ROME - Carlo Tavecchio, the head of the Italian Football Federation, has announced his resignation following Italy’s failure to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1958. Italy's coach Gian Piero Ventura has been absent in his post for almost a week, resigning two days after Italy's exit from the Cup, but it is only now that Tavecchio has agreed to step down.
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PARMA - The former Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore “Totò” Riina will be buried in a communal cemetery in his hometown of Corleone in Sicily. The area has seen the burials of former Mafiosos Michele Navarra and Luciano Liggio, and contains the ashes of Bernando Provenzano.
20 Nov 2017
HELENA LESLIE
OSTIA - Giuliana Di Pillo, the candidate for anti-establishment party 5 Star Movement (5SM), has been elected mayor of the seaside port of Ostia.
20 Nov 2017
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ROME - The ex trophy, second wife of the former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, Veronica Lario, has been ordered to repay 60 million euros to media mogul whose net worth is estimated at 4.1 billion, judicial sources say.
17 Nov 2017
KONRAD VAN HALEWYN
ROME - The “Boss of bosses,” vicious leader of the Sicilian Mafia and convicted murderer of hundreds, Salvatore “Toto” Riina has died aged 87. This king of criminal kings started out from humble beginnings, the eldest son of an impoverished family of farmers near the Sicilian countryside town of Corelone. His father and younger brother were killed when Toto was 13 years old while attempting to disarm an American bomb in 1943.
17 Nov 2017
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ROME - A migrant protestor was killed during a silent protest march from Venice to Rome, police said Thursday. The incident occurred when the man, a 35 year old from the Ivory Coast, was hit by a car. The protest was against the living conditions in the Cona reception centre in Venice.
The protestors planned to march from Venice to Rome. Wednesday night, the first night of the protest, the mayor, Annunzio Belan, offered for the protestors to sleep on buses yet the protestors refused as it would diminish the visibility of their march. Shortly after, the man was struck by the car.
16 Nov 2017
KONRAD VAN HALEWYN
ROME - Pope Francis said Thursday that "It may be morally permissible to give up or suspend the treatment" when death is inevitable. His statements, made at a Pontifical Academy conference on end of life treatment, are a reaction against today’s “insidious temptation to insist on treatments that produce powerful effects on the body, but sometimes do not benefit the person's integral good."
16 Nov 2017
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ROME- In one of the last instances in which Trojan viruses may be used to investigate the majority of criminal activities, investigators have arrested seven people on charges of corruption in a massive illegal gambling ring operating between Malta and Italy, judicial sources said Thursday.
16 Nov 2017
KONRAD VAN HALEWYN
ROME– Flooding has plagued the Adriatic coastal interior of the Italian peninsula. The areas in which the weather conditions have been listed as posing high, or very high, risk to the population are: Campania, Tuscany, Liguria and Emilia-Romagna.
The majority of the flooding is located between the provinces of Pescara and Teramo. Disruption to transport is being felt acutely in Teramo in which the SS 16 has been flooded between the towns of Silvi and Pineto.
16 Nov 2017