It was just before noon when I heard the first explosion. I rushed to my window, barely did I get there and look out when I was pushed back by the force and air pressure of another explosion. For a few moments I didn't understand, then I realized that Israeli promises of a wide-scale offensive against the Gaza Strip had materialized. Israeli Foreign Minister, continue...
From our correspondent Enrico Piovesana “If the Russians hadn’t arrived, we would all be dead by now”. Valentin throws the stub of his cigarette among the debris that covers the floor of his apartment, on the top floor of a large block on the outskirts of Tskhinval. Walls and ceilings are blackened by fire and gutted by Georgian cannon-shot. The flames have consumed everything, continue...
<!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> <!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> <!-- @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0. continue...
Written for us by Bruno Neri I am back in Iraq after two years, since the two Simones' kidnapping and Baldoni's death. My arrival in Erbil coincides with the Asian cup winning by the Iraqi national soccer team. Scenes of the “Two banks Lions” and of the outstanding moments of the victorious match against Saudi Arabia are scrolling on the Erbil airport monitors. continue...
From Observatory on the Balkans Last 22 June, Italian news agency ANSA reported that the District Anti-Mafia Department in Bari (DDA) is preparing a trial against the former president and former prime minister of the Republic of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic, accused of mafia affiliations aimed at international cigarette smuggling. Time is running out for the initial investigation. continue...
from our correspondent Alessandro Ursic Subway stop Costin Giorgeanu, outskirts of Bucharest. Huge communist-era apartment blocks, all of them grey, identical to all the others throughout the city, obedient to the Ceasescu regime’s esthetic of gigantism. Just off an intersection where the traffic never stops, along abandoned rail lines, a scrubby patch of trees and bushes. “Come inside, I’ll show you where I live, continue...
From our correspondent Cecilia Strada Khartoum. Sunia is sixteen years old and smiles. Ali Osman Taha, Sudan vice president, is few steps away but today Sunia is probably the most important person here: she is the first patient operated in the Salam heart surgery centre, built by Emergency on the Blue Nile banks. Salam centre, open since April 19th, has been officially inaugurated today. At 9 a.m. continue...
