ROME – The FAO barred Italian Insider's Colombian news reporter Nathalie Kantaris Diaz from attending a news conference by the Colombian President, Manuel Santos, at the UN agency Thursday in the latest in a rash of censorship acts against the Insider by the FAO Press office head Enrique Yevez.
Christopher Lamb
ROME -- Civil war has broken out in the Knights of Malta after the Order’s English Grand Master, Fra' Matthew Festing, threatened disciplinary action against any member criticising the decision to sack one of his top aides.
The Grand Master last week dismissed Senior Knight Albrecht Boeselager after he was accused of being a “liberal Catholic” who refused to follow Church teaching.
15 Dec 2016
Samantha Wernham
ROME -- Gerson Santos da Silva, Gabriel Barbosa Almeida (known as Gabigol), Marko Rog and Marko Pjaca are worth 83 million euros collectively, yet have played less than 400 minutes overall between them, (of which only 180 minutes for Serie A), meaning the four footballers technically received 450,000 euros for each minute on the pitch.
15 Dec 2016
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME -- The law to reimburse and reconstruct 100 percent of the damage caused by the earthquakes in central Italy over August and October of this year was approved in a unanimous decision Wednesday, judicial sources say.
Support for the families affected and businesses damaged, the ruling also refers to the reconstruction of buildings, infrastructure and places of cultural and historic value.
15 Dec 2016
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME -- Newly-appointed Education Minister Valeria Fedeli lied about having a degree on her online CV, critics said Thursday.
On the new Education Minister’s website (www.valeriafedeli.it), she has published a CV which reads on the second line, “Degree in Social Services” -- equivalent to the existing Social Sciences degree.
15 Dec 2016
INSIDER NEWSDESK
TURIN -- Anarchists sprayed the exterior of Il Coffee Corner Lavazza bar black Sunday night in a protest against the gentrification of the area, almost completely covering the windows with varnish in a public demonstration similar to that of the Cereal Killer Café in Shoreditch, England, back in 2015.
15 Dec 2016
FLORENCE BROCK
NAPLES -- Governor of the Campania Region, Vincenzo De Luca has been placed under investigation for statements he allegedly made during a Nov. 15 rally, addressing approximately 300 local administrators and urging them to procure ‘yes’ votes for the national referendum.
In what started as the Public Prosecutor’s Office's decision to look into the facts they considered to be without suspect of law infraction on Nov. 24, has now turned into a hypothesis of a criminal act -- instigation into vote buying.
15 Dec 2016
Samantha Wernham
ROME – Giulia Spizzichino, the Roman Jewess who lost 24 relatives in Auschwitz and in the Ardeatine massacre of 1944 at the hands of German occupation troops and who later played the lead role in the extradition of Erich Priebke, Commander of the SS, died aged 90.
14 Dec 2016
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME -- The Joel Nafuma Refugee Centre plays an integral role in providing a range of services to refugees in Rome and relies very much on the support of the public. In the midst of a global refugee crisis, this year’s Christmas Gift Appeal is a concrete way that your family, faith community, school, or organisation can be part of a local response and solution.
14 Dec 2016