NAPLES – A Neapolitan retired banker has revolutionised the market for neck ties since launching his own brand of cravat in the fashion-conscious southern port city more than 20 years ago. “A handmade tie is an investment, a fundamental detail, the ideal and indispensable compliment to a certain type of clothing,” Giuseppe Tais explains as he shows off his latest elegant creations.
“It condenses the good taste and character of the wearer into a few metres of precious silk.”
MILAN -- As global competition to secure access to critical minerals intensifies, Kazakhstan and Italy have announced joint plans to strengthen diplomatic ties and expand cooperation beyond th
VIENNA – IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has announced he is firing one of the top French nuclear inspectors whom he previously qualified as expert after the Iranian authorities withdrew his designation, sources at the UN atomic energy agency say. Jean-Pierre Gautier is the only French citizen amongst four top inspectors who will not be granted an extension contract upon expiry of their current one, the sources added.
Rome-- Russian ballet star Svetlana Zakharova, a former deputy in Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, is set to perform in Rome this March, despite recent protests that led to the cancellation of her Florence appearances.
ROME – William Supple, an Irish former senior accounts executive at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) with a colourful sense of humour and a gift for friendship, has died at age 85, his family said. Bill Supple joined the FAO after a spell working in South Africa for a diamonds company and rose to a high-level position at the Rome-based UN agency under the reign of the Lebanese director general Edouard Saouma.
Rome-Two Italian nationals have been freed by Venezuelan authorities as part of a large-scale release of detainees, while uncertainty remains over the fate of other Italians still held in the country.
Journalist and political activist Biagio Pilieri, 60, and businessman Luigi Gasperin were among around 250 prisoners released so far, according to officials in Caracas. The move is part of a broader plan that could see up to 400 detainees freed in the coming hours or days.
Rome — The Italian ambassador to Switzerland has said that the owners of the Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, where a deadly New Year’s Eve fire killed 40 people, would have been arrested had the tragedy occurred in Italy.
ROME – FAO director general Qu Dongyu has ushered in the new year in true Chinese Communist style by promulgating five new dubious appointments to assistant director general and hiring a Chinese "diplomat" to coordinate his office and an American diplomat as a senior advisor, FAO sources say.
