ROME—The World Food Programme, taking the lead among UN agencies in the Eternal City, is tightening its policy against sexual harassment “to strengthen protection for victims as well as to find and punish perpetrators,” a spokesman for WFP Executive Director, David Beasley, said Wednesday.
ROME - Italian director, Luca Guadagnino, has received four Oscar nominations for his film, "Call Me By Your Name."
Guadagnino's film was nominated in the categories for best film, best adapted screenplay, best lead actor (Timothée Chalamet) and best original song for Sufjan Stevens, "Mystery of Love." However, Guadagnino surprisingly missed out on a nomination for best director.
Results will be announced at the ceremony on Sunday March 4, the same day as Italians go to the polls in national elections.
ROME - Announced Tuesday, Roberto Spada, the alleged mafioso who head butted the RAI journalist on camera, is due to go to trial March 30.
Spada, alleged member of the Spada clan in Ostia, attacked RAI journalist Daniele Piervincenzi and Edoardo Anselmi on Nov. 7. Spada head butted Piervincenzi, breaking his nose, before beating him with a pipe as he chased the pair away.
ROME - The name of Herbert Kilpin is barely known outside of Italy and, until recently, was almost forgotten in his adopted city of Milan. It was in Lombardy's capital that Kilpin was to found the Milan Foot-ball and Cricket Club in Dec 1899, the global footballing giant known today as AC Milan.
Kilpin was born in Nottingham in 1870 but moved to Italy in the 1890s to lend expertise in the textile industry. Even before his move, he had a keen interest in all things Italian, even founding a red-shirted youth football team in honour of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
ROME - A woman was shot and killed in the San Giovanni a Teduccio neighbourhood of Naples, Monday night, in a brutal killing bearing the hallmarks of the Camorra clan warfare.
Annamaria Palmieri, 54, was found with three gunshots to the face, having been ambushed near the house of her son on the outskirts of the city in a region often referred to as the "Bronx." The area has recently scene a resurgence of clan fighting but this is the first Camorra-related killing of 2018 in the city.
