ROME – The alleged murderers of Luca Sacchi have been arrested as investigators examine whether drug dealing played a role in the homicide on Wednesday, judicial sources report.

 Luca Sacchi was shot in the head on Wednesday evening and died in hospital.

 The man who fired the gun has been named as Valerio Del Grosso by Corrado Capiello, preliminary investigations magistrate of Rome.  He and his companion Paolo Pirino, both 21-year-old Romans, have been arrested and charged with homicide.

 ROME – Donald Olson’s new play Oscar and Walt was performed for the first time on Friday at John Cabot University.  Inspired by real events, it depicts a meeting between two unquestioned literary geniuses, Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman, imagining how they would have interacted in an energetic burst of humour, sadness and discussion of poetry.

 The action of the play – never moving from Whitman’s “den” – is limited to this meeting, its anticipation and its aftermath. 

 ROME – The Italian Insider approaches its 10^th anniversary amidst future uncertainty, but reflects on a decade of journalism from dozens of young reporters, many of them students or interns who are just setting out in the industry. A great number have gone on to work for national media outlets like ITN, the Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, and NME. They pay homage to their first taste in journalism as a defining and instructive experience.

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 ROME – At a conference held by the European and Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) emphasis was placed on the lack of clarity of European and American policy on non-state actors in the Mediterranean and Gulf region.  The conference's second panel, in particular, explained how in Europe and the USA, even within NATO, there is no consensus on how to react to non-state actors in the region, and how their treatment of such actors can and has led to unexpected difficulties.