Rome, Italy - Rome has given honorary citizenship to an Israeli soldier kidnapped by militants linked to Gaza’s militant Islamic Hamas group three years ago. Sgt. Gilad Schalit’s father, Noam Schalit received the honor at a city hall ceremony today. A giant photo of the soldier hung in the piazza, with the words “Rome wants its citizen [...]
Rome - Premier Silvio Berlusconi likes to cast himself as an international statesman, touting his warm personal ties with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and former U.S. President George W. Bush and his efforts to raise Italy’s profile on the world stage. Less noticed is his friendship with Israel, reversing a decades-long pro-Arab tilt by Italian governments and [...]
FEEDBACK LOOP DEFINITION ( FOR EXAMPLE, REGARDING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE EARTH): In a feedback loop, the rising temperature on the Earth changes the environment in ways that then create even more heat. Scientists consider feedback loops the single-biggest threat to civilization from global warming. B''H To all, I told you that part II of the Cenacle video was going to arrive shortly. Here it is. I...
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was welcomed in Italy for a landmark visit meant to close a painful chapter of colonial history. The visit seals the reconciliation under way since a 2008 treaty under which Italy will pay $5 billion in reparations.
Colonel Gaddafi has arrived in Rome at the start of an historic visit to Libya's former colonial masters with an archive photograph provocatively pinned to his chest showing the arrest of an anti-Italy guerrilla fighter dubbed "The Lion of the Desert".
The Italian government is to release eight billion euros for the reconstruction of the Abruzzo region, which was devastated by an earthquake on April 6, killing some 300 people and causing the destruction of 55 percent of the houses.
ROME, April 17 (Xinhua) -- U.S.-Russian nuclear talks in Rome next week are important because the issue is one of the priorities of Italy's Group of Eight presidency, Italian Foreign Minister Franco F...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Italy on Sunday about 53 miles northeast of Rome, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The Italian government has tapped the man who handled the Naples garbage crisis to deal with another emergency - the shabby state of many ancient monuments in Rome.
We had to borrow from a recent post by Clear Thinker Tom Kirkendall, because the headline was our immediate reaction to this news about Carol Alvarado's big proposal: State Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, who as a City Council member spearheaded H...
Back in January the NLM reported that minor orders were to be conferred upon some IBP seminarians in the church of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome on February 28th. Photographs from that event are now available off the website of the IBP Seminary . Here is a selection.
Evolution News and Views: This week's conference in Rome on Darwin and evolution, nominally sponsored by the Gregorian University and Notre Dame "under the High Patronage of the Pontifical Council on Culture," has a public relations budget to promote some conclusions that would seem to vary from the positions of Pope Benedict. The Council on Culture has little or no funding of its own for...
As America moves toward another Great Depression, Barack and Michelle Obama play like Ginger and Fred at the White House: Since the presidency changed hands less than six weeks ago, a burst of entertaining has taken hold of the iconic, white-columned home of America’s head of state. Much of it comes on Wednesdays. The stately East Room, [...]
Rome - A Vatican-sponsored academic conference marking the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species opened in Rome on Tuesday. The five-day event includes seminars in which scientists, philosophers and theologians ar...
Only last month it was reported that Maurizio Flammini, former F2 driver and promoter of the superbike, proposed to organize a grand prix in Rome. This proposal came as the trend toward city races is picking up popularity speed. According to Flammini this idea has been already cooking for many years.
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