NAPLES - A Neapolitan lawyer has made headlines after addressing Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in nothing but his underpants in Campania’s capital, newspapers reported Thursday.
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ROME - David Kirvalidze told the Italian Insider Wednesday about his campaign to become the next Director General of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). You can read our story about that here. Published below is the full interview transcript.
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19 Jun 2019
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Rome – Effective policies and investments are urgently needed if the world's poorest countries are to offer a future to hundreds of millions of marginalized young people living in rural areas, according to a new report released today by the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
19 Jun 2019
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ROME – Georgia’s candidate for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director General, Davit Kirvalidze, pledged Wednesday to involve all professional staff at the UN agency in planning a bold new strategy to emphasize speedy decision-making to help farmers worldwide foster private sector agriculture.
19 Jun 2019
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ROME - Italian football looks set to become the new European home for foreign investors as improved television rights look set to make return on investments for shareholders more lucrative than ever, a leading financial expert in the industry has said.
19 Jun 2019
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CALABRIA - Italy’s neo-fascist Forza Nuova party sparked outrage after they revealed a poster endorsing the political group which pictured Second World War dictator Benito Mussolini.
The new party bill, unveiled in Calabria on Wednesday as part of a new membership recruitment drive for 2019, features a photo of Mussolini smoking captioned by J.R.R. Tolkein’s infamous “Deep roots are not reached by the frost” quote which has been adopted by identity politics of the extreme right on numerous occasions.
19 Jun 2019
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ROME – Italian universities have done significantly better than in previous years in the most recent QS World University Rankings. Milan Polytechnic leads the way, breaking into the top 150, in a ranking which saw Boston’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) break the record in taking first place for the eighth consecutive year, reports La Repubblica.
19 Jun 2019
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ROME - Four men thought to have links to far-right groups in the Eternal City have been detained in connection with the physical assault of a small group of 20-year-old men who were returning home from an open air film festival in Trastevere wearing t-shirts that promoted the event. The attack, seemingly motivated by fascist ideologies, has drawn sharp criticism from across the country and has widely been seen as symptomatic of the “growing climate of intolerance” in Italy’s capital.
19 Jun 2019
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ROME - Italy topped their World Cup group despite losing their final fixture against Brazil in Valenciennes to progress to the Round of 16 knockout stages and ensure a favourable draw.
Le Azzurre went into the game full of confidence. A stunning last-gasp comeback win over group favourites Australia in their first match, and 5-0 demolition of Jamaica in their second, had already ensured Italy’s qualification from the group, a feat they were not expected to achieve before the tournament.
19 Jun 2019