TRIPOLI – Turkey has claimed that its warship, the frigate ‘Gaziantep', saved 30 migrants from drowning on Wednesday, but new information seems to suggest that the ‘Gaziantep’ was actually ferrying sophisticated anti-aircraft weapons into Libya, reports La Stampa.
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ROME – A six-month state of emergency due to the coronavirus has been announced, with 5 million euros to be allocated, according to government officials.
31 Jan 2020
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ROME – Italy are to continue to send asylum seekers to Libyan detention centers where they have been subject to torture and rape, reveals a press release from Amnesty international.
31 Jan 2020
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ROME -- Chinese staff at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization who went back to their homeland for Chinese New Year have been ordered by the UN agency to spend two weeks at their homes in the Eternal City before returning to duty, FAO sources said, and any pending overseas missions they had scheduled have been suspended as part of efforts to prevent Coronavirus spreading.
31 Jan 2020
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ROME – Iraq’s security forces have killed more than 600 protesters and wounded over 10,000 more, which raised questions concerning the likelihood of a Sunnistan or Shiitestan breakaway at ‘The Iraq Impasse’, a conference hosted by the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC).
30 Jan 2020
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VATICAN CITY – A new exhibition of early Christian sarcophagi notable for their iconography has opened in the Vatican Museums, alongside an extension of the “Mater Amazonia” exhibition on life and the environment in one of the world’s most beautiful and vulnerable places.
30 Jan 2020
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BRUSSELS – The friendship and closeness of Europe and Italy with the British people has not been changed by the historic vote of the European Parliament in favour of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, vice-president of the European Parliament Fabio Massimo Castaldo has said.
The Five Star euro-parliamentarian issued a statement saying that with Brexit “the British people have made a choice, which we do not share, but which we respect.”
30 Jan 2020
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ROME – EU drilling rights have been flouted by Turkish drillship MV Yavuz, which was spotted on Jan 22 approximately 110 kilometers south of Cyprus, satellite imaging reveals.
The Turkish provocation first occurred on Jan. 18, when the Yavuz left the port of Mersin in Turkey and started to explore ‘Block 8’ – to which drilling rights belong to the Italian company Eni and the French company Total, reports Corriere Della Sera.
30 Jan 2020
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BOLOGNA - Facebook has removed a controversial video of league leader Matteo Salvini, ringing the doorbell of the alleged Tunisian teenager, Yassin, in an electoral campaign stunt, which sparked strong protests by the Tunisian authorities.
In the video, Salvini asked the 17-year-old boy if he has been dealing with drugs. A lawyer for Yassin, Cathy La Torre says that they would fight till the end until the video has not been removed from Salvini’s social media page.
29 Jan 2020