ROME -- Business owner, Antonello Lovato, has been arrested on charges of murder following the death of Satnam Singh, an Indian migrant worker who bled to death after his arm was severed at work, according to the Carabinieri.
Lyndsay Weatherall
3 Jul 2024
Michael Mewshaw
LONDON -- The first-round headlines at Wimbledon had less to do with what happened on court and what transpired in the doctor’s office. Four seeded women, including Grand Slam winners Aryna Sabalenka and Victoria Azarenka withdrew injured shortly before they were due to play. Then, despite the high hopes for the hometown favourite, Andy Murray, the Scot dropped out before his first match, still not recovered after back surgery for a spinal cyst.
3 Jul 2024
Insider View
I’m the writer and famed Rome-based foreign correspondent Desmond O’Grady’s daughter. I’m Italian mother language but obviously I have dealt with English since forever.
I often helped Dad to write letters and introductions in Italian and I have myself experience as a journalist and writer.
2 Jul 2024
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME – The Ambassador of Kosovo to Italy, H.E. Lendita Haxhitasim, and the Alderman for Culture, Miguel Gotor, presided over the inauguration in the name of Kosovo of a park in Rome’s Olympic Village, marking the first time any space in the Eternal City has been named after the Balkan nation, municipal officials said.
2 Jul 2024
Lyndsay Weatherall
PALERMO -- Funeral notices for the Pergusa Lake have been posted around Enna announcing the death of Sicily’s only natural lake following the area’s ongoing drought.
Marco Greco, the city councillor for Enna and member of the Democratic Party pasted the notices and held the funeral on Sunday with the help of young democrats.
“We have celebrated the death of what was the only natural lake in Sicily for millennia: one of the largest environmental disasters ever seen,” Greco explained.
2 Jul 2024
INSIDER NEWSDESK
PALERMO -- The nineteenth edition for the Sole Luna Doc film festival, was taking place in Palermo this week in the open spaces of the GAM/Modern Art Gallery.
The international documentary film festival scheduled from the 1st to the 7th of July could be found at the Sant'Anna Cloister and Bonet Courtyard, and in the Sala dei 99, inside Palazzo Branciforte, seat of the Fondazione Sicilia.
2 Jul 2024
Michael Mewshaw
LONDON -- Wimbledon 2024 opens with a resounding volley of questions. Will Carlos Alcaraz repeat as champion and win his fourth Grand Slam title? Will Jannik Sinner, the current No. 1, become the first Italian to win the world’s most celebrated grass court tournament? Will Novak Djokovic recover from a miserable season in which he has won no titles and take his 8th championship at Wimbledon, less than a month after knee surgery?
2 Jul 2024
INSIDER NEWSDESK
VATICAN CITY -- Vatican Gendarmes are investigating the death of an American student found hanged in the bathroom of a student dormitory in the Vatican Territory, police have said.
2 Jul 2024
Lyndsay Weatherall
ROME -- Baroness Nosheena Mobarik has urged world leaders to tackle global issues such as conflict, destruction of land, and environmental disasters, calling for those in power to “take all of humanity with us”.
1 Jul 2024