Section: Italy
UN Security Council’s “Perilous Interventions” in War Zones
Credit: IPSBy Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Oct 7 2016 (IPS)When the UN Security Council last week discussed the “deliberate” attacks on medical facilities in war-ravaged Syria and Yemen, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon implicitly criticized some of the warring nations lamenting that “even a slaughterhouse is more humane” than the ongoing...
European Security with or Without Russia? Consequences of the Chinese-Russian Alliance on the Relationship Between USA and EU
By Roberto SavioROME, Sep 16 2016 (IPS)The joint military manoeuvres between the Russian and Chinese navies, armies, and air forces has kicked off. It’s a clear message for Washington, which has recently strengthened its action in Asia, indicating that as a country that overlooks the Pacific, it wants to play an important role in the...
US, EU Accused of Paying Lip Service to Global Arms Treaty
The non-violence knotted gun statue at UN headquarters in NYC. Credit: IPS UN Bureau.By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Aug 22 2016 (IPS)The Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which was aimed at curbing the flow of small arms and light weapons to war zones and politically-repressive regimes, is being openly violated by some of the world’s arms suppliers,...
The Day a Soviet Leader Banged His Shoe at the Un
By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Aug 9 2016 (The Sunday Times – Sri Lanka)During the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and particularly in the 1960s, the United Nations was the ideological battle ground where the Americans and the Soviets pummeled each other– metaphorically speaking — either on the floor of...
How Russia Will Use Brexit to Fight Sanctions
By Editor, The Manila Times, PhilippinesJul 6 2016 (Manila Times)FORECAST EU sanctions against Russia are all but guaranteed to remain in place through 2016, but Moscow will work in the second half of the year to get them eased in 2017.Russia will capitalize on divisions in the European Union, which will only widen in the wake of Brexit, to...
Brex’it, So Be’it; And Then What?
Source: TRANSCEND Media ServiceBy Johan GaltungALICANTE, Spain, Jun 26 2016 (IPS)The vote turned out like the two referenda held in Norway in 1972 and 1994. And much for the same reason: Protestant break with Rome–Catholic, imperial–Henry VIII made himself head of the Anglican Church in 1534.Religion was not the only reason, there are Protestant...
Italy busts two Ukrainians smuggling migrants on yacht
Italian police Friday said they had arrested two Ukrainian nationals on suspicion of smuggling 16 Syrian refugees into the country by yacht from Turkey. …read more Source: The Local...
Is it in Europe’s Interest to Push Russia into China’s Arms?
Roberto Savio, founder and president emeritus of the Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and publisher of Other News.By Roberto SavioROME, May 23 2016 (IPS)No mention in the media of the dangerous increase in tension between Europe and Russia. But Nato has just made operational in Romania a missile system, the ABM, which the US has declared...
Masterpieces stolen in Verona heist found in Ukraine
Paintings including masterpieces by Rubens and Tintoretto that were stolen from a Verona museum last year have been found in Ukraine, Italy’s culture minister said on Wednesday. …read more Source: The Local...
Deteriorating Protection of Journalists’ Sources a Global Problem
A journalist conducts an interview in Kenya. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPSBy Linus AtarahHELSINKI, May 5 2016 (IPS)The freedom of the press is a universally cherished democratic right, but what may have been overlooked as the World Day Freedom of Information was celebrated on Wednesday is that the ability of journalists to protect their source is...
