ROME- The Rome Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation, coordinated by the Deputy Prosecutor Giovanni Conzo, into the crimes of counterfeiting of food substances and receiving stolen goods.
The investigation started with a clandestine producer of fake olive oil, who had his operational base in Puglia. By following the supply chain, it was then possible to trace some of his restaurateur customers.
PESARO -- Pesaro, a picturesque city nestled along the Adriatic coast officially crowned as Italy's Capital of Culture for the year 2024 kicked off celebrations with a luminous art performance by Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde
ROME – Ferrari claimed their first victory of the season at the Australian Grand Prix with a one-two finish in Melbourne as Spaniard Carlos Sainz won two weeks after having emergency appendix surgery.
Sainz started the race on the front row in second, behind Max Verstappen on pole position. Charles Leclerc started the race in fourth after Checo Perez was penalised and dropped to sixth in the starting lineup.
ROME - The new Roman headquarters of the Association of the Foreign Press in Italy, ASEI, inaugurated in the presence of the Head of State Sergio Mattarella, gave the Italian and foreign media who described the event the opportunity to revisit memories, of various kinds, Berlusconi's years around Italy, as the new Press headquarters were for many years the Roman residence of the Italian magnate and politician.
GAETA – An inquiry has been opened after a female American soldier fell from a fourth storey balcony while partying in this southern Lazio military port, police said. The unnamed woman, aged 23, was stationed on the US navy’s Sixth Fl flagship “Mount Whitney”, which is moored in Gaeta’s harbour.
ROME – Demonstrations took place throughout Italy on Thursday morning to remember the innocent victims of the mafia, sources said.
March 21 is the National Day of Remembrance for Innocent Victims of the Mafia, a day of remembrance and commitment that started in 1996 before becoming enshrined in law in 2017.
One of the biggest protests was in Rome which was made up of an estimated 40,000 people. Relatives of mafia victims led the procession which was organised by the group Libera dalle Mafie.
NAPLES -- When you think of Naples, you probably don’t think of wine. You may think of pizza…or even fried pizza. If you are ill-informed, you may think of nothing more than a corrupt, crime-ridden city, calling for secretly sewn pockets to conceal valuables throughout your piumini and pantaloni. What one should think, simply, purely, is life.
ROME – An Iranian woman was found dead inside a car with her boyfriend in Secondigliano, Naples, police said. The Iranian moral police have refused to allow her family to repatriate her body on the basis that she was a “sinner.”
Vida Shahvalad, 21, was studying in Caserta and living in Naples at the time of her death. She and her boyfriend, Vincenzo Nocerino, were found inside a parked car in a garage in Secondigliano.
ROME — Famine is imminent in the northern part of the Gaza Strip and the entire population of Gaza is facing crisis levels of food insecurity or worse, according to the new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released Wednesday.
