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.
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
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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
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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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VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has criticised the fake news crisis that is plaguing all forms of media, especially the internet, in his message for World Communication Day.
Calling on the church to recognise fake news for what it is, “a sign of intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes that leads only to the spread of arrogance and hatred.”
He continued, that "the tragedy of disinformation is that it discredits others, presenting them as enemies, to the point of demonizing them and fomenting conflict."
24 Jan 2018
KONRAD VAN HALEWYN
ROME - Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Italy’s “push for reform should continue unquestioned” at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos.
As one of the countries most popular Prime Ministers of recent times, Mr Gentiloni is far more popular than the Democratic Party he represents. Known for his level head and rational policies, he has earned the respect of many EU leaders, including Macron, May, and Merkel.
24 Jan 2018
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ROME - Fresh problems emerged for Serie B football side Foggia Calcio as their president, Fedele Sannella, was arrested by antimafia investigators on charges of money laundering, following the investigation and arrest of its honourary president in Dec 2017.
The Milan Prosecutor arrested Sannella, put the club under temporary receivership and requested a year-long judicial commission to investigate further. It is the first time that such a commission has been requested for a football club.
24 Jan 2018