Anti-ISIS troops are 5km away from Mosul, second Iraqi city with 2 million inhabitants. There are about 7,000 jihadists in the city, besieged by an army of 30,000 soldiers of different cultures, religions and nationalities. The Kurdish Peshmerga, Sunni and Shia Iraqi soldiers, USA’s crack troops, Turkish air force and Italian soldiers are working together…
Somalia, has became “The new Syria in the Horn of Africa” where organised religious warlords and clan politicians created enclaves that they control to the detriment of Somali Republic. As presidential candidate in 2016, I want to re-unite our country and its people based on peace, justice, equality, good governance and democracy and also eradicate…
by Christiana Ruggeri It’s a fight against time. Not only to save their lives, but to preserve their infancy. The psychological balance, the studying, the playing. Just like calm sleep and serenity: it will be more difficult to have these kids find them again. It has been defined, not randomly, a canceled generation. They are…
By Emma Bonino There is still time to negotiate, Emma Bonino is convinced of that. The United States of America will take some time before they drop their missiles on Syria. In the meantime it’s possible to try to put politics on the ground again, since Europe seems to finally have found a common position…
Translated by Claudio Peli Over the past five years I have often pointed out how the ongoing financial crisis that has hit Western economies has also had devastating impacts on virtually all sectors of society: trade, industry, the world of work, the economy on the whole as well as the health care system. As…
Translated by Claudio Peli by Claudio Torbinio On 10th December 1948, together with other countries around the world, we solemnly undertook to respect and promote individual rights: inalienable, imprescriptible, indivisible rights. About 65 years have gone by since then, a fairly long time. Yet, the harrowing situation that the Syrian people have been enduring over…
Translated by Claudio Peli I met Augusto Odone in 2007. We were introduced by Ambassador Mario Alessio. Augusto was getting on in years and betrayed the weariness of a very unconventional life: a life devoted to fighting his son’s disease as well as the prejudices of the entire scientific community. He asked me to take…
by Massimiliano Fanni Canelles The more advanced age in which you decide to become pregnant, environmental pollution, which reduces fertility and scientific progress in prenatal diagnosis are the factors that lead a couple to approach the world of reproductive medicine. In this area, especially in assisted reproduction techniques have become more familiar to the general…
by Massimiliano Fanni Canelles The market of gambling, legal and illegal, is rapidly expanding and is used in the classical form and in electronic form, both of arcades, is due to the spread of online games. According to the Autonomous Administration of State Monopolies (AAMS), the legal form has registered progressive increments through the years,…
by Massimiliano Fanni Canelles This is the second number of SocialNews in which we deal with the economic crisis. The first has been published in the December 2008, following the failure of Lehman Brothers, the financial speculation on Subprime mortgages and the bad management of credit rating agencies. 4 years have passed, but still we…