ROME – The body of Italian sports journalist, Luigi Esposito, was found badly charred inside of a car abandoned amid burnt brush on the side of a farm track in Eboli, Salerno, police said.
The body of Luigi “Luca” Esposito, 53, was found by firefighters responding to a vegetation fire caused by the car being set alight. The body was so badly charred that first responders could not immediately tell if it was that of a man or a woman.
SAINT MALO-My expat friend would not stop talking about her place in this walled port city, in northwestern France. I didn’t have any idea where it was and would always smile, nod and agree with her.
When the opportunity to escape the extreme heat of summer to the cool northwest Atlantic coast of France, I agreed when she asked me to watch her beloved Teddy for two weeks. The city was no stranger to canines.
ROME – IFAD’s top female povertybusters Carola Alvarez and Constanza Di Nucci are dressing and behaving “as if they were characters in the Devil wears Prada,” flaunting luxury designer brands with full display of logos evidently to show they are untouchable despite an investigation into alleged nepotism together with Spanish President Alvaro Lario, IFAD sources say.
“Alvarez and Di Nucci keep reigning undisturbed,” a well-placed IFAD source told the Insider. “In fact, they’re playing the victims but dressing and behaving as if they were characters in the ‘Devil wears Prada.’”
TORBOLE SUL GARDA, Italy — As fireworks marked the 250th anniversary of American independence across the United States, six U.S. service members stationed in Germany observed the day in a different way: by marching 40 miles along Lake Garda in northern Italy.
ROME – IFAD’s doughty staff association has called for “clear, meaningful consequences” for top managers who abuse their authority but the UN agency’s embattled president Alvaro Lario still has stopped short of curtailing the powers of controversial Managing Director Carola Alvarez, IFAD soures say.
ROME – American President Donald Trump launched another attack Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on social media ahead of a NATO meeting in Ankara later this week, saying that he needs a “restraining order” against her.
Trump shared a photo of Meloni looking at him with the caption “restraining order needed” on his Truth social media, the latest in a series of back-and-forth between the two leaders.
ROME - The World Bank has abandoned a key climate target amid an intense pressure campaign from the US, according to official sources, as external observers accuse bank president Ajay Banga of sacrificing the organisation's principles to ingratiate President Donald Trump.
The bank will no longer aim to direct 45 percent of its financing to projects that have climate benefits, said an official statement on Monday, while assuring its broader climate action plan would continue.
