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MiscellaneousAVIONEWS apologizes with its own subscribers
Rome, Italy - Due to technical problem
AVIONEWS apologizes with its own subscribers for the problems had in these days, not depending of our will, but from internet problem that have interested, unfortunately, the entire national network,... more
MiscellaneousEuropean Commission: the entry by Romania and Bulgaria in the EU from January 1st, 2007
Rome, Italy - The press conference will take place next Monday December 11
The European Commission communicates that next Monday, December 11, at 11am, at the Foreign press Association's office in Rome (Via dell'Umiltà 83/C) a press conference will take place about the entry,... more
MiscellaneousA low-cost bar
Florence, Italy - The first shop halfway restaurant and travel agency
A coffee and a low-cost flight will be purchased together in Florence, where the first shop halfway restaurant and low-cost travel agency will be born. Terravision, a British company which operates in... more
MiscellaneousThe UN activates a service of humanitarian flights to the Central African Republic
New York, USA - The African State is pledged by fights and famine
Yesterday the UN has begun to operate a service of humanitarian flights to the Central African Republic, where about one million people suffer from famine and illnesses and there are an ethnic war. The... more
MiscellaneousThe Italian Trevi will contribute to the reconstruction of the World Trade Center
Milan, Italy - The Italian society will work for the building of the transport center
The Italian Trevi, trough its subsidiary Trevi Icos Corporation has won the construction job order to build the transport center of World Trade Center. The reconstruction project has a total value of about... more
MiscellaneousTTG Incontri: Italy is in the third place among tourist destinations
Rimini, Italy - The report of the World Tourism Organization
Italy is in the third place among international tourism destinations in 2005 in Mediterranean area with 36.5 million people, after France (76 million) and Spain (55.6 million). Turkey (20.3 millions),... more
Miscellaneous"Rome Film Festival": photografic exhibition by AdR
Rome, Italy - Movie stars at the airport
Aeroporti di Roma set up a photographic exhibition at the Rome Auditorium on the occasion of the "Rome Film Festival". Liz Taylor, Claudia Cardinale, Audrey Hepburn, Roberto Rossellini and other movie... more
MiscellaneousLebanon will denounce Israel for having pollute Mediterranean Sea
Beirut, Lebanon - The Israeli bombings have hit a power station that spilled 15.000 tons of fuel in the sea
"An intentional attack made with the certainty that it will cause a damage in the time can represent a was crime", as written in an international right rule that Lebanese environment minister, Yakub Sarraf,... more
MiscellaneousDrugs at Rome-Fiumicino airport: a Bolivian man was arrested
Rome, Italy - 5 kg of cocaine hidden in his suitcase false bottom
A 26-year-old Bolivian man was arrested at Rome-Fiumicino airport on international drugs traffic charges. Coming from Santa Cruz, the man was stopped at the arrivals area and, after a deep check of his... more
MiscellaneousFalse bomb alert at Sophia airport
Sofia, Bulgaria - Yesterday a telephone call communicated the presence of a bomb
Yesterday Sofia airport (Bulgaria) was closed for several hours after a telephone call communicating the presence of a bomb had been received at the arrival terminal. According to the Bulgarian interior... more
MiscellaneousSeptember 11th: Bush to the America, "We have to be united"
Washington, Usa - Bush threatens Bin Laden: "We will find you"
Bush spoke to the nation for 17 minutes last night at 9:00pm (local time). The leader of White House has pushed the American people to be united in the fight against terrorism and refused to define it... more
MiscellaneousEmergency landing of a Cessna 172-M in the centre of Montreal
Montreal, Canada - No injured people, either ashore or on board the airplane
The engine of a Cessna 172-M, registered as CF-FRV, suddenly stalled yesterday afternoon while the aircraft was flying over Montreal. The pilot, being unable to come back to St Hubert Airport where he... more
MiscellaneousIt has been arrested in Greece the man that escaped from jail with the helicopter
Athens, Greece - The runaway is an Albanian mafioso that escaped together with a Greek prisoner
Last June 4th, an Albanian mobster, Alket Rizai, 33, and a Greek prisoner, 40, perfomed a spectacular escape from the Greek prison of Korydallos, near Athens, by using an helicopter that had previously... more
MiscellaneousSeptember 11th(5): Rice today in Canada to for the anniversary of attacks
Washington, Usa - The US secretary of state will meet her Canadian counterpart
The US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, will visit Halifax in Canada today to commemorate the anniversary of September 11th. Canada gave important help to the United States the day of the attacks... more
MiscellaneousEmergency landing in Belgrade for an Alitalia flight
Rome, Italy – Smoke in the cockpit made start the alarm last Friday on the aircraft directed to Sofia
Last Friday an Alitalia plane flying from Rome to Sofia (Bulgaria) was forced to make an emergency landing in Belgrade, because of smoke in the cockpit for unknown reasons. The commandant of the flight... more
MiscellaneousMilan-Malpensa airport: cocaine inside berimbaus
Milan, Italy - A Brazilian man was arrested
A 34-year-old Brazilian man was arrested on international drugs trafficking charges after he was found with cocaine by the Financial Police at Milan-Malpensa airport. The man, who arrived from Rio de Janeiro,... more
MiscellaneousSeptember 11: America five years later
Washington, Usa - The American people feel vulnerable and fear a new attack
Today America is silent. People remember the victims of that tragic September 11th of five years ago, when together with the Twin Towers fell the faith of an entire nation about US invulnerability, and... more
MiscellaneousBA plane lands in emergency at Brussels for a false bomb alert
Brusselles, Belgium - A warning light signalled the presence of a fire aboard
Last night a British Airways plane made an emergency landing at Brussels airport after a fire alert began. The flight had departed from London to Frankfurt with 143 passengers onboard; after a warning... more
MiscellaneousChina pro a pacific solution for Korean and Iran cases
Beijing, China - "It needs to act with caution and abstain to actions that could make worse the situation"
During an interview granted to the European press about the nuclear problem of the Korean peninsula and about the programme for the Uranium enrichment in Iran, the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has stated... more
MiscellaneousThe temporary memorial of September 11 has been inaugurated in New York
New York, Usa - The monument is provisional waiting for the definitive one to be complete
Waiting for the space-monument in honour of the victims of September 11 -that will be located where before there were the Twin Towers- to be completed, yesterday it has been inaugurated in Ground Zero... more
MiscellaneousCocaine in the cockpit at Malpensa
Milan, Italy - The finding in an Alitalia aircraft came from Caracas
A package containing 2 kilograms of pure cocaine was found yesterday inside the cockpit of an airplane of Alitalia due to lift for Chicago. The fact has happened at Milan-Malpensa airport, where the plane,... more
MiscellaneousRed Cross will visit the prisoners in Guantanamo
Geneva, Switzerland - In next days a delegation of the humanitarian agency will go to the US jail to verify the conditions of prisoners
After the admittance by the US President, George W. Bush, about the existence of secret prisons, and about the "Hard" methods used by CIA officers during the interrogations of the suspect terrorists (see... more
MiscellaneousLebanon (2): from Turin an humanitarian flight to Beirut
Turin, Italy - An Antonov 124 has brought 8 tons of goods to the children victim of the war
Yesterday at 11:30am from Turin airport an aircraft Antonov 124 has taken-off with 8 tons of humanitarian aids for the children of Beirut, victims of 34-day war between Hezbollah and Israel. Despite at... more
MiscellaneousIran nuclear matter: Larijani-Prodi meeting today
Rome, Italy - USA demands sanctions soon
USA ask an urgent meeting of UN Security Council so that it gives the green light to a resolution containing sanctions against Iran, which is guilty of not wanting to give up its uranium enrichment program.... more
MiscellaneousTerrorism in UK: more two incriminated men
London, United Kingdom - Total 17 people have been considered guilty
On the field of the inquiry on presumed thwarted attack against airplanes flying between UK and USA, more two men have been formally charged with murder conspiracy and preparation of terrorist acts. 25... more
MiscellaneousNuclear matter: Russia, yes to the sanctions but without using force
Moscow, Russia - The Russian Foreign Minister specifies that every sanction must be equal to the threats for the international community
"We’ll take on account the possibility of sanctions under every profile, basing on our target and without allowing a proliferation of nuclear weapons", there are the words of the Russian Foreign Minister, S... more
MiscellaneousTrieste: 140 people are waiting since yesterday for their flight to Toronto
Trieste, Italy - The aircraft of the carrier Sky Service is blocked at Pescara airport
Since yesterday 140 people of a flight of the air company Sky Service, coming from Pescara and directed to Toronto, are waiting at Trieste-Ronchi dei Legionari airport, without news about their flight.... more
MiscellaneousManuel Uribe: denial of the Modena's General Hospital
Modena, Italy - He will remain the fattest man of the world for the whole 2006
The Business Management of the Modena’s General Hospital denies the statements issued to a press agency by Professor Giancarlo De Bernardinis, the Director of General Surgery II Division that in last M... more
MiscellaneousTurkey doesn't open its ports ad airports to Cyprus
Ankara, Turkey - Net deny by the Turkish Premier Erdogan. No opening until the embargo on North Cyprus won't be eliminated
It’s going on the resistance of Turkey to the requests of European Union to open Turkish ports and airports to the Cyprus goods. Few days ago the Foreign commission of UE approved a document where this d... more
MiscellaneousBoulogne: emergency landing for an Air France plane
Boulogne, Italy - A signalation for a breakdown on the landing gear made start the emergency procedure
Today at the Boulogne airport an aircraft of the French carrier Air France has made emergency landing because of a was indicating a problem to the oil pression of the landing gear. The commandant of the... more