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MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (2): last Saturday Israeli air raid on Bekaa, cease-fire at risk
Beirut, Lebanon . Strong condemnation by Kofi Annan, Tel Aviv threatens: we'll go on if the weapons supply from Siria won't be ban
Last Saturday the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon has been put to an hard test by an air raid of special air-transported units of the David’s star aviation in the Bekaa valley. The blitz, t... more
MiscellaneousLampedusa shipwrecks (2): searches of missing people pass to Malta
Lampedusa, Italy - New disembarkings this morning
Another ship with about 150 immigrants on board has been sighted today 40 miles South of Lampedusa by an Italian fishing boat and two Coastguard ships have been sent there. Italian authorities stopped... more
MiscellaneousGerman tourist missing on Trasimeno lake: his body has been found
Perugia, Italy - The researches have been done by Fire Fighters with the help of an helicopter and of divers teams
It has been found yesterday evening, at about 400 meters far from the shores, the life-less body of the German tourist missing from last Friday in the water of Trasimeno lake, while was swimming with the... more
MiscellaneousExplosion in a market in Moscow: 9 deads, 25 injured
Moscow, Russia - The Government excludes the terroristic attack
At about 10:30am (local time) a violent explosion happened in a market of a north-east quarter in Moscow. The Russian MInister for Emergency Situations talks about 9 ascertain deads (among which several... more
MiscellaneousLampedusa shipwrecks: six corpses were sighted, one was recovered
Lampedusa, Italy - Today searches have been re-started
Today at dawn searches of clandestines lost in the two shipwrecks off the Lampedusa island costs have been re-started. Four guard ships by Italian Coastguard, two by Financial Police, one by Carabinieri... more
MiscellaneousWeapons storage explodes in Ukraine: two injured
Kiev,Ukraine - 1500 civilians evacuated, the reason could have been the heat
A military weapons storage in Ukraine, already site of a sequence of explosions lasted for a week in 2004, has been involved again in an incident, that injured two persons. A press release by the Ukraine... more
MiscellaneousIsraeli air raid to Gaza: three injured
Rome, Italy - The objective was a machine shop, considered as a rockets factory by Israel
Local sources retail that last night an Israeli air raid at Gaza would have hit a building used as machine shop, that according to Israel was a "Weapons factory", where the rockets that are launched against... more
MiscellaneousA charter lands for mistake in a Nato base in Poland
Warsaw, Poland - Maybe an error in the data input of the automatic pilot
We can imagine what was the surprise of the tourists that at the arrival at the airport found armed militaries waiting for them. That what happened to the Polish passengers of a charter flight of the Turkish... more
MiscellaneousBomb alarm at Sydney airport: no explosive device on board, stop the alert
Sydney, Australia - a phone call from Filippine had warned about a bomb
It’s finished the alarm started today at 5:45pm (local hour), 9:45am in Italy, at Sydney for the possible presence of a bomb on a plane landed at international airport of the Australian city (see for d... more
MiscellaneousEtiopia: at least 125 dead for flood
Adis Abeba, Etiopia - The rescue solely pass through helicopters and watercrafts
The assessment of dead reached the 125 people following up to floods, provoked by the overflowing of the Omo river, after a nonstop week of torrential rains that have been downed on two villages in the... more
MiscellaneousUsa: suspect toy on board, plane evacuated
Los Angeles, Usa - A transmitting toy made start the alarm before the landing
An aircraft Boeing 737/400 of Alaska Airlines, with 129 passengers and 6 crew members on board, has been evacuated Monday soon after the landing at Los Angeles airport, after finding on board -short before... more
MiscellaneousAir Algerie employees make a strike after Piacenza incident
Algeri, Algeria - Discomforts on the links operated by the Algerian air company
After the crash of the C-130 of Air Algerie near Piacenza of last Sunday, the flight attendants of the Maghreb carrier have called a strike, strictly connected to the incident happened in Italy. It has... more
MiscellaneousSingle-engine aircraft falls in an Austrian river
Salzburg, Austria - Three italians embroiled in the accident
Yesterday, a single-engine aircraft, type "Robin", with on board four passengers, two women and a man of Italian nationality, that was carring out a turistic air excursion in the Salzburg area, has fallen... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (14): launch deodorants against Nasrallah on Lebanon
Tel Aviv, Israel - The Israeli aviation has launched them instead the usual leaflets
The war in Lebanon has been fought since the beginning also on the plan of propaganda and psychology, but the last Israel’s initiative to try bring on his side the Lebanese public opinion, is surely d... more
MiscellaneousA 12-year-old boy board on plane without documents in London
London, United Kingdom - The severe security measures have been eluded, but the airport authorities assure: "No danger for passengers"
While the travellers directed to or departing from England keep suffer from the strict controls in th airports, a 12-year-old boy from Liverpool has mocked the controls at boarding, managing to board on... more
MiscellaneousRussian plane forced to make an emergency landing
Moscow, Russia - The reason the smoke that invaded the cabin, no consequences for passengers
Yesterday a plane of the Russian air company Aeroflot-Nord, lifted off from Arkhanghelsk (Russia), and directed to Moscow has been forced to make an emergency landing. According to the passengers’ testimonies, s... more
MiscellaneousYesterday the funeral of Angelo Frammartino. The corpse arrived Monday at Ciampino airport
Rome, Italy - Many people for the last greet to the young volunteer, present also the president of Chamber fausto Bertinotti
It has taken place yesterday at Monterotondo the funeral of Angelo Frammartino, the young Italian volunteer killed at Jerusalem by a Palestinian boy, that still hasn’t been identified. The corpse of t... more
MiscellaneousHot mid-August holiday for the stars' mansions in Saint-Tropez: a fire threatened them
Saint-Tropez, France - 3000 people displaced, burnt 80 hectares of pine forest
A large fire burned up Monday in the well-know touristic locality of Saint-Tropez, in the Blue Coast in France. The fire, that started at about 4:00pm from the zone of Ramatuelle, spreaded quickly because... more
MiscellaneousSri Lanka: raid on an orphanage. Killed 50 girls
Colombo, Sri Lanka - The governmental Authorities confirm the bombing on the area
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have denounced today the dead of 50 girls and the wounding of others 60 for a raid realized by governmental Forces in the North-East of the Sri-Lanka. According to... more
MiscellaneousIt's flying to Rome the corpse of the Italian volunteer killed at Jerusalem
Rome, Italy - The landing is scheduled for this afternoon at Ciampino
There is the father of Angelo Frammartino in the plane that is taking the young Italian volunteers back home in his last flight. The Italian State airplane has taken-off this morning from the "Ben Gurion"... more
MiscellaneousA plane comes back to London after a mobile phone started to ring
London, United Kingdom - Fear on board, despite the controls someone managed to bring a cellular
This night a plane of the air company British Airways directed to New York was forced to come back to London, after a cellular, that seemed to belong to no-one of the 217 passengers, started to ring. The... more
MiscellaneousPrivacy: PC thefts again in USA
Miami, USA - Data of 133 thousand people were stolen
Umpteenth computer theft with personal data of thousands of people in the United States. This time it is the case of an officer of US Transport Department, whose laptop with 133 thousand residents in Florida... more
MiscellaneousAn Italian young man was killed in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel - Possible the political motif
Yesterday evening, at 8 pm, an Italian young man, Angelo Frammartino, 25, lived in Monterotondo, Rome, has been killed in front of Herodes Gate, in the Old City, in the East zone near to Damascus Gate. The... more
MiscellaneousOld granny celebrates 90 years launching with parachute
London, United Kingdom - A series of launches to beneficial purpose
Mary Armstrong, a madam of 90 years, has chosen an unusual way to celebrate his ninetieth birthday: she has launched by an aircraft with parachute from 3650 meters of altitude for charity, attacked to... more
MiscellaneousSpain: Zapatero visits the area hit by fires
Santiago de Compostela, Spain - Assessment of three victims
Yesterday afternoon, tha Spanish Premier, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, went to Galitia to personally realize of the situation in the region, created by fires. In the afternoon, journalistic sources have... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon: Tel Aviv extends its offensive in Southern Lebanon
Beirut, Lebanon - Chirac talks about an "American reservation" stopping an agreement on truce
Israeli Government Security Council approved yesterday the extension of military operations in Southern Lebanon. The attack order has not been given yet, waiting to verify a possible diplomatic understanding.... more
MiscellaneousIndia: flash floods in the South provoke at least 200 dead and 860,000 displaceds
Hyderabad, India - Rescue helicopters to take foods and medicines to survivors
From hour to hour it worsens the dead and displaceds’s assessment of the South India, flogged by monsoon rains of these last days. The Bombay Authorities have informed about at least 200 dead and 860,000 d... more
MiscellaneousIsrael-Lebanon (2): Welch-Siniora meeting in Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon - While attacks are going on in the whole territory
The assistant of US Secretary of State for the Middle-East, David Welch, arrived in Beirut this morning and met Lebanese Premier Fuad Siniora, probably on the new UN resolution draft that is being prepared... more
MiscellaneousA TAM Fokker 100 loses a hatch in flight
Sao Paulo, Brazil - No consequences either for passengers and on ground
A Fokker 100 by Brazilian airline TAM lost its rear door after landing at Sao Paulo-Congonhas airport at 1:47 pm (local time) yesterday. The aircraft, headed to Salvador da Bahia, was forced to turn back... more
MiscellaneousUS Navy will leave La Maddalena base within 2008
Rome, Italy - Italian Defense Minister has announced that today
The Pentagon said to Italian Defense Ministry that US Navy will leave its nuclear propulsion submarines base at La Maddalena archipelago within the first semester of 2008. Italian Defense Minister, Arturo... more