ROME - A total of 200 British professors have written to the Guardian protesting against the planned collaboration between universities in Great Britain and Cairo, quoting the tragic unresolved murder of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni two years ago, officials said on Thursday.

 “They have put profit before human rights. Employees and managers seem to have forgotten that only two years ago a Cambridge Student was kidnapped, tortured and killed whilst doing research there,” the professors wrote in response to the plan to pursue academic activity and open campuses in Egypt.

ROME - Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, has fired two heads of Italian secret services in one fell swoop, leaving the question of leadership of Italy's intelligence community unanswered.

 Alessandro Pansa, the general director of the DIS (Department of Information Security) and Alberto Manenti, who led the AISE (Italian Foreign Intelligence Service) have been let go unexpectedly by Italian Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini.

ROME - Asia Argento has said to be ‘shocked and hurt’ by the New York Times’ ‘fake news’ which accuses her of having a sexual relationship with underage actor Jimmy Bennett; the Italian ‘#MeToo’ campaigner describes how she was ‘persecuted’, however confirms that Bennett was paid, celebrity sources said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK - Inner City Press journalist Matthew Lee has been “banned for life” from the U.N. after over a decade of reporting on corruption inside the organisation, Mr. Lee said in a letter to the Italian Insider.

 Last month, Mr. Lee was roughed up by U.N. security guards and banned temporarily from attending press conferences (http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/7005). After a 45 day “review” of the ban, U.N. official Alison Smale issued a life ban for the New York journalist.