Rome — Cardinal Camillo Ruini, one of the most influential figures in the Italian Catholic Church over the past three decades, has died in Rome at the age of 95.
The Diocese of Rome announced his death on Tuesday, paying tribute to a man whose leadership and vision helped shape the Church's role in Italian society during a period of profound political and cultural change.
ROME – IFAD’s embattled Managing Director, Carola Alvarez, called an urgent staff meeting of her Office of Development Effectiveness at the UN agency Tuesday to try and refute disclosures by the Italian Insider over multiple allegations of harassment against her and her involvement in the appointment of President Alvaro Lario’s alleged lover to a director level position she created for herself, IFAD sources said.
KULTARANTA, Finland -- To those unfamiliar with the Nordic diplomatic calendar, the 'Kultaranta Talks'might sound like an elegant summer gathering. In reality, they have become the “Davos of Baltic geopolitics.” Hosted every June at the Finnish President's summer residence in Naantali,the event is a unique forum where foreign policy strips away its ceremonial armor to address global crises with absolute candor over two intense days.
NAGO-TORBOLE, Italy — A U.S. Army Ranger veteran travelled this week to northern Italy to stand at the site where Brig. Gen. William O. Darby, founder of the modern U.S. Army Ranger Regiment, was killed during the final days of World War II.
Jeff Struecker, a retired Ranger and combat veteran of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, visited Lake Garda for the first time invited by the Association Benàch to take part in the documentary examining Darby’s life and legacy and the closing operations of the Italian Campaign.
ROME – Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, condemned Russian drone attacks on Kyiv on Sunday night and Monday morning which set the 11th Century Dormition Cathedral on fire and left the building severely damaged as “an attack on a treasure that belongs to all of humanity,” in a statement released on Monday.
Kyiv Cathedral is part of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra UNESCO World Heritage site, which has been inscribed on the UNESCO list since 1990. The site is one of the most important religious and cultural symbols for the Ukrainian people.
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgian fans watched Ilia Topuria fight at the White House on a night of high expectations and eventual disappointment, as American fighter Justin Gaethje defeated the favourite from the Caucasus in a huge upset to become the undisputed UFC lightweight champion at UFC Freedom 250 in Washington D.C.
ROME -- Following a screening of A War on Women at Cinema Nuovo Sacher in Rome, director and writer Raha Shirazi spoke with the Italian Insider about representation, activism, social media, memory, and the meaning of courage.
ROME -- A War on Women, the new documentary film by Iranian-Canadian director and writer, Raha Shirazi, takes us beyond the attention-grabbing headlines of the current war in Iran to understand both the history and context of a powerful and ongoing resistance to the current regime.
ROME -- As the FIFA World Cup kicks off in North America, football will take hold across stadiums, screens and capitals alike. Yet, behind the pageantry there sits an uncomfortable geopolitical contradiction, one of the host nations, the US, is welcoming into the tournament a country with which it is at war.
