BARI -- This is a critical moment in the lives of the Italian University’s former foreign language assistants (Lettori, in Italian).

Reading through the main titles of the Italian press, one can only note here and there the appeal launched by many experts on the peninsula to learn the lessons of the current international turmoi

 VATICAN CITY -- Following the publication of the investigation, the years of the Pope Emeritus’ Bavarian episcopate are in the spotlight.

 When we hear about nuclear power, it seems like Italy is wrapped in a blanket of fear.

 Tired faces, neglected bodies, weak hearts and fragile souls. Men, women and, alas, children, united in the same bitter destiny - to go. But where?

The disgraced former President of Algeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who died at the age of 84 in mid-September, had a low-key funeral, without the honours accorded to his predecessors.

 VERONA -- The decision by the European Commission to send a formal notice to Italy for its failure to comply with the rules of the Union regarding the free

 ROME - The head of the ALLSI foreign lecturers union, David Petrie, Friday welcomed the EU Commission starting infringement proceedings against Italy over the 'lettori' discrimination, saying that

ROME —The statements made by the former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on what he claims is the need to discuss with the Taliban, have aroused much controversy and earned the leader of the Five St

  ROME - It is convenient to have all Shirley Hazzard's stories together, particularly as it is in 

  ROME - The images of the HMS Queen Elizabeth arriving at the Sicilian port of Syracuse this month flanked by an imposing Carrier Strike Group fleet was a remind

  ROME - After Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open, the debate about press conferences keeps cropping up. 

  ROME - For many Palestinians who have struggled for decades for the right to self-determination, the end of the tunnel is endlessly delayed.

  NAPLES - Never again an end like that of the Genoa Bridge. Italian civil engineering must react and demonstrate its efficiency.

  NAPLES - Water is life. From the first page of the Holy Scripture, water is the element in which the Holy Spirit dwells.

  NAPLES - We have arrived at another turning point! 2021 is an election year for the big and important city of Naples.

  NAPLES - A high profile government.

  NAPLES - Too often we are used to considering the South as the land that has had so much wasted funding, that doesn’t give the people work, that is a privileged home to organised crime.

  CORTINA D’AMPEZZO – London street artist, Endless, has recently unveiled his mural: ‘Powder To The People’, promoting 2021 Ski World Championships (Feb. 8 - 21).

  NAPLES - I am a “son of the South”, a businessman, alas, uncontrollably devoted to the “reasons” and the sentiments of culture, of poetry and patronage, that, despite ostracism and prejudice, as

  NAPLES - The spread of Covid-19 is a serious problem that has impacted us now for a year, a virus of infinitesimal proportions but of such power, that has force

 ROME -- Italy has been given, for 2021, the Chairmanship of the Gr

 ROME -- While the Coronavirus has rightly taken much of our attention, a fundamental geopolitical

 SALERNO -- “Faith is love and therefore creates poetry and music.” That’s what Pope Benedict XVI said during an audience.