ROME -- Barbara Balzerani, ex member of the Brigate Rosse who participated in the killing of Aldo Moro, died age 75 in Rome on Monday, her friends said.

 Nicknamed the “red primrose”, Balzerani was born in 1949 in Colleferro and was the youngest of five. She started getting involved in left-wing circles in 1969, joining the Potere operaio, a radical left wing political group.

 After graduating in philosophy in 1974, she worked in a nursery for handicapped children as an assistant.

 On Saturday, 2 March, the crew of the non-governmental rescue ship Humanity 1 was threatened several times by the so-called Libyan Coast Guard in the central Mediterranean. The people in distress at sea were also threatened at gunpoint as the crew tried to rescue them in international waters. 

 ROME – Condolences have been paid to a priest who was found dead inside a photobooth outside of a school in Rome on Wednesday.

 The priest, 66, was found in the Tor Sapienza area of Rome after a passerby noticed the man inside the photobooth wasn’t moving and called the emergency services. The priest was confirmed dead on the scene, however, has not been named.

 Investigators said there was no signs of violence on the body on examination, leading them to suspect the man died of natural causes. The priest’s body will not be subject to an autopsy.

 ROME – Director Paolo Taviani died aged 92 on Thursday in Rome after a short illness, his family announced.

 Taviani was a well-known director who worked with his brother Vittorio, making famous films such as Padre Padrone and La notte di San Lorenzo, known in English as the Night of the Shooting Stars.