ROME – The Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has travelled to Cairo to meet with Egyptian president Al Sisi, promising answers from authorities’ investigation into the murder of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni two and a half years ago, but in reality the process has been anything but efficient.
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MILAN - A German couple on holiday in Gardone, Lake Garda, have been filed charges for attempting to avoid a parking fine by running over a police officer.
19 Jul 2018
Lily Begg
ROME - The U.N. may be getting ready to target Parmesan in the battle against salty and fatty foods while outraged Italian politicians and producers are ready to “fight our corner,” according to Italian newspapers.
Special labels could soon appear on foods such as Parma ham and Parmigiano Reggiano (as well as pizza, wine and extra virgin olive oil) to curb the consumption of salt and fat. This is one of the WHO and UN’s recent campaign proposals in the public health battle against diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases.
19 Jul 2018
Caitlin Bodfish
ROME - Dying of cancer, having just arrived in Venice for his ever last holiday with his wife, Micheal Valey was robbed by one of the many thieves who stalk the streets of the city and left an open letter in response, police said on Thursday.
19 Jul 2018
Lily Begg
ROME - Five Star movement leader and Deputy Prime Minister Luigi di Maio was lampooned by the opposition Thursday for hiring a statuesque blonde girlfriend, 26 with no relevant experience, for as much 6,000 euros a month to be his secretary in blatant contradiction with his radical party's pledge to eschew croneyism and nepotism.
19 Jul 2018
Caitlin Bodfish
ROME – As part of a series of lectures on ‘The Middle East in crisis’, Dr Jean Loup Samaan spoke on Wednesday at the Euro-Gulf Information Centre in Rome about the Israel – Iran collision in Lebanon, highlighting how the historical conflict has been escalated by the Syrian War and offers no hope of diplomacy.
18 Jul 2018
Lily Begg
ROME - After being roughed up by New York United Nations Security while covering the U.N. Budget Committee meeting on July 3, the Inner City Press editor and investigative journalist, Matthew Lee, has been banned from attending UN press conferences, Mr. Lee told the Italian Insider.
Mr Lee covers the 6-billion-dollar U.N. peacekeeping budget along with the coverage of other U.N. corruption investigations, such as a recent one into the U.N.’s indifference towards ethnic violence in Cameroon.
18 Jul 2018
Lily Begg
ROME - The reform for self-defence presented by the League leader on Thursday will legitimise “self-defence of the property owner in the case of forced entry or violence against said owner,” government officials announce.
Tomorrow there will be an examination of the bill for the reform of self-defence at the Senate Justice Committee: one of the promised election priorities set out by the leader of the League party, Matteo Salvini.
18 Jul 2018
Caitlin Bodfish
ROME – Carabinieri have been sieving the canals in the lush Maccarese area near Rome after a local reportedly spotted a crocodile swimming there, local authorities said on Wednesday.
The thought of a reptile in the Maccarese area certainly defies belief, but in this seaside area near the Leonardo da Vinci airport in Rome the hunt is on, under the advice of Fiumcino council on which Maccarese depends.
18 Jul 2018