ROME - Italian Ombudsman demands that the Ministry of Justice remove from the internet a video gloating the arrest in Bolivia of left-wing terrorist Cesare Battisti which is seen as infringing prisoners' rights, Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.
“I hope he will remove it,” The National Guarantor for the rights of prisoners, Mauro Palma declared as he criticised the video-spot of Cesare Battisti’s arrest published by the Minister of Justice, Alfonso Bonafede.
VATICAN CITY – A collection of the hundreds of speeches, letters and appeals made by Pope Francis advocating for the acceptance of migrants across the world has been published by the Vatican, Il Messaggero reports.
ROME – A Cristiano Ronaldo header was enough to seal a second straight Supercoppa trophy for Juventus, a match widely criticised for being played in Saudi Arabia.
The Portuguese forward’s 16th goal of the season in all competitions broke the deadlock against 2018 Coppa Italia runners-up AC Milan after 61 minutes and was enough to bring Juve their first silverware of the 2018-19 campaign.
NIAMEY - Prime Minister of Italy Giuseppe Conte is calling for Europe to invest “more in the Trust Fund for Africa and in cooperation processes,” and said, “No more deaths in the Mediterranean” at a press conference with Niger President Mahamadou Issoufou in Niamey Tuesday, Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.
ROME – The Interior Ministry has upped its search for the 27 remaining fugitives of Italian justice, 12 of whom are allegedly in France, after the successful arrest and extradition of former Communist militant Cesare Battisti, Il Messaggero reports.
NAPLES - A bomb was detonated on Tuesday night in the heart of this southern city in front of Pizzeria Sorbillo, the most famous pizzeria in the city if not across the whole of Italy, police report.
ROME – An Italian judge on Tuesday adjourned to Jan. 25 the libel case brought against Italian Insider’s chief editor by FAO executives, after cross-examining a language expert who challenged the quality of Italian translations of allegedly libellous articles, including critiquing a mistranslation of the English word “pisspoor.”
OXFORD – Co-founder of the Five Star Movement Beppe Grillo was booed by attendees as his address at the prestigious Oxford Union came to a close, Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.
Introduced to the audience as an “actor, comedian and political activist,” Grillo entered wearing a blindfold, a metaphor of “what America, Europe, the whole world is becoming,” before claiming that the press is the “real populist danger.”
ROME - After much confusion the Mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, has confirmed that the money collected from the Trevi Fountain will continue to be given to the Diocesan Caritas of Rome, Il Fatto Quotidiano reported.
