COURMAYER – A 24-year-old Italian snowboarder has died while in an off-piste area in the Valle d’Aosta region of the Italian Alps, police sources report.
Julian Impagliazzo fell from a rock ledge at an altitude of 1800 metres in the Plan de la Gabba area of the resort, which had been closed for safety reasons.
A friend, who was snowboarding alongside him, alerted the mountain rescue team, who helicoptered a doctor to the site of the fall, but nothing could be done to resuscitate Impagliazzo.
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ROME – Las Vegas police have issued a warrant for Cristiano Ronaldo’s DNA sample as part of an ongoing investigation into rape allegations made against the Juventus player.
The authorities wish to ascertain if Ronaldo’s sample matches the DNA found on the dress of Kathryn Mayorga, the woman accusing the Portuguese striker of rape, according to a law-enforcement official close to the case.
Ronaldo has repeatedly refuted the allegation made by Mayorga that he sexually assaulted her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009, branding it “fake news.”
CALABRIA – A group of 51 migrants landed on Italian shores on Thursday, having travelled on a sailing boat from Turkey, the interior ministry reports.
The group, all of Kurdish descent, arrived on a beach in the town of Torre Melissa in Calabria and taken to a hotel by local residents, among them six women and four children, one just a few months old.
Two alleged people smugglers were arrested by Italian police authorities after the boat came to shore.
ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini announced his intention to “give meaning to the European dream” in a meeting with Polish majority leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
In anticipation of the upcoming European Union elections, set to take place in late May, Salvini met with Kaczynski, leader of Poland’s conservative Law and Order party (PiS), to discuss how to overhaul the Socialist-PPE (European People’s Party) majority in Brussels.
ROME – The death of immunologist Fernando Aiuti, a prominent figure in the fight against AIDS, in the Gemili Hospital is being investigated as a possible suicide, police sources report.
The 83-year-old reportedly fell over 10 metres down a stairwell near the ward where he was receiving treatment for a chronic heart condition. His slippers were found on the landing from where he fell, police sources say.
The death occurred “due to the immediate complications of a fall trauma from the flight of stairs adjacent to the hospital ward,” a statement from the hospital reads.
ROME – Italy is among eight European countries set to accept migrants from the German NGO vessels currently at sea despite protests from some Italian politicians, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced on Wednesday.
Having been stranded at sea for over two weeks, the 49 asylum seekers on board the Sea Watch and Sea Eye rescue ships will be transferred to Maltese military vessels before being received by eight EU countries.
ROME - The person most qualified to write the foreword for this latest work by Riccardo Petrella, In the Name of Humanity, would actually be Pope Francis, who, using other words but speaking of values and making denouncements, has often argued what the reader will find in the following pages. I quote him, because words like “solidarity”, “equality”, “social justice” or “participation” – now used only by Pope Francis I – have now disappeared from today’s political vocabulary.
ROME – A funeral will be held on Wednesday evening by the Sant’Egidio Community for Nereo, a homeless man killed in a hit-and-run incident, according to a press release from the Catholic organisation.
The man’s body was discovered under the Sublicio Bridge on Tuesday morning, the eighth homeless death in the Eternal City since the beginning of winter. The Community urges everyone to do more to protect the most vulnerable in light of this statistic.
PISA – The Chancellor of the Scuola Normale Superiore Vincenzo Barone is set to resign on Wednesday after representatives from the university delivered a no-confidence vote, academic sources report.
The university’s Academic Senate voted 12 in favour, with one abstention, of the no-confidence motion on Tuesday afternoon, leading Barone to confirm his resignation in front of the Senate on Wednesday.
