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

US soldier Bradley Manning has been sentenced for leaked thousands of top-secret diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks (Reuters)

'I am Chelsea Manning' Says Jailed WikiLeaks Cable Soldier [VIDEO]

Army private says (s)he is female at start of 35-year jail sentence for leaking top-secret US data.

According to U.S. congressman Jim Moran, prisoners are requesting the E.L. James novel to pass the time.

Fifty Shades of Grey Copy Given to 9/11 Suspect Ammar al-Baluchi at Guantanamo 'to Discredit Prisoners'

Guantanamo prisoner's lawyer describes guards foisting copy of erotic novel on Muslim as practical joke gone too far.

A boy, affected by what activists say was a gas attack, is treated at a medical center in the Damascus suburbs of Saqba,

Syria Chemical Attack: France Urges 'Reaction with Force' [VIDEO]

Israel intelligence says reports of chemical weapons used in deadly Ghouta attack are true.

Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak sits inside a dock at the police academy (Reuters)

Egypt: Court Orders Release of Hosni Mubarak

Deposed president could be freed as soon as Thursday.

Survivors from what activists say is a gas attack rest inside a mosque in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus

Syria: Britain to Raise Ghouta Chemical Attack at UN Security Council

Chemical weapons experts debate report that more than 200 people killed by Assad's toxic rockets.

Avigdor Lieberman

Egypt: Erdogan is 'Goebbels' Successor' over Israel Military Plot Claim

Nationalist Israeli former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman hits back at Turkish PM for conspiracy remarks.

A youth, affected by what activists say is nerve gas, is treated at a hospital in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus

Syria: Chemical Attack in Ghouta 'an Accident Caused by Free Syrian Army'

Chemical weapons expert says timing of attack while UN inspectors are in Syria is 'suspicious'.

Field hospital in Daraya doesn't even have enough room to treat the injured

Syria Chemical Attack: Images of Suffocating Children Surface as Assad Regime Denies Use [GRAPHIC VIDEO]

Pro-Assad Facebook page praises chemical attack that allegedly killed more than 200 people

Army soldiers and medical workers check the bodies of police officers killed early morning on the highway in Rafah city

Israel's Secret Service Shin Bet Sets up Anti-Sinai Jihadist Unit

Powerful Israeli intelligence say 15 Salafi groups alone operate in deadly Sinai peninsula.

Swedish social democratic politician Veronica Palm joins hijab outcry campaign (@VeronicaPalm/Twitter)

#HijabUppropet: Non-Muslim Swedish Women Wear Hijab against Hate Crimes

Social media campaign backed by politicians and TV hosts after Stockholm assault on Muslim woman in headscarf.

Erdogan

Egypt: Israel Behind Military Coup, Claims Turkey's PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Erdogan cites French Jewish intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy that 'democracy is not the ballot box'.

Benazir Bhutto

Pakistan: Musharraf Indicted for Murder of Benazir Bhutto

Former president on conspiracy plot charges over death of populist PM killed in 2007 in Rawalpindi.

Performers raise their swords in front of a portrait of Saudi King Abdullah

Egypt: Saudi Arabia to Step in if West Cuts Aid

Gulf superpower pledges support to Egypt's military government against 'terrorists'.

Hosni Mubarak

Egypt Crisis: Ousted President Hosni Mubarak 'to be Freed this Week' [VIDEO]

President cleared of corruption after two years in detention but conspiracy to kill protesters charges still untried.

Egyptian soldiers keep guard on the border between Egypt and southern Gaza Strip

Sinai: 25 Egypt Policemen Killed in Ambush by Islamist Militants

Reports of execution-style killing of off-duty officials near Gaza border town of Rafah.

Palestinian youth and FC Barcelona players take part in a "soccer clinic" for peace, at Dura stadium in the West Bank village of Dura, near Hebron

Israel to Allow Arab Youth Football Teams into West Bank after Fifa Yellow Card

Under-17s championship of West Asia Football Federation to be held in Palestinian territories.

Protesters put on masks as riot police fire tear gas canisters at them during clashes in the village of Shakhoora

Bahrain Political Prisoners Injured by Guards in Riot

Clashes start after heavy-handed cell search amid claims of torture and severe beatings.

Sohag St George church attacked by Morsi supporters

Egypt: Morsi Protesters Turn Anger on Coptic Christians [VIDEO]

Twenty-five churches attacked since violent crackdown on pro-Morsi tent camps in Cairo.

Egypt's Riot police

Cairo Morsi Deaths: Police Blamed for Shooting Down Pro-Morsi Protester Trying to Help Wounded Man [VIDEO]

Good samaritan in Cairo gunned down trying to carry injured protester to safety.

People shout for help at the site of an explosion in Beirut's southern suburbs,

Blast Hits Beirut's Shiite Hezbollah Neighbourhood: 14 Dead

Explosion raises spectrum of fresh sectarian war in Lebanon

Bright Star military exercise

Egypt Morsi Clashes: Obama Cancels Joint Bright Star Military Exercise [VIDEO]

US president takes first concrete steps against Egyptian regime as Morsi protest death toll soars past 500.

Maui

Hawaii: German Tourist's Arm Severed by Shark

Seventh shark attack in Hawaii this year.

Giza governorate building on fire

Egypt: Giza Governorate Building on Fire as Cairo Braces for More Pro-Morsi Protests

Muslim Brotherhood's spokesman Gehad El-Haddad admits violence caused 'very strong blow' to anti-coup alliance

Nationalist Ganbare Nippon members march with Japanese flags in tribute at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo

China Summons Japan Ambassador over Yasukuni War Dead Shrine Visit

Japanese cabinet homage to fallen from war against China and World War II stokes fresh tensions.

Bahrain

Bahrain Security Forces Fire Teargas against Tamarod Protesters [VIDEO]

Injuries reported in two villages as demonstrators gather to push home reform demands.

Egypt's interim Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei

Egypt Crackdown: Vice-President Mohamed ElBaradei Resigns over Deaths

I cannot bear responsibility for one drop of blood, reformist says after hundreds die and state of emergency announced.

Michael Deane

Sky TV UK Cameraman Michael Deane Killed in Cairo Clashes

Second media worker death in one day as clashes also claim life of Muslim Brotherhood leader's daughter Asmaa el-Beltagy.

MSF

Doctors Without Borders Pulls out from Somalia over Staff Attacks

Sixteen workers with humanitarian NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres killed since 1991.

Sohag

Egypt: Morsi Supporters Attack Coptic Churches in Sohag, Menya and Dilga [VIDEO]

Sectarian violence flares after troops 'slaughter' of Brotherhood supporters and death of Gulf News journalist Habiba Abdel Aziz.

Anti-government demonstrators at a rally organised by Bahrain's main opposition group, Al Wefaq (Reuters)

Bahrain: 14 August Tamarod Rights Group Alarmed by Violent Crackdown Warning

Prime Minister Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa says government will 'forcefully confront' protesters.