Cairo - A new mobile application serving as an information-sharing website has been launched to help refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Egypt.
According to International Organization of Migration (IOM) - Egypt's office, it hhas recently (...)
Cairo & Rome - Egyptian Prosecutor General Nabil Sadek said Wednesday that an agreement would be reached by the end of the month to extract data from the hard disks of the Cairo video surveillance system to be used for the inquiry into last year's (...)
Aswan (Egypt) - Women's issues is the focus of a new film festival 'Women's Film Festival' in Aswan (southern Egypt) starting on February 20, which this year has gender violence as its theme.
32 films and related events on theme of gender violence (...)
Cairo - Egyptian news agency MENA announced Tuesday night that Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and Libyan General Khalifa Haftar, in indirect meetings in Cairo, "have agreed to hold parliamentary and presidential elections" in Libya "in (...)
Rome - Italian jails have 393 inmates being monitored on terrorism grounds, Justice Minister Andrea Orlando told the House Thursday. Of these, 175 are at "strong risk of radicalisation", he said, while 46 are in a high-security regime because they (...)
Cairo - Egyptian President 'Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi' wants to find the people who tortured and murdered Italian researcher Giulio Regeni last year, the deputy head of the Egyptian parliament's foreign affairs committee, Tarek El Khouly, said Monday.
"I (...)
A court has convicted in absentia an Italian woman and her Albanian husband on terrorism charges for traveling to Syria to join the Islamic State group.
In the first case in Italy involving foreign fighters operating inside the war zone, the court (...)
An Italian national, Sergio Zanotti, has been held captive by an unidentified armed group in Syria for seven months, the Russian site Newsfront reported on Tuesday. The site showed a video in which the hostage, a native of Brescia, appears to call (...)
Rome's prosecutors and investigators from the Carabinieri anti-terrorism ROS unit said Monday they were investigating the kidnapping of four Italian workers near the western Libyan city of Mellitah. They allege the kidnappings were for the purpose (...)
Four Italians have been kidnapped in Libya, the foreign ministry said Monday morning. The four were kidnapped near an Eni oil and gas company complex in the city of Mellitah in western Libya, the ministry said in a statement.
It added that the four (...)
Rome's haute couture week wrapped up Wednesday with the shows of prominent fashion academies, a befitting end for this summer edition of the capital's bi-annual shows which officially sanctioned AltaRoma as the talent scouting force in Italian (...)
Rome's efforts to find a role in Italy's Milan-dominated fashion scene as the launching pad of new talents were rewarded as its haute couture week began with a whirlwind of fashion shows and events featuring interesting young designers alongside the (...)
"Lights of the day" served as Giorgio Armani's inspiration for the winter 2012-2013 Armani Privé couture collection in Paris Tuesday. Judging from the muted pastels - pink, silver, mauve, light blue - shading to black or midnight blue, he was (...)
The Olympics of the True Pizza is under way in Naples, famous the world over for its hallmark thick-crusted dough and some of the best pizza makers in the country. For the past three days, it has also played host to pizza makers from less (...)
The sun-drenched plains of Africa and pre-Colombian civilisations appeared to be very much in the thoughts of fashion designers seeking inspiration for this summer. Ethnic motifs, animal prints - big cat spots and zebra stripes - along with safari (...)
Iconic fashion designer Giorgio Armani says that making clothes has nothing to do with money. 'One becomes a fashion designer out of passion for the trade,' he told hundreds of students at the Academy of Arts and Design at Beijing's Tsinghua (...)
The world of fashion is fed by speculation and anticipation. New lines, fresh additions and strategic alliances drive creativity and boost financial health.
In the case of Italian high-fashion brand Versace, eyes are darting between the Medusa (...)
A toddler wanders along the grass racetrack, a cone of basil gelato half-forgotten in one hand. A young couple stands, hands folded together, quietly exchanging opinions on the small tray of Neapolitan pastries set on the counter before them. The (...)
He has been called the king of “fast fashion” and he has an Italian clothing empire that generates 400 billion Euros in turnover a year.
Vittorio Tadei, 77, heads a group called T&M Holding, better known as Teddy, which has a chain of clothing (...)
Forget gold, silver or any traditional material. If you want to make a statement with your jewellery this spring-summer, recycled is the hot word to add to any must-have piece. Stone, fabric, wood, wrapping paper, crochet, anything goes as long as (...)
Italy's persistent north-south divide has found another point of contention: pizza. This Italian symbol has long been associated with Naples - where chef Raffaele Esposito invented the modern pizza Margherita in honour of Queen Margherita of Savoy (...)
There are two cliches about Italians that generally hold true. One is that they dress well.
Another is that they make great wine.
Now the two industries are joining forces in a publicity push designed to capture the US market and boost Italy's (...)
Roy Rogers was the name of a tailour who travelled the American West in the 19th century to manufacture and repair farmers' wear. It is also the name of the Florence-based company which first introduced denim in Italy in 1949. A family-run business (...)
One of Sicily's most ambitious winemakers, Planeta, has taken on a new challenge by tackling its French competitors head on with its first Brut Classic to be released this year.
The Brut is made from Carricante grapes after two years of (...)
Fashionistas and wedding planners converged in Doha Monday for Italian Wedding Dream 2012, a showcase for the growing market of designer weddings.
Hosted at the Maserati showroom in Qatar's capital, the two-day event has brought together some of (...)