Tarquin Parry-Wingfield

 ROME -Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán began at around 15:45 and lasted about one hour and a half. There was no press inside, just a official statement afterwards which was full of meaningless phrases as an attempt to feign a consolidated approach to challenges such as the war in the Ukraine. 

5 Dec 2024
INSIDER NEWSDESK

 ROME - Sister Anna Donelli has been placed under house arrest for her alleged association with the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, Il Fatto Quotidiano have reported. In addition to the nun, former city councelor of Brescia, Giovanni Acri, as well as Mauro Galeazzi, a former member of the Lega a Castel Mella, have been arrested.

 Sister Anna is accused of external collusion. According to the police, she took care of “guaranteeing the [mafia] connection with prison detainees … taking advantage of the spiritual assignment that allowed her to have free access to prison facilities.”

5 Dec 2024
David Bayne-Jardine

 ROME - An Egyptian man has testified to witnessing in prison the torture of Giulio Regeni, the Italian researcher who was allegedly detained, attacked and murdered by four Egyptian secret agents in 2016. 

 The unnamed man, who spoke during the ongoing trial of the secret agents, told of how he was arrested on the same day as Regeni, and heard the Italian being tortured with electric shock in a nearby cell.

4 Dec 2024
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 ROME - Two parents were forced to barricade themselves in their bedroom after their 20-year-old son was screaming and threatening them over unpaid pocket money. It has been reported by Il Fatto Quotidiano that the boy began to threaten his sixty-year-old parents who refused to give him his weekly small amount of money. 

 The parents were then forced to lock themselves in their own bedroom in order to escape the wrath of their very upset son and called the carabinieri.

4 Dec 2024
David Bayne-Jardine

 ROME - Carlos Tavares, CEO of automotive manufacturing company Stellantis, announced on Dec. 1 his retirement from the role amidst disagreements between himself and company stakeholders. 

 Tavares' resignation from the company, which manufactures brands such as Fiat and Citroen, was announced in a press statement given by Stellantis, and accompanied by a comment from John Elkann, who will temporarily lead the company until the appointment of its new CEO in mid-2025. 

4 Dec 2024
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 ROME - As many as 12 members of a Neo-Nazi group believed to be called the “Werewolf Division” have been arrested for alleged crimes related to terrorism, propaganda and incitement to crime for racial, ethnic and religious reasons, as well as possession of a firearm, police have said.

 The “Werewolf division” takes it name from the Nazi “werewolves” who were led by Heinrich Himmer to counter the advance of the Allied and Soviet forces in Germany at the end of Second World War. The division had already been under investigation by Naples’ Prosecutor’s Office in May 2023.

4 Dec 2024
John Phillips

 TBILISI – Hundreds of thousands of Russians, many of them opponents of Vladimir Putin, have flocked to Georgia since the Russian invasion of Ukraine to avoid being conscripted into the Russian army. But as the government of the pro-Russian Georgian Dream Party tightens its grip on the tense Caucasan country many of the young dissidents are moving away from the dazzlingly beautiful Georgian capital.

3 Dec 2024
Tarquin Parry-Wingfield

 ROME – Antonino Mandalà was considered to be one of the leaders of mafia group Villabate and one of the mafia bosses closest to the chief of the Sicilian Mafia clan known as the Corleonesi, Bernado Provenzano. But now Mandalà has been allowed to present his new book in a building owned by the Municipality of Palermo.

3 Dec 2024
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 ROME – Despite heavy sanctions in place on Iran, during the war in Eastern Europe Ukrainian intelligence has consistently reported the presence of Western-made technology in the Iranian drones being used against them.

 At the Euro-Gulf Information Centre on Nov. 28, a world-renowned expert in Iranian studies sought to inform the think tank attendees of how Iran are managing to gain access to Western material to construct and sell their dual-use equipment, as well as detail the threat their weaponry industry poses to international security.

3 Dec 2024

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