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Carlos Fino (*) interviewed for PRESSENZA by Vasco Esteves Carlos Fino was born in Portugal and was a radio and television reporter, war correspondent, news service presenter and press counsellor for four decades. He has travelled to Eastern Europe, the…

In times of confusion and unconscionable violence, we seek answers that can free us from the mental prisons into which such human atrocities lead us. How to deal with the unconscionable horror of Hamas’s attack on Israel? How and in…

15 October 1750 marks a milestone in the history of illustration and the spread of knowledge. On that day, two leading French philosophers, Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, began work on what would become one of the most…

Rome, Caput Mundi at the time of the Roman Empire, cradle (together with Florence) of Renaissance humanism, Gold Medal for Military Valour during the Resistance, the city that gave birth to the European Community (later the European Union), today boasts…

After a fiercely contested presidential race in the Maldives, Mohamed Muizzu emerged victorious on September 30. Muizzu has always been known as pro-China. It is believed that China’s influence on the country will increase with the hand of Muizzu. But,…

Friday, October 13, 2023, around 11 a.m., Mohammed Mogouchkov, a 20 years old young man originally from Ingushetia, a Russian Caucasian Republic neighboring Chechnya, with two knives in his hands, burst into his former high school, the Gambetta High School…

Women’s rights are being rolled back; the possibility of improving the quality of life in the poorest municipalities is being rejected when contributions are taken away from the municipal common fund; the privatisation of health, welfare and education is being…

In times of elections, advances of right-wing options and democracies in crisis, indigenous peoples propose other models of life: without exploiting nature, with solidarity, complementarity and reciprocity. Overcoming genocide, structural racism, extractive governments and millenarian peoples who mark out paths.…

In the New Zealand parliamentary elections, the National Party, led by Christopher Dixon, has won by a clear margin over the Labour Party of current Prime Minister Chris Hipkins. According to data from the New Zealand Electoral Commission, the conservative…

When I saw the images of smoke billowing from buildings after Israel’s heavy shelling and the destruction of some Kibbutz along the line separating Israel from the Gaza Strip, I knew from the start that both sides seek to destroy…