Alessio Fratticcioli
Digital Journalist based in Bangkok, Thailand.
Joined on Dec 17, 2011
Expertise in
Ethnic cultures,
Politics,
Social media,
Travel
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Rom -
Italian Democrat Party leader Matteo Renzi is set to be nominated Italy's youngest-ever prime minister after President Giorgio Napolitano formally asked him on Monday to try form a new government.
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Bangkok -
The Royal Thai Army (RTA) is prepared to intervene if the political situation worsens, army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha said Wednesday.
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Bangkok -
Thai anti-government protesters today paraded through the capital city Bangkok, defying the state of emergency imposed by the government on Tuesday.
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Melbourne -
The Roman Catholic Church in Australia's state of Victoria has admitted that hundreds of children have been sexually abused since the 1930s.
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Rome -
Berlusconi's party and Northern League lost badly as Grillo's 5-Star Movement advanced in local elections. Democratic Party held its ground while the Left gained.
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Paris -
François Hollande, 57, is the second socialist President in the history of France's Fifth Republic. He won promising a new paradigm based on less austerity and more growth.
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Yangon -
Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and 42 other members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) boycotted the parliament's opening session on Monday over a dispute regarding the constitutional oath of office.
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Rome -
As Italians' faith in political parties declines, an allegedly populist movement led by a former comedian is set to become the third political force.
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Bangkok -
Vito Roberto Palazzolo, 64, sentenced in absentia by an Italian court in 2009 to nine years in jail for being the treasurer of godfathers Toto' Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, was arrested in Thailand on March 30.
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Rangoon -
Myanmar is preparing to go to the polls Sunday in its third election in 50 years. Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi is running for one of 45 parliamentary seats.
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Bangkok -
Italian photographer Fabio Polenghi, 48, was killed in May 2010 by Thai government officials, Bangkok's Metropolitan Police Bureau concluded.
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President Jose Ramos-Horta appears to have lost his bid for re-election as East Timor's President, with two ex guerrilla fighters to face off in another round of voting.
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Kabul -
Up to 16 civilians, including nine children and three women, have been killed by a rogue American soldier in Kandahar province, Afghan and Nato sources say.
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Teheran -
Professor Abdolreza Ghanbari, a lecturer at Payame Nour University in Teheran, Islamic Republic of Iran, was charged with Moharebeh (enmity towards God) and he is waiting to be executed.
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Rome -
Former Italian Prime Minister evades punishment on charges of bribing British lawyer David Mills. The statute of limitations had run out and a verdict could not be reached.
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Rom -
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 93, died in Rome on January 29. He had served in Parliament since 1946 and was President of the Italian Republic from 1992 to 1999.
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Bangkok -
Thai government becomes first to endorse Twitter's controversial decision to permit country-specific censorship of content.
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Moscow -
"Miracle" in the village of Bol'šaja El'nja, Nižnyj Novgorod, Russia: icon of current Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said to shine and cry myrrh.
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Pyongyang -
The Associated Press opened its newest bureau in North Korea's capital Pyongyang on Monday, becoming the first international news organization with a full-time presence in the hermit country.
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Tehran -
Mossad behind assassination of Tehran's nuclear experts and scientists last week, says the Time magazine quoting "Western intelligence sources".
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