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 ROME – Efforts by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to deliver desperately needed food supplies to Northern Gaza resumed today but were largely unsuccessful. 

 A 14-truck food convoy – the first by WFP since it paused deliveries to the north on 20 February – was turned back by the Israeli Defence Force after a three-hour wait at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint.

6 Mar 2024
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 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called once more for peace and an end to the suffering of people in Ukraine and the Holy Land during his general audience on Wednesday.

 The pontiff, who did not read the catechism this week due to still suffering from a “slight cold”, called for peace during his appeals. He urged worshipers to pray for “people who suffer the horror of war in Ukraine and in the Holy Land as well as other parts of the world.”

6 Mar 2024
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 “Inspire Inclusion”: That’s the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day, a particularly current and meaningful topic given the current sociopolitical and environmental crises through which we are living.

6 Mar 2024
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 ROME – International students attending the University of Cassino have been forced to sleep in parks due to the lack of accommodation, student representative Luigi Gaglione said.

 Gaglione confronted the rector of the university Marco Dell’Isola on Tuesday during the inauguration ceremony for the academic year.

 Dell’Isola claimed that the university was an attractive prospect for foreign students, which Galgione refuted, saying that foreign students were sleeping in parks and in the municipal villa.  

6 Mar 2024
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 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.

5 Mar 2024
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 ROME -- Saturday, Slovene cyclist Tadej Pogačar won the Tuscan race for the second time in his career. Like the first time, in 2022, he broke away early, managed to stay ahead and on a crowded Piazza del Campo crossed the finish line ahead of all of his competitors.

4 Mar 2024
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 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. 

4 Mar 2024
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 ROME – Three Italian Fencing Federation athletes have been accused of sexually abusing a 17-year-old fencer at a training camp in Chianciano Terme, Tuscany, the Siena prosecutor’s office said.

 The gang rape allegedly took place last year between August 4 and 5, at a training camp retreat which several fencing federations participated in. The victim was representing Uzbekistan.

4 Mar 2024
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 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.

1 Mar 2024

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