Lyndsay Weatherall

  VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is set to travel to four countries in South-East Asia for his 45th Apostolic Journey, the Holy See has said.

5 Jul 2024
Lyndsay Weatherall

  ROME -- Carabinieri General, Oreste Liporace, and Lazio based entrepreneur, Ennio De Vellis have been placed under house arrest on charges of corruption, the Public Prosecutor's Office have said.

  On Thursday morning in Milan, the Preliminary Investigation Judge Domenico Santoro ordered house arrest for Liporace and De Vellis. Twelve other people are under investigation, including brothers Massimiliano and William Fabbro, entrepreneurs who were awarded the Carabinieri School contract in 2019.

5 Jul 2024
KATARINA HARRISON-GAZE

 STAITHES, North Yorkshire – Labour won the U.K. general election with 412 seats, a victory described as a “landslide”, ending 14 years of a Conservative government. However, my experience of the election in rural North Yorkshire is probably different to most.

 In some areas, including my constituency of Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, the results were closer than the news might suggest. In my constituency, Labour won for the first time since 2017, with a majority of 214 votes.

5 Jul 2024
Michael Mewshaw

 LONDON -- Tennis is a game of traditions, and a rich literature has grown up around the arcane origins of everything from its scoring system to its etiquette. Reaching back into the mists of time, the game’s historians have gravely discussed the precise dates when men first wore shorts, when the ball went from white to canary yellow, when the tie-break was introduced. Ah, but the humble bathroom break. .

5 Jul 2024
Lyndsay Weatherall

  ROME -- The 64th edition of the Globo d’Oro (Golden Globe awards) was held at the Accademia Tedesca at Villa Massimo on Wednesday evening in a star-studded event celebrating Italian cinema. The film awards, hosted by the artistic directors, journalists Claudio Lavanga and Alina Trabattoni, saw stars from around the world walk the red carpet.

 

4 Jul 2024
INSIDER NEWSDESK

 ROME -- Rome Fiumicino Airport is the Best in Europe for the sixth time in the last seven years, in the category of airports serving over 40 million passengers. The winners were announced yesterday evening in Istanbul by the international trade association ACI (Airport Council International) Europe at the General Assembly, during which European airports that have achieved excellence in various fields are awarded every year.

4 Jul 2024
Michael Mewshaw

 LONDON -- Delightful it was to be at Wimbledon on a dry(ish) day in July. But to be a fan of Italian tennis was purest heaven. Hours before World No. 1 Jannik Sinner took on Matteo Berrettini on Centre Court, the infernal Fabio Fognini, infamous for his cock-of-the-walk strut and Mephistophelian beard, was pitted against Casper Ruud, No. 8 on the ATP computer. Although he had never beaten the Norwegian – never even won a set from him – Fognini, now late in his career, has the capacity to trouble any opponent with his insidious angles and his deceptive change of pace and spin.

4 Jul 2024
Lyndsay Weatherall

  ROME -- A 59 year old man stabbed his older brother to death before decapitating him and tossing the head off their balcony in Benevento on Wednesday, according to the Carabinieri. 

  According to the first reconstructions of the events, Benito Miarelli, 59, had argued with his older brother, Annibale, 65, on Wednesday evening. When Annibale had gone to sleep, Benito entered the bedroom and inflicted multiple stab wounds to his brother’s abdomen and neck. He then beheaded Annibale, throwing his brother’s head off the balcony of the home they shared. 

4 Jul 2024
INSIDER NEWSDESK

  ROME – Senior echelons of the FAO have resumed legal harassment of the Italian Insider, denouncing the newspaper to the Italian judiciary for alleged criminal libel by writing about a senior FAO executive, in another attempt to silence independent reporting of the agency in violation of the UN Charter’s commitment to press freedom, judicial sources say.

4 Jul 2024

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