Anti-mafia activist Rosy Canale, who nearly died in a brutal beating, is being threatened again after writing a book.
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Reporting from Rome: John Hooper
John Hooper speaks to www.italymag.co.uk
In the second part of a series of interviews with those whose job it is to explain Italy to the world, Carol King speaks to John Hooper about his life as a Rome correspondent, and his views on Italy.
Painted pigeons of St Mark’s square put Venice Biennale critics in a flap
Project to airbrush famous pigeons in garish, vibrant colours for architecture exhibition criticised by animal rights campaigners.
The parrot-pigeons of St Mark’s Square
Red pigeons … blue pigeons … pigeons that look more like Amazonian parakeets: the results of a controversial performance by Swiss artist Julian Charrière for the 13th architectural Biennale. Tourists fascinated. Animal defence activists indignant (http://www.ecoblog.it/post/
‘Don’t come back, Silvio’, aircraft banner tells Berlusconi
Holidaymakers in Italy applaud aerial stunt in response to senator’s plea for former PM to return for general election.
Aerial political warfare
Applause as a plane flies over holidaymakers on the Adriatic Riviera trailing a banner that reads “Don’t come back, Silvio. Thank you”: a plea directed at Italy’s former (and future?) Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
The stunt was funded collectively by members of a Facebook group in response to a similar aerial banner commissioned the previous week by one of Berlusconi’s senators, that read “Come back Silvio” (See photos here: http://www.repubblica.it/
Asylum seekers in Libya: one man’s story of prison conditions
Picked up by a boat in the Mediterranean while fleeing Eritrea, ‘Kibrom’ describes the reality of Libyan detention camp.
Amalfi lemon growers fear for future of prized fruit
Sfusato lemons are protected under EU law, but years of poor returns are pushing growers and their ageing workforce to brink.
Italian politics: The gloves are off
Mario Monti’s two gaffes may have been deliberate.
Rome airport staff find unexpected item in bagging area: a sleeping man
Security staff were shocked to see human outline appear on monitors as suitcases trundled along conveyor belt.