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ROME – The alleged heads of the Spada clan in Ostia were arrested in the early hours of Thursday morning on charges of being a “mafia-type organisation.”

 In a series of co-ordinated dawn raids, 32 believed members of the clan were arrested. Amongst those brought into custody was Carmine Spada, considered to be the boss of the organisation.

25 Jan 2018
JAN FILIPOWICZ

ROME – Apparently a typical former British Army officer, the senior WFP official at the heart of a mushrooming sexual harassment probe became a member of the UN committee setting up rules on sex abuse as well as a security department in New York investigating alleged predators and carried out risky humanitarian work on the front line of a constellation of conflicts.

25 Jan 2018
MILICA OSTOJIC

   SREMSKI KARLOVCI -- Go to Serbia, to Belgrade. Then take the road going North and after about 60 km, stop in a small pictoresque village called Sremski Karlovci. It is the northern province of Vojvodina. It is a place full of history, and one rare pearl of culture for Serbia, with the taste for tradition and the distinctive perfume of basswood. There, everything is self-explainatory: "Bermet" - the special wine; it is one of the first associations when talking about the city.

25 Jan 2018
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ROME – Lazio have been fined €50,000 by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) following the distribution of anti-Semitic stickers of Anne Frank in the kit of arch-rivals, AS Roma, by Lazio’s Irriducibili ultras.

25 Jan 2018
Desmond O'Grady

ROME - Gibbon thought that the Roman Empire collapsed under its own weight, Friedrich Nietzsche suggested that Christianity softened it and there was a Russian scholar who blamed the lead in the Roman water pipes for poisoning the population.

 Kyle Harper claims that climate change and new diseases, such as smallpox, were more decisive in the Empire’s demise than factors such as corruption, poor leadership or the barbarians pressure on the frontiers.

25 Jan 2018
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ROME – Police confirmed that three people had died and that a further 10 were critically injured after a train derailed on the outskirts of Milan in the early hours of Thursday morning.

 The Trenord service was headed towards Milan’s Piazza Garibaldi when it derailed between Segrate and Piotello. The real-time tracker of the train sent its last signal at 6.57 this morning, making that the likely time of the accident.

25 Jan 2018
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 ROME — World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley unveiled sweeping changes bolstering the agency’s policy against sexual harassment Wednesday, pledging to protect whistleblowers and victims so that WFP spearheads a “broader workplace culture” of gender equality.
 
 “It is clear to me that even though the World Food Programme has worked in the last couple of years to combat sexual harassment, sexual abuse and other forms of misconduct, we still have a long way to go,” Mr Beasley said in a letter to staff that was well received by staffers. 
24 Jan 2018
KONRAD VAN HALEWYN
ROME - One of only 25 Italian children to survive the Holocaust, Liliana Segre, 88, is now a senator for life. 
 
 Still bearing the number the Nazis tattooed when the Italian government under Mussolini sent her to her death, she reminds the Italian people that “all this can happen again, in other forms, with other names, in other places, for other reasons. But if every now and then someone will keep the candle of memory burning, the desire for good and peace will be stronger than fanaticism and hatred.”
 
24 Jan 2018
INSIDER NEWSDESK

ROME - Scientists at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genova have developed nanoparticles that can more precisely identify and target dangerous cancer cells in the human body, announcing their work in the ACS Nano journal on Wednesday.

 The particles are the work of an interdisciplinary research group headed by Paolo Decuzzi, director of the Nanomedicine Laboratory at the institute and funded by the European Research Council. It's hoped that the work will pioneer novel cancer treatments.

24 Jan 2018

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