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

Sergei Nikitin, Director of Amnesty International Representative Office in Russia

Amnesty Moscow HQ Raided by Police and Tax Inspectors on Vladimir Putin's Orders

At least 30 NGO offices inspected in Moscow in Kremlin-ordered sweep.

Somali residents arrive with the body of Mohamed Nuxurkey, a local journalist who died in Monday's blast

Somali Woman Journalist Rahmo Abdukadir Shot Dead in Mogadishu

Third reporter killed in 2013 in deadliest African country for journalists.

Ford Figo

Ford Sorry for Indian Car Ad Showing Berlusconi and Tied-up Women

WPP group creative team uploaded offensive advert mocking Italy's ex-PM to promote Ford Figo.

Noam Shalit (R), father of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, poses with the President of the Jewish Community of Rome Riccardo Pacific

Rome's Jewish Leader: Italian Jews Should Flee to Israel Because of Beppe Grillo

Beppe the Clown's Five Star Movement is like Hitler says Riccardo Pacifici, head of Rome's Jewish Community.

bersani

Italy's Centre-Left Leader Bersani Given Mandate to Form Government

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has announced that centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani has a mandate to explore formnig a government.

Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, carrying pro-Palestinian activists to take part of a humanitarian convoy

Benjamin Netanyahu to Turkey: Sorry for Peace Flotilla Raid Deaths

Three years after Israeli marines boarded aid ship, resulting in deaths of nine Turkish activists, Netanyahu apologises.

A burnt-out mosque targeted during Muslim-Buddhist violence in Meikhtila (Reuters)

Burmese Bin Laden: Is Buddhist Monk Wirathu Behind Violence in Myanmar?

Buddhist monasteries in Burma distributing anti-Muslim leaflets for months.

Obama

Barack Obama's Jerusalem Speech is Subtle Rhetoric Directed at Israeli People

Bolder US president has Israelis applauding idea that Palestinian condition is unjust.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

'We Will Destroy Tel Aviv' Warns Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei

Iran's Supreme Leader vows retaliation in case of Israeli military strikes

Selahattin Demirtas, co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), gestures during a rally to celebrate the spring festival of Newroz in Istanbul

Kurdish/Turkish Ceasefire Announced by Jailed PKK Leader Abdullah Ocalan

'Weapons should go silent and politics should speak' says Kurdish militant figurehead.

Putin

Does 'Tsar' Vladimir Putin Fear Assassination?

Russian activist Irina Yasina questions Putin's decision to beef up his personal security.

Barack Obama, Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu (Reuters)

Barack Obama Pledges Eternal US Support for Israel [VIDEO]

US President says 'peace must come to Holy Land' at start of two-day visit in Tel Aviv.

France's Junior Minister for Budget Jerome Cahuzac attends the questions to the government session at the National Assembly

French Budget Minister Jerome Cahuzac Resigns in Tax Fraud Scandal

Europe minister Bernard Cazeneuve named his successor.

Obama and Bibi

Obama-Netanyahu: Israeli Settlers Can Sleep Tight Over US President's Visit

Obama will not raise issue of illegal settlements in the West Bank on his visit

A fighter from the Islamist Syrian rebel group Jabhat al-Nusra reacts as a picture is taken of him as their base is shelled in Raqqa provinc

Syria Civil War: Rebels Deny Claims of Chemical Attack in Northern Aleppo

Syria's information minister blames rebels for chemical missile attack which kills 16 and injures 86.

Ahmed Gadhaf Al-Dam (Ahram online)

Gaddafi's Aide Al-Dam 'the Ejaculator of Blood' Held in Cairo Siege

Al-Dam, Libyan dictator's top aide, arrested in Egypt after firing on security forces.

Rescuers and bystanders look at the wreckage of a passenger bus after it fell from a bridge in Ratnagiri district in the western Indian state of Maharashtra

Goa-Mumbai Bus Plunge off Bridge Kills 37

Bus veered off bridge in Maharashtra district of Ratnagiri.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud

Avigdor Lieberman: Talk of Peace Deal with Palestinians is Delusional

Yisrael Beitenu kingmaker, barred from Netanyahu's new coalition cabinet, says long-running conflict cannot be fixed.

Indian woman

Indian Senior Officials Blame Swiss Couple for Gang Rape

Indian home minister and police chiefs says tourists failed to inform police about movements.

South Africa

South Africa Bus Crash on Mountain Pass Kills 24

Police investigate whether bus that crashed on Western Cape's Hex River Pass was overloaded.

North Korea, South Korea tensions

North Korea Fires Latest Short-Range Missiles During US-South Korean Military Exercises

North Korea has launched a fresh military test-firing into the Sea of Japan as it flexes its military muscles during joint US-South Korean military exercises.

Pope Francis

Vatican Denies Pope Francis' Ties with Military Junta in Dirty War

Pope Francis' spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said discredited accusations 'driven by anti-clerical left-wing ideology'

Blue Meth Doughnouts

Breaking Bad: Albuquerque Bakers and Confectioners Cash in with Crystal Meth 'Treats'

Controversial surge in tourism in New Mexico city thanks to AMC's popular show

Palestinian refugees

Israel Committed Ethnic Cleansing Not Genocide in 1948, Says Top Academic

Oxford professor Derek Penslar claims Israelis should accept Zionist revisionist work.

Newly elected Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio (Reuters)

Pope Francis: The Jesuit History of Suppression and Theology of Liberation

The Society of Jesus has a long history of missions, education, elitism and dedication to the poor

Acting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (L) speaks during an interview with the news station Telesur in Caracas March

Hugo Chavez 'Lobbied in Heaven to Elect Bergoglio as Pope Francis I'

Interim President Nicolas Maduro jokes about late Venezuelan leader influencing Jesus to pick Argentinian cardinal.

PKK Releases Eight Turkish Officials in Kurdish Bid for Peace

Jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan calls for prisoner exchange

India's PM Manmohan Singh

India Demands Return of Italian Marines over Fishermen Deaths

Manmohan Singh says Italy's refusal to return marines facing trial for killing fishermen 'unacceptable'.

Italian sailors Salvatore Girone (R) and Massimiliano Latorre leave the police commissioner office in the southern Indian city of Koch

Italian Marines Accused of Shooting Dead Indian Fishermen 'Will not Return'

Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone at centre of fresh diplomatic dispute between India and Italy.

BBC journalist mourns death of his 11 months old son Omar killed (ActiveStills.org)

BBC Arabic Worker's 11-month-old Son 'Killed in Gaza by Palestinian Rocket'

Earlier reports had blamed Israeli strike but UN points finger at Palestinian missile that fell short of target.