Embassy Row

 ROME - Five years ago, Dr. Kristen DiMatteo arrived in Rome to take on the role of Head of School at the American Overseas School of Rome.

 ROME - In an interview with Il Messaggero, Ettore Sequi, former secretary general of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and former ambassador to China, is convinced that “the sanctions

MOSCOW - Steve Witkoff arrived at the Kremlin to meet Vladimir Putin on his fifth visit to Russia this year, reports Il Fatto Quotidiano.

 BATUMI, Georgia --The Black Sea coast, with its mix of old charm and modern energy, is always refreshing, a place where you can lose yourself in long walks, livel

 TUNIS - The prime minister met with the Tunisian president Kais Saied and will fly to Turkey on Friday to meet with her Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

 ROME – The American Overseas School of Rome, a leading partner of the Italian Insider, has praised the English-language newspaper for having “consistently connect

ROME - The Italian Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to Italy after the publication on the its website of a list of “examples of expressions of Russophobia”, a list of incidents and

 ROME -- African poverty-buster Godfrey 'crocburger' Magwenzi, the No.

VATICAN CITY – In his address to the pilgrims of this year’s Jubilee, Pope Leo XIV said Wednesday that “we live in a society that is becoming ill due to a ‘bulimia’ of social media connections: we

 ROME — The European Commission has unexpectedly decided to abandon a court case involving non-Italian language lecturers in Italy, dealing a blow to their 30-year

 BRUSSELS – The European Commission has reversed itself cravenly on efforts to force Italy to pay compensation due to hundreds of foreign university lecturers for

ROME – An open letter was signed by 34 retired ambassadors who have held important positions – two former political directors, former permanent representatives to the EU and NATO, former diplomatic

HELSINKI - On the warm, clear day of August 1st, 1975, between the placid shores of the Baltic Sea and the lingering chill of the Cold War, the Helsinki Final Act took shape, an expression of a sha

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 ROME – I met Roman Rollnick when we were young reporters for United Press International covering Pope John Paul II’s trip to the Benelux countries in 1985.

OLBIA – A meeting between White House delegate Steve Witkoff, Israeli Minister Ron Dermer, and the Prime Minister of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani is set to occur Thursday on a mega yacht

 SAN VITO LO CAPO, Sicily – A ground-breaking investigative documentary on American environmental campaigners’ long battle to save 73 killer whales and salmon on t

 ROME – Amid concern over ICCROM’s hiring of a constellation of cronies from the FAO by the cultural quango's Director-General, Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral, dipl

ROME – The recruitment by ICCROM of highly paid, officialy retired FAO consultants could be in direct violation of the United Nations Pension Fund rules of which the cultural quango is a participan

 ROME – The appointment of multi-millionaire heiress Annick Van Houtte to a sinecure at a Rome-based UN cultural quango has called into question again the leaders

 ROME –  Italian MP Elisabetta Piccolotti has tabled a question in the Chamber of Deputies asking the Minister for University and Research, Anna Maria Bernini, fo

  Sir, Stephanie Hodge, a former senior manager within the UN system, has publicly revisited her grievances about her departure—echoin

 ROME – The ICCROM cultural heritage quango director general Aruna Francesca Gujral is “running unchecked, squandering public money on her friends while crying for an increase in funding,” diplomat

Rome – In a striking celebration of cultural diplomacy, South Korea illuminated the Colosseum with a multimedia projection on Thursday evening, marking the anniversary