ROME – On Dec.20, Europe’s 28 Ministers of Environment met in Brussels, to discuss the plan for reducing emissions prepared by the Commission, to comply with the Paris Agreement on climate change. Well, it is now clear that we have lost the battle in keeping the planet as we have known it.
Insider reporters
ROME -- Opposition parties kicked off the Italian general election battle Wednesday by lambasting the planned deployment of 470 Italian troops to Niger that was due to be approved by Italy's Chamber of Deputies this week as President Sergio Mattarella prepared to dissolve parliament on Thursday, formally starting the campaign for an Italian general election expected to be held March 4.
27 Dec 2017
Gianfranco Nitti
HELSINKI -- In the various international rankings, Finland regularly conquers top positions despite its relatively small number of inhabitants. It also claims to be the only country in the world apart from the Vatican with a regular radio programme in Latin. Now the axe of saving, or globalization, is going to make the Nordic country lose this not negligible characteristic.
27 Dec 2017
John Phillips
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis issued a heartfelt Christmas Day appeal for peace in Jerusalem and the Holy Land Monday, calling for “peaceful co-existence of two States” in an Urbi et Orbi address that clearly rejected U.S. President Trump’s call for Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel.
25 Dec 2017
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CATANIA – A Sicilian ambulance worker has been arrested on charges of murdering three elderly patients in his care in order to charge their families money for funerals, according to the public prosecutors of Paternò.
21 Dec 2017
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ROME – A senior FAO official told a court Thursday that Italian Insider had "scandalously" accused him of "providing prostitutes" for former FAO director general Jacques Diouf, strongly denying any such activities as well as denying an Insider report that he rigged the appointment of an FAO press officer.
21 Dec 2017
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ROME - The giant Christmas tree erected in Piazza Venezia is officially dead, confirmed Rome’s Environmental Department this week. For the second year running, the pine tree erected next to the colossal Altare Della Patria, in one of the busiest squares in Rome, has been subject to international ridicule.
20 Dec 2017
Virginia Ingram
CANBERRA - The Royal Commission into the Institutional Responses of Child Sexual Abuse has undertaken the important tasks of investigating the extent of child sexual abuse in institutions in Australia and of providing a hearing for the victims of child sexual abuse - many of whom have suffered significantly.
20 Dec 2017
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ZOHR - Italian oil refinery company ENI has produced its first gas from the largest gas field ever found in the Mediterranean, the group officially announced Wednesday. The gas group, owned 30 percent by the Italian State, has had rapid success in the region, reportedly finding 850 billion cubic metres of gas in Zohr, Egypt, under the seabed close to the Suez Canal opening.
20 Dec 2017