ROME - The recent meeting of the G20 – scheduled to take place in Riyadh but held virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic – has been an eloquent example of how the world is drifting, in a crisis

ROME - On Aug.

ROME - I wonder when we will stop referring to the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, and Sweden as the Frugal Four?

Sardinia's best known bandit pulled off the eleventh successful escape of a long criminal career last week when he slipped quietly away from his home in the mountain town of Orgosolo as the supreme

NEW YORK - Black votes matter because there is an imminent election.

MILAN - In the garden of via Palestro, the statue of the famous Italian journalist, Indro Montanelli, sits on a pile of newspapers with a typewriter on his lap.

ROME - The Italian Insider interviewed Marianne Palladino, School Head at the Castelli International School of Rome, to find out about the school’s home-learning prog

SÃO PAULO – While Europe slowly recovers from the most devastating pandemic of the century, for Brazil recovery is still but a distant concept.

“If Hong Kong's role in connecting China to the rest of the world no longer exists, it will be the end of Hong Kong,” said Dalù, a journalist whose brave defiance of the CCP (Chinese Communist Part

ROME - The Italian Insider interviewed Michael Callan, School Head at the American Overseas School of Rome (AOSR), during a testing time for heads of education everywhere, about how the school

BOSTON - “Things fall apart.” These words first surfaced in The Second Coming, a poem by William Butler Yeats.

ROME – COVID-19 isn’t the only thing that has been raging in Italy, though it is tragically the main story.

A lot of societal issues get forgotten during a pandemic, but one scandal that’s worth dragging back up again is that of the ex-League councillor Daniele Beschin, who, before coronavirus totally ca

BRUSSELS – The virus has hit the capital of the EU the hardest, and due to soaring temperatures and blue skies, families and friends locate themselves in near-by parks, as drones fly overhead; a wa

In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, realised that one reason the hospital fatality rate was so high was because doctors didn’t wash their hands.

ROME - There was an air of dread across Europe as the outbreak of COVID-19 sent Italy into national quarantine, with Spain and France a short sprint behind and the rest of the EU, Switzerland, Norw

 ISTANBUL -- Kudret Ozersay, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has announced that he will be an independent candidate in the 2020 Presidential TR

 ROME -- Under the current citizenship laws in Italy, the beginning of a domicile relationship with the streets of your city, is a state which starts at birth.

Gary Celima was born in New York City and lived there until retirement. He has always considered himself Italian, but found moving to his homeland later in life a bureaucratic nightmare.

ROME – Amongst the personified state-characters of international relations analysts, everyone is “interested” in Africa.

ROME - Shortly before the opening of his retrospective, conceptual artist Matt Stadleigh is found floating in the Thames. Suicide is suspected.

ROME - There have been many studies of Benito Mussolini and Rodolfo Valentino but Giorgio Bertellini’s ‘Il Divo and the Duce’ brings them together as celebrities whose seductive masculinity made a

ROME - Flavius Claudius Julianus Caesar, often referred to as "Julian the Apostate", was born in Constantinople in 331 A.D.

ROME - Social Democrats, who had been steadily disappearing following the crisis of 2008, have been making a small comeback in the last year.