PALERMO – Three earthquakes of magnitudes between 2.7 and 3.5 have been recorded between Wednesday night and Thursday morning in region of the Madonie mountains, seismologists report.
The first of the three quakes hit the area at around 22.00 on Wednesday night, before two more were felt within half an hour of each other early on Thursday morning.
ROME – Both Inter Milan and Napoli endured nights-to-forget as the Serie A high-fliers missed out on qualification for the last 16 of the Champions League, overtaken by Tottenham and Liverpool, respectively.
One of Italian football’s darkest nights in recent European history saw Inter only manage a draw at the San Siro against PSV Eindhoven, while Napoli were utterly outclassed by Liverpool at Anfield.
ROME - In light of a huge fire at a waste plant on Via Salaria, Rome’s administration has been urged to tackle the city's refuse crisis. Raggi herself has declared, “what happened has prompted conversion plans in the Salario zone.”
ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has caused "concern" and "embarrassment" from within the Italian defence ministry during a visit to Israel over his comments characterising Hezbollah as “terrorists."
At a press conference in Jerusalem, the Deputy Prime Minister was quoted as saying, “I don’t understand the uproar I’ve read about an agency that defined Hezbollah as Islamic terrorists. If you dig tunnels underground tens of metres encroaching into Israeli territory, I don’t think you’re doing it to go shopping.”
ROME - In a bid to advocate for freedom of the press, Time magazine has awarded the accolade of the 2018 ‘Person of the Year’ to a group of killed and imprisoned journalists. Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, brutally murdered inside Istanbul’s Saudi Arabia consulate in October, was included in the group of so-called “Guardians” of truth.
ROME – Kenyan police have arrested one of three individuals suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of Italian volunteer worker, the Kenyan publication 'Daily Nation' reports on Tuesday, quoting police sources.
"An AK-47 rifle two magazines and 100 rounds of ammunition were recovered from the suspect," police sources report. A reward to the equivalent of around 8,500 euros has been offered to anyone who can provide Kenyan authorities with any information which leads to the arrest of the two remaining suspects.
HELSINKI - A small exhibition, closing at the end of December, produced by the Alvar Aalto Foundation presents the architecture of the Rautatalo building completed on Helsinki’s Keskuskatu Street in 1955.
It illuminates Alvar Aalto’s more private side, such as his family life and numerous journeys to the Mediterranean. Aalto travelled many times to Italy, spending his honeymoon there in 1924.
ROME – A fire that broke out at a refuse plant in the outskirts of Rome has left “toxic smoke” and a “pungent smell” in parts of the capital on Tuesday morning, Rome’s municipal offices report.
A dense column of smoke rose over the plant on Via Salaria, as 12 teams of firefighters were deployed in the early hours of Tuesday morning to contain the fire.
ROME - Messages of disgust began pouring in Monday, as news broke that twenty bronze bricks dedicated to Holocaust victims were stolen from a Roman street overnight. The removal of the bricks, which had been laid in Via Madonna dei Monti 82, has been described as “an anti-Semitic and fascist-like act.”
The Associazione Arte in Memoria, the organisation responsible for the bricks’ original installation, revealed the news Monday morning. The bricks had been dedicated to members of the Di Castro and Di Consiglio families, and were laid on Jan. 9 2012 outside their palace gates.
