Jack Morgan Jones

ROME – Serie A went into organisational meltdown on Sunday, with five football matches postponed a mere five hours from kick-off, after sporting events in the northern Italy were cancelled for another week due to the coronavirus outbreak following a new decree from the Italian government. 

2 Mar 2020
JAN FILIPOWICZ

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis Sunday in his weekly Angelus address told the faithful that he is still ill with a cold and will not take part in scheduled spiritual exercises for Lent being held for the Roman Curia outside of the Eternal City.

1 Mar 2020
Insider reporters

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis resumed a streamlined version of his normal gruelling working schedule Saturday, holding several private audiences, but remaining in the Santa Marta guest house, the Vatican said, amid speculation about his state of health after he had cancelled engagements for two days with a 'slight indisposition.'

29 Feb 2020
Insider reporters

 ROME -- Uruguayan executive Mario Lubetkin was terminated as FAO chef de cabinet Friday by the Chinese director general of the UN agency, Qu Dongyu, and replaced by Godfrey Magwenzi, a Zimbabwean former diplomat who has championed the virtues of crocodile burgers, diplomatic sources said.

28 Feb 2020
INSIDER NEWSDESK

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis postponed his engagement with Microsoft, IBM, and other technology companies on Friday, where he was to sign the Vatican''Rome Call for AI Ethics', which aims to promote ethical principles in artificial intelligence, according to the Holy See Press office.

28 Feb 2020
INSIDER NEWSDESK

ROME - Italian President Sergio Mattarella gave a speech on Friday at the 13th anniversary of Telethon, held at the Quirinal Palace, in which he said that “knowledge helps with responsibility and constitutes a strong antidote to irrational and unmotivated fears," in a direct reference to the recent coronavirus panic in Italy.

  "The unity of purpose and the principles of solidarity are a great asset for society, particularly in delicate moments," continued the head of state, as the death toll climbed to 17 with the number of cases at reaching 650.

28 Feb 2020
INSIDER NEWSDESK

LIVORNO – Over three tonnes of cocaine worth 400 million euros was seized in the port of Livorno, on the west coast of Tuscany, in what is the second largest drugs bust in Italy in terms of quantity, reports the Florentine DDA Giuseppe Creazzo.

  The ship had set sail from Colombia, and when it docked in Livorno on Monday it was searched by carabinieri on the basis of a tip off from French investigators. The drugs were found in backpacks that weighed around 37 pounds each.

28 Feb 2020
asia guerreschi

BRUSSELS - Italian Schumann trainees at the European Parliament were left feeling confused by absurd contradictions in their communications with the EU traineeship office on Tuesday, after receiving a single email that said they would not be able to begin the scheme if they had arrived from or passed through the Italian regions of Lombardy, Veneto or Emilia Romagna.

28 Feb 2020
INSIDER NEWSDESK

REGGIO CALABRIA – The Mayor of Sant'Eufemia, Domenico Creazzo, was one of 65 people arrested by police on allegations of electoral blackmail, adjusted trials, and a host of other mafia-related crimes, according to the Anti-Mafia Directorate of Reggio Calabria.

27 Feb 2020

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