The U.S. State Department recently approved the potential sale to Italy of two Gulfstream G550 Aircraft with Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Electronic Warfare (AISREW) Mission Systems, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. The possible deal, which covers electronic warfare aircraft and related equipment, has an estimated value of $500 million. “This proposed sale will support U.S. foreign policy and national security by helping to […]
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Introduction: VT ran across Fox News years ago, before it was what it is. The story was simple, a fake Australian billionaire, supposedly named Rupert Murdoch, the inheritor of the Maxwell-Epstein empire, wanted to buy American’s media. Murdoch, an Israeli-Australian (now US by act of congress) citizen, is a plotter. He bought Newt Gingrich, hired his wife, published Newt’s awful books and had a GOP congress […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107664/94/1076649491_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_fb9bc8e74e0e1cf4d5bfc380319cbcf6.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Maxim Minaev. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010031080653630-one-killed-over-10-missing-as-floods-hit-northern-italy-amid-heavy-rains—video/ Heavy downpours that hit the northern regions of Italy led to widespread flooding and landslides. One person has died and 11 others are listed as missing after severe flooding hit northern Italy, according to officials. Civil protection officials said in a statement that one volunteer firefighter died during a rescue operation in Val d’Aosta. Regional authorities stated […]
Austria has placed a 300 million euros ($352 million) order for 18 AW169M twin-engine helicopters from Leonardo Helicopters in a deal with Italy, Austrian Defence Minister Klaudia Tanner said on Monday. The Italian deal beat out rival efforts by the Airbus and Bell, Tanner told a news conference. According to the statement, around two thirds of the total cost will go to pay for the helicopters, […]
There’s something confusing that happens when watching television shows or movies about today’s youths, especially when the aim is to capture their lives with as much authenticity as Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino attempts in his new HBO series We Are Who We Are. You feel for them. Of course you do. Coming of age is a journey none of us weathered lightly, […]
Italian police have interrogated a British photographer in connection with the drowning of a Russian glamor model in Sardinia last weekend. Galina Fedorova had been posing for shots near a major NATO base on the Italian island. Italian police have interrogated a British photographer in connection with the drowning of a Russian glamor model in Sardinia last weekend. Galina Fedorova had been posing for shots near […]
VENICE—When Martin Scorsese can give hours of his precious time to talk about shoes, you know this is about more than what’s underfoot. In Luca Guadagnino’s new documentary about the life of Salvatore Ferragamo (Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams), we see much more than a story about shoes. It is a story about desire, immigration, and heartbreak. All that’s missing is a full-on admission that this is […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy After Flavio Briatore, famous tycoon of Formula 1 and Billionaire nightclubs in Costa Smeralda (Sardinia) and in other extra-luxury places on earth, it is the turn of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the most important VIP between Porto Cervo and Porto Rotondo, to finish at ‘Milan hospital because it is positive for Covid-19. The SARS-2 infection seems to […]
VENICE—During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, the island of Sardinia largely escaped any serious outbreaks. The tourist season was over and the islanders kept to themselves. When the lockdown ended in mid May, local health officials wanted to test everyone who came to the island to keep it COVID-free. That plan was largely shot down by elite mainlanders like Silvio Berlusconi, who wanted […]
Some 50 people were evacuated from the migrant rescue boat Louise Michel that got stranded off Malta’s coast after taking more than 200 people aboard. After one person died, the crew accused Europe of ignoring its pleas for help. The vessel, which reported rescuing a total of 219 people from the sea over the past few days, including “many women and children,” had become so “overcrowded” […]
Italy on Monday launched human trials of GRAd-COV2, a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by Rome-based biotechnology company ReiThera. The trial is being conducted by Rome’s Lazzaro Spallanzani Hospital, which specializes in infectious diseases. Over the next few weeks, 90 volunteers will receive the vaccine, Reuters reported. Francesco Vaia, the hospital’s health director, told Reuters the first patient to receive the vaccine was a 50-year-old woman who […]
ROME—Father Jeremy Leatherby of Sacramento, California, surely knew what was coming when he continued to preach to the faithful that Pope Benedict XVI, who retired in 2013, is still the one true pope. Since the election upon Benedict’s retirement of Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, Leatherby has shunned the new pontiff and continued to only refer to Benedict as the church’s true leader in mass. Last […]
The head of Ireland’s tourism development authority (Fáilte), Michael Cawley, has resigned after ignoring his own agency’s advice to opt for domestic ‘staycations’ and heading off on holiday to Italy instead. The resignation was announced on Saturday by Cawley himself, who said he decided to step down because he didn’t want to “allow this issue to become a distraction from the important work of Fáilte Ireland […]
ROME—The crypt holding the remains of Benito Mussolini in his hometown of Predappio in northern Italy has for years drawn neofascists and other sympathizers who come to pay their ill-guided respects to Italy’s father of Fascism. And even while images from across the world have shown that old monuments to worse times are being torn down, in Italy things are very different. Just this month, Mussolini’s […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano «There are about a thousand Syrians who fled via Zuwara and Sabratha towards Europe last week, using boats provided by a European country in support of the coast guard under al-Sarraj government, but they are now being exploited in illegal immigration». The Libyan National Army spokesman, Major General Ahmed al-Mismari, has revealed «Turkey’s involvement […]
There is pasta sauce—and then there is Bolognese. The vegetable, meat and tomato sauce is so essential to Italian cooking that the Bologna delegation to the Italian Academy of Cuisine established an official recipe for the dish in 1982. “For me it’s incredibly comforting,” says James Beard Award-winning chef Karen Akunowicz, of Boston’s Fox & the Knife, which is known for its version of the sauce. […]
NATO’s third unmanned aircraft, called the RQ-4D Phoenix, has arrived at an alliance base in southern Italy, according to Allied Air Command Public Affairs Office. The third of five Alliance Ground Surveillance drones arrived at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily on Wednesday, after completing a 22-hour test flight from Palmdale, Calif., a statement said. “The Ferry Flight of aircraft NATO-03 from California to Sicily is […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/0e/1079884875_0:234:2843:1834_1200x675_80_0_0_eeac409b531071ce50af26c7c3a9913f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202007141079885023-italy-returns-stolen-banksy-piece-in-memory-of-bataclan-shooting-to-france–reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A piece of art attributed to famous street artist Banksy in commemoration of the 2015 Paris terror attacks has been returned to France after it was stolen and discovered in Italy, media reported on Tuesday. The so-called Gate of Banksy was painted in 2018 on an emergency exit door of the Bataclan theater, where 90 people […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano «In September-October we will see the results of this period of serious economic crisis. We see closed shops, citizens who do not even have the opportunity to provide for their daily needs. The government has put in place all the necessary initiatives to meet these needs, the risk is real and I see an […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione originale in Italiano «In September-October we will see the results of this period of serious economic crisis. We see closed shops, citizens who do not even have the opportunity to provide for their daily needs. The government has put in place all the necessary initiatives to meet these needs, the risk is real and I see an […]
Black Women In Italy Weren’t Being Heard, That’s Changed By Stefania Dignoti, The Lilly. July 7, 2020 Black Women In Italy Weren’t Being Heard, That’s Changed2020-07-072020-07-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/italy.png200px200px Above photo: By Marioluca Bariona. Then Black Lives Matter protests began in the United States. ‘It began with the death of George Floyd in the U.S., but this is also our battle.’ Ariam Tekle had just begun co-hosting a podcast about black […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy Versione Originale in Italiano «In 2018, the same financial police who made the bust in Salerno confiscated nearly 100 million tablets of the narcotic meant for ISIS operatives in Libya that were being shuttled from pill mills in India and Sri Lanka by way of Italy’s notoriously unguarded port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria». The Daily Beast writes […]
_________Open DemocracyMothers and children in Italy “Nobody at my husband’s company asked him how he was going to take care of his kids during the lockdown. It was obvious that their mother would.” by Cecilia Butini Italy inches closer to a new normality after a two-month strict lockdown imposed to stem the spread of the Coronavirus, clear provisions on school reopening and childcare have been lagging […]
Russia’s COVID-19 propaganda has not been subtle heralding the decline and fall of Europe and presenting Russia as the true champion of Western health and safety. But even the best-laid plans for turning a global pandemic into an opportunity for “active measures” haven’t always succeeded, mainly because of the Kremlin’s operatic overreaction to exposure and criticism of its influence operations, turning even its well-wishers against it. […]
Summary 1 – Espulsion’s risk for 10 magistrates2 – Interference with Costitutional bodies3 – Undersecretary of 3 governments inside Magic Ring4 – Palamara’s blames the powerful lef-wing prosecutor5 – The judge: «Palamara tells names: only at beginning»6 – Broadsides by anti-mob Attorneys VS ex Republic President7 – Magistrates, spies, masons in Italy-Us Dem’s intrigues8 – From Unicef scandal to SARS experiments for vaccines “Because He who […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Italy «I was in Intensive Care Unit for 7 years, I studied Medicine breathing thanks to a tracheoctomy (incision of the throat with the insertion of a cannula – ed). I struggled for a long time before going back to breathing normally. For this reason I cannot accept that a patient dies suffocated by Myasthenia gravis which thanks to […]
AC Milan have praised fiery striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s “passion and love” after agreeing a deal for the Serie A winner to remain at the club until at least the end of the season despite his temporary return to Sweden. Milan fans had feared that they might not see Ibrahimovic play for them again after the Sweden legend returned to his homeland with a suspected calf injury, […]
ROME — In mid-May, Libyans standing on a beach in the west of the country reportedly watched a Turkish frigate off the coast fire a missile, which downed a drone operated by the United Arab Emirates. The incident has not been confirmed but is consistent with Turkey’s bold use of naval power in recent weeks as it takes a central role in a proxy war in […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT iTaly Yesterday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, speaking in the military base of Sidi Barrani, 95 km from the Libyan border, told his army to prepare for any mission if the forces of the Government of National Agreement (GNA) will cross what is called «the red line that connects Al Jufra to Sirte». «Egypt will intervene alongside the […]
Earlier this week, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer pointed out that no progress had been made in negotiations between American and EU officials on a global digital tax deal. French Foreign Minister Bruno Le Maire has slammed the US over its move to suspend talks on a global digital services tax, proposed by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Referring to US Treasury Secretary […]
ROME—In the back corner of Milan’s Maggiore cemetery is Campo 87, a field of hastily dug graves where 128 victims of COVID-19 were laid to rest in plots marked only with cheap plastic crosses. Those buried there were unclaimed at hospital morgues much like the scores of nameless COVID-19 victims buried in the potter’s field of New York’s Hart Island. But many of those who ended […]
Earlier this month France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands joined forces to form the “Inclusive Vaccine Alliance”, in order to have a stronger negotiating position in the race for a coronavirus vaccine. The contract agreement with AstraZeneca is the alliance’s first result in securing a potential coronavirus vaccine for European countries. The Vaccine Alliance formed by France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands has signed a contract […]
ROME—A queue of masked art lovers snaked around the Vatican Museum walls when it reopened on June 1 after being closed for 12 weeks. But these were no ordinary tourists—they were Romans. The museum opened two days before Italy lifted its nearly three-month lockdown, meaning movement within Italy’s various regions (as well as from outside the country) was still prohibited, so Romans could visit tourist-free. Museum […]