ROME - As many as 21 university students are under investigation for holding a string of illegal raves on university property across the Eternal City.
Antonino Occhiuto
ROME - Peace initiatives aimed at cross-cultural tolerance set out by Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been at the forefront of a concerted effort from the Arab Gulf to combat religious extremism during Islam’s Ramadan. Thanks to their actions, important measures aimed at promoting cross-cultural understanding and social cohesion have taken root, and their actions must be heeded on a wider scale as Islamophobia continues to grow across Europe and further afield.
24 May 2019
INSIDER NEWSDESK
SPERLONGA - An Italian blogger has been ordered to pay 20,000 euros or risk facing a defamation lawsuit by the lawyer of a local architect following the publication of information that linked a construction site to criminal gangs.
Bernardo Bassoli, founder of the Latina Tu blog, now finds himself the victim of blackmail after he published a police report which seemed to suggest that a planning permission issued in Sperlonga seemed to provide land allowances to divisions of a local organised crime gang.
23 May 2019
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME – The prosecution has asked for a life sentence for Massimo Galioto, accused of murdering 19-year old American student Beau Solomon who drowned in the Tiber just 16 hours after arriving in the city, reported La Repubblica.
Roman prosecutors Nadia Plastina and Gennaro Varone pushed for the harshest possible sentence for the homeless man, who has been on trial since Solomon’s body was found two days after his disappearance in 2016.
23 May 2019
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME - Italy’s National Institution for Care and Assistance in the Nursing Profession (ENPAPI) has been shaken by allegations of sex and financial scandals at top administrative levels of the body dating back to 2015.
23 May 2019
Desmond O'Grady
ROME - A journalist friend in Rome who admired Federico Fellini wanted to write a book about him and got his agreement. But after a series of broken appointments followed by improbable excuses, accounts of events which differed each time Fellini told them and annoying lies, my friend abandoned the project and concluded Fellini was as elusive as an eel.
23 May 2019
RACHEL RIGBY
CAMINHA - I first visited Caminha, a small town in North Portugal, in 2017. There was a lot more there than I expected so I made sure to go back there last year.
I flew to Porto airport with a friend and rented a car so we could do a road trip. We started with a visit to the conveniently located town of Braga only a half hour car ride, or 45 minutes by bus, from Porto airport. One can go there as a day trip if staying in Porto, as it’s one hour by train from Porto S. Bento, Porto’s (and perhaps Europe’s) most beautiful train station.
23 May 2019
Mariana Somensi
ROME – The British embassy hosted an event on Tuesday celebrating the revolutionary role of fashion and highlighting its support for the LGBT campaign, Love is GREAT. Speakers at the event discussed amongst other things miniskirts in women's emancipation and the right of the Roman LGBT community to express itself without fear, as Rome gears up for its annual gay pride celebration in June.
The event, in the form of a discussion named “The Aesthetic of Revolution” and held at Villa Wolkonsky, was part of the UK's campaign to promote LGBT rights worldwide.
23 May 2019
Insider reporters
ROME - Italo-British nationals, or expats living abroad in either country, face a momentous decision in the coming European elections: vote against Brexit and let Salvini’s League go unchallenged, or vote against the nascent populist movement and see Britain crash out of the EU without a fight.
As put forward by Enrico Franceschini in an article for La Repubblica, these elections embody the hardest decision that Italians and Brits living abroad have had to face since the European Union’s official founding in Maastricht in 1993.
23 May 2019