ROME - Sharp critics against the Trump administration’s ‘Deal of the Century’, an economic plan expected to be officially unveiled during the US-led international economic conference in Bahrain on June 25-26, echoed Friday at the Foreign Press Association as representatives of the Palestinian community in Italy discussed the plan and denounced what they called an “extermination of the Palestinian people’s rights”.
JAN FILIPOWICZ
ROME -- The United States will consider withdrawing funding from the FAO if China emerges as official winner Sunday in the election for a new director general of the troubled UN agency, American diplomatic sources said Saturday.
22 Jun 2019
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ROME – A 35-year-old man who has been arrested by local police sheds revealing light on a prostitution racket just outside the capital. In his testimony, he reported that prostitutes who work on the Via Salaria must give half their earnings to a “pimp,” while the cost of “renting” a place on the road is a round 100 euros per week, reported Roma Today.
The prostitutes are all from Eastern Europe, and suffer beatings, death threats and insults if they refuse to comply with the set-up. Their families abroad may also be targeted.
21 Jun 2019
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MILAN – The Order of Architects will commemorate fellow Jewish architects whose names were struck from professional registers in 1939. An evening of remembrance, and warning, will be held on June 27, some 80 years after the event.
Jewish architects were frequently forbidden from working under the fascist regime, as in Milan. Following correspondence between the president of the Civil and Penal Tribunal of Milan and the Fascist union of Milanese Architects, some 12 Jewish colleagues had their right to practice taken away.
21 Jun 2019
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ROME – A Sea Watch vessel carrying 43 migrants on board may soon be able to dock in Germany, after searching for a place to land for the past seven days. Some 50 German municipalities have said they welcome the migrants, though the German government maintains this is an EU issue, reports Il Fatto Quotidiano.
21 Jun 2019
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ROME – Some 11 days after an explosion at the town hall, the brave mayor of Rocca di Papa, the small town in the Alban Hills, has died. Emanuele Crestini died on Thursday evening after a prolonged fight for his life, having sustained injuries making sure others escaped from the burning building, reported La Repubblica.
21 Jun 2019
JOHN PHILLIPS and GABRIEL BARRIE
ROME -- Désirée Giorgetti is a Milanese, French-Italian actress who came screaming and fighting onto the international stage after her debut film, Raffaele Picchio’s Morituris (2011), became the first film in Italy to be censored in 14 years, gaining a heady mix of fame and notoriety along the way. The film is based on the true-life 1976 Circeo rape-murder, with additional zombie legionaries, and its sexual violence and torture scenes were seen by some as gratuitous, if not downright offensive.
20 Jun 2019
Gabriel Barrie
ROME – The murky realm of cultural control, overseas “influence” in the face of declining “hard power,” was the subject of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC)’s most recent talk. The death throes of the British Empire, in the face of a hardening international community and introspective domestic opinion, gave rise to something new in the 1950s. Direct rule was metamorphosed, via wood panelled corridors in Whitehall and high-ceilinged dining rooms in London, into a new way of maintaining Britain’s prestige and international standing: cultural influence in all its varieties.
20 Jun 2019
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ROME - The President of Cinema America’s ex-girlfriend has been threatened and told to keep her former partner quiet following the publicity surrounding the physical assault on four young members of the open-air cinema group on Saturday night.
Valerio Carocci’s ex-girlfriend was allegedly pushed up against the side of a car in Trastevere, where Cinema America is based, and intimidated by two male aggressors. “Tell your boyfriend to calm down,” the two purportedly told her, in reference to Carocci’s vocal opposition against the attacks of the Cinema’s members.
20 Jun 2019