Gianluca Mezzofiore

Senior Foreign News Reporter

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Gianluca Mezzofiore is a senior foreign news reporter at International Business Times UK.

At the beginning of 2012, Gianluca was shortlisted at the Online Media Awards 2012 for Best Campaigning/Investigative Journalism for his articles on "Cyber Warfare and the Rise of the Hacktivist".

His back catalogue includes breaking news, features and exclusives on the Bahrain uprising; the 969 movement of Buddhist monk Wirathu and the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar; the far-right Golden Dawn party in Greece; Russian LGBT rights; Eritrea's refugees in the Sinai; Turkey's Gulen movement and Bangladesh's factory disasters.

He is also the producer, writer and reporter of IBTimes UK's special report: Battle for Bosnia: Fighting to Remember the Balkan War Genocide.

Gianluca's portfolio includes The Independent, the i newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, the Evening Standard and VICE Italia.

Gianluca Mezzofiore

Body bags containing African migrants, who drowned trying to reach Italian shores, lie in a hangar of the Lampedusa airport

Lampedusa Boat Sinking: Eritreans' Deadly Route to Escape Authoritarian Regime

Hundreds of Eritreans attempt odyssey to Italy from Libyan coast, says activist.

Rescued migrants arrive onboard a coastguard vessel at the harbour of Lampedusa

Lampedusa: Italian Fishermen 'Abandoned' Hundreds of African Migrants to Drown

Mayor Giusi Nicolini urges scrapping of anti-immigration laws that scared fishermen from going to help capsize vessel.

Extreme-right Golden Dawn party leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos (C) is escorted by anti-terrorism police officers into a court house in Athens

Golden Dawn Neo-Nazi Leader Nikos Michaloliakos Jailed in Killah P Spinoff Case

Leader of Greek fascist party jailed on allegations of running criminal organisation after fatal stabbing of rapper.

Body bags containing African migrants, who drowned trying to reach Italian shores, lie in the harbour of Lampedusa

Lampedusa: 94 Drown after Migrant Boat Sinks in Mediterranean

Fire on board refugee ship started deliberately to attract attention but got out of hand, say survivors.

Golden Dawn

Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn MPs Freed in Killah P Criminal Case

Three far-right defendants released in criminal probe after murder of leftist rapper.

Enrico Letta

Italy Runs 'Fatal Risk' Warns PM Enrico Letta Ahead of Confidence Vote

Silvio Berlusconi's party in chaos on day of mayhem for coalition government.

Syrian rockets

Syria Submits Chemical Weapons Arsenal List

Damascus complies with first stage of US-Russia demands to dump stockpiles but deputy PM denies ceasefire claims.

Fazil Say

Turkish Pianist Fazil Say Re-Sentenced to Prison for 'Blasphemous Tweets'

World-renowned pianist quoted 1,000-year-old poem to mock hypocrisy of bigots.

Tuzer

Turkey: 'Rock Star Imam' Ahmet Tuzer Under Investigation for Singing in Firock [VIDEO]

Lead singer of Firock band may fall foul of Turkey's religious laws.

Forensic officers collect evidence at the scene of a roadside bomb attack on a military bus in Sanaa September 9, 2013

Yemen: 30 Dead After Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula Strikes in Shabwa Province

Twin bomb blasts at military base and attack on Yemeni army leave scores of dead.

Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin

Gay Silvio Berlusconi Would Escape Prosecution, Says Vladimir Putin

Friend of former Italian prime minister says charges brought only because he lives with women.

People gather at the site where Pavlos Fissas, a 35-year-old anti-racism rapper, was stabbed to death

Golden Dawn Killah P Stabbing: Samaras Vows 'No Pasaran' on Neo-Nazi Party [VIDEO]

Angry crowd mourns murdered leftist hip-hop singer Pavlos Fyssas and demands grow for Golden Dawn to be banned.

Picture of Kerdasa

Egypt: Senior Policeman Dead in Clashes in Cairo Suburb of Kerdasa

Security forces storm Islamist stronghold in bid to regain control from Mohamed Morsi supporters.

Riot police officers detain protesters after clashes in the northern Greek town of Thessaloniki between police and angry anti-fascist protesters

Golden Dawn Killah P Stabbing: Clashes Erupt Across Greece [VIDEO]

Outcry after killing of leftist rapper sparks debate on whether to outlaw neo-Nazi party

Portrait of Giacomo Casanova

BBC's Tacky, Tired Take on Italy's Casanovas Ignores the Truth

A generation robbed of their future deserves better journalistic standard than cliche-ridden BBC 'insight', says Gianluca Mezzofiore.

Golden Dawn

Golden Dawn Killah P Stabbing: Greece 'Has Hit Red Line'

Fatal stabbing of anti-fascist rapper sparks debate in Greece

Killah P

Greece: Golden Dawn Neo-Nazi Accused of Athens Murder of Rapper KillahP

Member of racist group arrested over the fatal stabbing of a leftist hip-hop artist.

Handout photo of Aaron Alexis, who the FBI believe to be responsible for the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard in the Southeast area of Washington, DC - (Reuters)

Washington Navy Yard Gunman Aaron Alexis 'Heard Voices in his Head'

Dead IT contractor who killed 12 in US naval base gun rampage had received treatment for serious mental illness.

Picture of al-Nusra fighters storming the Maksar al-Husan village

Syria: Al-Qaida-Linked Militants Execute Two Alawite Men in Raqqa

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants shoot dead villagers accused of belonging to Assad's Alawite sect.

UN inspectors in Ghouta

Bashar al-Assad: 'No Doubt' Syrian President Behind Ghouta Gas Attack [VIDEO]

UK, US and France seize on UN report as conclusive evidence that Syrian regime used sarin in Ghouta attack.

Police block off the M Street, SE, as they respond to a shooting at the Washington Navy Yard

Washington US Navy Yard Shooting: One Gunman Dead, Second is 'Down' [VIDEO]

Gunman involved in fatal shooting of four naval HQ workers and injuring of 10 others in cafeteria declared dead.

European Union's Catherine Ashton and Somali's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud

Somalia's Al-Shabab: Brussels Donor Conference is 'Belgian Waffle'

Islamist fighters say summit to release hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild wartorn country 'a waste of effort'.

A North Korean soldier

South Korea Border Guards Kill Man Attempting to Swim to North Korea

Border authorities open fire on man trying to swim across Imjin river marking border between two Koreas.

People look on as the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia lies on its side next to Giglio Island

Costa Concordia Parbuckling Salvage Operation Under Way [VIDEO]

Salvage workers begin attempt to recover wreck of ship which capsized killing 32 people.

Ban Ki-moon

Syria's Bashar al-Assad 'Committed Many Crimes Against Humanity'

UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon says UN report on Ghouta reveals overwhelming evidence of toxic gas use - but will not say by whom

Singer Hyon Song-wol, Kim Jong-un ex-grilfriend, was reportedly executed by a firing squad (Courtesy of Chosun Ilbo)

Kim Jong-un's Lover Hyon Song-wol Executed for 'Filming Sex Sessions' with Dictator

Pop singer Hyon Song-wol made own sex tapes unaware of bandmates' separate porn film ring.

New Jersey firefighters work to control a massive fire in Seaside Park in New Jersey

Jersey Seaside Heights Fire Destroys Boardwalk Rebuilt after Superstorm Sandy

US East Coast boardwalk, used in MTV's Jersey Shore and rebuilt from scratch after storm, devastated again just on year on.

Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri

Al-Qaida Leader Zawahiri Calls for Small-scale Attacks on US Soil

Days after 9/11 anniversary, terrorist leader makes call to arms 'to bleed America economically'.

40 PAOK fans (L) attacked HQ of Golden Dawn in Thessaloniki (Reuters)

Golden Dawn vs PAOK Fans: Uproar over Albanian Player Ergys Kace Sparks Thessaloniki Clashes

Albanian player Ergys Kace posted picture on Facebook supporting a Kosovan militant group

Indonesian held prisoners by Dutch forces

Netherlands 'Sorry' For Summary Executions in Indonesia

First general Dutch apology issued for massacres between 1945 and 1949 in Sulawesi.