ROME -- Spain’s Equality minister, Ana Redondo, has criticised Giorgia Meloni’s government after the Italian parliament passed a measure allowing anti-abortion activists to enter abortion consultation clinics.
Redondo took to ‘X’ to express her dissent: “Allowing organised pressure against women who want to terminate a pregnancy is undermining a right recognised by law. It is the strategy of the extreme right: to threaten to take away rights, to curb equality between women and men.”
ROME -- Students at the La Sapienza University have gone on a hunger strike inside the university grounds. The protest comes as a result of ongoing tensions between the governing board and students over the Israel-Palestine conflict. Chaining themselves together, the protestors have planned a three-day garrison, calling to open a dialogue with Dean Antonella Polimeni and the academic senate.
Students Francesca Lini and Lorenzo Cusmai explained: “Our country is not yet ready to work to build the conditions for peace, but there is no more time.”
ROME – Daniele De Rossi has agreed to stay on as AS Roma's head coach after the end of the season, AS Roma said on social media.
Former Roma player and “club legend” De Rossi took over as head coach of AS Roma in January, replacing Jose Mourinho after the club was struggling to find its form.
De Rossi’s initial contract only ran to the end of the 2023-24 season, however after an impressive run of form which has seen Roma only lose two games under De Rossi, the club owners Dan and Ryan Friedkin held discussions with the coach to see him continue as permanent manager.
ROME - Amidst the backdrop of the Conference on the Future of Europe and amidst unprecedented challenges and multiple crises, the Euro-Gulf European Center (EGIC) has advanced proposals aimed at charting the course for the forthcoming parliamentary mandate.
ROME -- The Israeli artist and curator, Ruth Patir, has said the Israel pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale will remain closed until “a ceasefire and hostage release agreement is reached.” The exhibition, which should have opened on Tuesday morning, instead displayed a sign stating the team’s decision, and was guarded by Italian soldiers.
Patir explained, “As an artist and educator, I firmly object to cultural boycott, but I have a significant difficulty in presenting a project that speaks about the vulnerability of life in a time of unfathomed disregard for it.”
VATICAN CITY -- During Pope Francis’ Wednesday General Audience, he compared the cardinal virtue of temperance to sipping a good wine, rather than drinking it all at once.
After reflecting on Aristotle’s enkráteia, meaning ‘power over oneself’, the pope focused on the right of measure and enjoying moderately.
Adapting Edgar Lee Masters’ 1915 Spoon River Anthology into the English Theatre of Rome’s 90-minute production, which ran for 10 inventive shows produced by Gaby Ford at John Cabot University was, said adapter-director Irina Tsoutos, “just a bit of a job.”
That seems an understatement.
ROME – The Stellantis car giant has decided to change the name of its new Alfa Romeo Milano SUV to Junior after a squabble with Made in Italy Minister Alfredo Urso who lambasted the former Fiat company for their cheekily choosing an Italian name for a vehicle produced abroad. The new car, produced in a factory in Tychy, Poland, is the first ever Alfa Romeo car to be entirely built outside of Italy.
ROME — Furore and finger-pointing spread through Italy's medical community after a video of pathologists dancing in front of a corpse, mid-autopsy, to '80s hit Gioca Jouer went viral.
In the video, two-dozen odd people follow Claudio Cecchetto's feel-good song's instructions — 'Salutare! Autopstop! Starnuto! Camminare!' — from the head of and the seats in a lecture hall. A corpse partially covered by a white sheet lies on a table at the front of the hall.
