ROME – Visitors to Pompeii received a guided tour of the area from Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of the Archaeological Park of Pompei, sources said.

 A workers’ union meeting on Tuesday, which involved nearly all the workers at Pompeii, meant that the usual 9 a.m. opening time was delayed until 10:30 a.m. Only certain areas of the park were open until midday due to a lack of security.  

Julian Assange is not universally admired. His revelation of Western military secrets was unsettling to many. An awkward character, who quarrelled with journalistic colleagues and became an unwelcome guest during his seven years of incarceration in the embassy of Ecuador in London, he now risks extradition to the United States and a prison sentence for espionage of up to 175 years. 

 ROME – Efforts by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to deliver desperately needed food supplies to Northern Gaza resumed today but were largely unsuccessful. 

 A 14-truck food convoy – the first by WFP since it paused deliveries to the north on 20 February – was turned back by the Israeli Defence Force after a three-hour wait at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint.

 “Inspire Inclusion”: That’s the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day, a particularly current and meaningful topic given the current sociopolitical and environmental crises through which we are living.