Author Archives: Amy Kellogg
{FD} Central Italy battling effects of earthquakes and bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild
It has been two years since a devastating 6.2 earthquake leveled parts of central Italy.
{FD} Ronaldo’s big Italian tax break – will the country also benefit?
When Italy’s Fiat-affiliated Juventus soccer team snapped up star Cristiano Ronaldo in July for a whopping $34 million a year–net– it made big headlines.
{FD} What’s next for Putin’s Russia after World Cup?
The World Cup soccer championship held here in Russia has been celebrated as a huge success, and President Vladimir Putin said he hoped the hospitality and openness on display here will have dispelled some of the “myths and prejudices” about the country.
{FD} Pope Francis says separation of migrant children ‘contrary to our Catholic values, immoral’
Pope Francis has called the separation of migrant children from their parents “contrary to our Catholic values and immoral.”
{FD} Trump could pull off a ‘North Korea’ with Iran, experts say
President Trump is taking the U.S. out of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, but he expressed confidence that the Islamic Republic will, despite its protestations to the contrary, want to come back to the negotiating table.
{FD} Confessions of a former jihadist recruiter who now deradicalizes potential terrorists
Farid Benyettou is trying to rebuild his life.
{FD} Middle East analysts debate how to solve Syrian civil war, at Rome conference
U.S., European, Russian and Arab analysts at a conference in Rome, while pondering the best “security architecture” for the Middle East, admitted — or at least some of them did — that talk of the necessity for a “political,” as opposed to “military,” solution for Syria is somewhat flawed given facts already on the ground.
{FD} Reporter’s Notebook: On Russia’s Election Day, voters feel pressure from all sides
Sunday is Election Day in Russia, and the Golos call-in center is a beehive of activity.
{FD} Italy’s populist parties battle for power after election ends in hung Parliament
Luigi Di Maio announced triumphantly on Monday that “the Citizens’ Republic” starts right now.