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ReportBolivia: missing airplane between Santa Cruz and Trinidad
Trinidad, Bolivia - 9 passengers on board
A Swearingen SA-227 Metroliner (registration CP-2548) aircraft operated by the Bolivian carrier Aerocon is currently missing after losing radio contact with the control tower yesterday afternoon at around... more
ReportAl-Qaeda buys weapons from Libya including surface-to-air missiles - potential danger area to aircraft and helicopters
Rome, Italy - But also lighter weapons
AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb), the North African branch of the terrorist organization is increasing its weapons supply from Libya. Gilles de Kerchove, coordinator for combating terrorism within... more
ReportYemen, 7 civilians accidently killed in a plane attack
Sana'a, Yemen - In a bombing against the Grand Mosque
According to reports by a local official, later confirmed by local medical sources, during a plane attack implemented today by Yemeni air force in Jaar, al-Qaeda's stronghold 12 km north from Zinjibar-... more
ReportNegotiations over Bani Walid's surrender failed
Tripoli, Libya - Saadi Gaddafi says his brother Saif al Islam to blame for the end of the talks
Abdullah Kenshil -intermediary of the Libyan National Transitional Council- announced that negotiations with the tribal heads for a peaceful surrender of Bani Walid are to be considered failed. According... more
ReportNimrod area will lead special service in memory of soldiers who died in Afghanistan
Elvington, UK - To take place at Yorkshire Air Museum
Next Sunday September 4 between 1:00pm and 2:45pm local time, a public memorial mass will be held at the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington to honour 14 soldiers killed in Afghanistan on September 2, 2006... more
ReportFinance: "Lega" attacks the civil aviation sector
Rome, Italy - National aircraft concentration in Northern Italy
All eyes focused on the final "Composition of financial measures" of the budget: the meeting held between minister Roberto Calderoli and minister Maurizio Sacconi this morning seems to confirm that pensions... more
ReportLeaders of 60 Nations attending the "Friends of Libya" meeting held on Thursday in Paris
Paris, France - To take fundamental decisions about the reconstruction of the Country in the post-Gaddafi era
Leaders of 60 Nations from all over the world met today to plan the reconstruction of Libya when, after 42 years, will be definitively beaten the leader Muhammar Gaddafi. The event was organized by... more
ReportHelicopters and fire-fighters busy in Texas and Oklahoma
Austin, USA - Tens of houses burnt and hundreds of residents evacuated
Wildfires broke out yesterday in some areas of Texas and Oklahoma, forcing authorities to evacuate the areas at a greater risk, destroying dozens of homes and nearly 1500 acres of land in Oklahoma and... more
ReportNTC: "To kill Gaddafi is our right"
Tripoli, Libya - Son of the colonel is ready to be part of the revolution
It's going on the revolution against the regime of Muhammar Gaddafi in Libya, according to rebels close to an end, and contemporaneously in the capital city the end of the Ramadan is being celebrated. According... more
ReportAmnesty International reports Sudanese armed forces attacks against rebels
Khartoum, Sudan - Thousands forced to evacuate
After a week-long visit, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reported yesterday August 30, that the Sudanese government is bombing almost daily the area of the Nuba Mountains, Southern Kordofan,... more
ReportTwo Italian parachutists injured in Afghanistan due to a bomb
Khabul, Afghanistan - The ministry of Defense: "They're not in peril of life"
Herat military command unveiled that this morning two Italian parachutists were slightly injured in Afghanistan due to the explosion of a IED, Improvised Explosive Device. The accident occurred while... more
ReportGaddafi's wife and sons through Algeria to a third Country
Algiers, Algeria - Diplomatic crisis is feared. NTC: it was an "Act of aggression"
Algerian foreign ministry confirmed that on Monday morning some relatives of Muhammar Gaddafi -his wife Safia, his daughter Aisha and his sons Mohammed and Hannibal- passed through the Algerian territory,... more
ReportGaddafi wants to discuss about the formation of a new transition government; National Transitional Council: no negotiation, he must surrender
Tripoli, Libya - In the meanwhile rebels advance to Syrte, bombed from several days
It goes on the advance of the rebels to Muhammar Gaddafi's home town, Syrte, bombed yesterday for the third consecutive day by NATO's aircraft. A spokesperson of the Ally would have stated they're paying... more
Report170 tourists from Italy, left in Zante island without an airplane to repatriate them
Athens, Greece - They find difficult in coming back home due to the unavailability of ships and flights
The holiday destination dreamt for months becomes a nightmare place, from which it's impossible to depart. That's what's happened -according to reports from the newspaper "Il Mattino", to 170 Italian... more
ReportSouth Siberia, malaise of inhabitants: maybe because of an intoxication due to the fall of Progress M-12M fragments?
Irkutsk, Siberia - "Roscosmos": they're not linked
In the South of Siberia, where last days started falling fragments of the spacecraft Progress M-12M, whose launch -scheduled for August 23- failed, with the vehicle that didn't manage to reach the designed... more
ReportItalian financial bill: also aircraft and helicopters' owners will be harrassed
Rome, Italy - It's better to declare the property of aircraft
Airplanes and helicopters among the hidden capital that is the target the new proposal from the Italian Minister Roberto Calderoni, who launched the idea in an attempt to find viable alternatives to the... more
ReportLibyan rebels to govern from Tripoli; Gaddafi in TV: "Libya is not for France... not for Italy, purify Tripoli"
Tripoli, Libya - UN agrees to release 1.5 billion dollar frozen Libya's assets
Are going on in Libya the fights between loyalists and rebels and Muhammar Gaddafi continues to be searched, unsuccessfully. After the capture of the colonel's compound on Tuesday, yesterday a new attempt... more
ReportCivil aviation: UP present letter to institutions
Rome, Italy - New measures would lengthen pension entitlement
Yesterday 24 August, the Pilots Association Union (UP) sent a document addressed to institutions declaring that "Their concerns arise due to the hypothesized modifications to the current social security... more
ReportFour Italian journalists kidnapped in Libya
Tripoli, Libya - Scheduled for Thursday the meeting between National Transitional Council and the one between Berlusconi and NTC's prime minister
"The end will only come when he's captured, dead or alive": this is the promise of the head of National Transitional Council of Libya on Muhammar Gaddafi, disappeared in recent days and for whose capture... more
ReportEmblems of the Gheddafi regime destructed
Tripoli, Libya - Rebels enter the Bab al-Aziziya compound
The regime of Muammar Gheddafi of Libya, in power since 1969, appears to be at an end after the rebel forces managed to reclaim control of what was considered the headquarters of the leader, the Bab al-Aziziya... more
ReportIsraeli plane attacks kill a commander of the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip
Jerusalem, Israel - Despite of the armistice
Are going on, despite the signing of the armistice occured two days ago, the fights on the Gaza Strip between Israeli and Islamic Jihad's militants. Today, according to Israel's and Palestina's officials,... more
ReportEarthquake in Virginia, several airports temporarily closed
Washington, USA - And evacuated some control towers, as well as public buildings and power symbols such as the White House and the Pentagon
On Tuesday afternoon it was registered the strongest earth tremor on the US East Coast since 1957. According to the US geophysical institute it was an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale, with... more
ReportLibya: National Transitional Council vow to fulfill the contracts signed with Italy
Tripoli, Libya - The Italian Foreign minister assures the 2008's Treaty of Friendship between the two Countries
On Tuesday, the Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini spoke at "Radio Anch'io" clarifying some crucial points about the role and future of Italy in the context of political changes currently occurring... more
ReportFinmeccanica and the Libyan business
Rome, Italy - The Group has several interests in the Country in the aerospace, energy, transportation, aviation and helicopter fields
It is going on in Libya, between contrasting news, rumours and denials, the fight between rebels and loyalists to Gaddafi's regime: a situation currently in the public eye and monitored particularly by... more
ReportFinmeccanica on Libyan contracts: "We think they will be fulfilled"
Tripoli, Libya - According to the company's CEO, there's no reason for which Libya's situation should bring to a change of the ongoing agreements
Finmeccanica's CEO Giuseppe Orsi commented on the developments of the political situation in Libya, where rebels -armed against the loyalists- have now taken control of 90% of the capital city (see AVIONEWS):... more
ReportLibya: Tripoli conquered by the rebels; three sons of Gaddafi captured
Tripoli, Libya - No trace of the colonel, different rumors on him
After months of fighting is finally close to be decided the future of Libya, where the rebels have today entered in Tripoli, conquering it for 90% and thus launching a decisive attack to the supporters... more
ReportRussia bans Libyan aircraft from its airspace
Moscow, Russia - Medvedev signed a decree
The local press reported that today August 12, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree banning Libyan aircraft from the national airspace, except in cases in which they are conducting flights... more
ReportUS invites Russia, China and India to sanction Syria
Washington, USA - US wants to unify anti-Assad front
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Russia, China and India to take a firm position of condemnation with respect to what is happening in Syria, where for days the government proceeds to the massacre... more
ReportItalian ENAV nominations close to mid-August: the government works tirelessly
Rome, Italy - The new nominations after Capaldo's discharge
ENAV, Italian flight assistance society, back to get itself talked about following the new nomination designated yesterday by the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Tremonti, who has chosen Varazzani... more
ReportNorth Korea fires artillery next to South Korean island, in a contested area
Seoul, South Korea - Formally in the context of a training exercise; Seoul returns fire
This morning, North Korea fired three shells in the Yellow Sea, not far from South Korea's Yeonpyeong island, also if it's still unclear if in the waters belonging to one or to the other Country. According... more
ReportIsrael fighter aircraft violated Lebanese air space
Beirut, Lebanon - Facts like this happened almost daily
The Lebanese military authorities said in a statement that 4 Israeli fighter aircraft crossed into the Lebanese airspace over the past two days; the aerial surveillance and reconnaissance operations carried... more
ReportSAFE Air's engineer died during engine maintenance work
Wellington, New Zealand - The carrier wants to support the family
An engineer employed at Air New Zealand MRO provider SAFE Air died this morning meanwhile he was working on a C-130 Hercules aircraft's engine; the carrier didn't release much details, but sources reported... more
ReportCrashed helicopter in Afghanistan: 38 victims
Kabul, Afghanistan - 37 soldiers and one civilian
Within three days two helicopters Chinook of US Air Force have crashed in Afghanistan: one of the two incidents, considered among the most serious for casualties among the ranks of the US, took place on... more
ReportLibyan authorities deny the death of Gaddafi's son in a NATO plane attack
Tripoli, Libya - That was announced today by the rebels
According to international sources the Libyan authorities would have denied the news unveiled on Friday by some local rebels concerning the killing of the youngest son of Muhammar Gaddafi. The death... more
ReportFrance withdraws "Charles de Gaulle" carrier from Libya
Paris, France - For maintenance works
France has announced that on August 10 the aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle" will leave the Libyan theater of war to return to its home port of Toulon for maintenance works, the defence minister Gerard... more
ReportNATO warplanes attack in Libya kills Gaddafi's son
Tripoli, Libya - Bombing also still goes on the Capital
Libyan rebel forces reported today that during the night a NATO attack on the western city of Zliten would have caused the death of a son of Muammar Gaddafi, Khamis, and of 32 other soldiers; according... more
ReportObama urges Congress to resolve FAA situation
Washington, USA - The US president intervenes in the impasse
Sparks off the political climate of the United States on the issue of funding for the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) that sees Democrats and Republicans opposing, the first in the majority in the... more
ReportNATO wants more troops in Kosovo
Pristina, Kosovo - After last wek violences
NATO said on Wednesday August 2nd that the KFOR mission in Kosovo has asked to send more troops in the area and probably a battalion (500 units) will be shipped from Germany or Austria; the NATO spokesman... more
ReportMissile from Lybia at Italian Navy
Rome, Italy - The ship was no the target
Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa said on Wednesday August, 3 during a press conference that a missile was fired this morning from Libya against the ship "Bersagliere" of the Italian Navy, which... more
ReportHelicopters and aircraft to Corfu against fire
Kerkyra, Greece - Flames attack different fronts
Greece decided today August, 3 to send more fire forces on the island of Corfu, which since yesterday is the scene of numerous fires, according to sources, expanding on 25 fronts among the villages of... more
ReportRussia asks for a cut in military fuel consumptions
Moscow, Russia - Defense minister wants to save up reserves
Russia has decided to reduce military consumption of fuel and lubricants because of rising costs of gasoline and diesel, rose by 50% and 30% since autumn 2010. The news agency "Ria Novosti" reported... more
ReportIsraeli warplanes attacked the Gaza Strip
Gaza City, Palestinian Teritories - No casualties according to sources
The Israeli military confirmed an attack occurred during the night between the 1st and August, 2nd from warplanes that have carried out a raid along the South of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli authorities... more
ReportMarco Milanese-Giulio Tremonti-Lorenzo Cola affair
Rome, Italy - According to the press unveiled in the last days
The press on July 28 published that, in the ambit of the Marco Milanese-Giulio Tremonti-Lorenzo Cola affair, the last (indicated as Finmeccanica "Friend"), in order to obtain the confirm of Pierfrancesco... more
ReportNTSB in Guyana for Caribbean Airlines aircraft hard landing (VIDEO)
Georgetown, Guyana - Safe all the passengers
Passengers and crew of a Boeing 737 aircraft operated by the carrier Caribbean Airlines has escaped Saturday, July 30 a landing that could prove fatal, given the dynamics of the event. The flight BW523... more
ReportFrom FAO summit in Rome an airlift for Somalia
Rome, Italy - 12 million people risk their lives for starvation
From the FAO summit held in Rome on July 25 back to the fore the situation of the people of the Horn of Africa, particularly of Somalia, crippled by drought that hit the area, the hardest in the last 15... more
ReportAmbush in Afghanistan (2): one of the two Italian soldiers injured is serious
Bala Murghab, Afghanistan - Communicated the names of two military men
Corporal David Tobini has died in Afghanistan on July 25th, 41st victim in the ranks of the Italian Army; two other men have been wounded: it is Simone D'Orazio, 28 years old, who is very serious and will... more
ReportOne Italian soldier killed and two injured in Afghanistan
Bala Murghab, Afghanistan - The 41th Italian victim
It has been announced the name of Corporal David Tobin, who died in Afghanistan today, Monday, July 25th, 41st victim since the beginning of the Italian mission in the Country. The soldier died during... more
ReportLibya is responsible of the attack against Mc Donnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft in which 170 people died in 1989
Tripoli, Libya - It is unveiled by the ex foreign minister of the Country Abdel Rahman Chalgham
In an interview released to the "Al-Hayat" newspaper, the Libyan ex Foreign minister Abdel Rahman Chalgham stated that it was his Country to cause the attack to the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft in... more
ReportStarts today visit in Germany of president Medvedev
Berlin, Germany - And of a delegation of over 20 ministers and top managers of important companies
Starts today the two-day visit in Germany of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. Accompanied with a delegation of over 20 ministers and top managers and CEOs of important companies of the ex-soviet Country,... more
ReportToday afternoon funeral of Italian corporal Roberto Marchini
Rome, Italy - At 06:00 pm at Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome
It will be held in Rome this afternoon, Thursday July 14 at 06:00 pm the state funeral for corporal Roberto Marchini, a parachutist and miner of the 8th Regiment Genio "Folgore" of Legnago, who died Tuesday,... more