ROME - Club legend Daniele De Rossi is set to leave AS Roma this summer following 18 seasons with the club. His departure, however, has been overshadowed by club’s handling of the matter which sparked outcry amongst Roma’s tifosi.
De Rossi, who joined Roma in 2000, has been a stalwart of the club’s success in the 21st-century and has won the Coppa Italia twice and the Supercoppa once with the Giallorossi during that time.
ROME – Following reports from Repubblica on new government plans for the Italian intelligence agencies, the Democratic Party (PD) has gone on the offensive. PD head in the Senate Luigi Zanda was vocal in his criticisms of the plans and called for clarity from Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in parliament.
ROME - Lazio struck twice in the closing stages of a breath-taking Coppa Italia final against Atalanta to seal a 2-0 victory in a match marred by violence before the game that saw five Lazio supporters arrested.
Quick-fire goals from Sergej Milinković-Savić and Joaquín Correa ultimately proved enough to see off a strong Atalanta side and bring home a seventh Coppa Italia for the Biancocelesti, much to the delight of the 40,000 home supporters packed into the Stadio Olimpico.
Rome - The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, in keeping with custom, received members of the board of the Foreign Press Association in Italy (ASEI) at the Quirinale Palace on Tuesday.
TRIPOLI - Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar has deployed troops and is making his way to Sirte on the Libyan coast, according to the London-based newspaper Asharq-Al-Awsat.
Haftar is the powerful leader of the Libyan National Army who is loyal to the Libyan House of Representatives (HoR), the so-called “Tobruk government,” who were controversially elected in 2014. Their rule is disputed by the General National Congress (GNC) in what turned into a second phase of the Libyan Civil War, ongoing since the Arab Spring in 2011.
TURIN – The Lega Nord has called for the director of the international Turin book fair Nicola Lagioia to resign, while M5S and PD are defending him.
ROME – The United States is considering supporting dark horse Georgia in the upcoming election for the new chief of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on the ground that the former Soviet country is largely a Russian client state and such a vote would play into the warm friendship between President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, diplomatic sources say.
ROME - Pope Francis’ Polish Almoner is under investigation by Italian authorities after news broke that he had restored power to a building occupied by homeless squatters in Rome on Sunday.
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the pope’s official alms-giver, made headlines when he climbed down a manhole to turn on the electricity supply at the Santa Croce in Gerusalemme housing block in Rome, which had been cut off a week earlier by Acea, the building’s energy supplier.
SYRACUSE – The renowned architect Stefano Boeri has recast Greek tragedy into a twenty-first century form, altering the ancient art form perhaps more than he realises.
