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Italy's Court of Cassation. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Clicking 'like' on a terrorist video on Facebook counts as evidence of apology for terrorism, Italy's top court has ruled. Taken alongside other evidence, a Facebook like can be a "serious indication of guilt and therefore justifies pre-trial detention in jail", the Court of Cassation ruled. The judgment related to a Kosovan man resident in Fiesse in the Brescia area, who was expelled from Italy in November 2016 on charges of online propaganda. He had lived in the country for around ten years and at the time of his expulsion, the Interior Ministry said, the man's Facebook page "contained documents and files of jihadist propaganda, as well as contacts with two well-known Islamists". However, the man denied any intent to share jihadist propaganda and distanced himself from Islamist violence. A Brescia Court of Review twice ruled that the evidence against him was insufficient, noting that: "Evoking holy war does not necessarily result in the creation of organized structures aimed at carrying out terrorist acts", the local Gioale di Brescia reported. The court further said that the man's refe, ...ادامه مطلب

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) has given €500,000 to help the earthquake relief effort in Italy. Photos: AFPFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told Italian students how the social media site gave €500,000 to the Italian Red Cross following Wednesday's devastating earthquake in central Italy. Facebook's billionaire founder announced the donation had been made in the immediate aftermath of the the 6.0-6.2 magnitude quake, which left 290 dead and 2,700 homeless, while holding a Q&A at Rome's Luiss University on Monday. But the donation does not involve actual cash and instead comes in the form of Facebook advertising credit, which Zuckerberg says will benefit the organization in the long-term. “Organizations like the Red Cross are going to be focused on this disaster long after the T.V cameras,” he said. “The credits can be used to promote any activities they need, such as collecting funds, making appeals for blood donations and finding volunteers.” In a subsequent stateme, ...ادامه مطلب

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Rome on Monday for a Q&A with employees. Photo: Drew Angerer/AFPFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will hold a Townhall Q&A in Rome on Monday, the latest in a series of events during which employees get to interrogate the social media site’s owner. The billionaire arrived in the Italian capital after spending a week in Lake Como, where he attended the wedding of Sofia and Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify. The Townhall Q&A will be held at 4pm CET, the Facebook founder announced...on Facebook. On Monday moing, he posted a photo of himself jogging by the Colosseum. Zuckerberg's travels in Europe come after a report from the UK govement lambasted Facebook, and others including Twitter and Google, for failing to do enough to fight extremism on their sites. “Huge corporations like Google, Facebook and Twitter, with their billion dollar incomes, are consciously failing to tackle this threat and passing the buck by hiding behind their supranation,facebook ceo india,facebook ceo income,facebook ceo india salary,facebook ceo interview,facebook ceo information,facebook ceo in hindi,facebook ceo india visit,facebook ceo in china,facebook ceo in singapore,facebook ceo in australia ...ادامه مطلب

Faizan Patel poses with an image of his wife on a train in Italy.Over the past few days, an Indian newlywed has taken in the sights of Milan, Florence and romantic Venice as part of his honeymoon, but there’s just one thing missing: his wife. Having only taken a short break after their wedding, Faizan Patel and his wife Sana, from New Delhi, had looked forward to their dream honeymoon in Italy. But just two days before they were due to leave, they discovered that Sana had lost her passport. Seems like I am travelling alone tonight via @TurkishAirlines. My wife has her passport misplaced. Fingers crossed that we find it soon. — Faizan Patel (@faizanpatel) August 6, 2016 They failed in their attempt to get a travel document in time, and so Faizan, a lifestyle and product photographer, decided to go on the trip alone, leaving his wife to grapple with Indian passport authorities. #Yay #PartyTime he declared on Twitter as the pair posed for selfies before his 'tearful' departure from,indian man on phone meme,indian man on phone,indian man on plane,indian man on fire,indian man on ladder,indian man on america's got talent,indian man on cops,indian man on moon,indian man on train electrocuted,indian man on elephant attacked by tiger ...ادامه مطلب

Spending too much time on Facebook in Italy could cost you your job. Photo: Joe The Goat Farmer/FlickrItaly’s top court has ruled that spending too much time on social media could cost you your job. The Court of Cassation has sided with an employer which sacked a member of staff after they were found to be spending hours each day using the inteet during work time. Over a period of 18 months, the employer discovered that the employee had gone onto the inteet, for non-work purposes, 6,000 times. Out of that, they accessed Facebook 4,500 times – averaging about 16 hits a day, which equated to three work-hours a day. For future cases, the court ruled that the severity of the punishment handed down by an employer should be decided on a 'case by case' basis, but that they are within their rights to sack someone for squandering too much time online. An employer also has the right to check an employee’s inteet search history, without flouting privacy laws, if they believe the person’s online conduct could harm the company. Story continues below… Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Italian marines Salvatore Girone (L) and Massimiliano Latorre (R) pictured in Kochi, India, in December 2012. Photo: Strdel/AFPIndia's top court Thursday allowed an Italian marine accused of killing two fishermen to retu home pending arbitration, the latest twist in a long-running case that has soured ties between the two countries. Salvatore Girone and fellow marine Massimiliano Latorre are accused of shooting the fishermen while protecting an Italian oil tanker as part of an anti-piracy mission off India's southe Kerala coast in 2012. Latorre was allowed to travel back to Italy in 2014 for treatment after suffering a stroke. But Girone has been barred from leaving India pending the resolution of a dispute between New Delhi and Rome over which country has jurisdiction in the case. Girone has been living in Italy's embassy in New Delhi. The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to alter Girone's bail conditions allowing him to retu, after a tribunal in The Hague ruled this month he should be free to go, pending the final outcome of arbitration. "Having considered submissions of the parties, subject to conditions, the Italian marine Salvatore Girone's bail conditions are modified," Justices PC Pant and DY Chandrachud said in a written judgement read out in court. Italy initiated inteational arbitration proceedings in the case last year, referring the row to the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague and asking it to rule on where the men should be tried. Under his new bail conditions, Girone must retu to Delhi within one month if the PCA rules that he face trial in India. The Indian govement's lawyers have not objected in the Supreme Court to the marine's request to go home. The detention of the marines, the murder charges and the long wait for the case to be resolved are sore subjects in Italy, with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi regularly flayed by opposition leaders for failing to get both men home. Story continues below… Italy insists the oil tanker, the MV , ...ادامه مطلب

Italian marines Massimiliano Latorre (R) and Salvatore Girone (L) pictured in Kochi, India, in December 2012. Photo: Strdel/AFPA UN tribunal on Monday ruled that Italian marine Salvatore Girone, who has been held in India for over four years over the 2012 shooting of two fishermen, should be allowed to retu home while his case is subject to an inteational arbitration procedure, Italy’s Foreign Ministry said. In a case that has fractured diplomatic relations between the two countries, Girone and fellow marine Massimiliano Latorre are accused of shooting the fishermen while protecting an Italian oil tanker as part of an anti-piracy mission off India’s southe Kerala coast in 2012. Girone has been living in the Italian embassy ever since, while Latorre was allowed to retu home in 2014 for medical treatment after having a stroke. India’s Supreme Court last week extended Latorre's home leave by five months. The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration, where the proceedings were moved to last year, has called on both countries to agree on the procedure for the marine’s retu, the ministry said in a statement, adding that it would liaise with India to try to ensure his speedy retu. “This is good news for the marines, their families and for the reasons maintained by the govement and our legal team,” the ministry said. But the ministry underlined that the court’s decision “will not influence the progress of the arbitration procedures, which should decide if Italy or India has jurisdiction in the case.” The arbitration procedure could take another two to three years. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who has been regularly flayed by opposition leaders for failing to get both men home, said the news was “extraordinary”. "This really is a significant step forward which we have worked on with great dedication," he told reporters in Florence, while stressing "friendship and cooperation to the great people of India and to the Indian prime minister (Narendra Modi)". Felici per il rie, ...ادامه مطلب

India's Supreme Court has granted Massimiliano Latorre ( R ) extended home leave in Italy for medical reasons. Photo: Vincenzo Pito/AFPIndia's Supreme Court on Tuesday extended the home leave of an Italian marine accused of killing two fishermen, the latest episode in a legal battle that sparked a bitter diplomatic row. Massimiliano Latorre and his fellow marine Salvatore Girone are accused of shooting the fishermen while protecting an Italian oil tanker as part of an anti-piracy mission off India's southe Kerala coast in 2012.   The incident, which is now subject to inteational arbitration, has badly strained relations between Rome and New Delhi.   Both marines were barred from leaving India pending a trial, but Latorre was allowed to travel back to Italy in 2014 for medical treatment after he suffered a stroke.   On Tuesday India's highest court extended Latorre's permission to stay in Italy by five months, until September 30th.   Girone is living at Italy's embassy in New Delhi and remains barred from leaving India pending a resolution of the dispute.   Italy initiated arbitration proceedings last year and in August the Inteational Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) ordered India to suspend court proceedings against the pair.   ITLOS rejected Rome's request for both marines to be freed immediately pending a final ruling.   The detention of the marines, the murder charges and the long wait for the case to be resolved are sore subjects in Italy, with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi regularly flayed by opposition leaders for failing to get both men home.   Italy insists the oil tanker, the MV Enrica Lexie, was in inteational waters at the time of the incident.   India argues that the case is not a maritime dispute but "a double murder at sea", in which one fisherman was shot in the head and the other in the stomach. Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Salvatore Girone has been living in Italy's embassy in New Delhi for several years. Photo: Vincenzo Pito/AFPItaly on Wednesday launched a legal battle at an inteational tribunal to bring home an Italian marine, barred from leaving India after the 2012 killing of two Indian fishermen who Rome says were mistaken for pirates. Marine Salvatore Girone has been living in Italy's embassy in New Delhi for several years and is banned from leaving the city pending resolution of a dispute which has soured bilateral ties.   Girone and fellow marine Massimiliano Latorre were arrested by Indian police in 2012, days after they shot at an Indian fishing boat, killing two fishermen, while protecting an Italian oil tanker as part of an anti-piracy mission off India's southe Kerala coast.   The so-called "Enrica Lexie incident", named after the oil tanker, is now subject to inteational arbitration in a bitter fight between the two countries.   Ties soured even further after the two marines overstayed a retu trip to Italy they were allowed to make in early 2013 to vote in general elections.   Both marines were barred from leaving India again pending a trial, although they have not yet been charged.   But Latorre was allowed to travel back to Italy in 2014 for medical treatment after he suffered a stroke.   Girone however "is obliged to live thousands of kilometres away from his country and family, with two children still at a tender age" and is deprived of "his liberty," Italian ambassador Francesco Azzarello told the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).   "He has not been subjected to any charge... his rights are seriously suffering," said Azzarello at the Hague-based arbitration body, set up in 1899 to rule in disputes between states and private entities.   Girone should be allowed to come home "pending the final determination of this tribunal," Azzarelo insisted.   The Indian courts in January extended Latorre's permission to stay in Italy until April 30th.   Italy initiated arbitr, ...ادامه مطلب

An Italian man has been charged for making offensive comments about Italy's southeers on Facebook. Photo: ChristopherA 40-year-old man from northe Italy has been charged with defamation and inciting ethnic hatred after writing a post on Facebook insulting the inhabitants of Italy's south. The man, from Settimo Torinese, a small town outside the northe Italian city of Turin, left several comments on the social media site on a story about the death of a 17-year-old student from Siracusa in Sicily, La Stampa reported.The student was killed in a road accident while driving his scooter in October.The man's posts made liberal use used the word terrone, a highly offensive word used to describe people from south or central Italy. The word comes from the root terra, meaning land, and is used to deride people living south of Bologna.The word implies that southeers are lazy, ignorant peasants and is testament to the strong cultural and economic divide that exists between north and south Italy. “That's one terrone less for us [northe Italians] to support,” he wrote. “I know that in the coffin there is an ignorant southeer and I enjoy it.” Another post read “Good evening sh***y terroni, will any more of you die today?” His shocking comments were widely shared by incredulous people on social media and were eventually reported to police in Siracusa. Story continues below… Prosecutors used a specialist telecommunications investigation unit to track down the man, who had used a fake profile to make the offensive remarks.  “Among all forms of poverty, moral poverty poses the greatest risk to humanity,” the public prosecutor, Francesco Paolo Giordano, was quoted as saying by La Stampa.   Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب