In the end, Arcovazzi did not enter Parliament because of the three per cent barrier, but nevertheless he is vehemently claiming that he is the first party on all social media networks, with over ten billion of plus signs, about twenty trillion likes, and five billion shares.
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Democratic Party member Nicola Zingaretti, the brother of Luca – alias Inspector Salvo Montalbano, the fictional detective created by Italian writer Andrea Camilleri – has just won his second term as President of Lazio.
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Rome, Italy: Three billboards outside the Colosseum address Silvio Berlusconi, the former Prime Minister, on the morning after election day. The display has been organised by the global civic movement Avaaz in response to the rightwing coalition not reaching a majority. Photo: Riccardo De Luca/AP.
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Of course, I’m joking, but just because it will take still a while to know what majority will come out from Italian Parliament to rule the country; however, the good news is that the Parliament won’t be abolished and the Constitution will not be amended in chatroom form. One who, like me, has always been used to be ruled by a majority, cannot but regard the right to be a minority as a precious conquest. So don’t ever take such a right for granted, because in many countries of the world it’s not. And also where it is granted, it’s always granted up to a certain extent.
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U.S. military will continue to permit transgender individuals to serve openly until Defense Secretary Jim Mattis receives Trump’s “direction” to change policy. [Read more].
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重庆 (Chóngqìng), China, August 2012. We were there, too, and we really wanted to be there as the train journey from 上海 (Shànghǎi) to 重庆 (Chóngqìng) took us more than 33 hours in a not-too-comfortable wagon, but everything was worth it! Photo: Isadora Duncan.
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Trump’s racial ban was for citizens of Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Yemen, Syria and Libya. Photo: Alba Vigaray/EPA.
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Bernie Sanders rallying opposition to Republican healthcare reform plan on Saturday in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images for MoveOn.org.
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Pauper videri Cinna vult; et est pauper.
Cinna wishes to seem poor, and poor he is, indeed. Cinna vuol sembrare povero; e lo è. |
Garry Kimovich Kasparov: “I won’t return to Russia; I’m willing to take risks, but I’m not used to doing silly things”. See https://www.inopressa.ru/article/22May2017/times/kasparov.html.
“I won’t return to Russia”, 13th World Chess Champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov told Bryan Appleyard of The Times. “I’m willing to take risks, but I’m not used to doing silly things. I feel much safer living here [Ed. Note: in New York] than in many places, and I would never put my foot in certain countries which are too close to Russia. I don’t need any protection here”. Kasparov’s mother, Klara Shagenovna, still lives in Moscow. “We used to meet in Tallinn, Vilnius or Croatia, I see her several times a year, and we talk on the phone every day”, Kasparov said. |
13th World Chess Champion, political activist, and author Garry Kimovich Kasparov joins Tyler for a conversation on artificial intelligence, Russia, Putin, how education must change, favourite cities for chess, the most likely challenger to Magnus Carlsen, Tolstoy vs. Dostoevsky, the benefits of pressure for performance, and why we should speed up our search for new frontiers and challenges. [Read more].
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Paris, France: President-elect Emmanuel Macron poses with supporters after a ceremony to mark the bicentennial anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. Photo: Eric Feferberg/AP.
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Paris, France: The President-elect, Emmanuel Macron, left, and the outgoing President, François Hollande, walk side by side during a ceremony to mark the end of the World War II, at the Arc de Triomphe. Photo: Stephane de Sakutin/AP.
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At the same hour agencies announced that the progressist Emmanuel Macron has won the French Presidency in a decisive victory over his far-right opponent, and vowed to unite a divided and fractured France. Photo: Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters.
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香港 (Hong Kong), China: French citizens queue to register at a polling station. Photo: Dale de la Rey/AFP/Getty Images.
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French voters queue at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle primary school in South Kensington, London, England to cast their vote in today’s French Presidential Election. Photo credit: SWNS.
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As Donald Trump makes his first trip to New York since his inauguration, demonstrators rally in several locations around Manhattan, including near the Intrepid, a decommissioned aircraft carrier on the Hudson river where Trump was attending a gala to mark the anniversary of a second world war naval battle.
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