Marines: Pillay (UN) expresses concern for human rights
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, is concerned about respect for human rights since the two Italian marines, Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, have been detained in India for too long. Her views were reported today by her spokesperson, Rupert Corville, after her meeting with the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Benedetto […]
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Un’immagine incandescente che riecheggia l’esito di una rivoluzione democratica campeggia sulla copertina del numero 36 di ”Longitude”, la rivista diretta da Pialuisa Bianco in edicola dal 6 marzo.“We the people of Ukraine” è il titolo di apertura di questo numero denso di approfondimenti di politica internazionale, in cui il focus è incentrato su un’articolata analisi […]
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A fiery image that evokes the outcome of a democratic revolution fills the front page of issue 36 of “Longitude”, the journal edited by Pialuisa Bianco and hitting news-stands on 6 March. “We the people of Ukraine” is the headline of this issue, packed with reports on international policy issues and with the focus on […]
Read moreItalian Economic Diplomacy/Sole 24 Ore: USA: Trevi wins contracts worth 50 million dollars
Trevicos, a division of the Trevi Group, has won the contract for extraordinary maintenance works on the Bolivar Dam in Ohio (USA), a project worth about 44 million dollars, announced the Group. Trevi has also won a 6 million dollar contract to consolidate a dam for a mining site in Wyoming. Source: Il Sole 24 […]
Read moreArchaeology – Italian-Iraqi campaign to “dig the future”
The Italian-Iraqi archaeology mission in Abu Tbeirah in southern Iraq, coordinated by Professor Franco D’Agostino, from Università La Sapienza di Roma, is not just a scientific project. It’s also an adventure in a land very different from Italy, a land that’s seeking a way out from over 40 years of war. The latest dig focuses […]
Read moreUkraine: Mogherini at Foreign Affairs Council – Extraordinary Summit in Brussels. “Political solution only through dialogue”
Italy and its European partners strongly condemn the violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity and call on Russia to immediately withdraw its armed forces. They view the political-diplomatic channel as the only way to resolve the crisis. These were the positions to emerge from the extraordinary meeting of the Council of European Union Foreign […]
Read moreArgentina – Pantalla Pinamar celebrates Italy
The Pantalla Pinamar Film Festival’s special guest this year will be Italy. Argentina’s principal celebration of film, now in its 10th edition, will take place in Pinamar, on the Atlantic coast, from 8 to 15 March 2014. Italy will share the “guest of honour” role with India, Switzerland and Hungary. To celebrate the Italian presence […]
Read moreDEI/Sole 24 Ore: Dubai: Strong Italian participation at Arab Health 2014
About 300 Italian companies took part in the latest edition of Arab Health. The fair, which was held in Dubai, is the Gulf’s most important trade event in the medical and pharmaceutical sector. Over 80,000 visitors from all of the world attended, while over 3,900 exhibitors from 64 countries took part. According to estimates by […]
Read moreItalia- Cina – Premio Shanghai, al via residenza per 3 artisti italiani (in translation)
Italia e Cina fianco a fianco nella promozione dell’arte: ha preso il via a Shanghai la fase di residenza artistica per i tre vincitori italiani del Premio Shanghai. Alessandro Dandini de Sylva, Chiara Principe ed Elisa Strinna saranno ospiti fino al 20 aprile presso la School of Design della East China Normal University, dove elaboreranno […]
Read moreClashes in Ukraine: Italian Development Cooperation to send 100,000 for Red Cross
To provide medical assistance for the many people injured in the recent clashes in Ukraine and help replenish medical supplies, Italian Development Cooperation is to provide the Ukrainian Red Cross with funding of 100,000 euros. The Italian aid is one of the concrete responses by the European Commission and EU member states to the violence […]
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