VATICAN CITY – Two tombs in the Teutonic cemetery will be opened in the most recent effort to solve the mystery of Emanuela Orlandi, 15-year-old Vatican resident who disappeared in 1983, reports Il Messaggero.
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MILAN - A police probe exposing four ‘fake’ non-profit organisations involved in the reception of migrants, has netted 11 arrests and uncovered illegal profits of up to seven million euros, police sources said on Tuesday.
2 Jul 2019
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ROME – New figures for May released by the Italian National Institute for Statistics (Istat) show that the employment rate in Italy reached 59 percent, marking its highest point since 1977, according to Il Fatto Quotidiano.
The unemployment rate, on the other hand, last month fell just below 10 percent. That means that over 27,000 people gained fixed employment from April to May, while the proportion of young people (15-24 years old) without work fell by 0.7 percent in the same period (leaving it at 30.5 percent).
2 Jul 2019
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PIOMBINO – German actress Lisa Martinek has died after falling ill while swimming from her boat near the idyllic island of Elba, reports Il Messaggero.
Ms Martinek, 47, was swimming in the sea while on holiday with her family on the small island, which is some 10 kilometres off the coast of Tuscany. After diving from the boat moored off Sant’Andrea, she lost consciousness and was rescued by her husband, well-known German-Italian actor and director Giulio Ricciarelli, who was on board with their three children.
2 Jul 2019
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LONDON – Italian Thomas Fabbiano is through to the second round of Wimbledon, overcoming the odds to win over world number-six Stefanos Tsitsipas in a five-set battle, reports La Repubblica.
Fabbiano, a 30-year-old from Puglia who is currently ranked 89th in the world, defeated his 20-year-old rival on court two in what was his first every victory against a top-ten opponent. The match ended 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-7, 6-4.
2 Jul 2019
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ROME – Five different Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) attended Wednesday a conference to show their support for Sea Watch, the German migrant-rescue NGO at the centre of a legal dispute with the Italian government. Captain Carola Rackete defied government orders to dock in Lampedusa, but was cleared Tuesday of all initial charges laid against her.
1 Jul 2019
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VALENCIENNES, France – Italy’s remarkable run at the Women’s World Cup was brought to an end by a strong Dutch performance. Le Azzurre return home with heads held high, though, having gone further than any other Italian women’s team in the past two decades.
Second-half goals from Vivianne Miedema (70’) and Stefanie van der Gragt (80’) sealed a match where both teams had to contend with extremely high temperatures. The Netherlands, who are current European champions, will compete in the semi-finals for the first time against either Germany or Sweden on Wednesday.
1 Jul 2019
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ROME - There have been many studies of Benito Mussolini and Rodolfo Valentino but Giorgio Bertellini’s ‘Il Divo and the Duce’ brings them together as celebrities whose seductive masculinity made a huge impact in the United States as well as in Italy. It also brings together cinema studies and politics with particular attention to the role of spin doctors, public relations people, biographers, newspapers and radio.
1 Jul 2019
Riccardo Rubini
ROME - Flavius Claudius Julianus Caesar, often referred to as "Julian the Apostate", was born in Constantinople in 331 A.D. Orphaned as a child, he miraculously survived the internecine wars among emperor Constantine’s male heirs. Julian enjoyed a relatively obscure childhood in Bithynia (today Turkey), where he lived with his grandmother under the protection of Archbishop Eusebius of Nicomedia, and was taught by the renowned pagan scholar Mardonius, a slave of Gothic descent.
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