Moving from one African reality to another and then landing in Italy. How to make sense of it all? How to relate to people and to bridge such contrasting realities?
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Italy's political discourse today is particularly interesting to me as a foreign journalist, but also as a writer...
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Kofi Annan urges Kenyan leaders to take action, implement reforms and be accountable.
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On September 28 the Italian Minister of Economic Development Claudio Scajola held a press conference in New York to discuss the current situation of Italian exports in the US, and the measures the Italian government is enacting to promote “ Made in Italy” on a global level. Among the issues discussed, the measures being adopted to attract FDI in the country and to fight the phenomenon of falsifying national products abroad
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Facts & StoriesInterview with Dr. Maria Teresa Brotto, Head of the Department of Design of the Mose Project, Consorzio Venezia Nuova. Dr Brotto, who is in New York to participate to ILICA's 5th Annual Conference "Saving Venezia & Protecting New Orleans" (September 25th) explains how this Italian high-tech project will work and why it provides the right answer to Venice's flooding problems.
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82 years after Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s death under chair electrocution. A new published book in Italian, just being presented throughout the Country: their stories come back to life through a renewed evaluation standing apart from the historical reevaluation.
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New York. A meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Advisor for the Coordination of Public Communication, Antonio Bettanini. “When someone talks about internal communication sometimes people begin to yawn. But it’s the ABC”
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Facts & StoriesThe game “Rimbalza il clandestino” (Bounce the illegal immigrant) has been published on Italy's Northern League's Facebook page. Its aim is to mouse-click on boatloads of immigrants approaching the Italian coast and make them disappear. It has now been canceled by the portal’s administrators, but...
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For journalists this is traditionally the silly season, when anything goes, as long as it’s entertainment. Alas, this beach season has brought a host of serious problems...
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This is the third report in the series “Italian Americans by the Numbers”. The series presents demographic data about Italian Americans based on the US Census Departments “2005-2007 American Community Survey (ACS)”. This article reports: numbers of Italian Americans in various gender/age groups; compares percentages of Italian Americans with total American population; dependency age ratios; and approximate Italian American generation numbers.
