ACCREDITATION NOTICE – Reminder: 70th United Nations General Assembly – UNGA (New York, September 2015)

A reminder that all pertinent information concerning press accreditation to cover the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly can be found at http://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/UNGA70.shtml. Journalists, photographers and TV crews who do not already have UN accreditation should register with the organisation no later than 9 September 2015. Please follow the instructions of the UN’s […]

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Latin America – Italian Development Cooperation at EXPO to discuss Andean grain

The Directorate General for Development Cooperation (DGDC) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with Oxfam Italia, has organised an event featuring Andean grain. The event, which took place on Monday 7 September, was part of the EXPO Milan and European Year for Development programmes. It focused on international development initiatives and the possible […]

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DEI – Kuwait: Saipem wins 2 lots in new Al-Zour refinery project

Saipem has won the contract for 2 lots (numbers 4 and 5) for the new Al-Zour refinery. The lots are worth 475 Kuwaiti dinars (1.4 billion euro) and 454,256 million dinars (1.3 billion euro) respectively. The client for both tenders is the Kuwait National Petroleum Company. Lot 4 consists of storage tanks, pipes and underground […]

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Hong Kong – Red carpet for Cinema Italian Style

Hong Kong rolls out the red carpet for the fourth edition of Cine Italiano – Cinema Italian Style, which opens on 16 September 2015. Italian films featuring in the event include “Il nome del figlio”, directed by Francesca Archibugi, who will be attending the screening. Cine Italiano is organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and […]

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Brazil – Film and food, featuring Italy and its pasta

The 6th edition of “Slow Filme – Festival internacional de cinema, alimentacao e cultura local” will take place from 10 to 13 September 2015 at the Cine Pireneus in Pirenopolis, a town near Brasilia in the state of Goias. This year, the festival will enjoy the support of the Italian Embassy in Brasilia and pasta […]

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Italy-Malta – Earthquake response exercises by civil protection teams

Earthquake response exercises were conducted by civil protection teams in Malta from 3 to 6 September 2015 as part of the SIMIT strategic project funded by the Italy-Malta Operations Programme for 2014-2020. The exercises were organised by Malta’s Civil Protection department in collaboration with the Civil Protection Department of Sicily Region, with the involvement of […]

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Moscow – Caravaggio on display at Italian Embassy

Caravaggio’s “Boy Bitten by a Lizard” is being displayed at the Italian Embassy in Moscow, with a presentation by Ambassador Cesare Maria Ragaglini and the director of the Pushkin Museum, Marina Loshak. The painting will then be shown at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts from 15 September to 10 January 2016, as part […]

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Syrian Crisis. Humanitarian intervention by the Italian Cooperation

Italy has approved a one-million-EUR emergency contribution for humanitarian interventions in Syria. The contribution falls within the overall 18-million-EURO  response to the Syrian crisis Italy announced for 2015. The funds will be used to sustain a World Food Program project entitled “Emergency Food Assistance to People Affected by Unrest in Syria” within the framework of […]

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Gentiloni: “The Mediterranean is our treasure ” (L’Espresso)

The apocalypse of the migrants and the stabilisation of Libya; Europe’s egotism and the never-ending war in Syria; the fight against terrorism and Italy’s return to Africa, as well as the bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council. In this conversation with “l’Espresso” Paolo Gentiloni discusses the challenges Italy is up against […]

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New York – Dissonanzen Ensemble pays homage to “Assunta Spina”

The Italian Cultural Institute of  New York has organised an event for Monday 14 September dedicated to the Italian silent film masterpiece “Assunta Spinta” at 100 years from its production, with the Ensemble Dissonanzen providing the live soundtrack of the film directed and starring, among others, silent film diva Francesca Bertini, and produced a full […]

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Oslo – Italian ambassador speaks on Dante and Ibsen

Italian ambassador in Oslo Giorgio Novello will hold a conference on 16 September in which he will discuss Dante and Ibsen, drawing a comparison on the basis of a series of common aspects. The conference will be held at the Ibsen museum in Skein, birthplace of the renowned Norwegian author. Read more, in Italian.

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San Francisco – Cinema marathon of 4 De Sica films

San Francisco pays tribute to director Vittorio De Sica on 26 September, a day to be dedicated entirely to his Neo-Realist masterpieces at the historic Castro cinema, where a four-film marathon will begin at 11:30 in the morning. The series has been organized in association with the Ministry of Culture under the patronage of the […]

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