Italy

Saturday Morning Briefing

Good morning As expected the death of Shannon Mak is the lead story on Malta's Newspapers. Various happenings take different priorities around the world. As we go through 40…

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After ‘Decreto Dignita’ the Italian political debate centres on the anti-facist Mancino Law

The Italian Parliament chamber gave the green light to the law Decreto Dignita which is the first law enacted and piloted by the new Italian government formation. Italian news agency…

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European high temperature record of 48 degrees Celsius expected this week

CNN: Forecasters have warned of potentially record-breaking temperatures in Spain and Portugal this week as much of Europe swelters in a heat wave that has left some farmers suffering drought conditions.…

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Three youths suspected of attacking Italian athlete Osakue tracked down. One is son of a PD councillor

ANSA reports that the Italian Carabinieri police have said that they have tracked down three youths suspected of attacking Italian athlete Daisy Osakue by hurling an egg at her face…

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Egyptian politician arrested in Sicily exposes strains of relation between Egypt and Italy

The Guardian reports that the arrest of a former Egyptian politician in Sicily has highlighted growing ties between Italy’s rightwing government and the government of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi. “Italian police have…

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Friday Morning Briefing

Good morning, Your Morning Briefing for today follows. Both the Times and The Malta Independent refer to the S&P credit rating on the banking system. Respected credit ratings agency Standard and Poors has…

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Italian athlete Osakue in danger of missing European Championships after eye injury

Ansa reports that Italian athlete Daisy Osakue is in serious danger of missing the European championships after injuring her eye when assailants threw an egg at her near Turin earlier…

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Rescue boat Aquarius back to Central Mediterranean to render assistance to people in distress at sea

The rescue boat Aquarius, run in partnership between SOS MEDITERRANEE and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), will set sail today from Marseille after an extended port call. Aquarius is heading back…

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UN says that taking migrants to Libya by Italian towboat ‘may have been in breach of international law’ (UPDATE)

Euronews reports that the United Nations say an Italian towboat which rescued more than 100 people in the Mediterranean and returned them to Libya may have been in breach of…

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Migrant rescue operation might be in breach of International law by Italy

TGCOM - SKYTG Nicola Fratoianni, a member of Liberi and Uguali the Ace 28, a support vessel to an oil rig, was involved in the rescue operations of a dinghy…

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Tuesday Morning Briefing

Good morning With every news cycle, a number of events take place. Your media briefing is intended to present you a snapshot of the main events of the past 24 hours…

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Two “outsiders” to politics meet. Here it’s how it went.

Politico / AP / Reuters / New York Times / Euronews / TGCOM / ANSA: Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and US President Donald Trump held a joint press conference following…

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Hero dog which found survivors in Amatrice earthquake poisoned and killed

The Guardian: Animal rights activists in Italy have called for tougher penalties against animal cruelty after a rescue dog that saved people in a major earthquake was poisoned and killed.…

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Something got broken as make-do cardboard casts are used in Italian hospital as it runs short of plaster

Corriere Della Sera: The hospital in Reggio Calabria, Italy resorted to an unusual alternative to orthopaedic casts as the emergency service was running short of plaster supplies. Patients with broken limbs…

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Italian athlete ends up with injured cornea after being attacked “because she’s black”

ANSA: Italian athlete Daisy Osakue said Monday she was attacked at Moncalieri, near Turin, overnight because she is black. Osakue, who holds the Italian under-23 record for the discus and…

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Italian Prime Minister Conte in USA to meet President Trump

The Economist reports that Donald Trump is always unpredictable. But guessing how he will react to Italy’s prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, at the White House today, is particularly tricky. Mr Conte…

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Sanremo Music Festival director Claudio Baglioni changes rules of festival

ANSA: Sanremo Music Festival Director Caludio Baglioni has changed the rules at the iconic event so that big-name stars and newcomers are no longer put into two separate categories. Instead of…

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Appointment of Pro-Russian journalist as head of RAI raises eyebrows in Italy

The Telegraph: The populist Italian government’s nomination of an eurosceptic, pro-Russian journalist to be president of Italy's venerable state-run broadcasting corporation RAI, the Italian BBC, set off a storm of…

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Encouraged by the #MeToo, nuns express their stories of pain and abuse

CBC/AP: Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic.…

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Ferrero seeking testers for Nutella. Are you up to it?

Tasting different types of cacao, hazelnut grains, and other half-finished desserts and getting paid for it. No experience is necessary to apply for the unusual vacancy advertised by a temporary…

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Saturday Morning Briefing

Good morning, Our Saturday morning briefing follows. The Malta Independent reports that Maria Efimova, said that ‘People connected to the Maltese government openly call for my execution’, arguing that after the…

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Fiat Chrysler declares it had no knowledge of facts related to health of late Marchionne

Fiat Chrysler said on Thursday that it "had no knowledge of the facts" related to the health of boss Sergio Marchionne, who died this week, after the hospital that treated…

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Friday Morning Briefing

Good morning, Your Morning Briefing provides you with the salient news of the main happenings in Malta, Europe and the World. Wishing you a good day. Greece has “serious…

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Police in Rome cleared nearly 400 people from camp inhabited by minority ROMA community

Guardian: Police in Rome have cleared nearly 400 people, including dozens of children, from a camp inhabited for years by members of the minority Roma community, despite an EU court ruling…

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Thursday Morning Briefing

Good morning From Malta to Washington, from Pakistan to Brussels, from Syria to France, from Italy to Mars and back... here are the main news as reported by main news…

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Holiday makers give first aid to migrants in Calabria

Euronews/ANSA: Holidaymakers and locals at Cape Rizzuto in the Italian region of Calabria assisted 56 migrants that arrived on the beach by sailboat, reported Italy's news agency ANSA. Those who came…

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Wednesday Morning Briefing

Good morning, The apocalyptic scenes from Greece, the deaths and the drama related to the wildfires dominate European headlines. In Malta the Egrant inquiry publication remains the main story, though…

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Italy doesn’t need EU’s charity on migrants – Salvini

ANSA: Italy doesn't need "charity" from the EU on migrants, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday. "If they want to give money to someone else let them do so, Italy doesn't…

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EU expected to publish migration proposals policy changes today

The Financial Times reports that Brussels will offer EU governments €6,000 for every migrant they take in from boats stranded in the Mediterranean, in plans designed to help ease pressure on…

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Italy: Lega and Cinque Stelle enjoy 60% of the popular support

Corriere Della Sera analyses the latest trends in Italian politics which according to the polls it quotes represents a major shift in Government support which the paper claims as unprecedented.…

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Tuesday Morning Briefing

Good morning, This is our morning briefing, bringing you the highlights of the main news as reported in Malta, Europe and the World. Two women were killed early yesterday…

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Sergio Marchionne to be replaced at Fiat-Chrysler due to health issues

The Financial Times reports that Sergio Marchionne will be replaced immediately at carmaker Fiat-Chrysler after suffering serious complications following shoulder surgery several weeks ago, the company has announced. Jeep boss Mike…

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Open Arms boat docks in Spain

Euronews: A boat belonging to Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms has docked in Spain carrying a woman rescued from the wreckage of a dinghy off the coast of Libya. The survivor,…

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The Josefa Case – The journey

RTL: With wide-open, shocked eyes Josefa looks at her savior. The images released by the "Proactiva Open Arms" refugee rescuers went around the world - along with grave allegations to the Libyan…

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Saturday Morning Briefing

Good morning, From Malta to Kazakistan via Italy, to the UK and Brussels, from Libya to Singapore and our obvious stop in the US our morning briefing presents you how…

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Italian Coastguard uneasy with Government’s stance on migration

The Local: The decision by Italy's new populist government to close the country's ports to migrants saved at sea is causing unease within the heart of the Italian coastguard, some…

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Friday Morning Briefing

Good morning The dust haven't settled yet on Monday's summit Trump invites Putin for a second meeting for Autumn, this time in Washington. The EU issued a stark warning to…

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“Caro nonno” Fiammetta Borsellino sends her love to her grandfather who was brutally assassinated by Mafia in 1992

"Caro nonno mi dispiace per il 19 luglio 1992. Certo se tu fossi vivo avresti capito quanto ti coccolerei. Ti voglio bene. La tua nipotina Fiammetta Borsellino". With these words,…

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On this day,1992 – Anti-Mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino killed in car explosion

The via D'Amelio bombing was an attack by the Sicilian Mafia which took place in Palermo, Sicily, on 19 July 1992. It killed anti-mafia magistrate Paolo Borsellino and five members of his police escort: Agostino Catalano, Emanuela Loi (the…

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Thursday Morning Briefing

Good morning, From Trump's back pedalling to the Queen's messages hidden in brooches. From the court room in Valletta to the temporary beach volley court in the same city. Our…

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Alitalia will return to be Italy’s national flag-carrying airline

ANSA : Alitalia will return to be being Italy's national flag-carrying airline, Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said Wednesday. Speaking on Italian radio, Toninelli said "the Italian nature of the airline is…

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NGO Open Arms set off for Spain

ANSA: The Spanish NGO Open Arms migrant rescue ship which on Tuesday said it had rescued a woman and recovered the bodies of another woman and her child off Libya…

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Italian Police hit Casamonica clan with 31 arrests

ANSA reports that the Italian police on Tuesday made 31 arrest as they hit the Casamonica Roman crime family. Six people are missing and presumed to be on the run, police…

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Wednesday Morning Briefing

Good morning, Matteo Salvini denounces photos of people stranded at sea by Libya as fake after being accused that this is a result of his action. Donald Trump blames his…

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Open Arms releases shocking photos of a woman and child stranded at sea. Italian Interior Ministry claims its fake news.

Libya would have left a woman and a child dead who were on board a boat in distress. This is reported by the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms publishing on…

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Matteo Salvini wants that EU sanctions against Russia are dropped by end 2018

Politico: The Italian government would “not be afraid” to use its veto powers in the EU as a “last resort” to push the bloc into lifting sanctions against Russia, Interior Minister…

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Disembarkation operation for migrants on board Protector complete in Pozzallo

All migrants on board the FRONTEX boat Protector have disembarked in Pozzallo. The operation was authorised by the Italian government and only after the governments of Malta, Spain, Portugal, France…

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Monday Morning Briefing

Good morning, France wins the World Cup while Trump arrives in Helsinki for his summit with Putin. Before leaving the UK he stresses that the EU is a foe of…

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Di Maio warns that a majority of Italian Parliamentarians will vote against EU-Canada free trade deal

Italy's deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio said that a majority in parliament would reject an EU-Canada free trade deal, thereby threatening to scupper the entire agreement. "Soon the CETA…

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Sunday Morning Briefing

Good morning Wishing everyone a good Sunday. Here's our morning briefing. In an official statement, the government of Malta said that Prime Minister Joseph Muscat pledged to participate in…

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Migrants boarded on Italian Navy ship. Will they be transported to Malta or Libya?

Corriere della Sera : "The Minister of the Interior insists with the hard line of the closed ports. New contacts with the Quirinale, and a promise: to make the institutional role…

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The Saturday Morning Briefing

Good morning, He came, he disrupted, he conquered. Or not? For sure he conquered the headlines. In a nutshell that's the essence of Trump's visit to the UK impact. However…

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New diplomatic rift between Malta and Italy as a boat with 450 migrants is in Malta’s search and rescue area

According to TGCOM the boat now has entered Italian territorial waters. EARLIER Times of Malta : Matteo Salvini has vowed Italy would bar a boat with 450 migrants currently in…

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Rome residents cover potholes following death of a person due to poor conditions of city’s roads

BBC: Locals in Rome have been covering the city's infamous potholes with spray paint in response to an appeal from a woman whose daughter died in an accident reportedly linked to…

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The Friday Morning Briefing

Good morning, The world news scene was 'overshadowed' by Trump's tirades and comments at NATO summit and in Britain. He can easily be dubbed as a the 'agent of disruption'…

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Italy: Disembarkation of immigrants from Diciotti authorised following intervention by President Mattarella

"The landing of the migrants who are on board the ship Eighteen is about to start" the premier Giuseppe Conte announces this after a day of stalemate. "The procedures for…

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The Thursday Morning Briefing

Good morning, From the NATO summit to the World Cup, here are the most salient news reported by news outlets and which we think are worth knowing of. NATO Secretary-General…

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