KUWAIT CITY -- “Stop looking at the troops through the binoculars,” Marie told me, “You’ll get us arrested.” As Marie Colvin and I drove around Failaka Island halfway between Iranian missile batteries firing from the Faw peninsula 20 miles to the north and Kuwait 20 miles southward, there was nothing to suggest she would develop a death wish, as some detractors have claimed after she was killed by Syrian shellfire while reporting the Arab Spring.
MARGARET STENHOUSE
ROME -- “Extreme Wines” might just as well be called “Miracle Wines.” Against all odds, a handful of wine producers succeed in cultivating vines in difficult and often dangerous conditions.
20 Mar 2012
Shelly Kittleson
ROME -- Former mujahedin leader and current Afghan Parliamentary Justice Commission chief Hajji Mohammad Mohaqiq visited Rome recently at the invitation of the Afghan community in Italy. Ostensibly the trip was to commemorate the death of the Afghan Shia leader Mazari, but he was to have made use of the occasion to meet with a number of institutional figures on Capitoline Hill, including Rome’s mayor, Gianni Alemanno.
19 Mar 2012
SOPHIE INGE
ROME – Young Italian cancer patients are to be trained to give a karate kick to their disease as part of the international Kids Kicking Cancer (KKC) campaign which has just arrived in the capital.
15 Mar 2012
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME– Franco-Italian photographer Thierry Bruneau has died on the Indian island of Goa at age 33, local authorities and the Italian Consulate said. Bruneau, considered one of the most talented young photographers in Italy, died accidentally Feb. 28.
In November 2010 Thierry scored a major journalistic scoop for by obtaining exclusive photographs of the luxurious villa on the Via Appia Antica occupied by Kanayo Nwanze, the Nigerian president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
14 Mar 2012
ALYX BARKER
ROME -- Incoming Executive Director of the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, said she would build "a movement" towards empowering women in developing countries in order to promote sustainable food security.
In one of her final addresses as US Ambassador to the U.N. food agencies before taking up the mantle as WFP Chief on April 10, Cousin spoke at an event entitled 'are we really superwomen?' at the American University of Rome, organised by the American Women's Association of Rome.
9 Mar 2012
Anonymous
Reviewed by KATHERINE TRAVERS
“Through Stones” by Simon Finn. Ten to One Records.
ROME -- Whatever happened to folk music? In recent years, it has seemed that you can only be a folk musician if you are a hip twenty-something, living in London, probably signed to the label Communion.
8 Mar 2012
SOPHIE INGE
ROME -- From the shadow of a tombstone, a pair of yellow eyes stares steadily as I pick my way over uneven ground. This is my introduction to Teobaldo, one of around 70 cats -- all with names -- who live in the Non-Catholic Cemetery in Rome.
7 Mar 2012
ALYX BARKER
ROME -- Bill Gates, speaking at the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Governing Council, has criticised IFAD and other international food aid organisations for "not doing as much as they should have to fight hunger and poverty” in recent years and called for large-scale reform.
“The world’s agriculture and food system is now outdated and inefficient. Countries, food agencies and donors aren’t working together in a focused and coordinated way,” he said.
23 Feb 2012