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Macfrut: Promoting the Italian model for the fruit and vegetable sector An Italian model to develop the fruit and vegetable sector in Africa. That’s the goal of a presentation to representatives of the embassies of Sub-Saharan Africa, illustrating the Macfrut trade fair taking place in Cesena from 25 to 27 September 2013. More news (in […]

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MIAMI: 49 Unesco sites in Italy

The photography exhibition of Italian sites included in UNESCO’s World Heritage list closed today, 7 August 2013, in Miami. The travelling exhibition features 150 photographs and stills from famous films shot at the sites in our country, which has the world’s greatest concentration of world heritage sites. Italy plays an important role in helping emerging […]

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BULGARIA: Verdi’s Nabucco on the silver screen

Giuseppe Verdi’s “Nabucco” will be screened at the opening of the 3rd Nikolay Ghiaurov International Musical Film Festival on 8 August 2013. The performance, featuring Ghena Dimitrova, Renato Bruson and, Dimitar Petkov among others, was filmed at the Verona Arena and broadcast by the RAI on 13 November 1981. The screening was organised in collaboration […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTE – Reminder: 68th Session of the UN General Assembly (New York, September 2013)

Reminder: Please note that the website of the United Nations http://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/UNGA68.shtmlcontains all information concerning the press accreditation necessary to follow the proceedings of the 68th session of the United National General Assembly in New York, whose ministerial week will begin on 23 September 2013. All media personnel not already accredited with the UN must register […]

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Domani si rinnova la commemorazione della tragedia del Bois du Cazier: Vice Ministro Archi a Marcinelle

57 years have passed and the memory still lives on. Once again, the site of the Bois du Cazier mine – which in 2012 became a UNESCO world heritage site – will be the setting for ceremonies commemorating one of the worst mining tragedies in modern times. 262 of the 274 miners working on that […]

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Nicola Piovani e l’Orchestra Italiana del Cinema: la colonna sonora ufficiale dell’Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti diventa un video

A new soundtrack has been composed by maestro Nicola Piovani to celebrate the Year of Italian Culture in the USA. Entitled “Allegretto Made in Italy”, the score, for symphony orchestra, was performed by the Italian Film Orchestra. It was produced with the collaboration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Embassy and Italian Cultural […]

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Foreign Ministry Secretary General Michele Valensise receives Ambassador Andrian Yelemessov at request of Embassy of Kazakhstan

Foreign Ministry Secretary General Michele Valensise has received Ambassador Andrian Yelemessov at the request of the Embassy of Kazakhstan. Secretary General Valensise reiterated to Ambassador Yelemessov the Foreign Ministry’s surprise and disappointment over his unorthodox handling of the case of Mrs. Alma Shalabayeva with the Italian authorities. The Secretary General was following the line taken […]

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Italy-Russia: agreements for growth. Year of tourism to be launched in November in Trieste

“We’re working on a series of agreements that, once signed, will make a marked and positive impact on the lives of Italian companies and households. And we’re doing so as part of our diplomacy for growth policy in the framework of economic recovery”. Work on the agreements is on-going, in the run-up to the Italian-Russian […]

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Visita in Messico del SS Giro “centrale per le relazioni dell’Italia con tutta l’America Latina. E’ il paese con più imprese italiane e partner strategico per la stabilità del centro America”

Under-Secretary Mario Giro, whose remit includes Central America, will be on an official visit to Mexico on 8 and 9 August 2013 – the first bilateral visit by an Italian Government representative in many years. “Mexico is undergoing an important economic and social reform process, a process that is making rapid pace and in which […]

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Travelling abroad – Don’t panic, but be careful, Bonino tells Italian tourists

“I’ve advised all Italian tourists to be careful. Anyone going to the Red Sea, for example, should avoid day-trips. They should be careful, but there’s no need to panic”. The point was reiterated by Foreign Minister Emma Bonino, speaking on the Unomattina programme on the situation and the possible risks faced by Italians holidaying abroad. […]

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Giro: «per il nuovo Centro servono popolarismo riformismo e liberalismo» (Il Messaggero)

La parabola del berlusconismo pone ai moderati la madre di tutte le sfide: riunire sotto uno stesso tetto storie e culture diverse. È possibile? È la domanda al centro del dibattito che il Messaggero ha aperto sul futuro dei moderati italiani. Mario Giro, sottosegretario agli Affari Esteri – nonché fratello di Francesco, l`esponente del Pdl […]

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LONGITUDE: Egypt, ‘Back to square one’

Può l’Egitto trovare una via d’uscita dal caos? Quali le conseguenze sulla Regione di un’ “empasse” apparentemente senza sbocchi? Sono gli interrogativi ai quali il nuovo numero di “Longitude”, la rivista diretta da Pialuisa Bianco, in edicola dal 5 agosto, cerca di dare una risposta, attraverso una serie di analisi. Gli altri titoli di copertina, […]

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