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(AGI) - Rome, Aug. 11 - The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Fausto Bertinotti, has sent the Frammartino Family a message of condolences for the death of the young man killed in Jerusalem.
"The news of the violent and tragic death of Angela has profoundly saddened and distressed me," writes Bertinotti. "The humanitarian commitment and the spirit of solidarity of a young man serving the people and the primary needs of a population devastated by war and terrorism have a very high civil (…)

(AGI) - Caulonia (Reggio Calabria), 12 Aug - The home of Nicola Frammartino, the former mayor of Caulonia and a paternal uncle of Angelo, the twenty-four year old law graduate killed in Jerusalem where he had gone to work as a volunteer to help needy Palestinian children, has become the established meeting place for friends and acquaintances who want to express their condolences.
Angelo’s parents had left Caulonia in the 70s; Lillo and Silvana, the young victim’s parents, an accountant and (…)

(AGI) - Rome, Aug 11 - Foreign Minister Massimo D’Alema send a message to the relatives of Angelo Frammartino, the young man killed yesterday in Jerusalem.
"I am deeply grieved by the terrible news which has reached you, I would like to express my profound condolences for the loss of your son, who died tragically while on a very appreciated humanitarian mission.
On this occasion, I would like to express my hope that light be shed on the cause and the responsibilities of the event as soon (…)

Rome, Aug 11 - "I was consternated and anguished to hear the news of the barbaric murder of young Angelo Frammartino, who was involved in a mission of solidarity for Palestinian children.
This brutal murder is part of the violence which is upsetting the entire region," wrote Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in a message to the CGIL Secretary General, the ARCI President and the Mayor of Monterotondo.
"It must be ended as soon as possible through more effort from the international (…)

Rome, August 11 - A 24-year-old Italian aid worker was stabbed to death in Jerusalem on Thursday evening.
Israeli police described the murder of Angelo Frammartino as a politically motivated "act of terrorism" .
Police detained five young Palestinians during the night, but later released them without charge .
Frammartino, a law student from the town of Monterotondo near Rome, was working as a volunteer at a summer camp for Palestinian children run by Italian trade union CGIL .
He was (…)

China drought leaves 17 million without water -media
13 Aug 2006 04:03:41 GMT
Source: Reuters
BEIJING, Aug 13 (Reuters) - About 17 million people in southwest China don’t have access to clean drinking water due to sustained drought, state media reported on Sunday.
Crops on large tracts of farmland in Sichuan province and the nearby Chongqing municipality have withered due to the month-long drought, causing economic losses of 9.23 billion yuan ($1.15 billion), the Beijing News and the (…)

Death of America Looms as Catastrophic Events Plunge Nation Towards Ecocide By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers
Today, and as it continues the fight for its very survival on the battlefields of the World, the United States is facing one of the greatest ecological catastrophes in recorded human history.
To the greatest paradox about the catastrophic events ravaging America are that though they have been forewarned about, by the United States Military, the American (…)

New York - The US government was closely involved in the planning of Israel’s military operations against Islamic militant group Hezbollah even before the July 12 kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers, The New Yorker magazine reported in its latest issue.
US journalist Seymour Hersh writes that President George W Bush and vice president Dick Cheney were convinced that a successful Israeli bombing campaign against Hezbollah could ease Israel’s security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a (…)

With a new lie Bush and Blair they alarmed to the world. One is the “attack” against ten North American airplanes that would be sent from London. Measures were taken from emergency in the airports, were suspended flights, lowered the price of petroleum and until they lowered the indices of the bags. The “information”, that it crossed the world, appears without serious nor reliable sources, endorsing falsifications with others, with a diffuse language where facts to “sources nonmentioned in (…)

“The evil that men do lives after them.” - William Shakespeare
Washington, D.C. - As Israeli terror bombing of civilians continues relentlessly over Gaza and Lebanon, demonstrators took to the streets near the White House, on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, to protest. Led by Arab-American organizers, and supported by antiwar groups, like the ANSWER Coalition, they rallied, at noon, in Lafayette Park, which is directly across the way from the official residenc of President George W. Bush. The (…)