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ReportConfirmations in sight for the top Finmeccanica, Eni, Enel, Terna and the Italian Post Office?
Rome, Italy - Pole position for Giuseppe Orsi for the office of CEO in Finmeccanica
It would seem that public appointments are now in the process of composition as reported by the Italian press at this time. Confirmations in sight for Paolo Scaroni, Fulvio Conti, Flavio Cattaneo and Massimo... more
ReportTwo airlift and five ships from Lampedusa to "Clean up" the island
Lampedusa, Italy - Migrants emergency, transfers are continuing
There are two airlifts that today will transfer about 200 migrants out from Lampedusa to other Italian reception centers; initially there were six scheduled flights. In addition to flights, transfers are... more
ReportNaoto Kan: "Fukushima will be dismantled"
Fukushima, Japan - But the government does not provide additional evacuations
It's the assurance made ??by Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, at the meeting with the leaders of the JCP, the Japanese Communist Party, according to what reported the Kyodo news agency: Fukushima nuclear... more
ReportHu Jintao on Libya: air raids could violate the UN Resolution
Bejing, China - It was declared by the president on the occasion of a visit in China of Sarkozy
According to Chinese State TV, in receiving the French Premier Nicolas Sarkozy in China for a State visit, president Hu Jintao made some important statements, expressing his way of thinking about "Odyssey... more
ReportBerlusconi at Lampedusa: the island will be free in 48-60 hours
Lampedusa, Italy - The Prime Minister: it will be free trade zone and a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize
In Lampedusa it's the "B-day": Berlusconi on the stage in front of the town hall, among the applause of the inhabitants of Lampedusa, ensures that will release the island from migrants within 48-60 hours... more
ReportIsraeli UAV aircraft attacks Gaza Strip
Tel Aviv, Israel - A Palestinian Jihad militant was killed, another wounded; destroyed an area employed for weapon smuggling
Further Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip: today, military aircraft attacked a tunnel located on the border with Egypt, employed as an area for the smuggling of weapons. At dawn, moreover, a raid... more
ReportThailand, floods cause interruption of connections also by air (VIDEO)
Bangkok, Thailand - Three airports closed; 15,000 tourists stranded; 21 victims according to latest death toll
Three airports have already been closed and a number of disruptions are occurring for rail and road links, in the south of Thailand, due torrential rains and subsequent floods that, since last week, are... more
ReportIvory Coast: guerrilla war continues, more than 10 thousand refugees (VIDEO)
Abidjan, Ivory Coast - The European Union considers new sanctions against Gbagbo
Fighting continues in the city of Tiebissu, 40 km north of the Ivorian capital Yamoussoukro, as it rises the number of refugees trying to get away from the endless violence in their country that are perpetuated... more
Report"Trapani is not at war": protest against the closure of "Vincenzo Florio" airport to civil traffic
Trapani, Italy - Involving thousands of people including local authorities and Airgest
As planned since yesterday, today there has been a protest involving thousands of people, asking for the immediate re-opening of Trapani airport to civil traffic and for the return to full operation of... more
ReportFukushima, the fear is now called plutonium (VIDEO)
Fukushima, Japan - The chemical element found in the underground city
Grow the alert level in Japan, especially after the discovery of traces of plutonium in the subsurface well five different points around the plant of Fukushima. Plutonium is extremely dangerous if not... more
ReportYemen: rebels cause explosion in a munitions factory
Aden, Yemen - More than an hundred victims
Jaar, province of Abyan, southern Yemen: from yesterday troops of anti-government rebels, apparently linked to international terrorism of Al Qaeda, have taken the city and some near villages, and then... more
ReportLibya: command passed to NATO
Tripoli, Libya - Rebels claim to have taken Sirte
The command of all military operations about Libya will immediately pass into the hands of NATO. The general-secretary of the organization Anders Fogh Rasmussen clarify It at the end of the meeting of... more
ReportProtests on a British Airways' airplane
London, United Kingdom - "Exclusive" place for Gordon Brown
Although to give him a seat in business class have been trying to move in economy a woman seven months pregnant, her husband and a doctor of the Red Cross. Officially it was an over-booking that would... more
ReportTouched tragedy at the Washington Airport (2): controller suspended
Washington , USA - The authorities now investigating on shifts often exhausting
It was suspended the controller who has confessed to the National Transportation Safety Board, Ntsb, to fall asleep Wednesday morning while two passenger planes were landing. (AVIONEWS) The controller,... more
ReportGermany: ok of the parliament to sending 300 soldiers in the AWACS missions in Afghanistan
Berlin, Germany - The intervention will serve to lighten the burdens of the allies involved in Libya
The "Bundestag" (German parliament) has today approved the sending of 300 men to be used for the operation of the AWACS (Airborne Warning And Control System), spy planes of the NATO that monitor the air... more
ReportFukushima: alert rises to level 6
Fukushima, Japan - Naoto Kan: unexpected situation
The Japanese Agency for Nuclear Safety and Industry admits that the situation is perhaps more serious than we thought: the high radioactive level of the reactor 3 of the plant suggests damage to the tank,... more
ReportEgypt, Tunisia, Morocco: anti-government riot signs (2)
El Cairo, Egypt - In Africa also
Here continues our discussion about the anti-government riots spreading in many Arab Countries in the Middle East (see AVIONEWS) and in Africa. Libya, in these days in the fore front, it's just one... more
ReportLibya, Jordan, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen: anti-government riot signs (1)
Tripoli, Libya - This only in the Arab world. Concerns of the European Council
It 's currently very wide the map of the Arab Nations inflamed with riots and protests. In addition to Libya, in recent days come to the fore all over the world due to the harsh repression made by... more
ReportEarthquake in Myanmar
Tachileik, Myanmar - 75 confirmed victims
The victims of the earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred yesterday in the border area between Myanmar, Thailand and Laos at moment would be 75, but their number is surely destined to rise because they have... more
ReportLibya: ok to the NATO command on the "No-fly zone"
Brussels , Belgium - Secretary- general of NATO speaks on the question
"There will be a command of NATO presiding over operations in Libya", said secretary-general of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Thursday March 24th, after the Atlantic council happened in Brussels said... more
ReportUnited Arab Emirates, 12 aircraft for Libyan mission
Dubai, United Arab Emirates - They should be 6 Mirages and as many F-16s
The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton welcomed yesterday the decision of the UAE, United Arab Emirates, to take part into the Libyan mission, taking place as an implementation of the UN Security Council... more
ReportConfindustria Trapani's President: closure of the airport to civil air traffic can cause its public image to be damaged
Trapani, Italy - It should be "Transferred to the Government the urgency and the impossibility to postpone the re-opening" of the air station
The President of Confindustria Trapani Davide Durante invited to "Assess the damages", especially related to the public image, that the airport of Trapani-Birgi is experiencing in these days due to the... more
ReportMisurata: took the port by the forces of Gaddafi
Misurata , Libya - Foreigners locked while they were evacuated
Loyal forces to the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi took control of the port of Misurata, the only Libyan city west country still in the end of the rebels. News are slow to arrive because the city, despite... more
ReportLibyan plane shot down in the "No-fly zone"of measures?
Tripoli, Libya - French doesn't confirm the news
"We don't comment on ongoing operations" is what said Colonel Thierry Burkhard, on the news that is circulating in these minutes, on a Libyan fighter aircraft, while flying over Misurata was struck down... more
ReportLa Russa: 10 missions and 32 sorties for Italian's Tornado
Rome , Italy - We aren't in attack position
Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa stated today to the Chamber , in view of a new vote because the UN international mission, that the Italian's planes available for international military operations against... more
ReportLibya. Aircraft: bombs on Gaddafi's bunker
Tripoli, Libya - Still no agreement on the role of NATO
Air raid against Gaddafi's armed forces would have neutralized, for the Head of the Real Aviation Force, the aviation of the rais. Yesterday, in the evening, Al Arabiya diffused the news of a bombing on... more
ReportTrapani's airport: the Italian AMI from householder to undesired host?
Rome, Italy - It would be time to clarify on infrastructure use of the Defense and their strategic valency
It was needed a real war (or almost) as that is emerging in Libya to highlight a contradiction that already has dragged on too long. We refer to the age-old question of the use of military airports... more
ReportSix Italian Tornado aircraft took off from Trapani today
Trapani, Italy - Also two helicopters in flight
Six Italian Tornadoes took off in less than an hour from the military base of Trapani-Birgi: four ECR coming from Piacenza and two IDS refuel from Ghedi (Brescia). Six Italian Tornado aircraft are added... more
ReportAir raid on Misurata
Tripoli, Libya - After the attack the silence of the rais
The planes of the Western coalition have fired two raid in Misurata, city of Libya in the hands of the rebels where are allocated the forces of Colonel Gaddafi. This was stated today by a resident in the... more
ReportGermany: AWACS aircraft for surveillance missions in the Afghanistan
Berlin, Germany - About 300 soldiers will be deployed
After the refusal of Germany to intervene in the Libyan issue, a spokesman for the German Ministry of Defence said last night that the two frigates and the two ships with on board a total of 550 men, made... more
ReportFrance agrees on NATO control of Libyan mission
Tripoli, Libya - Gaddafi: West will end "In the dustbin of history"
It goes on the mission "Odyssey Dawn", conducted by some Western powers on the Libyan territory, as an implementation of the UN resolution, opposing the bloody repressions of the leader Gaddafi. Further... more
ReportFear in Japan: black smoke from a reactor (VIDEO)
Fukushima, Japan - New aftershocks at Fukushima, Tokyo radioactive water
Fukushima, new emergency: black smoke still rising from the reactor, the 3rd reactor of nuclear plant still worrying the world (see for details AVIONEWS). A spokesman for the company that operates the... more
ReportErdogan: we won't point our arms at the Libyan population
Ankara, Turkey - We tested out in the past that such operations cause more victims and transform into territory occupation
Today, the Turkish Prime Minister, Erdogan, speaking in front of the Turkish parliament, stated that "The change in Libya will have to take place according to the Country's dynamics, not through a foreign... more
ReportNew shocks in Japan
Tokyo, Japan - Today the earth shook three times
Seems to no end the warning in Japan where, in addition to problems related to the radioactivity of the central in Fukushima, the earth continues to shake. In fact three shocks have taken place. The... more
ReportEastern Libya, allies hit radar installations and two air bases
Benghazi, Libya - Libyan TV: many victims among the civilians
According to reports by the Arab TV "Al Jazeera", the Western coalition committed in the "Odyssey Dawn" operation, last evening would have hit radar installations and two air defense bases controlled by... more
ReportLibya: two further Italian F-16 planes departed from Trapani-Birgi
Trapani, Italy - Meanwhile Italy asks for "A unified command under NATO"
Still ongoing the operation "Odyssey Dawn" on the Libyan territory, started by some Western powers against the bloody repressions carried out by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (see AVIONEWS). At the forefront... more
ReportFrom the Us Navy Uss Enterprise: images of war
Tripoli, Libya - Tomahawk missiles to enforce the operation "Odyssey Dawn"
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stout (DDG 55) launched a Tomahawk missile in support of "Odyssey Dawn Operation". This is just one of about 110 cruise missiles launched from U.S.... more
ReportCentral command of US operations: we do not support Libyan opposition and we don't know where Gaddafi is
Washington, USA - It was unveiled by General Carter Ham, superintending the maneuvers
General Carter Ham, who commands the US operations in the context of the military operation "Odyssey Dawn" in Libya, yesterday stated that until now the coalition's Countries have reported a significant... more
Report5th Wing of the Italian AMI: we don't fire missiles in Libya
Trapani, Italy - Tornado's pilot talks about the mission
Major Scolari, 155th group of 50th Wing of Piacenza, assure us that yesterday weren't fire missiles in Libya. The mission was to do the take off from Trapani-Birgi of six Tornado, 4 ECR and two of refuelling,... more
ReportUS aircraft and ships against the Libyan leader
Washington, USA - Currently is of America the military operations' command
Three submarines, five battleships, F-16 aircraft and bombers. Those, in brief, the means employed by the United States in the first part of the "Odyssey dawn" operation, launched on Saturday, March 19th,... more
ReportLibya: Zenten and Yefren bombarded with Grad missiles
Tripoli, Lybia - The rebels have rejected the land forces of Gaddafi
Local witnesses reported that from three days aircraft and other means of loyalist troops bombard the city of Zenten and Yefren in the region of Al-Jabal Al-Gharbia, which is located in southeast of Tripoli.... more
ReportMarche Region: a man enters in the airport and dirty it with the writing “Gaddafi 2”
Fano, Italy - The man, 60 years old, protested against the extension of the air station
Just a man with psychiatric problems and a reference to a pilot's nickname, that's what was find from the blitz of Saturday night in the airport of Fano (Pesaro-Urbino).The 60 year old man, known by security... more
ReportTrapani:airport close. And the work?
Trapani, Libya - Almost 2000 persons moved to Palermo.
The airport of Trapani close. That's a consequence of this “absurd war” how some of the passengers define it, passengers force to get in to the shuttle bus going to Palermo, where Airgest manage the sto... more
ReportResumed the activities of the French planes in Libya
Tripoli, Lybia - Civilians in Misurata to be used as human shields
From what stated by Thierry Burkhard French Defence Ministry spokesman this morning have resumed planes raid on Libya with the mission to enforce the no-fly zone. The transalpine aircraft, who had not... more
Report"Odyssey Dawn": aircraft and ships against the force of Gaddafi
Tripoli, Lybia - Hit more than twenty military installations of the regime
More than a month after the revolt in Libya, the world has been activate to stem the situation. The French air raids on Saturday have started the operation "Odyssey Dawn" undertaken to establish a no-fly... more
ReportShock in Mexico City : more pilots caught drunk
Mexico City, Mexico - Where are controllers now?
According to Reforma daily some days ago two pilots and a hostess from Aeromexico were caught drunk when they arrived at the airport of Mexico City. When they were stopped and were asked to explain themselves,... more
ReportItalian airplanes in Libya: departed yesterday from Trapani 6 Tornadoes
Trapani, Italy - Of which two AAR and four ECR
Following the take-off of aircraft from France, USA and England, also Italy is from yesterday in the front line in the "Odyssey dawn" operation, with which the UN Countries are reacting against the Colonel... more
ReportLibya: intervention of the international coalition (VIDEO)
Tripoli, Libya - Air raid destroyed Gaddafi's building of command
International coalition intervenes in a determinate way. An international troop's official reports that a coalition's air raid totally destroyed a Muammar Gaddafi's building of command and control in... more
ReportLibya: kamikaze kills Gaddafi's son (VIDEO)
Tripoli, Libya - Latest news from Tripoli
Algerian daily "Shuruk" report latest news: Khamis, 32 years old, sixth Gaddafi's son, died in a hospital in Tripoli, where he was recovered in intensive care, for the injuries suffered last Saturday,... more
ReportWorry about the mass arrival of Libyan illegal immigrants in Sicily. The speech of Maroni, Alfano, La Russa
Catania, Italy - From Pantelleria, now saturated, the target "Landings" will be moved to the coasts of Catania
After a press conference of the Council of Ministers, the Italian minister Maroni has announced that the illegal immigrants arrived in Italy in these days of Libyan crisis are 14,918. Meanwhile, a new... more