Giorno: 17 Settembre 2021

Hezbollah supplies Iranian fuel to Lebanon — despite US sanctions

Post Content Dozens of trucks carrying Iranian diesel arrived in Lebanon on Thursday, the first in a series of deliveries organized by the militant Hezbollah. The powerful group operates independently from Lebanese authorities, which are struggling to deal with a crippling energy crisis. The overland delivery through neighboring Syria violates U.S. sanctions imposed on Tehran […]

Brusaferro: “Grazie ai vaccini l’Italia è tra i paesi con la circolazione del virus più contenuta in Europa”

Read More “L’Italia si caratterizza come uno dei Paesi con la circolazione del virus più contenuta. La curva in Italia è rimasta contenuta, e ciò grazie alle vaccinazioni, e nell’ultimo periodo c’è un decremento”, ha affermato il presidente dell’Istituto superiore di sanità, Silvio Brusaferro, nel corso della conferenza stampa sull’analisi dei dati del monitoraggio regionale […]

Coronavirus in Italia, il bollettino di oggi 17 settembre: 4.552 nuovi casi, 66 morti

Read More Nelle ultime 24 ore in Italia si sono registrati 4.552 nuovi casi, 66 morti da coronavirus. I tamponi eseguiti nelle ultime 24 ore sono 284mila: l’indice di positività è all’1,59% (ieri era 1,7). I decessi da inizio pandemia sono 130.233 dall’inizio. E’ quanto emerge dal bollettino quotidiano sulla diffusione del coronavirus del ministero della Salute.  I ricoveri […]

‘The Making of Mount Edgecombe’: A view of history from below

Read More The history of Mount Edgecombe, as told from above, is of the Mount Edgecombe Country Club Estate with Gateway and Cornubia Mall looming across the highway. But underneath this footprint of late-stage capitalism lies the history of the sugar estates and the people who worked on them — indentured labourers of South Asian […]

The ghosts of Memphis: The good, the bad, the rock ’n soul

Read More Memphis is a city of ghosts — good and bad, musical and political. The ghostly business commences as soon as you drive into town, cruising along Isaac Hayes Memorial Highway, a tribute to the soul singer with that ebony voice who died in 2008. You might then want to visit Graceland, the estate […]

Screen Grab: An eastern western, way down South

Read More Great filmmakers are fluent in the darkness of silence, and Lee Isaac Chung is no exception. There is one devastating suspension of dialogue halfway through his largely autobiographical film, Minari, about a Korean immigrant family trying to build a life in rural Arkansas during the early 1980s.  In the scene, the Yi family’s […]