ROME – UNESCO is supporting only Palestinian interests regarding Muslim holy places in Jerusalem and disregarding the need to protect Jewish and Christian holy places in the city, the Sant Egidio community said Friday.
ROME -- Director, screenwriter and author Francesco Patierno presents the heart-wrenching documentary Napoli’44 at the Festa del Cinema of Rome this week.
ROME – Giacomo Bruni, the partisan who’s nom de guerre was ‘Arturo’who transported the bodies of Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci to Milan after they were executed by partisans, has died aged 94, his family said Wednesday.
ROME -- Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti was quoted as saying Wednesday that Italy’s soldiers near the Iraqi city of Mosul will not come into direct confrontation with ISIS groups, insisting that there would not be any 'particular dangers' for the Italian military contingent.
WASHINGTON -- Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and wife Agnese were guests at the White House Tuesday, warmly greeted by U.S. President Obama and the First Lady during an end of term dinner that Renzi hopes will persuade Italians to vote for his controversial constitutional reform to give the executive more power over the legislature.
ROME – It would appear that Antonio Conte has settled into life in England rather well. The former Juventus and Italy boss has been entertaining both supporters and the media with his touchline antics and his Chelsea team currently occupy fifth place in the table, just three points off the top.
ROME -- The Italian ‘Slow Food’ organization reacted Tuesday to the Food and Agriculture Organization's newly-released report “The State of Food and Agriculture 2016,” praising its consideration of the relationship between agriculture and climate change, but also critiquing other surprising lacks in the UN agency's report.
ROME -- Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano has confirmed that the trafficking of ancient art smuggled by ISIS into the West, is being exchanged for arms and being used to finance ISIS, with possible involvement of Italian Camorra and ‘Ndrangheta Mafia, ‘La Stampa’ wrote Monday.
A ‘Stampa’ journalist, Domenico Quirico, went to Naples to investigate the situation, posing as a potential art buyer -- a rich art collector from Turin -- in a meeting with an Italian black market art dealer of these works brought over by ISIS.
ROME -- In a spare room at the University of California Rome Study Centre, election day had arrived early last Monday. As students and expats trickled in, a group of smiling, middle-aged volunteers helped them fill out their absentee ballots, and clapped for them when they finished. When voters walked out, they helped themselves to a complimentary glass of soda and cookie. All in all, it less resembled a voting booth than it did a blood drive. Unfortunately, there were no “I voted!” stickers in place of band-aids.