Articles by Gianluca Mezzofiore

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China: Ai Weiwei's human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang handed 3-year suspended sentence

Free speech activist was charged of inciting public hatred for series of blog posts slamming Communist Party.

Dec 22, 2015

Battle for Sangin: Taliban advances on desperate Afghan resistance as UK and US deploy special forces

Taliban's attempt to cut off key supply line for Afghan forces contained by police under siege at Sangin HQ.

Dec 22, 2015

Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Six Nato-Afghan soldiers killed in Taliban motorcycle suicide attack near Bagram base

Taliban claim responsibility for suicide blast that killed soldiers near largest US base in Afghanistan

Dec 21, 2015

Taliban Helmand offensive: Islamist fighters seize key Sangin district in opium production province

Helmand is an important Taliban base as it produces most of world's opium

Dec 21, 2015

Hitler produced thousands of paintings as a young struggling artist before joining the Bavarian Army at the outbreak of World War I

Adolf Hitler really did only have one ball according to unearthed medical archives

Medical assessment made in prison after failed 1923 coup shows future Nazi dictator suffered from right-side cryptorchidism

Dec 18, 2015

Mother Teresa to be made saint after Pope Francis recognises miracle

Miracle attributed to Nobel peace laureate concerned the cure of a man in 2008.

Dec 18, 2015

Pope Francis

Marine Le Pen: Front National leader under investigation for tweeting Isis execution pictures

Family of James Foley 'deeply disturbed' after far-right FN leader posted image of his decapitated body.

Dec 17, 2015

Marine Le Pen Islamic State Isis

Syria: Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently journalist killed in Idlib

Citizen journalist group was awarded by the CPJ in New York

Dec 17, 2015

Syria Isis Islamic State

Marine Le Pen: Furious Front National leader tweets graphic Isis execution pics after Daesh comparison

Radio host accused of drawing parallels between far-right party and jihadist group

Dec 16, 2015

Marine Le Pen

France: Did former Front National agent provocateur sell guns to Isis Paris attacker?

Claude Hermant who allegedly supplied weapons to gunman for Paris kosher supermarket reported to be police informant.

Dec 16, 2015

Marine Le Pen

Los Angeles public schools closed after 'credible terror threat'

Dec 15, 2015

Los Angeles

Paris attacks: 29-year-old arrested and two are held over January Charlie Hebdo massacre

France has also charged two people under accusation of aiding attacks orchestrator Abdelhamid Abaaoud,

Dec 15, 2015

Yemen ceasefire starts after pro-government forces seize island in Red Sea

Shia Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed government representatives meet in Switzerland for peace talks.

Dec 15, 2015

Paris Isis knife attack: Teacher admits making up Islamic State stabbing assault

Aubervillers teacher had said masked assailant attacked him with scissors and box cutter knife.

Dec 14, 2015

Paris

Isis in Italy: Suspected Daesh operative posing as Syrian refugee arrested in Sicily

Police found pictures and texts praising terrorist acts and Islamic State on suspect's mobile phone.

Dec 14, 2015

Isis Islamic State ISIL

Paris stab attack: Teacher slashed by man shouting Isis wielding a box cutter knife

Attack took place in the Seine-Saint Denis suburb of Aubervillers.

Dec 14, 2015

Isis Paris ISIL Islamic State

Kabul Taliban attack: Gunmen target Afghanistan's Spanish embassy with explosions and gunfire

A Spanish policeman was killed as several wounded Afghans were taken to the emergency hospital.

Dec 11, 2015

Afghanistan

Donald Trump's name removed from Dubai golf course and development after Muslim comments

Damac Properties took down billboard featuring Republican hopeful amid uproar on his anti-Muslim travel plans.

Dec 11, 2015

Donald Trump

War on Isis: Vladimir Putin orders military to destroy Daesh forces threatening Russia in Syria

Russian defence minister said warplanes have conducted 4,000 combat sorties in Syria.

Dec 11, 2015

Isis Vladimir Putin Syria ISIL Islamic State

War on Isis: Daesh finance chief Abu Salah 'killed in US air strike'

One of IS most senior member killed by air strike according to Pentagon

Dec 10, 2015

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