After five days in Venice chasing after George Clooney and his bride Amal Alamuddin, I am finally back in Rome. I had a blast covering this story because it was completely different from most of the work I do for AP Television. Let’s just say that chasing after Clooney in a water taxi in Venice […]
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I am writing this post while I rock gently in a water taxi on the Grand Canal in Venice in front of the Aman Hotel. I am slowing getting asphyxiated on the engine fumes as we hover here. On board are eight people, three photographers, two camerapersons, an assistant and me. We are all waiting
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Dear Blog Readers, I am on a train headed from Rome to Venice where I will be spending the next five days with the AP television team covering the George Clooney wedding extravaganza. As we all know, the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Members of the Islamic State are decapitating journalists,
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We had to check in for the Papal flight to Albania at 4:45 am. At Rome’s Fiumicino airport there were the usual young travellers sprawled out sleeping on the floor and the Vatican Press corps stood out. When we travel with the Pope we dress in black, have big press passes hanging around our necks
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Dear Blog Readers– I had the honour of being invited to visit Sicily the last four days of August to take part in a book presentation in the medieval town of Erice. I accepted immediately not even knowing what the book was about because the only times I’ve been to the enchanting island of Sicily
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There is a fierce debate raging in Italy about a Mama bear named Daniza. Daniza lives in the woods in the Italian alps in the Trentino region. On August 9th a 38-year-old “fungaiolo” (a mushroom hunter) came across Daniza as she was with her eight-month old cubs. He apparently hid behind a tree but she
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La settimana scorsa, un mio collega di AP, il trentacinquenne Simone Camilli, è rimasto ucciso a Gaza mentre riprendeva una squadra di artificieri palestinesi che disinnescava l’ordigno inesploso di un raid israeliano. Nella deflagrazione sono morti anche il traduttore di AP Ali Shehda Abu Afash e quattro artificieri. Il fotografo di AP Hatem Moussa ha
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This week my AP colleague, 35-year-old Simone Camilli, was killed in Gaza while he was filming a Palestinian bomb squad disarming an unexploded bomb from an Israeli airstrike. The bomb blew up also killing AP translator Ali Shehda Abu Afash, and four Palestinians from the bomb squad. AP photographer Hatem Moussa was badly injured. The