NewsLab

News and stories from the Arab world, the Mediterranean and Europe, from the point of view of 20 women who met for the first time in November 2007, in Alexandria, Egypt

NewsLab header image 4

Greece welcomed home a Parthenon marble, after nearly 2 centuries

September 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

$(function(){
wwl.initialize({site: “newslab.netblog”});
});

$(function() {
wwl.widgets[1] = new wwl.Widget({guid: “1ed75038a9b15a979efe1c04734bae09″, content: “#wpWWLContainer1ed75038a9b15a979efe1c04734bae09″, link: “http%3A%2F%2Fnews-lab.net%2Fblog%2F2008%2F09%2F26%2Fgreece-welcomed-home-a-parthenon-marble-after-nearly-2-centuries%2F”});
});

It was characterized as a historic day for the New Acropolis Museum. A big step for the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles. The return of the Palermo fragment, a foot from a sculpture of the ancient Greek hunt goddess Artemis, which was originally [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Arts & Culture · History · Photo

The story of a sign…

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

$(function() {
wwl.widgets[2] = new wwl.Widget({guid: “25e73f6c262ecf72ee4c7c10e782ecd0″, content: “#wpWWLContainer25e73f6c262ecf72ee4c7c10e782ecd0″, link: “http%3A%2F%2Fnews-lab.net%2Fblog%2F2008%2F09%2F23%2Fthe-story-of-a-sign%2F”});
});

Check this video!!!
It’ s enlightening!!
Share on Facebook

[Read more →]

Tags: Video

She is not Denise Pipitone

September 11th, 2008 · No Comments

$(function() {
wwl.widgets[3] = new wwl.Widget({guid: “4ab23a9c64f6385d40a72f882fb505ef”, content: “#wpWWLContainer4ab23a9c64f6385d40a72f882fb505ef”, link: “http%3A%2F%2Fnews-lab.net%2Fblog%2F2008%2F09%2F11%2Fis-she-denise-pipitone%2F”});
});

Dna tests showed that the 30 year old Albanian woman was after all the mother of the 8 year old child in Kos.

On 24th of August, one little girl approached an Italian woman who was on holidays in the Aegean island of Kos.

The girl, [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Society

Kythera holidays!

August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

$(function() {
wwl.widgets[4] = new wwl.Widget({guid: “55da2b8f92c77142a932d6ca765204a1″, content: “#wpWWLContainer55da2b8f92c77142a932d6ca765204a1″, link: “http%3A%2F%2Fnews-lab.net%2Fblog%2F2008%2F08%2F23%2Fkythera-holidays%2F”});
});

Share on Facebook

[Read more →]

Tags: Photo · Travel

Trapped for 30 seconds among the fragmentation bombs

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

$(function() {
wwl.widgets[5] = new wwl.Widget({guid: “bdb2d0c94ac8af6c18f03ebdd5f24c42″, content: “#wpWWLContainerbdb2d0c94ac8af6c18f03ebdd5f24c42″, link: “http%3A%2F%2Fnews-lab.net%2Fblog%2F2008%2F08%2F15%2Ftrapped-for-30-seconds-among-the-fragmentation-bombs%2F”});
});

 
The morning of the 12th of August, I had spoken with my friend Filios Stangos, a journalist in the Greek ERT. He was heading to Gori, to cover the war in Georgia. A few minutes later, he called me, terrified, shouting that he and his TV crew were under attack. I felt [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: War & Conflict

Blind Attack on Georgian city of Gori

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments

$(function() {
wwl.widgets[6] = new wwl.Widget({guid: “94fca13450fa7a1b4953355e878762e8″, content: “#wpWWLContainer94fca13450fa7a1b4953355e878762e8″, link: “http%3A%2F%2Fnews-lab.net%2Fblog%2F2008%2F08%2F12%2Fblind-attack-on-georgian-city-of-gori%2F”});
});

Filios Stangos, Greek ERT’s journalist in Georgia, was the eye-witness of a Russian attack in the centre of Gory. This is his testimony. «We were in the centre of Gori, in the central square, near the town hall. The city was completely empty when Russian [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: War & Conflict

“Swinging” times in Italy

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments

$(function() {
wwl.widgets[7] = new wwl.Widget({guid: “ddabda48cd893397cf87d18dfedae7f3″, content: “#wpWWLContainerddabda48cd893397cf87d18dfedae7f3″, link: “http%3A%2F%2Fnews-lab.net%2Fblog%2F2008%2F08%2F06%2Fswinging-times-in-italy%2F”});
});

 Swinging in English, echangisme in French, scambio in Italian. An article in the conservative newspaper La Stampa revealed this week that an estimated 500,000 Italian couples are officially exchanging partners at private sex clubs, with thousands more doing it in car parks, specially designated beaches [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Sexuality · Society

A sigh of relief in Turkey

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

$(function() {
wwl.widgets[8] = new wwl.Widget({guid: “5fc72559a850bd8a0874bb536a76a06e”, content: “#wpWWLContainer5fc72559a850bd8a0874bb536a76a06e”, link: “http%3A%2F%2Fnews-lab.net%2Fblog%2F2008%2F07%2F30%2Fa-sigh-of-relief-in-turkey%2F”});
});

Turkey’s constitutional court ruled against closing the governing AK Party for Islamist activities but decided to impose partial financial penalties on the party. The decision triggered satisfaction to the political world and Brussels. After the rule, stocks in trade markets presented a rising tendency.
Share on [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Politics · Society

Can two ships of peace break the siege of Gaza?

July 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

$(function() {
wwl.widgets[9] = new wwl.Widget({guid: “eb97b5e6de30180062d009543ba835d4″, content: “#wpWWLContainereb97b5e6de30180062d009543ba835d4″, link: “http%3A%2F%2Fnews-lab.net%2Fblog%2F2008%2F07%2F30%2Fcan-two-ships-of-peace-break-the-siege-of-gaza%2F”});
});

Two ships, carrying activists from 17 countries, will sail next Tuesday from Cyprus to Gaza and will try to break the Israeli siege of the Palestinian territory. The two ships, as it was announced in Athens, will start their journey from Piraeus and will stop [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Human Rights · Politics · War & Conflict

Turkey: At a point of no return?

July 29th, 2008 · No Comments

$(function() {
wwl.widgets[10] = new wwl.Widget({guid: “02e0d476522238b9c83ab5265e2f3645″, content: “#wpWWLContainer02e0d476522238b9c83ab5265e2f3645″, link: “http%3A%2F%2Fnews-lab.net%2Fblog%2F2008%2F07%2F29%2Fturkey-a-point-of-no-return%2F”});
});

Blind attack in the Gungoren district…explosive mixture in the foundations of the Turkish state, just hours before the confrontation between country’s old-guard secular elite and the political Islam begins. With political tensions rising by the day in Turkey and Istanbul waking to the deadliest attack [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Photo · Politics · Society · War & Conflict