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         <title>IO CHE SARO&apos; ROBERTO BAGG10</title>
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<strong><big><big><big>Io che sarò Roberto Baggio</big></big></big></strong> </a><center>


Source: Gazzetta TV
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         <title>HAITI EARTHQUAKE</title>
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<big><strong>FOOD PRODUCTION AND AGRICULTURE ARE KEY IN THE RECOVERY
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There is an urgent need to help Haitians rebuild and improve their damaged agricultural sector. Irrigation canals must be repaired and farming equipment like pumps and tools replaced.
City vegetable garden can improve nutrtion earthquake-affected men, women and children.

Vegetables grow in just 3 months. The next planting season begins in March.

Farmers need tools, fertilizers and quality seeds.
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         <title>FAO: 1 billion hungry petition</title>
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Thank you for signing on to the 1billionhungry petition.  By lending your voice to this growing global movement, you are helping to send a powerful message to world leaders:  it is unacceptable that one billion people live in chronic hunger, and changing this reality should be our top priority.  

Want to stay involved?  Here are some ideas:

Ask your family, friends and colleagues to sign on to the petition at  <a href="www.1billionhungry.org"><strong>www.1billionhungry.org</strong></a>.

Learn more about hunger in the world by visiting FAO's "Hunger portal":  <a href="www.fao.org/hunger"><strong>www.fao.org/hunger</strong>.</a>

Monitor the global food situation:  <a href="www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation">www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation</a>.

Make a donation to support small-scale community food production projects: getinvolved-donate.fao.org

Follow the Hunger Summit via Web cast and photo galleries, starting 16 November:  <a href="www.fao.org/wsfs/world-summit/en/">www.fao.org/wsfs/world-summit/en/</a>

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         <title>Burma court finds Suu Kyi guilty</title>
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Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been sentenced to 18 months of house arrest, after a court found her guilty of violating security laws.

Ms Suu Kyi, a 64-year-old Nobel peace laureate, was on trial for allowing a US national into her lakeside home after he swam there.

Critics of Burma's military regime say the verdict is designed to prevent her from taking part in elections in 2010.

Ms Suu Kyi has spent nearly 14 of the past 20 years in detention.

Her American visitor, John Yettaw, was jailed for seven years including four years of hard labour.

Ms Suu Kyi was taken straight back to her home after the end of the trial, officials said.

She had always denied the charge but said she expected to be convicted.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was "saddened and angry" by the verdict and described the trial as a "sham".

In a strongly-worded statement, Mr Brown said it was "a purely political sentence".

A statement from the office of Nicolas Sarkozy said the French president was calling on the European Union to impose new sanctions on Burma.

The EU presidency said it would impose "additional targeted measures against those responsible for the verdict".

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Aung San Suu Kyi should not have been convicted, and she also called for the release of American citizen John Yettaw. 

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Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has marked a grim 64th birthday in prison, as activists took to the Internet and staged worldwide protests to call for her release and an end to her trial.

Famous names including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Beatles legend Paul McCartney and US actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts offered support on a website while world leaders called for the ruling junta to free her on Friday.

The military regime has kept the Nobel Laureate in detention for 13 of the past 19 years, and she is now on trial at Yangon&apos;s notorious Insein Prison over a bizarre incident in which an American man swam to her home.

Key aide Nyan Win said he had gone to the prison to take her a spicy rice dish, chocolate birthday cake and flowers which she planned to share with guards. He handed over the gifts but was not allowed to see her, he said.

&quot;She ordered the food so that she could donate it to those around her in prison, and there are no other prisoners near her. She will hold a small ceremony there,&quot; said Nyan Win, the spokesman for her National League for Democracy.

Around 300 supporters gathered at the NLD&apos;s headquarters in Yangon and offered food to Buddhist monks at dawn, before releasing 64 doves and balloons into the air in a symbol of freedom before sharing a birthday cake.

Security was tight for the celebrations at the party&apos;s base with plainclothes police officers videotaping people entering the building and five police trucks patrolling nearby, witnesses said.

The ruling generals refused to recognise the NLD&apos;s landslide victory in 1990 elections, and critics say the latest charges against her are trumped up to keep her behind bars for polls promised by the generals in 2010.

Her trial, which could see her jailed for up to five more years, has provoked international outrage and was denounced by US President Barack Obama as a &quot;show trial.&quot;

Myanmar&apos;s top court will next Wednesday hear an appeal by her lawyers to reinstate two witnesses who were barred from testifying, an official said on condition of anonymity.

Events were scheduled in more than 15 cities around the world, ranging from live music and speeches in Malaysia, evening vigils in Ireland and Australia and a party by Myanmar refugees living on the border with Thailand.

McCartney, John Lennon&apos;s widow Yoko Ono and author Salman Rushdie on Friday became the latest celebrities to add special statements of 64 words or less to the website &quot;64 for Suu.&quot;

&quot;Aung San Suu Kyi is an inspiration to her country and the rest of the world,&quot; said McCartney&apos;s message said, while Ono&apos;s read simply: &quot;&quot;FREE Daw Aung San Suu Kyi NOW!&quot;

Britain&apos;s Brown earlier posted a video on the site, while Clooney, Roberts, footballer David Beckham and rocker Bono signed a letter saying: &quot;Now is the time for the international community to speak with one voice: Free Aung San Suu Kyi.&quot;

US actor Kevin Spacey and British celebrities Stephen Fry and Eddie Izzard have left Twitter postings about the campaign.

A global petition was delivered on Monday to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, signed by more than 670,000 people from 220 countries, calling for the release of all of Myanmar&apos;s political prisoners, especially Aung San Suu Kyi.

European Union leaders are to make a 64-word call Friday for her release. They will say she &quot;tirelessly defended the universal values of freedom and democracy,&quot; according to a draft statement.

The US State Department, in a birthday message, urged the junta to free Aung San Suu Kyi &quot;immediately&quot;, while Australia voiced &quot;grave concern&quot; over her treatment.

In Washington, Myanmar exiles toasted the opposition leader at a birthday party on Capitol Hill while in London Brown&apos;s wife Sarah hosted a screening of a film dedicated to her.

Ban is set to travel to Myanmar in early July after a visit to Tokyo, Japan&apos;s Kyodo news agency reported Friday, citing unnamed UN diplomatic sources. There was no immediate confirmation.

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Today for Roberto is... 42!
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For the first time, European Professional Football Leagues will be together fully involved in the fight against hunger and poverty. This will happen at an official launching ceremony during a global press conference to take place on 15 October 2008 at 15:00 hrs at FAO Headquarters in Rome.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Association of the European Football Leagues (EPFL) have engaged in a Cooperation Agreement signed on 14 April 2008 in Lisbon to join forces, using their respective comparative advantages and the power of football, to boost the fight against hunger, especially at a crucial time when world food security is facing new challenges such as soaring food prices, climate change and bioenergy.

Through a joint letter FAO and EPFL have invited European Ministers for Sports, Presidents of the European Professional Football Leagues, Presidents of UEFA and FIFA, Presidents of the Regional Confederations of Football, FAO Goodwill Ambassadors <strong>Roberto Baggio</strong>, Italian football star, and Raúl Gonzalez, Captain of Real de Madrid, as well as the Permanent Representatives of FAO Member countries to FAO in Rome and the international press and media to attend the ceremony.

Important decisions will be announced during the event to showcase the commitment of the 28 European Professional Football Leagues representing more than 960 professional football clubs to the global fight against hunger. 

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Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the nonviolent democratic movement in Myanmar, turns 63. She is confined to house arrest in an isolated residence. Her mail has not always reached her in the last few years and she has no access to a telephone.

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         <description><![CDATA[Here in Italy, I receive more and more fragmented information about what is happening in Burma. Unfortunately, even the news from the mass media is dwindling whereas the current situation in Burma should draw our outmost support and attention.

Recent assessments report over 100.000 deaths without considering the epidemic diseases spreading in the affected area. Despite that, the military junta continues to delay humanitarian aid and dispatches.

Cyclone Nargis hit Burma almost three weeks ago. Rescuers still need to negotiate with the MFA and local authorities to enter the country because the military junta imposes severe restrictions on all humanitarian foreign agencies. We have to treat this cause seriously. As a parent, it is particularly disturbing for me to learn that there are over 30.000 kids starving without any help.

 If the international community does not act promptly, we will all be responsible for not having done enough to avoid this umpteenth disaster.

I am sitting at home, deeply moved by the plight of the Burmese people. I wonder what could be done from here to help them. It is difficult from so far way, but I would like to extend my encouragement and solidarity to those unfortunate people. I am close to you all during these moments of suffering.

Who could remain untouched by a tragedy that involves these innocent people, children, survivors of the rage of the cyclone that are now starving, dying and consumed by dysentery and the never-ending rain and cold.

We have to commit ourselves to do whatever we can to leave no stone unturned.
While survivors threatened by diseases wait for help, health operator teams ready to intervene are prevented from helping by the regime.  Despite the international mobilization and the efforts of the people based in the area, it is extremely difficult to overcome the crisis. 

Our support is a well-deserved reward for their perseverance and outstanding courage.

Survivors, most of whom wounded, need immediate basic assistance i.e.  clean water, shelters and food. It is a fact that the cyclone has reduced to the extreme a country already on its knees from so many years of military dictatorship.

I know that the Burmese are courageous people  who are now fighting against woe and adversity with strength and dignity that has deeply moved the entire  world. My heart is truly with them. I am sure that in these moments of sorrow they have found the strength to carry on. We should not abandon them. They deserve our support. In this way we can make them feel that we are by their side.

I urge the Burmese military junta to let the international humanitarian agencies and the United Nations enter the country to carry on a fast and steady humanitarian intervention in order to save innocent lives and to avoid any further suffering for them. 

I also urge the Burmese military junta to release Peace Noble Laureate and democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi  who has been kept prisoner for most of the last 18 years.


<strong>Roberto Baggio and Vittorio Petrone</strong>



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