ROME - Italian officials have dismissed the U.S.’ suggestion that Italy, which failed to qualify for the World Cup, should take Iran’s place in this year’s tournament, according to official sources.
U.S. special envoy Paolo Zampolli made the unprecedented suggestion last week, telling the Financial Times that the Azzuri’s four World Cup trophies meant their inclusion in the partly U.S.-hosted tournament was justified.
Rome-- The Eternal City could be seen as the greatest monument to human ego ever built and Hokusai is the greatest artist who believed that the ego was an illusion. Putting one inside the other is a philosophical confrontation.
Rome— International police checks have been launched into the controversial pardon granted to Nicole Minetti, a statuesque former Lombardy regional councillor, dental hygienist and madame providing sex workers for the late pime minister Silvio Berlusconi, amid questions over whether the clemency request was based on accurate information.
The move follows a request from the Quirinale for the Justice Ministry to urgently verify whether the circumstances that led the President of the Republic to sign the pardon were fully substantiated.
Dear colleagues in Italian Insider
Referring to the articles you published regarding the situation in FAO RNE, the situation remains the same; in fact, after those articles, matters have deteriorated further. The RNE Assistant Director General Abdulakim Elwaer continues to allow the situation to escalate. Individuals in the region are periodically scrutinized after complaints are raised against them for misconduct or corruption; however, the RNE ADG’s position and attitude toward such matters often change over time.
Rome – Conductor Beatrice Venezi, 36, has accused Venice’s Teatro La Fenice of having “defamed, insulted and bullied” her after the opera house ended all future collaboration with her, as the increasingly political dispute widened on Monday.
Vatican City — After 0 intense days in Africa, with stops in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Angola, countries rich in resources yet marked by widespread poverty, Pope Leo XIV used his return flight to deliver a stark message on global inequality and the human cost of conflict.
Rome — A marble head of Aphrodite, weathered by centuries beneath the sea, has emerged into the spotlight once more, not in a museum gallery, but in the lobby of an historic Roman hotel, in a project that is redefining how Italy presents its vast and often unseen cultural patrimony.
BUDAPEST - As Peter Magyar steps into his role as Hungary's incoming Prime Minister, the first critical test of how far he willing to break from the illiberal; authoritarian policies of ousted PM Viktor Orban is what he will do with the controlling shares in two major national enterprises: the oil company MOL and the pharmaceutical group Gedeon Richter.
Rome — Italy’s Foreign Ministry on Wednesday summoned Russia’s ambassador to Rome, Alexey Paramonov, following offensive remarks made on Russian state television about Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, in a move that has further strained already fragile diplomatic ties between Rome and Moscow.
