Salini spells out Impregilo merger plan

April 27, 2012

By Danilo Masoni

MILAN | Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:01pm EDT

MILAN (Reuters) – Italian builder Salini expects a possible merger with listed rival Impregilo (IPGI.MI) to create a national champion with sales of around $9.2 billion in 2015, its chief executive said on Monday, pointing to a special dividend if the plan succeeds.

Family-owned Salini, which posted 2011 revenue of 1.4 billion euros ($1.8 billion), has grown in recent years via acquisitions and expansion in markets such as Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, Nigeria and, recently, Denmark.

Salini spells out Impregilo partnership plan

April 25, 2012

By Danilo Masoni

MILAN | Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:01pm EDT

MILAN (Reuters) – Italian builder Salini expects a probable partnership with listed opposition Impregilo (IPGI.MI) to emanate a inhabitant champion with sales of around $9.2 billion in 2015, a arch executive pronounced on Monday, indicating to a special division if a devise succeeds.

Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture

April 23, 2012

Torture on Trial: Legal and Humane Frameworks for Opposing Torture

by David Swanson Published in a May / Jun 2012 Humanist http://thehumanist.org/may-june-2012/torture-on-trial-legal-and-humane-frameworks-for-opposing-torture/

Cases come in by a thousands from all over a world. A male was beaten and whipped. A lady was beaten and raped. A child was hooded with 3 dull silt bags in 100-degree feverishness all day, starved, beaten, and kept in highlight positions. Alleged suicide victims had their hands tied behind their backs, had boot prints on their heads, or incited out to have been electrocuted. There are woe victims lonesome with cigarette burns, and woe victims with no visible injuries. They need a consultant assistance of doctors and lawyers to heal, to win asylum, and to emanate any arrange of accountability in courts of law.

UN MUST STOP BARBARISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST By Aie Zi Guo

 April 19, 2012

The Middle East is a epicentre of a world’s good religions: Christianity, Islam and Judaism. Great mathematicians, scientist and engineers originated from this partial of a world. The pyramids of Egypt, a Walls of Babylon, a lamps of Aladdin, a good pharaohs etc are chronological testaments of a ancient civilizations of a Arabian Peninsula. Jesus and Mohammed were born, lifted and resurrected in this partial of a world.

The Human Spirit: Reasons we adore Israel, 2012

 April 19, 2012

Since 2004, I’ve given some 475 opposite reasons we adore Israel. In respect of Independence Day and Israel’s 64th Anniversary, here are 64 more.

1. Because of their experience, Hebrew University veterinary neurologists were summoned to reanimate a inept lion in Brazil, a nation with an area of 8.5 million block kilometers and a race of 192 million. The lion’s name was Ariel, a synonym for Jerusalem.

The lost champion of a ‘lost Jews’

April 17, 2012

 (JTA) — Avraham Adgah figuratively scratches his head, wondering what encouraged Jacques Faitlovitch to dedicate his life to a Beta Israel — a Jews of Ethiopia.

“That’s a doubt that occupies me,” Adgah, a polite operative during Israel’s Technion, says by write from his home in Kiryat Ata, nearby Haifa. “What led a 23-year-old white Jew from Poland to go to an underdeveloped nation and transport from place to place on donkeys — and when there were no donkeys, on foot? So we ask: What compelled him?”

Jacques Faitlovitch is shown with Ethiopian Jewish students shortly before his genocide in 1955. (photo credit: Tel Aviv University’s Sourasky Central Library)

Celebrating Women’s History Month: Interview with Birtukan Midekssa (Tadias)

April 1, 2012

Birtukan Midekssa is now a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow during a International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy photo)