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.

International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes Condemn Imprisonment …

April 27, 2012

International Press Institute World Press Freedom Heroes Condemn Imprisonment of Journalist

Press Release

Vienna — Twenty general reporters who have been recognized as World Press Freedom Heroes by a Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) have cursed a Ethiopian government’s preference to jail Eskinder Nega and other reporters on terrorism charges, and called for their evident release.

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.

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)

Wretched Ally in Lebanon for Justice and Dignity

April 14, 2012

Not surprising perhaps, but nevertheless refreshing, were the students strongly expressed convictions, regardless of particular sect, that those most victimized by Lebanon’s government and current laws are the roughly 200,000 migrant domestic workers, women, who make up half of Lebanon’s population, and the estimated 250,000 Palestinian refugees waiting to return to their country, Palestine.

The LWOT: Britain authorised to extradite 5 purported extremists

April 14, 2012

Britain authorised to extradite 5 supposed extremists

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France ruled on Apr 10 that a United Kingdom might extradite radical Muslim minister Abu Hamza al-Masri and 4 other suspected terrorists to a United States to face a terrorism conference that might outcome in prolonged jail sentences in a supposed “supermax” jail (AP, Reuters, AJE, Tel, BBC, NYT,CNN, WSJ). The 5 organisation had argued that a intensity sentences carried by a charges and a conditions in maximum-security jails in a United States volume to a defilement of tellurian rights, with that a justice disagreed. The family of one suspect, Babar Ahmad, has affianced to interest a ruling, and a European judges pronounced in their statute that no one will be extradited until a preference is “final,” definition that all appeals will be listened initial (AFP).