DUBAI, UAE -- Arriving in this sand-swept emirate by car is quite an extravaganza. The eight-lane highway is lined with colossal new buildings, the skyline is filled with cranes building even more towers, and the city seems like it is drinking Redbull. The star of the show is Burj Khalifa, currently the tallest building in the world.
Josephine de La Bruyère
ROME – Celebrating its tenth anniversary with a lively round-table discussion at the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) Via Gregoriana HQ, the think tank shared a number of rosy predictions for the year ahead. EGIC's global outlook is, "for the first time in a long time, optimistic," leadership said.
20 Jan 2025
John Phillips
TURIN – Paolo Garella, a visionary engineer who founded the MAT boutique luxury car manufacturer, is typical of the elite group of creative small businessmen keeping the city’s automobile industry alive today as giant Stellantis downsizes its historic Fiat production that once dominated the economy of the Piedmontese capital. Ten years after the business was launched, Ing.
20 Jan 2025
Ophelia Gregory
ROME – A woman has been ordered to return a luxury apartment in Sanremo gifted to her by a former partner on the ground of 'ingratitude' after publicly flaunting her new relationship, the Supreme Court has ruled.
The apartment was set to become the residence of the anonymous protagonists, had Pietro* not discovered that Federica* had been unfaithful to him for quite some time.
20 Jan 2025
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME – UN World Food Programme convoys crossed into Gaza from the north and south on Sunday as the long-awaited ceasefire came into effect. The ceasefire is allowing the agency to bring in urgently needed food aid at scale and begin pulling the war-ravaged territory back from starvation.
20 Jan 2025
Michael Mewshaw
ROME - The Australian Open tennis tournament advertises itself as “The Happy Slam.” It might be more accurate to dub it The Mixed Emotions Slam. The first major event of the year has historically been marked by early-round upsets, injuries and controversies on court and off.
20 Jan 2025
Josephine de La Bruyère
ROME — The Left upped pressure for tourism minister Daniela Santanchè to resign after a Milan judge ruled on Jan. 17 that the embattled senator will stand trial for financial crimes this March.
Five Star Movement leader Giuseppe Conte told press he planned to call a motion of no confidence in Santanchè. “Parliament has the duty not to close its eyes,” the former Prime Minister said.
18 Jan 2025
MOURAD ROUIGHI
SAN MARINO — San Marino Captains Regents Francesca Civerchia and Dalibor Riccardi certified Mohamed Khelifi as Ambassador of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria to the Republic of San Marino during a ceremony held January 14 at San Marino's Palazzo Pubblico.
17 Jan 2025
Ophelia Gregory
ROME – Schools in eastern Sicily were closed Friday due to red alerts for the risk of heavy rainfall, including in the provinces of Catania, Messina and Syracuse. They remained open in Palermo.
The main risk of heavy showers was in the provinces of Messina, Catania, Syracuse, Ragusa, Caltanissetta and Enna.
There could be scattered or widespread rainfall, including showers or thunderstorms on the island, warned regional civil protection.
There were also closures and limited rail services. Sicily was not the only region affected by bad weather.
17 Jan 2025