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.
MILAN — Saturday morning, the cycling world welcomed the first major classic race of the season: Milan-San Remo. “La Classicissimma” is quite photogenic a race: under an early Spring sun, the race, which is also called “La Primavera”, takes the peloton along the Ligurian coastline to charming San Remo.
ROME — In Pope Francis’ wide-ranging memoir, out this week, the pontiff writes that thanks to a new Vatican inquest into Emanuela Orlandi’s disappearance, “light will be shed on this story, and the truth will emerge.”
ROME -- As the curtain came down on rugby’s international interlude, the Six Nations has left fans and pundits satiated from a show full of spectacle, drama, and surprises. But there was one sub-plot which no one had been expecting. Italy, registering their best ever Six Nations campaign, had been transformed.
With two wins, one draw, and 11 points, few had expected to see Gli Azzurri look so rejuvenated. It would have been even better too if Paolo Garbisi had converted his last-gasp penalty against France.
ROME -- Pope Francis has announced that many of the key issues from the Synod will not be voted on at the October 2024 Synod. Instead they will be handed over to 10 Study Groups who will not report until late in 2025.
ROME -- The 2024 Indian Wells ATP Masters 1000 tournament exceeded all expectation. Which isn’t to say it was an unalloyed joy for on-site fans. Christened the Sunshine Double – the event’s first leg in the California desert was short on heat and long on precipitation. Rain frequently interrupted matches in the early rounds, and temperatures for evening events plunged to the mid-50’s, leaving many courtside seats conspicuously empty and others occupied by shivering spectators huddled under umbrellas, as if at Wimbledon.
