Widespread outrage in Italy, as gruesome details of the Tramontano murder are released

Sara Zaat
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ROME – Giulia Tramontano, a 29-year-old pregnant woman was found brutally murdered in Milan by her two-timing fiancé, a former barman at an Armani hotel,

Italy
3 Jun 2023
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Foreign press footballers honour colleague killed in Ukraine

Philip Willan

 ROME — Members of Rome’s Foreign Press Football Club have paid tribute to their colleague Arman Soldin, who was killed in Ukraine last month at the age of 32, with a match staged in his honour. Soldin, who was video coordinator for AFP in Ukraine, had been a popular member of the club as well as one of its better players.

Embassy Row, Sport
2 Jun 2023
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Riddle of Lake Maggiore deadly Italo-Israeli spy party deepens

Sara Zaat
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 ROME – An investigation into the house boat that capsized on Lake Maggiore this week, leaving four people dead, has disclosed that several revelers on board the vessel rented for an impromptu floating nocturnal 'birthday party' were fun-loving Italian '007s' -- spies -- and members of the Israeli Mossad intelligence service on the razzle, intelligence sources say. Investigators said the boat was carrying more secret passengers than its maximum capacity, making it a tragedy waiting to happen when freak bad weather apparently struck. 

Italy
31 May 2023
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FAO sex harassment fiasco 'underlines need for external investigations'

JAN FILIPOWICZ

 ROME – Investigations of cases of alleged sexual harassment and other misconduct at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other UN agencies will never be fair until they are carried out by outside, independent investigators since ‘self-regulation’ does not work in the UN system, Peter Gallo, a founder of the ‘Hear their Cries’ NGO fighting sex abuse inside the UN, said Monday.

U.N., Embassy Row
29 May 2023

Medical centre reopens with free exams after flood and robbery

Nicoletta Karpinska

 ROME – In the wake of the devastating flood that struck the region of Emilia-Romagna, the Astrea centre of Cerba Healthcare in Faenza was looted of most of its medical equipement by unknown thieves.

 

 Despite the material damage and loss caused by the looters, the medical center has reopened announcing it will provide free medical exams until the end of June. The people who wish to be examined can do so without the need of providing any medical documentation acquired beforehand. 

 

Italy
3 Jun 2023
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