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Mafia fingered for Italian school attack
The southern Italian town of Brindisi is in shock after a bomb in a rubbish bin outside a school killed a 16 year-old girl, and injured 10 others, several seriously. The school is named after Judge Giovanni Falcone…
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Hollande-Merkel’s first blind date
Just hours after his inauguration, Francois Holland went not to his office, but to Berlin for a much anticipated meeting with Angela Merkel. Having rejected his predecessor’s policies, the French…
France Socialist-led
France is now under the socialist leadership of President François Hollande. May 15 was a day of rites of passage and symbolism, before getting down to governing. Swiss Italian television …
Rape as a weapon
Rape as a weapon of war is something that women in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo know only too well. This week, we meet an extraordinary woman – Masika who survived…
Gifted children
Being gifted has long been equated to being intelligent and having a high IQ. However, many scholars believe that students can also be gifted in the sense of having increased emotional or social…
Jordan’s Syrian refugee dilemma
Daraa in Syria, where the uprising against President Bashar al Assad first erupted, is a short distance from the border with Jordan. Every day between 100 to 400 Syrians enter Jordan illegally. On…
Timofti denies Russian radar plans for Moldovan border
Three years of political stalemate in Moldova ended in March with the election of President Nicolae Timofti. His republic sits between Romania and Ukraine, a former Soviet republic with fragile…












