ROME -- Journalists, diplomats and academics met for an informal discussion over breakfast Friday at the capital’s Hotel Giustiniano on the topic of the representation of Latin America in the Italian media and future journalistic relations between the two regions.
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25 Nov 2016
Samantha Wernham
ROME – The ‘International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women’ on Saturday shall see a protest in streets of the Eternal City, from Piazza della Repubblica to Piazza San Giovanni.
25 Nov 2016
DOMINIC THURLOW-WOOD
FLORENCE -- Just seven short days after suffering a humiliating 68-10 defeat against a rampant New Zealand side, Italian rugby bounced back with a vengeance at Florence’s Stadio Franchi, to record a first ever victory over South Africa. The 20-18 scoreline did little to flatter an extremely impressive Italian performance and augurs well for the future under new coach Conor O’Shea.
25 Nov 2016
Philip Willan
ROME - As political rhetoric heated up ahead of the Dec. 4 referendum, critics accused Prime Minister Matteo Renzi of stealing the political ideas of the notorious P2 masonic lodge for his constitutional reforms.
The argument was laid out in detail by Aldo Giannuli, a historian based in Milan who is one of Italy’s leading experts on the political shenanigans of the cold war period.
25 Nov 2016
INSIDER NEWSDESK
Julian Bees, who died in May 2015 at the age of 74, was the driving force behind the first English service of Italy’s top news agency ANSA, in the late 1960s. A graduate in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford, he combined a passion for Italian life and politics, of which he had an encyclopaedic knowledge, with a love of words and a deep analysis of events, which he communicated to generations of colleagues with his trademark wit and journalistic rigour.
25 Nov 2016
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ROME -- Peru’s parliament unanimously voted to ask the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to annul their controversial hiring of Peruvian former first lady Nadine Heredia as head of its liaison office in Geneva, and subsequently threatened to withdraw their country’s ambassador to the UN agency, government sources said Friday.
The Peruvian parliament counted 118 votes in favour of asking the FAO to retract their decision, and received zero votes against it, after the ex-first lady left Peru Tuesday for Europe -- despite having been previously banned from leaving.
25 Nov 2016
INSIDER NEWSDESK
TURIN -- Torrential rainfall throughout Northern Italy has caused the Po and Tanaro rivers to burst their banks and flood the surrounding areas, forcing 400 to be evacuated from their homes and leaving one person missing as regional fire services, rescue teams and the Piedmont Civil Protection Squad are on hand to respond to the damage.
25 Nov 2016
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME -- Victims of miscarriage of justice are being urged to take part in anonymous photographic portraits to spark international public opinion on the death penalty in the United States, headed by the 'Dead man walking - I Do Not Want To Die' © 2016' project coordinator and photographer Alessandro Lisci.
24 Nov 2016
Insider View
ROME – As Peru formally protested to the FAO Thursday over the U.N. agency providing a safe haven for fugitive Peruvian former first lady Nadine Heredia in Geneva, FAO watchers asked how wily operator José Graziano da Silva managed to create a diplomatic clusterfuck.
“Why such a big mistake?” a veteran FAO observer asked, “You would expect that an experienced chess player wouldn´t make an amateur bet.”
“Was he protecting Brazilian former President Lula and his cronies who contributed to the alleged financial wrongdoing by Nadine?” the seasoned observer asked.
24 Nov 2016