ROME- The timeless grace and elegance of one of the most beloved actresses of all time, Audrey Hepburn, are featured in the official poster of the 12th Rome Film Fest, produced by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma chaired by Piera Detassis, with the artistic direction of Antonio Monda.
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NAPLES- The 21-year-old son of Raffaele Notturno, 43, who is head of the Notturno clan, was shot and killed in Naples Monday morning,police said. It is thought that the shooting comes as revenge for clashes between criminal groups in the Southern Italian city or to punish a relative of the victim who could have been collaborating with the police.
18 Sep 2017
MIKE DILIEN
ROME -This weekend, Roman movie theatres “Giulio Cesare” and “Barberini” will be screening "Piazza Vittorio," a charming documentary that ran out of competition at this year’s edition of the Venice Film Festival. In the lagoon city, director Abel Ferrara told “La Repubblica” he wanted to show “as in a diary” the microcosm he calls home: Rome’s Piazza Vittorio.
16 Sep 2017
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PONTIDA- The recent municipal decision in Pontida, courtesy of its mayor Luigi Carozzi (Northern League), which instituted reserved parking spaces for women, but only if straight and with EU citizenship, has shaken the Italian political world, causing Pontida’s first citizen to backtrack.
15 Sep 2017
Eleanor Sly
ROME- A young girl, now 17-years-old, who is originally from Eastern Europe but resident in Florence, managed to escape being married to a man she did not know in a deal stuck by her father for the sum of 15,000 euros.
The girl was kept secretly in a house for four years and promised in marriage to an unknown man. She only managed to get help by explaining the situation to a peer on the chat feature of an online game.
According to sources, her father was arrested and is being tried on grounds of reduction to slavery.
15 Sep 2017
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LECCE- Sixteen-year-old found dead after boyfriend stoned her to death during a fit of jealousy. Noemi Durini had been missing for 10 days, until her 17 year-old boyfriend confessed his crime, and revealed the location of her burial. She was still wearing the clothes she had disappeared in when, on September 3, she left home with her boyfriend, never to return.
14 Sep 2017
Philip Willan
ROME- "Is the Pope a Catholic?" Normally it's a joke question, but in the frenzied climate surrounding Pope Francis' doctrinal reforms, some conservative Catholics are answering: "No. He's a heretic."
Controversy over Jorge Mario Bergoglio's attempts to modernise church teaching on marriage, the eucharist and papal authority itself have created a strange alliance that stretches from anxious theologians and cardinals to some of the more eccentric faithful, who don't believe there has been a valid Pope in the Vatican since Pius XII more than half a century ago.
14 Sep 2017
JAN FILIPOWICZ
ROME -- When the new IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo took over as head of the UN agency on April Fool's day, hopes were high among staff that things would finally change after eight years of abusive and dictatorial mismanagement by flamboyant Nigerian czar Kanayo Nwanze. And the start was good, during the first month Mr Houngbo said all the right things during open forums with staff.
13 Sep 2017
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ROME- A 23-year-old Belgian student managed to avoid an attempted attack at the bottom of Campidoglio in the capital, Tuesday night.
The attacker, a 26-year-old Israli man working at Fiumicino airport, met the girl in a bar and tried to kiss her and allegedly rape her on the steps. The girl apparently tried to resist and shouted out, attracting attention of the police who happened to be nearby. They were separated by the police.
13 Sep 2017