by Alessandro De Pascale
On Wednesday 19 July, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced a “presidential pardon” for Patrick Zaki. The Bologna University researcher (who received his doctorate online on 5 July) had been sentenced the same day by the...
by Jonathan Power * - IDN-InDepthNews, Othernews
Lund, Sweden. 18 July 2023 (IDN) - That bar, the Red Star, on the far side of eastern Europe was closed - until the Ukraine war started. So why did the White Moon...
by Alessandro de Pascale
The year was 2007. I was doing an internship at Italian NGO Legambiente’s monthly magazine, La Nuova Ecologia (New ecology). I had written my first article in 1996 (as a minor), but at that time, after...
“The Black Sea agreement ceased to function today,” said Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday 17 July. This is the end of the Turkish-brokered pact to export Ukrainian grain to the rest of the world. As reporter by Moscow...
by Maddalena d’Aquilio for Unimondo*
Born in 1982, Ilir Beqiraj grew up in Peja, a small town in western Kosovo. A graduate in psychology, after the end of the war he became involved in various projects and initiatives proposed by...
by Emanuele Giordana
Poverty, misery and hunger are another scourge of Afghanistan. A plague that goes far beyond the righteous claims of those who accuse the Taliban regime of banning freedom of the press and expression and denying the legitimate...
by By Joseph Camilleri* - Pearls and Irritations, Australian platform, Othernews
Much has been made of the creation of AUKUS and the agreement to provide Australia with eight nuclear powered submarines. Many have rightly decried Australia’s loss of independence. AUKUS,...
by Alessandro De Pascale
Looking down from the hills, the vast agricultural greenhouses of the Piana del Sele (river Sele plain) stretch as far as the eye can see., all the way to the sea. The roads of the Piana,...
by Maurizio Sacchi
Visiting Port-au-Prince on 3 July, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a "robust international force" to help the Haitian police fight criminal gangs. It was Guterres' first visit to Haiti as UN chief. "We must put Haiti...
by Raffaele Crocco
The days pile up, as do the dead. Soldiers are dying - perhaps 300,000 by now, the losses of both armies - civilians are dying. In Lviv, Russian bombs hit a block of flats. Four dead, all...
