ROME — Experts gathered at the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) to discuss the energy crisis that is looming, or as some may say already under way, following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The experts highlighted that the crisis will affect us all in nearly all areas of life in the coming months and years and provided potential ways to mitigate and survive the crisis.

Rome— The Lebanese Film Festival in Italy has made its debut in Rome, offering, for the first time in the country, a programme entirely dedicated to contemporary and archival Lebanese cinema.

Promoted by the Italo Lebanese Cultural Institute and organised by the association Cinema senza Frontiere, the festival is supported by the Lebanese Embassy in Italy and backed by the Med Or Italian Foundation.

Vatican City-Thanks to the Italian Insider, “Taiwan is not alone in the world,” Taipei resident, Grace said after reading our story about Taipei.

 We had a chance encounter when dropping off the historic 99^th issue of the print version of the English language newspaper at the Embassy of Taiwan to the Holy See. She continued that the article “showed me how powerful Taiwanese people can be-always, friendly, warm, and open-minded.”

 ROME - The daughter of Kremlin-linked billionaire Andrey Guryev, founder of Russian fertiliser giant and FAO partner Phosagro, has accused the Antiguan government of corruption over their sale of her sanctioned father’s superyacht, according to Antiguan media.