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Amazon is investing $550 million in Italy, just 5 months after its ex-SVP started working for its government

Edit Business Insider 22 Jul 2016
The news comes just five months after Amazon's former SVP of worldwide retail Diego Piacentini left the company to work pro-bono at the digital-technology office of the Italian prime minister ... The European Union's fourth-largest economy comes last in the EU for Internet usage, with barely half of Italian households subscribing to fixed-line broadband....

City group to perform in Pune to mark 'Vijay Diwas'

Edit The Times of India 22 Jul 2016
Matrubhoomi Group from Aurangabad has been invited by the Southern Command Headquarters in Pune to commemorate 'Vijay Diwas,' which is held annually in memory of more than 524 soldiers who were martyred in the 1999 Kargil war ... The Kargil War was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir and along the Line of Control (LOC)....

Gears of War Director Teases Possible Upcoming Movie

Edit Gamespot 22 Jul 2016
At San Diego Comic-Con today, Gears of War director Rod Fergusson and other members of developer The Coalition discussed more about the upcoming Gears of War 4 during their panel. Fergusson also fielded a question about a possible Gears of War movie, and he hinted that there might be something to announce about that soon....

What Pokemon Go looks like in Syria

Edit CNN 22 Jul 2016
A media agency run by activists in Syria is capitalizing on the Pokemon Go craze to plead for help for children inside the war-torn country. The campaign has latched onto the global mania surrounding the game, asking fanatic gamers to take a break from hunting for digital creatures and instead turn their attention to helping Syrian families trapped in war zones....

On the Eve of Battle: Documents introducing the AIF to the Western Front - V: The town that was Pozieres (Australian War Memorial)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jul 2016
Australian War Memorial) ... First World War Centenary, Collection Highlights ... The images on this page are cited as AWM26 39/1 [/3] and form part of a collection accumulated by Australia's First World War Official Historian Charles Bean as Operations Extracts, and used to help guide his team in the writing of the histories of the First World War ... AWM26 is presently not digitised to the Australian War Memorial's website....

Chilcot report a warning against US designs

Edit China Daily 22 Jul 2016
An inquiry conducted by former British civil servant John Chilcot into the United Kingdom's role in the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq blames Tony Blair, then British prime minister, for dragging the UK into the war in Iraq on the basis of flawed intelligence ... The International Criminal Court, too, is considering launching a formal investigation into Britain's alleged war crimes....

From Paschi to German Lenders, Investors Brace for Stress Tests

Edit Bloomberg 22 Jul 2016
Italian banks, whose woes have prompted a debate over state aid, may not be the only ones in the spotlight next Friday when regulators publish their latest health check on Europe’s largest lenders ... The Italian government is in talks with European leaders about using state funds to shore up capital at banks burdened with about 360 billion euros ($396 billion) in soured debt....

Germany's Search for the Leftover WWII Bombs Lurking in Its Cities

Edit CityLab 22 Jul 2016
The bomb, with its fuse still intact, had sat dormant for more than 70 years since the Allies dropped it during World War II ... During the war, the U.S ... Instead, they were left scattered as the country pursued aggressive post-war reconstruction efforts ... Paule lives in Oranienburg, one of the heaviest-shelled towns in Germany during the war ... Germany isn’t the only country still suffering the volatile relics of wars past....

Battle of Pozières, 100 years ago (Australian War Memorial)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jul 2016
Australian War Memorial) ... This Saturday, the Australian War Memorial will remember and honour the service and sacrifice of those Australian's who fought during the battle of Pozières, 100 years ago ... On the outbreak of war in August 1914 Margetts left his position at the Hutchins School in Hobart to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force ... This is but one of the many stories of service and sacrifice told at the Australian War Memorial....

Pentagon revises manual to clarify protections of journalism

Edit Business Insider 22 Jul 2016
The Pentagon has revised its Law of War guidelines to remove wording that could permit U.S. military commanders to treat war correspondents as “unprivileged belligerents” if they think the journalists are sympathizing or cooperating with enemy forces ... WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has revised its Law of War guidelines to remove wording that could permit U.S....

Barcelona sign Andre Gomes from Valencia for £41.7m, beating Juventus and Real Madrid to Portugal midfielder

Edit The Daily Mail 22 Jul 2016
The 22-year-old was wanted by Juventus as a potential replacement for Paul Pogba. The Italians made further enquiries on Thursday but are to miss out on the Portugal international ... ....

17 migrants found dead, 1,128 rescued in Mediterranean

Edit Japan Times 22 Jul 2016
Rescue boats recovered the bodies of 17 migrants and plucked 1,128 survivors from the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily on Thursday, a day after 22 corpses were found in the bottom of a smugglers’ boat. The Italian coast guard, which coordinated Thursday’s rescues, said the operation took on survivors from five rubber motorized dinghies, a appeared first on The Japan Times. > ... ....

Luciano Pavarotti's Family Unhappy With Trump Campaign's Use of 'Nessun Dorma'

Edit Billboard 22 Jul 2016
A newspaper in the Italian town where Luciano Pavarotti lived says the late tenor's loved ones are unhappy that Donald Trump's campaign has ... ....
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