ROME — Licio Gelli, the head of the secret Propaganda Due (P2) masonic lodge, had reason to feel satisfied as he celebrated his 90th birthday April 21. Lucid and in apparently good health, he has been courted by the media, is the subject of a new book and tv series and may be the protagonist of a mooted Hollywood movie entitled “The Conspirator”. His eminent P2 brother, Silvio Berlusconi, is Italian prime minister, implementing many elements of Gelli’s political programme. A job well done, one might think.
Insider reporters
At least two ships carrying hundreds illegal immigrants trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa have sunk off the Libyan coast in one of the worst tragedies of its kind in the Meditteranean, Libyan coast guard officials said.
31 Mar 2009
Andrea Markos
Brilliantly and ironically written, this book shades a bright light on most foggy areas around the concept of sustainability. Those fastidious obscure points do not fit properly in the reassuring technical solutions to Climate Change. Foster puts a name on those shapeless shadows that inevitably induce the sensation of something being wrong.
26 Jan 2009
Insider reporters
ROME — Prominent members of the Serbian community in Italy marked 130 years of diplomatic relations between Belgrade and Rome Friday at a glittering reception in the Serb Embassy residence in fashionable Monti Parioli. The party may be one of the last Serbian Ambassador Sanda Raskovic-Ivic plays hostess to in the imposing building which likely will pass to Slovenia or Croatia under agreements to divide up property belonging to the former Yugoslavia, diplomatic sources say.
24 Jan 2009
Philip Willan
ROME —The row over Brazil’s refusal to extradite convicted Italian murderer Cesare Battisti showed little sign of diminishing Tuesday as it entered its second week, with politicians of all political hues denouncing the decision as an insult to Italian society.
20 Jan 2009
John Phillips
ROME — A proposed joint venture in Libya between two energy giants, Italy’s Eni and Russia’s Gazprom, is posing an immediate headache for the first U.S. ambassador to take up residence in Tripoli in 36 years.
Ambassador Gene A. Cretz took his post last month in the Libyan capital, at a time when U.S. oil companies are battling to re-establish a presence in the oil-rich North African nation.
12 Jan 2009
John Phillips
TRIPOLI, Libya — Many Libyans rejoiced after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s landmark meeting with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi last week, but a power struggle among the strongman’s sons could plunge the oil-rich nation into chaos if the66year-old leader died suddenly.
26 Nov 2008
John Phillips
AMALFI, Italy — Massimiliano Bonoli and Marisa Horden of the Missoma brand won the best young Italian and United Kingdom jewellery design awards at a dazzling gala presentation on the Amalfi coast last week-end marking the first time the prestigious event was held in Italy.
17 Nov 2008
Megan Williams
ROME --When the need to make out was urgent, not weighed against getting a night’s sleep, my Italian boyfriend and I did what everyone in Italy without their own place does when in need of sex. We drove to one of the well-known parking spots around the city and proceeded to steam up the windows.
While making out in cars is hardly unique to Italy , it’s far more widespread than across the Atlantic . Italians know all too well that how, where and when sex takes place is an issue of space.
13 Oct 2008