Sweden – Italy intervenes in extensive fire
Responding to Sweden’s appeal to the European Commission Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC), Italy intervened to help fight the worst forest fire in the country’s recent history. The flames devastated an area of over 15,000 hectares in central Sweden’s Vastmanland county, approximately 150 km northwest of Stockholm. Two Canadair planes from the Italian Civil Defence […]
Read moreDei/Sole 24 Ore – Australia: go-ahead for Airport Link Project (Western Australia)
Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett announced the approval of the Airport Link project, a railway connection between the centre of Perth and the city’s airport. The project has an estimated value of 2.2 billion Australian dollars (approx. €1.54 billion) and calls for the construction of 8.5 km of new railway that includes an 8 km […]
Read moreDei/Sole 24 Ore – India introduces restrictions on pharmaceutical labels
India introduces restrictions on pharmaceutical labels The Indian authorities are going forward with the application of legal restrictions on the labelling of medical products that include the inadmissibility of stickers, the consequence of which will be containers pre-printed for the Indian market. A recent Central Drugs and Standards Control Organization (DSCO) circular underscored the need […]
Read moreGaza: Mogherini calls death of Simone Camilli a tragedy
Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini expressed her condolences on the death of Simone Camilli in Gaza. “The death of Simone Camilli is a tragedy for his family and for our nation”, she said. “Yet again, a journalist has had to pay the price of a war that has lasted too many years, and for […]
Read moreHong Kong – Success for Italian Cooperation-Science Park
Italy is among the leaders of the “Soft-landing programme for technology and innovation collaboration” of the Hong Kong Science Park (HKSTPC). The purpose of the initiative, supported by our Consulate General in Hong Kong, is to offer universities, research centres and eventual foreign spin-offs a chance to promote and develop their innovative ideas in 5 […]
Read moreBrazil – Arte Pará 2014 opens to registration
Registration has opened for the 33rd edition of Arte Pará, northern Brazil’s largest contemporary art fair, held in the State capital of Belem. The event has the support of our diplomatic network in that Latin American country, and is open to local and foreign artists living in Brazil. Read more, in Italian
Read moreDei/Sole 24 Ore – Kenya: Marangoni (tyre retreading) joins the market
A new plant for the retreading of tyres for earthmoving equipment near the Nairobi industrial area opened recently. Local investor AutoXpress, the most important Kenyan business in the tyre sector, has imported the entire retreading system from the Italian Marangoni company (checking systems, buffers, packagers and autoclaves), and the plant employs more than 40 persons. […]
Read moreBolivia – Italy a partner in juvenile justice riform
Ambassador of Italy to La Paz Luigi De Chiara recently attended the opening of the women’s section of the Qalauma rehabilitation centre, financed by the Italian Development Cooperation (DGCS) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of efforts to ensure better prisons in Bolivia. Other participants included Bolivian Minister for Justice Elizabeth Sandra Gutierrez […]
Read moreDei/Sole 24 Ore – 11 August: Latest World News, compiled in collaboration with Il Sole 24 ORE Radiocor
Egypt: Suez Canal enlargement project gets underway In the course of a ceremony attended by President Sisi, Defense Minister Sedqi Sobhi and Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim, President of the Suez Canal Authority Ihab Mamish announced the launch of the Suez Canal Development Project, which calls for augmenting of the canal with the construction of a […]
Read moreMogherini, no intervention in Iraq but military support for Kurds being assessed
Italy is assessing “forms of support for the efforts,includingmilitary,” of the Iraqi Kurdistan government.The statement came from Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini in an interview for “Radio Anch’io” on Radio Uno.Together with our principal European partnersweare assessing “the most effective forms” of stopping ISIS. “The immediate need”, the minister continued, “is to stop the […]
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