23/08/18  |  Report
Reportage Somalia: EUTM-S, the CIMIC cell
Meeting at 7 in the morning. We are going to visit a fire station, a clinic dedicated to the care of mothers and children and an elementary and middle school. I'm...
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20/08/18  |  Report
Reportage Somalia: EUTM-S and the Somali Army - "... we were African Italians and we were proud of it!"
“We had planned an exercise for today. She will do it too, even if she has just arrived. So you immediately realize how you live here ", General Matteo Spreafico tells me, ...
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06/08/18  |  Report
Reportage Somalia: the Italian “lead”, interview with the new commander of the EUTM-S
"For me it is the first time both in Somalia and in a European context. Previously, the missions I carried out were under the "hat" of NATO. So for me it's an experience ...
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29/12/17  |  Report
Donetsk Report: the coming year
The city of Donetsk is preparing for the party. Instead of celebrating Christmas on December 25th, in these parts we celebrate the New Year; decorated fir trees are popping up a little ...
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23/05/17  |  Report
A look at Istanbul
A city that apparently is the same as it always has, with its multicultural imprint that makes it a spiritual bridge, as well as a geographical one, between East and West. Taking a look ...
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29/04/17  |  Report
Crisis in Macedonia: Western hypocrisy in the Balkans fire
The first problem arose in the 1991, at the very moment when Macedonia declared independence. Greece did not want a state bordering on the name of one of its regions (with ...
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27/03/17  |  Report
Deep France: the silent country where the European Union is already dead (or never born)
Speaking of France, Paris often dominates the collective iconography. In reality Paris represents the lumière of a magnificent progress, multifaceted by the thousand reflections of a ...
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24/03/17  |  Report
Donbass, the war that does not exist: the Promzona and the women of the east
It is still early morning when the phone starts ringing: the call I've been waiting for has finally arrived. Today I finally reached the Promzona. The Promzona ...
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20/03/17  |  Report
Donbass, the war that does not exist: "in the trenches!"
The departure is delayed several times due to the continuous shelling of Ukrainian artillery: our safety ...
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18/03/17  |  Report
Donbass, the war that does not exist: under Ukrainian fire (video)
In the third year of the war in the Donbass, Europe insists on not seeing. We EU citizens, in relation to this ...
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01/03/17  |  Report
Ossetia: the small Caucasus land that moves the great powers
Vladikavkaz train station is pastel colored, between ocher and orange. The air weighs. The cold seems to be firm, ...
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27/02/17  |  Report
One-year video reportage from the bombings in Brussels
About a year since the bombings that upset Brussels and a little more than those in Paris, they saw ...
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26/02/17  |  Report
The great cold coming from the Baltic. Cap.2: Eastern Europe re-emerges controversial
From Estonia to Bulgaria, passing through Germany. 4000 are American soldiers, who along with tanks, ...
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25/02/17  |  Report
The great cold coming from the Baltic. Cap.1: at the gates of Kaliningrad
We talk about it only when the peaks arrive, but the frost on the Baltic is actually a constant. Just look at the table ...
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19/02/17  |  Report
Reportage in the heart of Amatrice: from the Bailey Bridge to the SAE
"Per aspra via aspra meta": through the bumps up to the stars. A Latin incitation that Cicero first and ...
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15/02/17  |  Report
Reportage in the heart of Amatrice with the 6 ° Regio Genio Pionieri
"Make our heart strong, our mind clear, our hands secure": this is how the engineer's prayer begins, ...
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12/02/17  |  Report
Reportage in the heart of Amatrice with the Army
Amatrice was one of the most beautiful towns in Italy. At the 3.36 last 24 August an 6.0 magnitude earthquake of ...
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01/12/16  |  Report
Iraq: Online Defense visits the peshmerga of General Barzani, the "Black Tiger"
Time in Iraq is marked by tea that is punctually served at every meeting by quick and silent subordinates ....
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14/11/16  |  Report
Syria reportage: ISIS horror, a former Caliphate prisoner speaks (Video)
"Oh God! I'm here, I'm here !!! ISIS has arrived at our village! Dad ... "The line stops. The ...
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09/11/16  |  Report
Reportage Syria: Any day in Damascus, while the world is page-wide
This is a strange morning in Damascus. Artillery strikes in departure (sometimes arriving ...) towards areas still under the ...
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Tribute (due) to the 80th "Roma" infantry who takes leave with honor

Well, yes, we are now used to witnessing the closure of the barracks and perhaps even a little to burying the long history of the departments, a phenomenon which however does not erase the memories. It also touched...

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"Il Signor Parolini" (ninth part)

The baked chicken, as expected, had lived up to its reputation, consolidating, where needed, the undisputed culinary mastery of Gastone, chief ...

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Backchannels and fireworks: US mediation behind Iranian retaliation on Israel?
As announced by the Iranian regime, the announced retaliation for the (unannounced) attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on 1 April 2024 which led to the death of...
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Letters to Defense Online: "Carabinieri and sinking of the Garibaldi"
Mine is not meant to be a sterile controversy but after more than thirty years of wearing the uniform I consider it a "fair" controversy. Decisions regarding the size and composition of forces...
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