ROME-Rafael Nadal won his lucky seventh trophy at the Rome Masters Sunday, crushing Roger Federer 6-1, 6-3 as Serena Williams picked up her second at Foro Italico after 11 years with both players heading into the French Open as major title favourites. Nadal lifted his 41st career trophy on clay and stands 13-2 against Federer on the surface.
Shelly Kittleson
KABUL – Border disputes with Pakistan and Iranian meddling in the country’s internal affairs have recently shifted the focus of Afghans' criticism closer to home.
19 May 2013
Philip Willan
ROME—The funeral of Giulio Andreotti, a personification of political intrigue in Cold War Italy and one of the most influential politicians of his generation, marked the definitive closure of the Christian Democrat epoch.
17 May 2013
Teddy Wolstenholme
ROME-- The English Theatre in Rome was at full capacity this week for Gaby Ford’s performance of ‘A Broad Abroad’. Directed by Dyanne White and written by Ford, the performance is a montage of her real-life experiences: ‘in the pursuit of sanity, four continents are travelled’.
10 May 2013
Insider reporters
BEIRUT – Domenico Quirico, the Italian reporter missing in Syria for more than a month, is presumed to be “in Syrian Government captivity,” diplomatic sources said Friday.
“I think if he had been killed we would have heard about it.,” said one veteran Syria watcher. “But usually it takes a while for the whereabouts of a missing journalist to be established.”
“Most of the journalists who go missing in that area wind up in (Syrian) Government captivity,” the source in Beirut told Italian Insider.
10 May 2013
Teddy Wolstenholme
ROME-- Sapienza University in Rome has agreed to start a cultural cooperation with Istanbul’s Bahçeşehir University after talks began earlier this year.
10 May 2013
Teddy Wolstenholme
ROME--‘Slow Food Story’, a film by director Stefano Sardo previewed in Italy this week at the Cinema delle Quattro Fontane. Telling the story of a cultural and gastronomical revolution, the film is a documentary charting the biography of the Slow Food movement’s founder Carlo Petrini as he sets out to fight against consumerist globalisation.
8 May 2013
Insider reporters
ROME – UKIP leader Nigel Farage took a swipe at Italian maverick Beppe Grillo today, saying the comic does not “have a real platform” unlike the British party.
Farage made the comment on Italy’s powerful MP5 protest party after reading an article in the Italian Insider comparing it to the UKIP written by Torquil Dick-Erikson.
“Torquil, You are quite right to point out that we have a real platform and Grillo does not,” Farage told Dick-Erikson, adding that he was “Watching with interest,” developments in Italy.
6 May 2013
INSIDER NEWSDESK
LONDON – Italy’s continuing “illegal” discrimination against British lecturers working in Italian universities is “wholly unacceptable” the UK Foreign Office says.
Britain intends to raise the lecturers’ plight with the new Italian Government, Foreign Office Minister of State David Liddington said. The minister “was extremely disappointed to hear that the Italian authorities still persist in imposing these illegal salary reductions against foreign lecturers,” he added in a letter to David Petrie, the head of the Association of Foreign Lecturers in Italy ALLSI.
4 May 2013