VATICAN CITY– The former papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, was placed under house arrest within the Vatican on Tuesday, church officials announced.
Philip Willan
ROME—It may seem churlish to criticise one’s publisher and blame him for the commercial failure of one’s book, but anyway here goes.
I was a satisfied iUniverse customer, until recently.
In 2002 I republished my first book, “Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy”, which has sold slowly but steadily ever since. It had been published in hardback by Constable in the United Kingdom in 1991 and had been out of print for several years.
13 Sep 2014
John Phillips
ROME– Kuwait's Emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber, will continue to work for peace after the UN named him a “world humanitarian leader,” the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Italy said Friday.
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon this week gave the Emir the special title and named Kuwait a “global humanitarian centre” after an international conference held in Kuwait City to help the displaced and devastated civilians in the Syrian conflict raised as much as dlrs 2.4 billion including dlrs 500 million pledged by Kuwait .
12 Sep 2014
Cornelius Sullivan
CARRARA - I am carving a block of marble from the Michelangelo Quarry in Carrara in an outdoor studio by the side of the road that leads to that quarry. I am told that where I am standing is the old road that Michelangelo would have walked daily going to the city below and to the quarries above.
Even though Michelangelo is a large industry here, no one has bothered to learn in particular how he carved, that very thing which most reveals how he thought, indeed that individual attribute which explains why he was such a great artist.
11 Sep 2014
Desmond O'Grady
REVIEW - Hack Attack: How the Truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch, by Nick Davies, Chatto & Windus.
11 Sep 2014
Hannah McIntyre
ROME – At the Turkish Embassy Esin Zeynep Selvi has been appointed as the new head of the Office of Culture.
“I am very happy to be in Rome and to be working at our seat in Italy,” says Selvi, “Italians have a special appreciation of what Turkey has to offer to tourists, in particular our art, culture, archaeology, history, coast and cuisine,”
5 Sep 2014
Anonymous
ROME – “Remember if something happens to me I want you to see to my burial in Port Stanley,” Mike Sposito told a friend last year, adding: “liver to be buried separately with full military honours.”
“You'll also probably see a lot of shxx about me on Facebook, which I would appreciate you countering,” he continued, “Subic Bay is sure to come up, that thing that happened to me there, where I dropped five grand of company money and woke up Monday morning with my pants down around my ankles and pink cowboy boots on.”
1 Sep 2014
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva insisted the UN agency buy him a brand new Mercedes despite at least seven other limousines being in the car pool for him to use, FAO sources said.
26 Aug 2014
Philip Willan
Rome—Italy’s debate over what to do about the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been overshadowed by a furious row over the ill-judged comments of Alessandro Di Battista, an MP for the Five Star Movement (M5S) and deputy chairman of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee.
Founded by the comedian Beppe Grillo and catapaulted to success by his fiery rhetoric, the M5S appears to be developing the navel-gazing self-absorption of the corrupt traditional parties that it seeks to replace.
25 Aug 2014