A senior US government official told Reuters that US and Israeli defense chiefs are discussing possible joint military exercises in preparation for an attack aimed at destroying Iranian nuclear facilities. The talks scheduled in the United States with the Israeli Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, follow a briefing [...]

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Yesterday, the Russian state aviation authority - Rosaviatsia - reported that a Russian Aeroflot airliner flying from Tel Aviv to Moscow was forced to change altitude over the Black Sea because a NATO CL-600 reconnaissance plane flew crossed its route. The state airline said that [...]

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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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According to a report, released last Sunday by the Wall Street Journal, the Taliban managed to seize power in a very short time last summer, according to a well-studied plan that involved the use of a vast network of intelligence agents and agents sleepers located in the main Afghan cities. Such personnel, loyal to the Taliban, were wisely infiltrated [...]

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Tehran returns to Vienna today at the negotiating table with a group of officials from the ultra-conservative wing loyal to the newly elected president Ebrahim Raisi, notoriously opposed to the pact. On the other side of the table are the representatives of the Americans who with the Biden Administration want to resume the terms of the agreement without immediately giving up the sanctions [...]

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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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A group of foreign hackers, probably linked to China, has managed to breach at least nine American organizations active in strategic sectors, such as defense, energy, health, technology and education. This was announced in a report by the cybersecurity agency Palo Alto Networks, drawn up with the participation of the National Security Agency (NSA). This group of cyber criminals is not [...]

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Yesterday, the head of foreign policy of the European Union, Josep Borrel warned member countries that an ambitious doctrine must be agreed as soon as possible to enable joint military actions to be activated, through a military force of rapid reaction, always ready and deployable (Eu Rapid Deployment Capacity). Borrel then remarked to the press: "The EU is [...]

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The Government of Israel opposes the decision of the US Department of Commerce to have blacklisted two Tel Aviv companies, dedicated to programming software for digital surveillance, because they are found guilty of having acted in activities contrary to national security or interests of US foreign policy. The [...]

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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 [...]

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An armored G20 The mobilization of law enforcement and military forces for the G20 on Saturday and Sunday in Rome will be unprecedented. The information monitoring on the eve of at-risk environments was continuous and intense. A 'red zone' will keep the Big 20 in a safe 'bubble' of 10 square km with 19 gates […]

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A process is underway in the United States that could have very serious diplomatic repercussions between Washington and Beijing. The court case concerns Yanjun Xu, also known as Qu Hui or Zhang Hui, who, according to American judges, appears to be the deputy director of an important division of the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the agency [...]

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Efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal are at a "critical stage" and Tehran's reasons for avoiding talks are running out. The United States special envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, told the press, adding: “Washington is increasingly worried that Tehran will continue to delay the return [...]

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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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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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(by Pasquale Preziosa - President of the Security Observatory - EURISPES) Overall, the Costs of War Project has estimated that 241 thousand people died as a result of the war in Afghanistan. Among them, over 2.400 members of the US armed forces and at least 71 civilians, as well as 78.000 Afghan soldiers and policemen and 84 fighters from insurgent groups. [...]

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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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The Pentagon told the press that in the past 24 hours, Americans have evacuated 19 people from Kabul airport. Five flights carrying 1.220 evacuees landed at Washington International Airport. "We are racing against the clock," said General Taylor, deputy chief of staff. For the BBC they rose to 82.300 [...]

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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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“A difficult, painful operation: I am heartbroken to see those images”, so Joe Biden told the Nation yesterday, during his third unified network television intervention. We will use civil aviation to take away as many civilians as possible, the US president said. To echo him, Donald Trump who called the US exit from Afghanistan a [...]

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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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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) “The objective of the mission was not to build a nation, but to counter terrorism. We could not and should not fight a war that not even the Afghan army wanted to fight ", so Joe Biden summarized last night to the Nation the debacle of his administration and intelligence that could not predict what an analyst [...]

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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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It is the second night of curfew, Tunisians are reliving the days of the revolution of ten years ago when they took to the streets to rebel and try to solve the atavistic problems that have always gripped the country, from high unemployment to the degradation of public infrastructures. Problems that, apparently, have never been addressed [...]

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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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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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(by Andrea Pinto) Chaos reigns in Cuba, people, tired after about 60 years of Communist regime, went out into the streets, there is a lack of food and medicines and hospitals are in collapse. The regime has blacked out the internet and the media, those few active ones, are controlled. Cuba is in a bubble, disconnected from the rest of [...]

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The Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio would be in the crosshairs of ISIS, after having co-chaired the ministerial meeting of the anti-Daesh coalition in Rome with the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The ISIS weekly al Naba published a few days ago an article about threats against Italy and the Foreign Minister, in which [...]

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Antony Blinken, the head of American diplomacy, arrived in Italy as the last stop on his European tour. Today, for the first time in Italy, the plenary ministerial meeting on the anti-Daesh Coalition is scheduled, it will be co-chaired by Di Maio and Blinken. We will also talk about Syria and humanitarian aid to be allocated to the country for [...]

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“Many ask me if my discovery of the sequences on # SarsCov2, removed from the national archive, tells us anything about possible laboratory incidents. The answer is no. People use this discovery to support one of the hypotheses to believe in ”. So on twitter Jess Bloom, the American scientist who recovered the "partial sequences" of the first [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) Western intelligence agencies are certain that the new global crises will come from Africa where terrorist violence is renewing with the birth of many "caliphates" while the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other militias exploit the withdrawal of foreign troops to reorganize. After years of attrition in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, [...]

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Three hours of talks between foreign ministers and diplomats following the meeting between US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Corsera reports Putin's satisfaction expressed on his return home: “Biden, skilled and prepared, is concentrated, he knows what he wants. He flew from one continent to another, with the jet [...]

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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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On May 28, the US Department of Justice authorized the arrest of two hackers connected to the Russian private organization SolarWinds. The two took control of two internet domains from which they started a massive phishing campaign. The large-scale cyber attack was detected on May 25, 3.000 e-mails were [...]

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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 [...]

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The United States Department of Justice and the Central Intelligence Agency could intervene in a civil case involving a Saudi spy in exile against the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman. In a 106-page lawsuit filed last year in the United States District Court in Washington, DC, Dr. […]

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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 [...]

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The 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 [...]

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(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 [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) Joe Biden reassured Israel: "Washington has" a long way to go "before re-entering the 2015 agreement to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions". Skipping all protocol rules, Biden met Mossad director Yossi Cohen last Friday. Cohen together with a delegation from Tel Aviv was in America to discuss [...]

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Joe Biden's US takes another step forward, yesterday on the third day of negotiations in Vienna with Iran, aiming to return to the nuclear agreement, JCPOA. A turning point that Israel does not like, which has always been threatened by Iran with being razed to the ground with an atomic bomb. On Friday the head of Mossad Yossi Cohen, [...]

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"The troops have proved capable of guaranteeing the defense of the country". Thus the Russian Defense Minister Serghej Shoigu, who spoke yesterday at the military exercises organized in Crimea with the participation of dozens of ships, hundreds of warplanes and thousands of men. "The goal has been completely achieved and Russia withdraws [...]

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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 [...]

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Surprise visit yesterday to Kabul by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the day after Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by 11 September. An inevitable decision for the American president, but probably made not without some stomach ache within his administration. According to some sources close to the House [...]

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Moscow must "ease tensions", this is the message that Joe Biden wanted to send to Putin after the siege of the Kremlin troops deployed close to the borders with Ukraine. At least 100 thousand units would be employed on the western borders by Moscow. Biden phoned the Kremlin tenant proposing a meeting in the coming months in a [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The game played on the chessboard between Italy and Turkey marked a new move by Istambul, a kind of checkmate. Today the entire Libyan government that has just taken office will go to Turkey. President Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dbeibah will lead a delegation of 13 ministers, including the Army Chief of Staff [...]

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Faced with Republican opposition over the passage of gun control legislation, President Biden announced on Thursday a series of steps he could take to address the spread of gun violence. The most significant proposal was the crackdown on the proliferation of so-called ghost guns, firearms assembled at home and which [...]

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Two rockets landed yesterday in a rural area near an Iraqi military airbase that housed some US contractors. Fortunately, no casualties or injuries were recorded. Iraqi security forces reported that the rockets landed on the base's outer fence. Preliminary investigations showed that the attack was direct [...]

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Stories and plots of spies, known and lesser known arrests, the fact is that a former American intelligence analyst served 30 years in prison for having betrayed his country in favor of Israel. We are talking about Jonathan Pollard, former US Navy intelligence analyst in the 80s, was arrested for passing on information [...]

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(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 [...]

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An intelligence report done for the US Congress and the White House warns that violent extremism by racial and ethnic groups is "metastazing" across the country and "almost certainly" could translate into more violent demonstrations in the country. course of 2021. The report was drawn up by the National Counterterrorism Office, in [...]

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Iran used commercial satellite imagery to monitor Iraq's Ain al-Asad airbase before launching a dozen ballistic missiles at US and coalition forces. The missile strike damaged the base, equipment, a helicopter and injured 110 people. The alarm of the imminent attack had been announced by the Space satellite operators [...]

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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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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week remotely participated in the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union, during which he was able to underline the commitment of the United States to "repair, revitalize and raise the level of ambition in US-EU relations ". Blinken highlighted the importance of close cooperation with the EU and [...]

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In 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 [...]

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It was necessary to rekindle the lighthouse in a strong way to attract attention, a simple battery of missiles launched from a pickup truck towards one of the American bases located in Iraq. A base where it is easy not to make mistakes, or where irreversible damage is not done. One year after the last attack, Iran launched several missiles on the airport last Monday [...]

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A very unique and embarrassing revelation. Michelle Obama's personal email was allegedly hacked by a group of American cyber-spies who worked for the UAE government. The book, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends, written by Nicole Perlroth, a journalist who deals with related topics [...]

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Just three days after Joe Biden took office, Chinese military fighters simulated missile attacks on a US aircraft carrier in the Taiwan air defense zone, according to US intelligence. On 23 January, the Chinese army sent 11 aircraft to the southwestern area of ​​the Taiwan air defense zone and the following day others [...]

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Biden 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 [...]

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The Afghan peace does not hold up, making fear the worst for the future of a national reconciliation process opened with great clamor on 12 September last. The signing in Doha on February 29, 2020 of an agreement between the United States and Taliban rebels should have led to an easing of tensions and a withdrawal [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the other Gulf countries (United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain) have signed a historic agreement to end the embargo that lasted three years. The summit was held in AI Ula, a town north of Medina. The Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani was present, received [...]

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US and Iraqi authorities have warned Iran and Iranian-backed militias that any attack on American diplomats or military forces would be read as an attack by Iran on American interests. The warning close to the anniversary of the killing of the Iranian general Soleimani following an American attack using drones. TO […]

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(by Andrea Pinto) We have doubled the precision missiles aimed at Israel, the head of Hezbollah in Lebanon told pro-Hezbollah television. The interview lasted four hours and many argue that it was released to cheer up the group's followers after the most disastrous year for Lebanon since the civil war. [...]

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The House voted to overrule President Trump's veto on the annual military policy bill, garnering bipartisan support to enact the president's objection legislation and passing the $ 740 billion defense law, effectively subverting for the first time in the last four years on [...]

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(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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Leonardo welcomes with satisfaction the announcement of the US Department of Defense with which, as part of the program for the construction of the new advanced training system for the US Navy for which AgustaWestland Philadelphia Corp. is responsible, options are exercised for an additional 36 helicopters TH-73A for a value of 171 million dollars. Production and deliveries [...]

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(Marco Zacchera) by Let me imagine .. Let's imagine that Biden had been largely in the lead the night of the ballot after counting the votes in the polling stations and then the sinister Trump had suddenly risen with the votes in the mail enough to overcome him. How do you think the American & Italian media would have reacted? Then - always imagining - [...]

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Trump 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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(by Marco Zacchera) It will therefore in all probability be Joe Biden the new US president even if the suspicion of electoral fraud for the postal vote will be at the center of discussions for a long time. What bothered me a lot, however, were the absolutely biased comments of most of the Italian media and TV [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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In a press release, the Customs and Monopolies Agency - Adm - announced that the General Manager, Marcello Minenna, met the American Ambassador Lewis M. Eisenberg, accompanied by the Commercial Advisor Isabella Cascarano and the Customs Officer Paul Junior Posner. The meeting, conducted in an extremely concrete and positive way, made it possible to deal with hotly topical issues and [...]

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Israeli TV reported that Mossad (the external intelligence agency), would have provided the country with a vaccine against CoVid-19 produced in China. The news came following the government announcement this weekend that it was stepping up diplomatic efforts to acquire the best coronavirus vaccine. According to The Jerusalem newspaper [...]

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US elections: What would happen if Trump escalates?

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(by Andrea Pinto) The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo yesterday was in Italy for a meeting with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his foreign colleague, Luigi Di Maio. Thus Pompeo on the sidelines of the meetings: "The United States appeals to the Italian government to carefully consider national security [...]

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According to a report by American intelligence agencies, Iran is trying to avenge the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani in January of this year. Soleimani, head of the elite military corps, "the Guardians of the Revolution" was killed by a US drone attack during a visit to the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The "Politico" website reported the news [...]

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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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Shabtai Shavit, one of the longest serving directors of the Israeli security agency known as Mossad, said Israel and the world cannot prevent Iran from developing its own nuclear arsenal. The super agent recommends focusing on deterrent systems instead. Shavit, now 80, has a long career in one of [...]

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The US has decided what to do with the F-35s destined for Turkey, the Defense Department gave its final answer on Monday evening. The US Air Force will purchase eight F-35A jets originally planned by Lockheed Martin for Turkey for $ 862 million. The agreement also provides for another six F-35As already built for Turkey to be allocated [...]

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The long-distance confrontation between China and the US continues, in fact, according to what was reported on reuters, China has made it known that it would be "happy" to participate in the trilateral negotiations on arms control with the United States and Russia, but only if the United States were willing to reduce its nuclear arsenal by bringing it back [...]

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The Russian security service arrested the media adviser at the space agency on suspicion of providing military secrets to an intelligence agency in a western country. A former journalist, Safronov was the military correspondent for the Russian newspaper Kommersant, which some describe as the Russian equivalent of the British Financial Times. He then worked as [...]

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The AW119 helicopter for helicopter rescue with IFR certification introduces on the civil market more safety in all weather conditions Leonardo announced today that the US helicopter rescue operator Life Link III has ordered an AW119 helicopter equipped with the American FAA IFR (Federal Aviation Administration, Instrument Flight Rules) which allows it to operate according to the rules of [...]

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From today for 15 countries, where the contagion curve is very low, there is freedom of movement across the border without having to observe the 14-day quarantine. Italy has decided to opt for the line of prudence. In the list of non-Shenghen countries that will have to observe the quarantine period there is also Japan [...]

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Russia has denied offering rewards to the Taliban for killing US troops in Afghanistan. In a series of 'tweets' on its account, the Russian embassy in Washington spoke of 'fake news' and accused the New York Times, which had written about it, of circulating news that triggered threats to diplomats [...]

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There was mounting tension in Iraq over the weekend as the Baghdad government reported arresting over a dozen members of a powerful Iranian-backed Shiite militia. It is the first time that the Shia-led Iraqi government has taken steps to reduce the growing power of these [...]

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John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser wrote the scandal book "The Room Where It Happened", the memory of his delicate position when he sat next to President Trump in the "control room" from April to September. year 2019. It will be published next Tuesday. President Trump has called for the intervention of [...]

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(by Francesco Matera) The Associated Press agency, yesterday, published on its website a series of documents of the World Health Organization, referring to last January, when the director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus openly praised the cooperation of the Chinese in the exchange information. In great secrecy, however, the Organization officials were very worried about the delays and [...]

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The United States said the Russian military flew over Libya, with a dozen unidentifiable planes, in an attempt to provide air support to Russian mercenaries fighting in Tripoli. What happened shows an important escalation of the Russian military intervention in the Libyan civil war. The war has been raging in Libya since 2011, [...]

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Lieutenant General David Thompson, Deputy Commander of the US Space Force said that despite the ongoing pandemic, Russia and China continue to launch military missiles and test space weapons. Last month, Russia tested a missile capable of hitting satellites in orbit. Also in April, a Chinese rocket carrying [...]

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Relations between the United States and China are increasingly tense. Donald Trump continues to point the finger at China for delaying the provision of coronavirus data. The latest statements by the US president are very heavy, even more so than the previous ones, defining the pandemic "the worst attack ever against the United States, worse [...]

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The decision seems to be almost final. The United States is ready not to share intelligence information with the United Kingdom if the British government continues talks with the Chinese company Huawei Technologies to build the fifth generation cellular communications infrastructure. Many Western intelligence agencies believe that Huawei is very close to [...]

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According to an article by Bridget Johnson, chief editor of Homeland Security Today, extremist groups around the world are taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to reorganize and spread chaos and violence. Johnson explains that most groups, through proclamations, "have shown some concern" for the health and well-being of their members, for [...]

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General Mark Milley, Chief of the US Defense Staff (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) said that "evidence" gathered by Western spy agencies indicates that COVID-19 has "natural" origins. But every other hypothesis has not yet been ruled out. Since the virus was discovered, eminent scientists [...]

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Yuanyuan Zhu was in the gym in San Francisco on March 9, as he was about to do his last workout, a man started yelling at him, offending her about the epidemic that broke out in China. She immediately left the gym and headed for the bus stop. It was followed by the same "screamer" who, close to the [...]

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Samaritan's Purse donates a field hospital to Italy. The Italian Air Force supports the reception and set-up operations The aircraft, a DC17, which left the United States with personnel (health and logistics) and medical equipment on board landed on Tuesday 21.18 March at 8 pm at the Verona Villafranca airport. available from Samaritan's [...]

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A cyberattack, associated with a disinformation campaign, targeted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) computer systems in what officials believe was an effort to undermine the U.S. response to the pandemic. from coronavirus. The cyber attack reportedly took place [...]

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The Pentagon will close its doors, starting Monday, to all unofficial visitors and restrict entry to international guests and large groups of people, this is just the latest in a series of restrictions that will apply to military personnel and on access to US bases throughout the country. Last night the Department [...]

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Yesterday, the president of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani ordered the gradual release of thousands of jailed Taliban fighters, giving in to a previous refusal that was threatening the peace plan, negotiated thanks to the US government. Ghani's government had not accepted part of the agreement signed last month between the United States and the Taliban which [...]

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The US Department of Defense has announced that it is able to function continuously, despite some media claiming that US military readiness may soon begin to lose effectiveness following the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Yesterday, during a press conference, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper stated that he was [...]

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Last week, a Chinese warship fired a laser beam at an American reconnaissance plane in the Philippine Sea, 600 kilometers west of the island of Guam, one of the territories of the United States and the headquarters of several military bases. The US Navy in a statement revealed the incident. Ships from [...]

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The United States has signed an agreement with Taliban rebels that could pave the way for a complete withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan in the next 14 months and represent a step towards the end of the 18-year war. The agreement was signed in the Qatari capital Doha by US special envoy Zalmay [...]

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US intelligence agencies are using "a wide range" of tools, ranging from open source information gathering to interception of communications and "humint", to collect all data on the spread of the coronavirus. At the end of last week, the most reliable information on the spread of the virus, known as COVID-19, came only [...]

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A possible peace agreement between the US government and the Taliban will favor the Islamic State in Afghanistan, so some sources on the ground reported. After nearly two decades of war, the United States is close to concluding a peace agreement with the Taliban, the Sunni group of Pashtuns that had [...]

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"It is essential that we as the international community wake up to the challenges posed by Chinese manipulation," US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in Munich at the international security conference. Esper then urged world security leaders to "wake up" and pay more attention to China's efforts to influence the economy [...]

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An American judge blocked the 10 billion dollar maxi order that the Pentagon had entrusted to Microsoft for the creation of iCloud services. The giant led by Jeff Bezos had resorted to denouncing political interference by the White House aimed at ousting Amazon from the game. The stop to the contract called Jedi [...]

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Very interesting for the contents and for the analysis made, the article by General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force until 2016, published by Formiche.net. (by Pasquale Preziosa) In an article in the Nikkei Asian Review (Hiroyuki Akita) of 4 February, the concerns of Japan and South Korea for the [...]

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The US President, Donald Trump presented the Fiscal Year 2021, many innovations that affect new ambitious goals. A $ 4.800 billion budget, writes Il Sole 24Ore, with major cuts to social programs in favor of defense and border control. "A Budget for America's Future", this is the title of the maneuver, [...]

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Iran has launched a satellite into orbit, the announcement was made by an Iranian minister, as part of a new civilian program. However, the launch failed, like those already attempted in recent years. The United States believes that behind the launch of the satellite there is a correlation with the development of new [...]

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MIPAAF, Bellanova a Perdue: duties are not the answer that citizens expect from the United States and the EU. To grow, agri-food needs certain rules "In order to grow and face the new global challenges in terms of innovation, sustainability, food quality and safety, the fight against waste, the agri-food sector needs [...]

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The Space 19+ ministerial conference, organized by ESA - European Space Agency - last November in Seville highlighted the need to start gradually increasing the budget for the 22 member countries. The desired increase is expected to reach approximately 45%, equal to 14,4 billion euros over the next three years. An effort, writes the Sole24Ore, which [...]

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NBC News reported that the Pentagon spokesman revealed that as many as thirty-four US military personnel suffered concussions and brain injuries following the Iranian missile attacks on Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq earlier this month. Iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against two Iraqi airbases [...]

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The US State Department has issued an "alert" on Italy, US citizens who intend to stay in our country are advised "to be more cautious". The “level 2” warning concerns countries where the risk of an attack could be high. Level 2 is the second of four danger levels. [...]

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Trump does not mince words and speaks of a phenomenal understanding: "Buy new tractors, a great season for business is coming". The Chinese will buy $ 197 billion worth of American goods over the next two years and the US pledges to buy $ 156 billion worth of Chinese goods. The dead line of 19 [...]

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Donald Trump: "Someone on the other side may have made a mistake", Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: "The plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile". These are the two statements, supported by clues provided by American intelligence that thanks to satellite surveys they would have identified the firing of a Russian-made surface-to-air missile that would have hit a part [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) The air distance between the capitals of Iran and Italy is about 3750 km, but the distance between the two borders could be reached by Iranian missiles. Indeed, Iranian missiles can hit targets within a range of 300 to 2.500 kilometers from their launch point. [...]

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Iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi military bases where US and allied personnel are based, according to reports from military in the region and confirmed by the Defense Department tonight. The personnel of the Italian military contingent (about 900 units present in Iraq) [...]

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(by Andrea Pinto) The US military leaders in Iraq have informed their Iraqi counterpart that US troops are starting preparations to "leave" the country. Brigadier General William Seely, head of the US task force in Iraq, wrote a letter to the Iraqi chief of joint operations, viewed by the AFP. The Iraqi Parliament, in reaction to the killing [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Iran is wounded and according to many analysts there is a high probability that revenge is around the corner. Too much the American affront in killing General Soleimani, he was a first-level strategist, who became a national symbol in the fight against the West. What kind of war could it be? Surely it will never be possible to reach a [...]

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Taylor Adam on the WP explains in detail what is happening in Iraq between the US and Iran and why Iraq is important to the whole region. Tensions between the United States and Iran have increased throughout 2019, but on New Year's Eve, they took on a surge that saw the US embassy [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Turkish Parliament will meet in extraordinary session on Thursday 2 January at 14, when in Italy it will be 12, to anticipate the vote on President Erdogan's AKP motion authorizing the sending of troops to Libya in support of the government of national accord of Fayez al-Sarraj against the offensive of the militias of [...]

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The opinion of General Pasquale #Preziosa on the hypersonic # is authoritative. The article by the former head of the # Aeronautica Militare globally analyzes this new and disruptive strategic weapon, whose effects on future inter-state balances are only imaginable and difficult to predict. In 2014 a first symposium was held in Italy from which it emerged that the hypersonic would have a [...]

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(by Pasquale Preziosa) Who will defend the Europe of tomorrow? There is no answer to this question, none of the European countries has a precise idea and any innovative initiative triggers, in European countries, the spring of conservatism, creating stagnation of thought. According to the founding fathers, European countries will have to live together to avoid further disasters after two [...]

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Deputy Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen announced yesterday that China and the United States have reached an agreement to close the so-called "Phase One" of trade negotiations. Existing duties of 23% on 230 billion Chinese exports will remain in force and duties on the other 7,3 billion will be reduced to approximately 120%. [...]

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In these days in London the NATO summit to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the signing that sanctioned the constitution. A summit that promised to be red-hot due to the recent utterances of French President Macron: "NATO is in a kind of brain death" and due to the fierce attitude of Donald Trump who [...]

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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says it is investigating possible counter-intelligence threats in connection with the popular online application #FaceApp, which is based in Russia. The application first appeared in January 2017 and quickly became popular with smartphone users around the world. Allows [...]

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Leonardo has announced the signing of a contract for four AW139 twin-engine helicopters with the Miami-Dade County Fire Department. The machines will be used to carry out various missions including, in particular, firefighting, air ambulance and search and rescue operations. Special equipment includes recovery winch, center of gravity hook and fire-fighting bucket. The [...]

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Soon #Gazprom will announce the start of liquefied gas supplies to China through the “Power of Serbia” pipeline. With this work, Russia is preparing to conquer world leadership in the distribution of energy, in particular of liquefied gas. As Bellomo writes in Il Sole 24Ore, the Russian move will tend to [...]

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The United States and Russia are at loggerheads over the extradition of a Russian cryptocurrency magnate arrested and detained in Greece. Apparently, according to rumors, the Kremlin spies used cryptocurrencies with the complicity of the company under investigation. The tycoon in question is Aleksandr Vinnik, 39, who in 2011 co-founded [...]

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China last Thursday successfully completed a crucial landing test in northern Hebei province ahead of a historic unmanned exploration mission to Mars next year. China is on track to launch its mission to Mars, said Zhang Kejian, head of China National Space on Thursday [...]

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US Air Force Chief David Goldfein said he hoped the tensions between the Gulf states could end as soon as possible by urging them to join military capabilities against Iran's growing threat. Washington reads the continuing political rift between Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt towards Qatar, a contradiction to respect [...]

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As reported by Nova, the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet Donald Trump, at a time when relations between the two countries are at an all-time low. Tensions, already strong in recent years, have grown particularly after Ankara launched the military operation "Source of Peace" on 9 October [...]

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Task Force 44 yesterday in Iraq in Kirkuk ran into a rudimentary device known as IED during a training patrol on the street. 5 of the injured, 3 of which seriously, suffered damage to the lower limbs and one had to amputate part of his leg. The attack took place close to November 12, when [...]

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Yesterday a bolt from the blue. French President Emmanuel Macron used very harsh words about NATO: "he is in a state of brain death". The criticisms leveled at NATO by French President Emmanuel Macron are "an unnecessary broadside". This is what Chancellor Angela Merkel declared during the press conference with the NATO secretary general, [...]

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The Pentagon has announced a deal worth $ 34 billion for the new batch of stealth jets from aerospace company Lockheed Martin. Under the terms of the deal announced on Tuesday, which includes jets for the US and allies, the US Department of Defense has purchased 478 aircraft. Ellen Lord, the top official [...]

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La Stampa interviewed NATO Secretary General Jean Stoltenberg who illustrated the situation of the International Organization in the face of emerging and future challenges, with a detailed focus on Russia and China. Prudent about the Turkish intervention in Syria but determined to denounce Russian interference in Europe and to ask the allies for greater efforts to deal with [...]

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According to the Russian press, the Kremlin authorities have arrested three American diplomats, accused of having tried to enter a "secret" weapons test site in northern Russia. The site in question is located near the Russian city of Severodvinsk which hosts numerous military shipyards and is "off limits" for citizens [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The official visits of the President of the Italian Republic to the US have always been "symbolic" and "institutional", they have rarely seen the two presidents discuss "bilateral" issues in such detail and with tones that are not exactly relaxed. Trump immediately entered with a straight leg: "Italy did a good thing by buying the new fighter-bombers [...]

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Damage to the Italian agricultural sector caused by the spread of the Asian bedbug and damage to the Italian agri-food industry resulting from duties: these, among others, were the issues that on the Italian proposal were discussed in the Council of Agriculture and Fisheries Ministers meeting in Luxembourg. The Asian bedbug, it was reiterated, has mainly affected the Regions of Northern Italy, [...]

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Ambriola Co Inc's gigantic warehouse in West Caldwell, New Jersey is chock full of hard cheese boxes and forms like Parmigiano Reggiano, Pecorino Romano, and Grana Padano - and more is coming. Phil Marfuggi, president and CEO of Ambriola, a rib of Auricchio SpA, one [...]

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Last August, Attorney General William Barr with a small team of his staff met with the leaders of our secret services. But who gave the authorization? The only one who has the right is the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte who is in charge of services. It is no coincidence that the Copasir - committee [...]

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Agreement between the Italian Air Force and Virgin Galactic The first contract between the Italian Air Force and Virgin Galactic for the purchase of a suborbital scientific research flight was signed today at the Italian Embassy in Washington. The flight will depart from the New Mexico Spaceport in the US in December 2020. To sign [...]

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A tweet from US President Donald #Trump may have compromised the secrets of America's satellite reconnaissance capabilities. According to experts who analyzed the tweet over the weekend. The US president posted a message about the Iranian space program on his personal Twitter account on Saturday, August 30. The message read: "The States [...]

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In a move that observers describe as unprecedented, a U.S. government regulation committee is likely to recommend halting construction of an 8.000-mile undersea cable connecting America with China over national security concerns. Washington, to date, has never stopped the construction of [...]

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With the test launch of a missile that flew more than 500 kilometers, the United States boldly entered a future that past leaders had tried to avoid. The announcement came in a brief Pentagon press release sent to the media yesterday after noon: “On August 18 at 14:30 pm Pacific [...]

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Donald Trump wants to buy Greenland. The president of the United States would like to make an offer to Denmark to buy the huge island between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Circle, with its 56 inhabitants. The Wall Street Journal reports it, according to which a part of the advisers would have told the president that it would be a great deal, but others would have [...]

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Iran's state-owned energy sector, one of the most profitable in the world, has become a major target of international espionage. It was therefore subjected to new sanctions by the United States this year. The purpose of the Washington sanctions is to limit the Islamic Republic's ability to export energy and, thereby, put an end to [...]

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Liaison Officer and Attaché of 23 joined together to talk about safety. China, USA, Mexico and Japan among the participants Common policies and intervention plans, support for new forms of collaboration, strategies to fight crime, this is the agenda for law enforcement representatives, present today at the operational meeting, organized by the Management [...]

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A year has passed since the inauguration of the new US embassy in Jerusalem and to date only Guatemala has transferred its chancellery. Such was the disappointment recorded in Israel, so much so that the foreign minister, Israel Katz, of Likud, decided to facilitate the removal of other diplomatic representations from Tel Aviv. The newspaper […]

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergej #Lavrov yesterday at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the countries that make up the #Brics bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), who met in Rio de Janeiro, commented on the American policy in the field of defense and security, the interview was taken up by the #Tass news agency: "The development of plans [...]

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Since the election of President Donald Trump, the issue of border security between the United States and Mexico has been a major topic of national debate. But the relentless attention to the southern border of the United States is due to the media and politicians ignoring the security concerns emanating from Canada. In an editorial [...]

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The United States will send troops, assets and military systems to Saudi Arabia for the first time since 2003. The deployment of military units will be a "deterrent" to Iran. The announcement, therefore, fits fully into the Hybrid War between Washington and Tehran and preceded by a few hours the news of the kidnapping by the Pasdaran [...]

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Today the declaration on behalf of the EU by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign and Security Policy, Federica #Mogherini, on the situation of the Intermediate Interval Nuclear Forces Treaty (Inf). "The European Union calls on all states to uphold the integrity of the rules-based international system with effective multilateralism as a key principle, indispensable for maintaining [...]

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Tensions between the US and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz have subsided but on the "web" it appears that Iranians are continuing their activity against US targets in the US and elsewhere. On Wednesday morning, the US Cyber ​​Command tweeted that it had discovered "active malicious use" of a known bug in Microsoft [...]

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Javad Azari-Jahromi, Iranian telecommunications minister, said the "cyber attacks" launched by the United States against missile defense systems "have not succeeded". The statement came through a message posted on Twitter by the minister himself “The media are wondering about the effectiveness of the alleged cyber-attacks against Iran. None of their attacks succeeded despite [...]

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Trump in a long speech explains what happened last night, when he stopped the attack on Iran, minutes before it began. “I asked how many people would die. '150, sir', I was answered by a general. So, I stopped everything ten minutes from the attack, which would not have been proportionate to the shooting down of a drone ”. The contents […]

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Last night at around 20 pm, Washington time, Donald Trump ordered an attack on specific Iranian targets, in retaliation for the shooting down of the US spy drone in the Gulf. The entire military device had already been started and were in position to launch the attack. But before launching the operation, Trump canceled the operation, [...]

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In the early hours of the day, a US drone flying over the Strait of Hormuz was intercepted and hit by Syrian forces. According to the Guardians of the Revolution, the spy drone had violated Iranian airspace and had the identification equipment deactivated: it departed from an American air base in the southern Gulf, flew over the southern province [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Italian vice president of the council Matteo #Salvini flew to Washington. A visit that had already been postponed before the elections. Today, however, after the outcome of the European elections, where there was a plebiscite in favor of the League, the visit takes on a different connotation, especially with an EU Commission always of [...]

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Yutaka Katada, the chairman of Kokuka Sangyo, the Japanese company that chartered the oil tanker Kokuka Sangyo, said the ship was hit by a torpedo and not a mine, as US officials claim, who blame Iran. "We have received reports that something has flown to the ship," Katada said in [...]

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The Pentagon has cut the strings on the training program for Turkish pilots for the # F-35. According to American media reports, 26 Turkish pilots at Luke Air Force Base will no longer be able to continue the training program, in relation to concerns about Ankara's purchase plan for the system [...]

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American agents have arrested hundreds of people who have recently fled Africa (by Massimiliano D'Elia) Donald Trump is thinking about how to fight the migrants from South America who cross the border via Mexico to reach the United States. Many contacts with the Mexican authorities to mitigate the effects of the start of duties on Mexican products. [...]

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The escalation of tension between the United States and #Iran, and the consequent escalation in the Persian Gulf, could be the result of a misreading of the intelligence apparatuses of both countries, according to a new report cited by the Wall Street Journal. Reports from the Middle East continue to describe the situation as tense as indeed [...]

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Behind the attack on two Saudi oil tankers and two other ships, damaged near the Strait of Hormuz, there is probably Iran. According to the US press, which cites US officials, Tehran or Iranian supporters have used explosives to damage commercial ships, a finding that, if confirmed, would further fuel the military tensions in the Persian Gulf. [...]

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Iran is capable of destroying the US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln with a single missile, which yesterday crossed the Suez Canal after setting sail for a mission in the Middle East. This was stated by Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabai-Nejad, representative of the province of Isfahan in the Assembly of Experts of the Islamic Republic. "Their ship, which cost billions of [...]

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The sudden US decision to deploy a significant military component in the Middle East came in response to intelligence information given to Washington by Israeli officials. The United States announced that the USS Abraham Lincoln had received instructions to navigate the Middle East. The aircraft carrier is sailing alongside a cruiser [...]

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The forces of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) are fighting to repel the offensive of the troops loyal to General Khalifa Haftar, who have approached the gates of Tripoli after night air raids. At least 227 people have died since the forces of the Libyan National Army (LNA) launched the offensive, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), while [...]

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US officials officially announced that they have stopped supplying F-35 fighter aircraft parts to Turkey due to Ankara's decision to move forward with the purchase of the Russian surface-to-air missile system (S-400). The delivery of parts and manuals necessary to prepare the planned delivery of the aircraft will therefore be blocked, [...]

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Russia on a par with China is very active in Africa. Weapons and logistical assistance, this is the bargaining chip with African countries to gain access to mineral and energy resources and territorial political influence. The countries where Russia is actively interfering are Libya, Sudan, Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Mozambique, Angola. [...]

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US Ambassador Lewis Eisenberg in “Il Corriere della Sera” talks about NATO, Italy and the importance of having countries with mature democracies together in a strategic, defensive alliance. “The strength of NATO lies in its unity and in its being faithful to the principles and objectives for which it was created. Our commitment to defense [...]

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Researchers from Japan and Europe are trying to develop next-generation mobile network technology, ahead of 5G technology, the Italian news agency Nova reports. The post-5G era, which to this day is still limited to the conceptual sphere, should involve data transmission speeds over the air at speeds of at least 1000 times [...]

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Last week Reuters reported that the US may soon freeze the supply of F-35 aircraft to Turkey, a move that could emphasize the rift between Ankara and Washington. Turkey will most likely be excluded from the F-35 program. The experts' dilemma is on Ankara's fundamental role in the process of building the [...]

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Russian media confirmed that a plane carrying 100 Russian soldiers arrived in Caracas on Saturday, raising tension between Washington and Moscow over the escalating crisis in Venezuela. The arrival of Russian troops in the Venezuelan capital was first reported on Saturday morning by Venezuelan reporter Javier Mayorca, who said on [...]

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According to the Financial Times, China expects to conclude the trade talks scheduled for this week before addressing the issue related to US requests to ease restrictions on technologies. The White House has made it known that the talks between the US negotiator Robert Lighthizer and the [...]

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(by Pasquale Preziosa) According to some American analysts, Afghanistan's National Security has deteriorated further since NATO, in 2014, reduced its presence on the ground and did not allow the Afghan security forces to reach the training levels required by the US plans. This is not the case, this is just a little "superfine" way [...]

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There are about 400 submarine telecommunications cables connecting all continents exchanging 95 percent of data globally. But who builds these "vital" arteries for world communications? One of the leading companies in the sector is Huawei. Chinese company accused by the United States of espionage on behalf of China taking advantage [...]

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According to a new report released by the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service (EFIS), Russian spy agencies are using front companies to buy directions that contain the contact details of US government employees. The contact details, contained in the directories of multiple pages of members of the Congress staff [...]

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The Trump administration wants to make it easier for partners and allies to purchase US weapons and other military equipment in an effort to divert them from the temptations of the Chinese and Russian markets. A US State Department official said at least $ 8 billion will be made available to offer more flexible loans that, [...]

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389 million euros are to be paid to Lockheed Martin to honor the supply of the F35 fighters already delivered to Italy. The invoices, as reported by La Stampa, show the date of the Gentiloni government, since then the Defense has never ordered payments. The dicastery, caught in the chestnut: “We will immediately fulfill what is due. Within [...]

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The Pentagon's request for the 2020 budget (Fiscal Year 2020) includes $ 545 billion in basic defense spending, $ 164 billion for overseas contingents and $ 9 billion in "emergency funding", such as Trump's request to finance a wall on the southern border. On Defense News [...]

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Giancarlo Giorgetti was in the USA. He met Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin. The overseas trip of the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council takes place at a "delicate" moment for the Italian government, in the light of the upcoming European elections which will inevitably cause repercussions in the majority balance. [...]

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Two representatives of the US State Department arrived in Ankara today for a series of meetings that will focus on Turkey's purchase of the S-400s, the Russian-made missile defense system and the developments in the north of the country. Syria. The news was made known by the Hirriyet newspaper according to [...]

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According to a report released this week by Amnesty International, weapons supplied to the Saudi and Emirati governments by the United States and other Western nations, including machine guns, mortars and even armored vehicles, are being deliberately diverted to Sunni militia groups in Yemen. Among them are three militias that are known to be [...]

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The Aachen agreement between France and Germany could penalize the Italian military industry which needs to actively participate in new programs. The alternative to the Franco-German axis could be to look more closely at the Anglo-Saxon industrial world. Very interesting what is written by Sole24 on the fact that Italy could look to Great Britain, where there is already [...]

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The partial blockade of US government activities and the "shutdown down" could last "months or even years". President Donald Trump would have made it clear to push funding for the wall on the border with Mexico. This is the comment of the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, Charles Schumer, at the end of the meeting at the White House [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Since the US primacy in the world, as a global police force, is fading or is no longer what it once was, the international order is today more than ever in chaos. World leaders are increasingly tempted to test the limits of international law to strengthen their influence and [...]

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The Guardians of the Iranian Revolution have announced that they intend to upgrade their fast boats used in the Gulf with stealth technologies to avoid radar and equip them with new missile launchers. At the end of a long absence of US aircraft carriers in the region, the USS John C. Stennis entered the Gulf last week and [...]

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US President Donald Trump did not order the Pentagon to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan, White House National Security Council spokesman Garrett Marquis said. "The president did not make the decision to reduce the US military presence in Afghanistan and did not ask the Department of Defense [...]

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As reported by askanews, the United States intends to present, this week, a new strategy to strengthen its presence in Africa and counter the growing influence of China and Russia on the continent. The plan, prepared by the White House National Security Council, will mark a change of course for the administration, eager to [...]

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The Bureau of Industry and Security, in a proposed regulation, announced on November 19, decided to establish guidelines that regulate "the criteria for identifying emerging technologies that are essential for the national security of the United States". The objectives are linked both to security and to the protectionism of American industry, in particular [...]

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According to reports from the Iranian news agencies Mehr and Tasmnim, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Bahram Ghasemi, hoped that the major powers could remain faithful to the nuclear agreement signed in 2015. Bahram, during the usual press conference on Monday, revealed that "there are some ambiguities about the implementation of the EU mechanism for [...]

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On November 5, President Trump continued his plan to reintroduce sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran after withdrawing the United States from the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on USA Today: “Our goal is to stress the Iranian regime on the revenues it uses to finance violent activities [...]

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'Sanctions are coming', sanctions are on the way, so with a message on Twitter Donald Trump announces the restoration of all US sanctions against Iran starting from Monday 5 November. Mostly oil and banks will be affected. This is in an attempt to cut off the legs of the Tehran government, even if the White House continues to [...]

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The Wall Street Journal reveals that the German government, very hesitant about the choice, finally yielded to the "advances" of the US, deciding to participate in the construction of a naval terminal for the American GNI in the north of the country, for investments of about 500 million euros. Liquefied natural gas, after various processes of [...]

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Hurricane Michael continues to hold America in suspense. Fortunately Michael became a tropical storm but it still caused, as Florida Governor Rick Scott predicted, "unimaginable devastation" on his way. The economic damage that the Hurricane has caused to the population is very high and there are already two deaths [...]

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Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister, in an interview reported by the "New York Times" declares that the United States should reconsider its alliances in Syria in view of the military operation that the Damascus regime intends to launch against the last stronghold of the rebels in Idlib, in the northwest of the country. According to the head of Turkish diplomacy, [...]

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 One dead and 16 people were injured due to a series of explosions and fires, probably due to malfunctions in the gas service. At least 40 homes and businesses in three population centers, not far from Boston, were involved, while the flames spread for several blocks causing the evacuation of entire [...]

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Gordon Sondland, the new European Union ambassador, sent to Brussels, said that the United States and the European Union must overcome trade disputes in order to resist and tackle China's economic aggression together. Sondland, citing concerns such as Chinese overproduction, state subsidies and rules requiring foreign companies to share their know-how with Chinese companies [...]

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(Giovanni Bozzetti Ambienthesis spa) From January 1, 2018, new environmental standards have come into force, established by Beijing, which introduce stricter rules on the standards of recyclable waste that will from now on be imported into China. Post-consumer plastics, PET from bottles, bags, PVC from shampoo bottles and [...]

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A senior Pentagon official reported on Wednesday, ahead of a high-level dialogue between Washington and New Delhi, the United States cannot guarantee India a sanction waiver to the extent it acquires important weapons and defense systems. from Russia. The United States has imposed radical sanctions [...]

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According to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, a delegation of senior US government officials secretly met with the heads of Syrian intelligence agencies in an attempt to define the terms of a possible agreement between Washington and Damascus. Relations between the United States and Syria have been strained since the end of the years [...]

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North Korean officials have warned in a letter to the United States that the denuclearization talks are "back in play and could be shattered", CNN reported today. The letter, delivered directly to the United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, stated that the leader of North Korea, Kim [...]

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A federal judge sentenced former US security officer Reality Winner to more than five years in prison after admitting he gave a media report on Russian meddling in US elections. Winner, 26, who has already spent nearly two years in prison, pleaded guilty to [...]

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A Pentagon report reports that the Chinese military has stepped up their bombing training against the United States and its allies. The assessment, which comes when relations between China and the US are very tense, was contained in an annual report that underlines China's efforts to increase its [...]

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The United States will not lift tariffs on steel from Turkey even if Ankara intends to free the US pastor, accused of conspiracy and terrorism during the failed 2016 coup. to support the revival of the Turkish lira. The position of [...]

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As the US threatened new sanctions on Iran, followed by the bald abandonment of the nuclear program, Iran launched a massive naval training campaign in the Strait of Hormuz last week. The motivation is to make the world understand that Iran is also ready to block the transits of this strait. [...]

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The push and pull in foreign policy by US President Donald Trump continues. The politics of rhetoric, mixed with that of threats, would be part of a strategy studied by the American tycoon. A practice widely used in the field of big business. A chessboard where the opponents, before making the [...]

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A woman of Russian nationality who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was fired in 2017 on suspicion of providing information to Russia. The British newspaper The Guardian, which reported the story last week, did not provide the identity of the Russian woman. But he said he [...]

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The Iranian state news agency IRNA reported that in recent days the guardians of the revolution have carried out a massive drill in the Gulf to train themselves to "face possible threats". US officials confirmed to Reuters that Iran has anticipated annual drills due to mounting tensions with Washington. The spokesman for the revolutionary guards Ramezan [...]

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Trade war, cyberwarfare and regional domination are the new frontier in the global confrontation between the US and China. A question and answer between the two superpowers trying to move like a mirror on the international chessboard. The country of the Dragon is increasingly present in Latin America, the country of eagles, on the other hand, wants to increase its presence in the Indian Ocean and [...]

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Radical change of strategy. US diplomatic officials organized secret meetings with Taliban leaders without the presence of the Afghan government. For over a decade, the Taliban have refused to negotiate with the Afghan government, which they view as a Washington-controlled puppet regime. Instead, they tried to speak directly with the United States, without [...]

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After the President of the EU Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, the Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will be in Washington on Monday for his first official visit to the United States. Jean Claude Juncker and Trump have reached an agreement in principle on trade that according to sources of the Presidency of the Council it will be necessary to follow in order to realize the common points put on [...]

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Maria Butina was arrested in Washington with the heavy accused of espionage. Maria Butina, twenty-nine, long red hair, originally from Siberia, has lived in the United States since 2016 on a student visa. Study international relations at the American University of Washington. In Russia he founded a sister association of the National Rifle Association, the US association of porters [...]

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Elon Musk opens Tesla gigafactory in Shanghai. “A state-of-the-art factory and a model of sustainability,” commented Musk which will allow Tesla to be able to build a plant in the Lingang industrial area designed to produce 500 electric vehicles per year. "We were impressed by the beauty and energy of Shanghai and we want [...]

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The tough financial confrontation between the US and China now turns to black gold. In fact, as of November 4th, the United States plans to ban the purchase of Iranian oil and all transactions with the Central Bank of Tehran and financial institutions that violate these sanctions will lose access to payment systems based [...]

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From this night the new European Union duty policy on some of the best known products of the United States began. The tariffs, according to the official EU bulletin, will further fuel jitters on global stock markets which are already alarmed by trade tensions between the US and China. Customs agents in all [...]

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The Guardian reports that Defense Secretary James Mattis reportedly reported that talks with North Korea are not developing, despite Trump's promises. Mattis, pressured by journalists, said he was unaware of any steps North Korea has taken to dismantle its nuclear weapons program [...]

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The tariff war between the US and China does not stop and, on the contrary, risks opening new worrying scenarios in the trade of some agri-food products. According to what was announced by Coldiretti, "the prices of corn and soy intended mainly for animal feed on the Chicago commodity exchange, the main world reference point, collapse with the spread [...]

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The Federal Reserve, the American Central Bank, has raised interest rates by a quarter of a point: this is the second increase this year, after the one decided in March. The maneuver will be more aggressive, both for 2018 and for 2019, due to a "significant" economic growth. Interest rates are thus [...]

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The European multi-mission frigate (FREMM) of the Alpine Navy arrived today at the Black Falcon Cruise Terminal in Boston (USA), where it will stop until 12 June. Nave Alpino, delivered to the Italian Navy on 30 September 2016, is the fifth FREMM unit and the fourth in the “antisubmarine” version. It is a ship set up with [...]

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Defense Minister Elisabetta Trenta at the Alliance ministerial, after Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, during his speech to the Chamber of Deputies, had words of appreciation for the Atlantic Alliance with a wink to Russia. The remarriage was prompt, both NATO and the United States who immediately wanted to dictate the line [...]

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China announced, following a high-level meeting with US trade officials on Sunday, that the talks will have no effect if Washington goes ahead and enacts tariffs on Chinese imports. The statement came an hour after a meeting between US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross […]

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The French Minister of Economy, Bruno Le Maire, in a joint communication made with his German counterpart Peter Altmeier, declared that Europe will be "totally united, firm and determined" in the face of the possible imposition of duties on steel and aluminum by US President Donald Trump. "We will not accept that Europe can be hit by tariffs on steel and aluminum", [...]

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The US State Department has warned its personnel stationed in China of the danger of using sonic weapons "unusual acute auditory or sensory phenomena accompanied by unusual sounds or piercing noises". The warning, issued on May 23, led to comparisons with similar phenomena reported by US diplomatic personnel in Cuba in [...]

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Reuters reported that the United States today called on Iran to make sweeping changes, drop its nuclear program until the Syrian civil war is eliminated, alternatively face severe economic sanctions. Iran rejected Washington's ultimatum and a senior Iranian official said the United States is trying to "change the regime" [...]

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Washington and Beijing ever closer to reduce the trade deficit with targeted measures. This was announced by the White House in a press release, after the "consultations" held yesterday and Thursday in Washington between the American delegation and the Chinese delegation. Meeting wanted and according to the indications of both the president [...]

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If the European Union is distant from the United States' withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal, it will not have repercussions on Tehran's oil exports. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh told reporters today after meeting with the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Canete, according to the Iranian agency [...]

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(by Prof. Barbara Faccenda) It will take years before the full repercussions of Trump's decision to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran are clear - whether it will contain Iranian regional aggression and nuclear program or feed them. Analyzing the logic of Trump's decision, we understand how it is the result of a strategy based [...]

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A huge amount of Facebook ads bought by Russian groups during the 2016 US elections sought to instill divisions and discord over racial issues. And the closer we got to the election date, the more the ads insisted on this topic. This was reported by the USA Today newspaper which analyzed the more than 3500 advertisement (ads) [...]

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Yesterday China carried out a new and extensive military exercise around the island of Taiwan, using the new Sukhoi Su-35 fighters, H-6K strategic bomber fighters, J-11 jets and KJ rapid alert aircraft. -200. Sukhoi Su-35 fighters and H-6K strategic bombers flew over the Bashi channel, located between the island [...]

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According to an official indictment, a CIA operative who was arrested in January of this year for violating the espionage law shared classified information with China. The FBI arrested Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, on January 15, accusing him of possessing classified information that included lists of real names (foreign nationals [...]

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of alleged "evidence" of Iran's secret ambitions in the development of nuclear weapons, information obtained from the Mossad, the Israeli secret services, from the examination of secret Iranian documents that they allegedly come into possession of. This statement provoked skeptical reactions from supporters of the 2015 agreement between Tehran and [...]

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Another American diplomat was jailed in Pakistan last week following the second major car accident involving US diplomats in Islamabad in less than a month. The incidents are said to contribute to continuing diplomatic tensions between the United States and Pakistan. Many in the South Asian country [...]

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Iran welcomed the agreement between the two Koreas on the denuclearization of the peninsula but also warned that the United States is not entitled to play any role since Washington "does not respect its commitments". The meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon jae-in represented [...]

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US prosecutors in New York are investigating whether Chinese tech firm Huawei has violated US sanctions in relation to Iran, according to sources who follow the story closely. Since at least 2016, the US authorities have been probing the alleged shipment of products of US origin by Huawei to Iran [...]

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Former American President George H. Bush, 93, tried by the recent death of his lifelong partner Barbara, to whom he had been married for 73 years, was hospitalized in intensive care at the Methodist hospital in Houston, in Texas. The news was released by the family spokesman. The hospitalization, which took place on Sunday morning, is [...]

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French President Emmanuel Macron has just landed in the United States for his first visit to the White House. Macron will have dinner this evening with the US president and tomorrow the two leaders will hold a joint press conference. Although the French president is a globalist, a supporter of free trade and Trump a nationalist close to the populists [...]

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Europe will not find itself in the middle of the trade dispute between the US and China, a senior European official said today, adding that the EU's temporary exemptions from US steel and aluminum tariffs should become permanent. European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici stated that trade is [...]

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James Comey, former director of the FBI, a man known for his rigor and integrity as well as being reported in the news for having opened two investigations that have greatly characterized the Trump presidency, has just published a book entitled “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership "in which also due to the climate of silence and fear [...]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that further Western attacks in Syria would wreak havoc on the business world as Washington threatened to increase pressure on Russia with new economic sanctions. In a telephone conversation with Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani, he agreed that the Western attack had damaged the odds [...]

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According to the international press, the urgent session of the Security Council will be held in about an hour at the United Nations building in New York following the bombings of Syria carried out by the United States, United Kingdom and France. Previously, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that the bombing of Syria [...]

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After the first political reactions to the missile attack carried out last night in Syria, to provide his authoritative more purely military point of view is the former Chief of Staff of the Italian Navy, Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi, who in a note states: "From a military point of view, the attack appeared [...]

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Seven US aircraft carried out a reconnaissance mission in the eastern Mediterranean off the coast of Syria, not far from the Russian air base of Khmeymim and the logistics center of the Russian Federal Navy in Tartus. It emerges from the monitoring data of military flights published on the Twitter page of Mil Radar, reported by the Russian media. [...]

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Trump administration officials have consulted with global allies about a possible joint military response to Syria's alleged chemical attack, while President Donald Trump has canceled a trip overseas to handle a crisis that is testing his vote. to face Syrian President Bashar Assad. Trump has [...]

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The Syrian government tracked and killed American journalist Marie Colvin to prevent her from reporting on the Syrian civil war, according to a Syrian intelligence officer who defected to Europe. Colvin was a seasoned war correspondent who worked for the Sunday Times. The British newspaper sent it to Syria shortly after the [...]

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The nightmare of all scientists, bacteria resistant to all existing antibiotics. It seemed a remote possibility, however, 221 cases were brought to light in 2017 by the American Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which renamed them 'nightmare bacteria'. In addition to being practically 'immune' to all or almost all existing antibiotics and therefore [...]

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Just two weeks after the 'March for Our Lives' protest that took place in major cities in the United States and around the world, the scoop of asking the US Congress for a reform on the free movement of firearms has to be registered a new episode of 'gun violence' in the United States. This time […]

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According to Newsweek, the increase in Russian intelligence activities on US soil has prompted American intelligence agencies to reevaluate the position of retired Russian specialists, asking them for advice on Putin's intelligence methods. Furthermore, Russian defectors living in the United States are re-evaluating their personal safety in light [...]

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Social Network always in the eye of the storm. Security in the USA has no privacy limits. Those who want to enter the country will be asked to hand over the access keys to their Facebook, Twitter and Google profiles. The authorities will thus be able to reconstruct the entire online history of a person and check, for example, any signs of [...]

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Although the size is unprecedented, the recent expulsions of more than 150 diplomats by some 30 countries and organizations around the world have hardly dented Russia's huge diplomatic footprint. Coordinated expulsions were announced last week in response to Britain's accusations that the Kremlin attempted […]

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The Italian Air Force Captain, code-named Pinna, was recently selected as the head of a formation of A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft of the United States Air Force (USAF) of the 74th Fighter Squadron. "When the Commander invited me to his office to ask if I wanted to be an Exchange Pilot and fly an A-10 I [...]

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In an interview with the BBC last week, General John Nicholson reported that Russia, despite common interests in the fight against terrorism and narcotics, has acted to undermine U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and would do so by providing support. financial and even weapons to the Afghan Taliban. "There have been […]

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Singing "never again," hundreds of thousands of young Americans and their supporters responded to the appeal made by survivors of the Florida high school massacre last month and gathered yesterday in major cities in the United States to demand stricter laws on weapons. The demonstrators asked the legislators and the [...]

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Trump will soon meet Putin but, like the leaders of the various European countries, he is ready to expel Moscow diplomats from the United States after the story of the nerve gas used to eliminate former Russian spy Serghei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury. Bloomberg reports that the decision may not be final. [...]

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With reports of US Special Forces activities continually flooding the media it is important to note that the White House has dramatically increased its Special Forces deployments since Donald Trump took office. In December last year, it was reported that President Trump had ordered the deployment of [...]

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Password? re-discuss the main EU treaties, to recover shares of national sovereignty. Relations with Russia, on the other hand, would be a common element in a hypothetical government pact between the 5 Star Movement and the Lega. The two parties that won the elections have always looked with interest, in recent years, at the leadership of Vladimir [...]

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The Central Intelligence Agency reported that it has established negotiation channels between the United States and North Korea, which the State Department is now using to communicate with Pyongyang. Rex Tillerson, who was summarily fired as US Secretary of State by President Donald Trump last week, was famous for […]

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The White House has expressed the US position on the nerve agent which the UK claims was used by Russia to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter on British soil. "The United States stands in solidarity with its closest ally, the United Kingdom," said the spokesperson [...]

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America should create its own separate military space force, President Donald Trump said yesterday, saying it would change the course of US space policy. President Trump's statement has raised many rumors and many have said that a military space force could make it more difficult to maintain orbit [...]

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US President Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to replace him with current CIA Director Mike Pompeo. On the other hand, a woman, Gina Haspel, an ambiguous figure for her participation in a CIA torture program after 11/XNUMX, will go to the CIA for the first time. Trump said it on [...]

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Yesterday the commander of the US military forces in Europe, General Curtis M. Scaparrotti stressed the utmost support of the United States for Israel in the event of war. The observation was made during a meeting between Scaparrotti and Israel's chief of staff, General Gadi Eizenkot, at the military headquarters in Tel Aviv. "The [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Last week, at the end of the management meeting, the ECB removed from the press release at the end of the summit the formula introduced two years ago and which left the door open to a new increase in QE in terms of size and / or duration if financial conditions had become less favorable. Draghi however [...]

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The announcement of a summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opens up new scenarios characterized by "potential for kidnapped progress". These are the words of Tomas Ojea Quintana pronounced today during the presentation of his report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva in which he highlighted that a [...]

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Donald Trump proceeds like a train on tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and begins to dictate American conditions to global markets and Europe in particular. The occasion was a rally in support of a Republican candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania. In addition to announcing that its slogan for the 2020 presidential elections [...]

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The European Union is the closest ally to the United States on security and trade and this is why we must be excluded from Donald Trump's steel and aluminum import tariffs. Thus the EU commissioner for trade, Cecilia Malmstroem, at the end of a day of meetings in Brussels. Malmstroem [...]

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Turkish site Ahval announces that the US naval presence in the Mediterranean is increasing: the American oil giant Exxon Mobil is preparing to send two ships to conduct exploration activities in the same waters off Cyprus, despite the activity of the Navy Turkish and despite what happened to Eni. Together with […]

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(by Franco Iacch) The main commercial sites have been paying attention in recent weeks to the Mediterranean and the "shadow" missions in Libya and Tunisia by the US special departments. What has happened in the last few hours is interesting. A US Fairchild C-26 (multi-mission surveillance / transport) took off from Misurata with destination Sigonella. Also in this case the [...]

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(by Franco Iacch) Last week I again proposed the problem of drones taking off from Sigonella visible on radar and monitored in real time by commercial sites. The problem is much broader. Obviously they are not classified info, but available on the net for "anyone". And they are given to say the least embarrassing in the face of [...]

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According to forecasts released by the "International Energy Agency", the United States will overtake Russia in oil production by 2023. The "Wall Street Journal" reported that US crude oil production will reach a record high of 12,1 million barrels per day, marking an increase of 2 million barrels. [...]

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Restrict weapons in the US? BlackRock, the largest investment company in the world with assets of nearly $ 6.000 trillion, is in charge. Following the February 14 massacre in Parkland, Florida, the American giant announced that it will re-examine its shareholdings both in arms manufacturing companies and in [...]

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On the Baltic Sea, during the "truth and justice" forum in the north-west of Russia in Kaliningrad, Vladimir Putin, after announcing yesterday the existence of the super missile, talks about a new mission for Russia. The message to the nation was not simply an election campaign announcement, but a further turning point in foreign policy. After, the interview with [...]

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The Iranian foreign ministry praised the Russian veto on a resolution drafted by Britain accusing Iran of violating the UN arms embargo on Yemeni rebels, calling it a "defeat" for the United States. The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Bahram Qasemi, said in a statement that the resolution proposed by [...]

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The duties imposed by the administration of President Donald Trump on aluminum and steel, in addition to hitting China, could damage one of the main allies of the United States: Canada. The duties on imports of the two metals, announced at the beginning of the month by the Commerce Department, will eventually be confirmed by the president by mid-April, [...]

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The relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is "a new and dangerous episode in a series of provocations and wrong decisions that has continued since December". This was stated today by the general secretary of the Arab League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit. In a statement, Aboul Gheit harshly criticized the transfer of the diplomatic representation of [...]

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The Trump administration has decided to open the opening of the US Embassy in Israel in Jerusalem "in May" to coincide with "Israel's XNUMXth anniversary. This was announced by Heather Nauert, spokesman for the White House, after yesterday the news was anticipated by the Israeli media and confirmed by the government of Benyamin Netanyahu. At first, the embassy [...]

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The spokesperson for the American State Department, Heather Nauert, in a briefing with reporters pointed the finger at Russia accusing it of "particular responsibility" for what is happening in eastern Ghouta, where the raids of the Damascus regime have provoked since last Sunday over 400 dead. "Without Russia's support for Syria [...]

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The first public-private partnership for the first feasibility study of the Hyperloop Transportation Technologies interstate system between Ohio and Illinois is underway. The Hyperloop train, traveling at the speed of sound, will travel over 500 km in 28 minutes (about 1.200 km / h) connecting Cleveland and Chicago. The startup was created by the Italian Bibop G. Gresta, one of the founders [...]

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According to reports from senior US administration officials, the White House is considering adopting further sanctions against Russia, rejecting allegations of leniency against Moscow. Congress has already voted sanctions against Russia, accused by the Americans of interfering in the 2016 elections. But on the 30th [...]

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US President Donald Trump said yesterday that armed teachers could prevent massacres like last week's mass shooting at a Florida high school. Trump expressed his support for the idea during an emotional meeting at the White House with the students who survived the shooting and with his parent [...]

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As reported by the newspaper "New York Times", after the recent and dramatic massacres in the United States, politicians and supporters of the arms lobby look with interest to the Israel model as a point of arrival without giving up the second US amendment. There are strict gun controls in Israel. Citizens who have a gun license [...]

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Rex Tillerson and Tayyip Erdogan had a "productive and open" speech Thursday on improving ties recently strained over their policies in Syria. Tillerson arrived in Turkey on Thursday for two days which officials said would likely be rife with discussions after relations frayed over a series of [...]

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US intelligence agencies warn Americans not to buy Chinese-made smartphones, such as Huawei and ZTE branded ones. The alarm was raised by the head of the FBI, Chris Wray, who during a hearing before the intelligence committee of the US Senate, CIA, FBI and NSA, stressed how dangerous it is [...]

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A shooting at the entrance to the National Security Agency's (NSA) headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland recently injured a man. This was confirmed by Fort Meade spokesperson Cheryl Phillips: "The NSA and the police are dealing with an incident that took place this morning at one of the entrances" of the [...]

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Israel is as if it were by now at war and has begun to hit military targets of the regime but also of "Iranians". It lost one of its jets during the most serious escalation of tensions that has involved the three countries in years. An Israeli pilot was seriously injured. The current tension is the most [...]

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The Alice Deal Middle School auditorium in Washington DC hosted a one-of-a-kind event, where an audience of about 700 people awaited the show's grand finale: the chorus of a Chinese song "I love you China." The song, written in the 70s, tells the beauty of the Chinese landscape, the virtues of [...]

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The chief editor of the Russian National Defense magazine, Igor Korotchenko, told the Xinhua news agency that the new nuclear policy, recently announced by the United States, showing its ambition for global domination, will destabilize the world by damaging the existing system of control and balance. . "This is a strategy of intimidation and threats, including the use of nuclear weapons, [...]

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The Trend news agency reported that today, Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan, met with Bridget Brink, deputy assistant to the US secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs. The positive development of bilateral relations was underlined by both the Azerbaijani president who said that the support of the United States was especially significant [...]

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated the Japanese government's commitment to relocate a controversial US air base stationed in Okinawa, Japan's southernmost prefecture. This is due to the growing antipathy on the island to a recent massive US military arrival and related misadventures. "By gaining the understanding of local citizens, we will proceed with [...]

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The country that has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world should take the initiative to follow the trend of disarmament instead of going against it, ”the Chinese Defense Ministry said today. The US military believes its nuclear weapons are seen as too large to use and want to develop low-yield bombs. [...]

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China has expressed its strong opposition to the new nuclear strategy with which the United States intends to strengthen its war deterrence, foreseeing an expansion of the arsenal thus putting an end to the era of Obama who had instead committed to a containment of the nuclear potential. The Chinese Defense Ministry said the document [...]

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The Russian Foreign Ministry published on its website a harsh criticism of the content of the new nuclear doctrine made public by the United States: "it deeply disappointed us, the degree of hostility and the anti-Russian orientation of this document are impressive". We will have to take Washington's intentions into account and take the necessary steps to ensure [...]

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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has accused the United States of attempting to turn the upcoming PyeongChang Winter Olympics into a theater of confrontation with Pyongyang. Korea's Central News Agency (KCNA) said in a comment late Friday that US Vice President Mike Pence said [...]

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US President Donald Trump approved a few minutes ago the publication of a classified Republican memorandum supporting a conspiracy against the President at the FBI and the Justice Department. An extraordinary showdown with senior law enforcement officials during the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Ignoring the [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) In recent days, the Trump administration seems to have intensified its economic aversion to China's aggression. Ahead of his visit to five Latin American nations, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday railed against Beijing, accusing it of "using economic force to drag the South American region into [...]

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President Donald Trump's national security team is examining all options for countering China's threat of spying on US phone calls, including those from the government. The option is 5G super-fast wireless networking, an administration official said today. The official, confirming the existence of a relationship of [...]

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Iraq has signed an agreement with the US energy company Orion for the extraction of gas in the oil fields of Basra, in the south of the country. This was announced in a statement by the Iraqi Oil Ministry. The agreement concerns the development of the Nahr Bin Omar field, which currently produces around 40 barrels of oil per [...]

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The Iraqi military command has opened an investigation into the "friendly fire" of the US-led international coalition in an "uncoordinated" air raid in the predominantly Sunni western province of Anbar which, according to unofficial sources, would have caused at least 7 deaths and 19 wounded among the security forces of the Arab country. Through a press release, the command explains [...]

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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson discussed security issues with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki today, NATO upgrade and Nord Stream 2 pipeline among the main issues discussed during the meeting. "Poland is a very strong ally," Tillerson said at the post-meeting press conference. It was also [...]

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In response to last Tuesday's shooting at Marshall County High School, Kentucky, where a 15-year-old student was accused of killing two classmates and injuring about 19 people, Republican Senator Steve West has tabled a bill that would allow local districts to take [...]

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"If you break the rules of society you go to prison, if you break the rules of prisons you come to Alcatraz", this is the emblematic phrase with which the director of the most famous penitentiary in America greeted the dangerous outlaws who were sent to serve. their prison sentence in the "fortress" of Alcatraz, an island located in [...]

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The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced on Saturday the start of operations by the Ankara army and the allied Syrian militias (FSA) in Afrin and, subsequently, in Manbij, against the positions of the Ypg, party militias of the Democratic Union (Pyd), a Syrian Kurdish formation that is part of the opposition to the government of Damascus. The operation, called "Olive Branch", [...]

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US Vice President Mike Pence traveled to the Middle East to reaffirm Washington's position on Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, while the leader of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), Abu Mazen, flew to Brussels to ask for the support of 'EU against the new policy of US president Donald Trump in the region. Speaking to the Knesset, the [...]

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According to the Nova agency, the offices of the US radio station "Los Angeles Times", located in Islamabad, were closed following the provisions of the Pakistani authorities who deem it "hostile to the interests of the country", as the radio defines Pakistan as a "center of terrorism" and "a failed state" unable to guarantee [...]

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President Donald Trump yesterday in his first year in the White House celebrates him with the 'shutdown', ie with the closure of all activities' non-essential administration for lack of funds. The block was triggered at one minute past midnight in Washington, one minute past six in Italy, the deadline by which [...]

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Lately the relations between Turkey and the United States have soured following the war in Syria, the confrontation between Turkey and the Kurdish Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK), has long been engaged in a separatist struggle with Turkey and, of 'initiative of the American government aimed at creating a force of [...]

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President Donald Trump denied that the planned transfer of the US embassy to Israel to Jerusalem would take place within a year. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the other hand, expected the transfer in 2018. Reversing decades of US policy, Trump in early December recognized Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and put in [...]

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As reported by the Nova Agency, less than four weeks after the launch of the most significant tax reform of the last 30 years, the Apple company has planned how to make the most of the new rules. The company, reports the newspaper "New York Times", today announced that it wants to contribute to the US economy with 350 billion [...]

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The commission commissioned by the mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, has decided: the statue of Christopher Columbus on top of a column at the entrance to Central Park can remain in its place. The commission, set up by de Biasio in August, following the violence in Charlottesville and the heated debate around racist symbols [...]

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Joseph Nye, a professor at Harvard and known for having coined the term "soft power", formerly Undersecretary of Defense under the Clinton presidency and president of the Trilateral Commission, gave an interview to Formiche.net where he comments on Trump's announcement to move the headquarters of the American Embassy to Israel in Jerusalem. "I believe there is a truth behind this [...]

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The United States needs an aggressive Iran, to justify the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia or its bases in Qatar: for this they only want to weaken it, but not destroy it. And in this they favor the 'right' in Iran, and go against the interests of the people ”. Speaking is Saeed Leylaz, economist and analyst [...]

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(by Pasquale PREZIOSA) In 2015, in Vienna, an agreement on Iranian nuclear was reached through the signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) between Iran and the P5 + 1 (permanent countries of the UN Security Council + Germany + European Union). The agreement provides that Iran will eliminate, from its deposits, medium-level enriched uranium, it will cut that by 98% [...]

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Ferrero strengthens its position on the conquest of the United States, which seems to have an advantage over the American giant Hershey in the acquisition of Nestlé chocolate bars. The two groups presented their offers and the results should be known by next March, but barring any last-minute surprises, Ferrero should have checked it out [...]

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The US space company SpaceX yesterday launched a top secret payload into space for the US government, known only by the code name Zuma. The cargo took off at 8 pm on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Northrop Grumman, an American company of [...]

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticized the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) emergency meeting saying that a gross foreign policy mistake has been made for Washington, the Tasnim news agency reported today. "The United Nations Security Council has rejected the American attempt to use [...]

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On Washington's most influential web platform, Politico, a nice report on what the Americans call "the invisible primaries", in view of the 2020 presidential elections. they will compete for the blue nomination. Nomination that will lead to the coronation of the official challenger [...]

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Almost all the UN member countries condemned the violence and invited Tehran to restraint, however during the meeting a chorus rose in defense of the 2015 international agreement on Iranian nuclear power, repeatedly in the crosshairs of the Donald Trump administration. After criticizing the development of ballistic missiles and Iran's role in supporting [...]

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Washington has called for an emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss the situation in the Islamic Republic after the demonstrations in recent days. While Moscow, (also flanked by China), said it was against, accusing the United States of interfering in the country's internal affairs, and threatened to ask for a procedural vote to try [...]

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After more than two and a half years, the famous TV presenter David Letterman will return to the screen and will do so by interviewing the former President of the United States, Barack Obama, for the first time host of a television program since he left the White House about a year ago. The highly anticipated new talk show hosted by David [...]

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The US Department of the Interior has given the green light to a record five-year concession plan for offshore oil and gas exploration and extraction. The move will affect the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and the Arctic Ocean. Between 2019 and 2024, approximately 90% of the area will be offered [...]

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According to the latest data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American lives are on average shorter than those of other wealthy nations and the gap is getting wider. Until 1979, the typical American had a life expectancy of about 73,9 years, 1,5 years longer than a child [...]

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The United States is poised for a "bomb cyclone" - a meteorological phenomenon that officials say will come during an intense cold that has already claimed at least 11 fatalities. Meteorologists say a sharp drop in pressure will lead to an explosive winter storm across the eastern United States that is [...]

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Kim Jong Un, in his end-of-year speech, warned the United States that it has a "nuclear button" on its desk ready for use if North Korea feels threatened, but has offered Korea an olive branch. South, saying it is "open to dialogue" with Seoul. After a year dominated [...]

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(by Pasquale PREZIOSA) President Trump accepted, on the first day of his inauguration, the congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen. The last official contact with the Taipei authorities on the US side dates back to 1979. Right from the start, the change of strategy in Trump's international policy towards China was evident. [...]

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(by Pasquale PREZIOSA) Forecasts are the main tool for planning the future. The transformations of global trends and the new directions of the behavior of states can be identified through geopolitical analysis. Geopolitics can identify what may happen and when, with the due limitations that refer to the complex behavior of [...]

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The United States announced repercussions for the two North Korean officials working behind their country's ballistic missile program on Tuesday, while Russia reiterated its offer to mediate to ease tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. The new steps of the United States were the latest in a campaign aimed at coercing Korea [...]

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The United States challenged the world with the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and did so concretely with the announced transfer of the embassy to the holy city, for the three monotheistic religions. Many other countries had had their embassy in Jerusalem, starting with Guatemala, which relies heavily on US funding, which today [...]

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The United States is "delusional" if it thinks North Korea is abandoning its nuclear weapons program. This was stated by the Pyongyang Foreign Ministry who also branded the new sanctions imposed by the UN as an "act of war" that violates sovereignty. "We consider these sanctions manipulated by the US and its [...]

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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, called Donald Trump on the phone, to thank him for the information provided by the CIA that made it possible to foil a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. The information, the Kremlin said in a statement, "helped locate the trail, find and arrest a group of terrorists who were preparing explosions in the cathedral [...]

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(by Pasquale PREZIOSA) Paris has been pursuing for years the dream of being part of the “Five eyes” intelligence community. It is an elite community where, among the five English-speaking countries, USA-UK-New Zealand-Australia and Canada, intelligence information is shared. Intelligence guarantees, within the regulatory framework, the security of the national community and refers to [...]

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If that were the case, it is not edifying to know that the US-led coalition would train former ISIS terrorists. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the training would take place in the refugee camp of Al Hasakah, in Syria, as a base for training militiamen, including members of terrorist groups from different areas of the Middle Eastern country. According to [...]

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The Canadian newspaper "Toronto Star" reports that next week, State Department Secretary Rex Tillerson will meet with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland in Ottawa to agree on the stalemate with North Korea and the international conference. that the two countries will jointly organize in 2018. For Minister Freeland, [...]

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(by Pasquale PREZIOSA) On October 12, the United States lifted the previous embargo measures against Sudan. This event was celebrated with the visit of the US Deputy Secretary of State to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, John Sullivan. Despite the presence of these signs of detente between the two countries, Sudan gives [...]

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Today, the US Secretary of State and the North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations will participate in the UN Security Council. The meeting takes place after the former CEO of Exxon Mobil, who became head of US diplomacy, opened the door to direct negotiations with North Korea "without preconditions. Rex Tillerson will describe the line with which [...]

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Dan Johnson, Republican Congressman from Kentucky, was found dead next to his car in the night between yesterday and today in the Mount Washington area. Johnson was elected to the local parliament in 2016, in the wave of Republican victories that led the GOPs to control the Kentucky House of Representatives for the first time in [...]

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The President of the United States, Donald Trump, spoke of yesterday's attack in New York again to stress today the need for immigration reforms. "There are now two terrorist attacks in New York City in recent weeks by foreigners here with the Green card," Trump said. "The first assailant arrived [...]

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The United States, Japan and South Korea will hold two days of ballistic missile testing this week as tensions rise in the region over North Korea's rapidly growing weapons programs, Nova reported. This was reported by the respective ministries of defense relaunched by the local press. Korea [...]

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(by Alessandro Rugolo) Did the United States of America carry out cyber activities to sabotage North Korea's missile capabilities? So it seems, at least according to what has already been reported since April in an article by journalists Julian Ryall, Nicola Smith and David Millward which appeared in the British The Telegraph. The analysis of what happened was presented [...]

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According to the Nova Agency, in the Palestinian camps of Ain el Hilwe and Mie-Mie, in southern Lebanon, several demonstrations and strikes were held to protest against the decision of the US president, Donald Trump, concerning the recognition of Jerusalem as capital of the Jewish state. This is what was reported by the Lebanese National Press Agency (NNA). [...]

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Iranian President Hassan Rohani harshly condemned US President Donald Trump's announcement of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Tehran will not tolerate it! Iran "will not tolerate a violation of Muslim holy places," he said in a speech in Tehran. "Muslims must remain united against this great" horror "that smells of conspiracy." Also […]

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(by Roberta PREZIOSA) The currents of thought on the future of Palestine always oscillate on two eternal hypotheses: the one-state and the two-state one. Arab-Palestinian intellectuals spoke of the inevitability of a single-state solution, with territorial extension from the Jordan to the Mediterranean and inhabited by Arabs and Jews. At the same time, US governments echoed the mantra of [...]

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“We took a hangover, the success of the past years made us think we could go around the world telling stories in a somewhat naive way. This wine country is unable to tell itself in a unique way. Today we have to find a way to get together, we need to centralize the way of [...]

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Donald Trump has not yet made a decision on an eventual relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. To say it is the same son-in-law of the American president and his faithful adviser, Jared Kushner. The president "still analyzes several facts and when he has taken a decision, he will announce it", said the [...]

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Immediately the denials. They hurry to the White House to restore order to rash news, the result of misunderstandings. However, the reasons supporting the misunderstanding are very weak. The issue of replacement had been addressed, said an American government official who wished to remain anonymous, and this can also be deduced from an official statement the House [...]

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According to Nova, Rex Tillerson already has one foot out of the State Department. The White House, in fact, would have developed a plan to replace him with Mike Pompeo, current director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The newspaper "New York Times" believes it is a matter of weeks and then the epilogue of a [...]

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Retail outlets are closing in America devastated by the so-called "Retail Apocalypse", the phenomenon due to which hundreds of traditional businesses are closing down in favor of the increasingly widespread online purchase of goods. The apocalypse, as this situation is defined overseas that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, strikes, with no holds barred, [...]

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The United States intends to deploy six F-22 Raptor stealth interceptors in South Korea next month. This was reported by sources of the South Korean Defense quoted by the news agency "Yonhap", according to which the advanced combat aircraft will take part in a joint air exercise scheduled from 4 to 8 December, called Vigilant Ace. The aircraft will reach [...]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned state and private defense companies to be ready to quickly transform their production in view of an upcoming war. So the Kremlin tenant reports the British Sky News network, he addressed the officials of the Defense Ministry on Wednesday, ordering that the companies in the sector [...]

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After the US Treasury Department's decision to impose sanctions on thirteen Chinese and North Korean organizations on suspicion of helping Pyongyang circumvent UN Security Council sanctions, China reiterates its opposition to unilateral sanctions but at the same time she says she is ready to "handle the issue in [...]

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The US Department of Commerce, after finding that imports of steel wire rods from Russia, Belarus and the United Arab Emirates were sold to the United States at less than fair value, said in a statement that the United States will impose anti-dumping duties of up to 756,9% on [...]

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Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the US Treasury, 24 hours after President Donald Trump's announcement to reinstate North Korea on the list of sponsoring countries for terrorism, declares that the United States has imposed new sanctions against North Korean organizations and 13 companies Chinese who have commercial relations with the [...]

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For the first time Donald Trump participated in the traditional turkey forgiveness ceremony on Thanksgiving Day, Thanksgiving Day. The American president has pardoned Drumstick and Wishbone who will join the other turkeys rescued in past years inside the Gobbler's Rest of Virginia Tech University. "As many of you know I have been [...]

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The US military authorities on Okinawa Island, Japan, have imposed a ban on alcohol consumption on the military stationed there. The new provision, after a fatal accident during a collision between a US military truck and a private vehicle which caused the death of a 61-year-old man driving the [...]

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The commander of US Strategic Command, which controls the entire US nuclear arsenal, said he would not obey a nuclear missile launch order if he believed he had received an "illegal" attack order from the president. Speaking at the international security conference in Halifax, Canada. General of the Air Force, John Hyten, thus responded to [...]

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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The dream of every artist in the world of cinema is to be able to study, or deepen their studies in the United States. Hollywood in the collective imagination is “cinema”, the one then imported all over the world. The School, the Academy, in short, the University of the Universities of the world beyond the objective of a camera, of a [...]

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The Food and Drug Administration intends to accelerate the introduction of treatments involving human cells and tissues, including gene therapy. But the US drug regulating agency is also committed to thwarting clinics that offer dangerous, unproven versions of those treatments. This is what can be seen from the new FDA guidelines, [...]

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(by Roberta Preziosa) Relations between the two countries that seemed to be proceeding quietly, at least after the Chinese president's visit to Washington last April and the most recent official visits, could change and return to the previous phase of the war on imports. The problem is always North Korea and since last [...]

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On Tuesday, the Syrian government condemned Jim Mattis, the US defense minister, for conditioning the international coalition's presence in Syria to peace talks organized under UN auspices in Geneva. Jim Mattis assured that the international anti-jihadist coalition, led by the US, will not leave Syria until it ends [...]

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What is it about? This is one of the first examples of a "digital pill" (with a technological solution defined as a "digital ingestion tracking system"), that is, medicines equipped with sensors that, once ingested, communicate with our smartphone and can help us to verify and control the correct intake of the products. The [...]

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North Korea would be ready for a nuclear attack against the United States: the Russian information agency "Sputnik" reports, according to which this is the content of the letter that the North Korean delegation presented in October to the President of the Federation Council Russian (upper house of the Moscow parliament), Valentina Matvienko, during a [...]

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Roy Moore, a 70-year-old former judge, super conservative and Republican candidate for the vacant Alabama Senate seat, accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old when he was already a grown man, denies everything and is determined not to give up. According to the Washington Post, Moore took advantage of a 1979-year-old girl in XNUMX, when he [...]

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Dimitri Papadimitriou, Greek Economy Minister, has agreed with the US Ambassador to Athens, Geoffrey Pyatt, the establishment of a Greek-American investment committee, whose purpose will be to examine the investment projects planned by both parties and will meet twice a month. The decision, as reported by the news agency "Ana-Mpa", is [...]

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Local media say South Korea is working with the US to supply a nuclear submarine. US President Donald Trump himself said Seoul intends to spend "billions of dollars" on American weapons. The purchase of military submarines would redesign the balance of power in Northeast Asia, triggering a possible race [...]

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The Third Countries Observatory of Business Strategies, which together with Nomisma-Wine Monitor elaborated the latest data on US wine imports (source Customs), updated to the third quarter of this year, highlighted that the "France of wine" is toasting to the historic overtaking of Italy in the USA, the first importer market in the world and for 15 years the enological 'feud' of [...]

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The US Embassy in Somalia has invited all non-essential staff members to leave Mogadishu, claiming that they have received "specific threats" aimed at its employees. A State Department statement announced that “due to information regarding a specific threat against US personnel at Mogadishu International Airport, the US mission [...]

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Take the mints left over from making soybean oil, which is usually used to feed pigs, press them and knead them with a sand-colored flour, then with rice and chili sauce. The name of the dish is “injogogi”, which means artificial meat. In North Korea it has been a recipe for survival for years. [...]

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Journalist Shapiro, on The Washington Post - (TWP), reported on how FACEBOOK, unknowingly, helped influence the recent elections in the US by circulating news to voters, which contained subliminal messages, generated by an agency created in Russia in St. Petersburg. Some messages posted on Facebook supported Trump's campaign, others attacked [...]

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The President of the United States of America, Donald Trump has announced that he has chosen Jerome Powell as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve. Powell, a member of the Fed board, will replace Janet Yellen, who has led the US Central Bank since 2014 and whose office will end in February 2018. Powell's appointment is subject to […]

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Donald Trump seems to be achieving the first great results of his mandate, which appears close to closing the so-called games as regards tax reform, one of the priorities that the President had given himself when he took office in the White House on January 20 last. In fact, today the Republicans in the House presented their [...]

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