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☆ Can the sporty be Godly? Why the Vatican is in the race to become a global sporting presence
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-20 | by ( George Ramsay | Christopher Lamb | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Rien Schuurhuis never expected to win this year’s cycling world championships, nor come close to claiming the race’s distinctive rainbow jersey. For the sole representative of the Vatican City in the 200-strong field, simply being at the race in Switzerland was enough. “There was one hill in the (2022) world championships and everyone was yelling: ‘The Pope’s cyclist! At every race, Schuurhuis’ ultimate aim has been to get people talking about the team and what it represents. Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, is a soccer fan who played as a goalkeeper and supported San Lorenzo while growing up in Argentina.

Persons: Rien Schuurhuis, Schuurhuis, they’re, –, ”, Pope Francis, Valerio Agnoli, “, Chiara Porro, Herself, Porro, ” Schuurhuis, Pope John Paul II, Castel Gandolfo, San, Diego Maradona –, Pope Francis ’, ” Giampaolo Mattei, … Organizations: CNN, Vatican City, CNN Sport, International Cycling Union, UCI, ”, League, Australia’s Embassy, Vaticana, Swiss Guards, England, Culture, Athletica, “, Brisbane Games Locations: Vatican, Switzerland, Belgium, Vaticana, India, Australia, Asia, Rome, St, Peter's, Athletica Vaticana, San Lorenzo, Argentina, Canberra

☆ Mussolini’s Rome bunker opens to the public
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The first, in 1940, was an adaptation of an old wine cellar in the grounds of Villa Torlonia. A multimedia exhibition in the air raid shelter focuses on the effects of bombing raids on civilians. Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni CulturaliAfter its last closure in 2021, it has now reopened for guided tours of the air raid shelter and the bunker. Guided, 50-minute tours take visitors underground and through the exhibition, before they experience a recreated air raid in Mussolini’s unfinished bunker. Tours last 50 minutes and go through the air raid shelter and the bunker.

Persons: we’ll, Stanley Tucci, Benito Mussolini, Villa Torlonia, Mussolini, Villa, Culturali, Sovrintendenza, Beni Organizations: CNN, intel, Casino, Nobile, Villa Torlonia, San Locations: Italy, Rome, Villa Torlonia, Casino Nobile, San Lorenzo

☆ Ecuador Police Capture Leader of Colombian Dissident Rebel Group
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Jan. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +1 min

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuador's police on Monday said they have captured the leader of Colombian armed group Oliver Sinisterra and that Ecuadorean authorities will return him to Colombia. News of the capture comes amid a military offensive launched by Ecuador's government to combat criminal gangs. "An immigration hearing will be held so that he can be expelled from Ecuador and sent to Colombia," Ecuador police commander Cesar Zapata told reporters. Oliver Sinisterra is a faction of the Segunda Marquetalia group of dissident rebels of the now-demobilized Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) which abandoned a 2016 peace deal with the state. The Oliver Sinisterra front operates in Colombia's Narino province and Ecuador's Esmeraldas province.

Persons: Oliver Sinisterra, Daniel Noboa, Carlos L, El Gringo, Cesar Zapata, Zapata, Alexandra Valencia, Luis Jaime Acosta, Oliver Griffin, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Colombian, Segunda Marquetalia, Revolutionary Forces of Locations: QUITO, Colombian, Colombia, Imbabura, Ecuador, San Lorenzo, Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, Colombia's Narino, Ecuador's Esmeraldas

☆ 'Secret room' decorated by Michelangelo in Florence to open to the public
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Plus, we’ll get you in the mood before you go with movie suggestions, reading lists and recipes from Stanley Tucci. But it’s Michelangelo Buonarroti’s less bombastic work that’s on display to the public for the first time in the artist’s “secret room” in Florence. The tiny space sits beneath the Medici Chapels in Florence, where Michelangelo sculpted intricate tombs for members of the Medici family behind the church of San Lorenzo in the Sagrestia Nuova, or New Sacristry. The death sentence was rescinded after two months, and Michelangelo returned to work in Florence, before moving to Rome four years later. Francesco Fantani/Courtesy Musei del BargelloThe space has never been open regularly to the public before, but will open for visits on November 15 to highly limited numbers in order to preserve the drawings.

Persons: we’ll, Stanley Tucci, CNN —, David, Michelangelo Buonarroti’s, Michelangelo, Medici, –, Paolo Dal Poggetto, Francesco Fantani, Clement VII –, It’s, ”, Francesca de Luca, Paola D’Agostino Organizations: CNN, intel, Chapel, Museum Locations: St, Peter’s, Rome, Florence, Medici, San Lorenzo, Bargello

☆ Spain to begin exhumation of 128 Civil War victims from burial complex, el Pais reports
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Relatives of late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco carry the coffin after the exhumation at The Valle de los Caidos (The Valley of the Fallen) in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, October 24, 2019. Emilio Naranjo/Pool via REUTERSMADRID, June 11 (Reuters) - Forensic scientists will on Monday begin the exhumation of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from a vast burial complex near Madrid, El Pais newspaper reported. The remains of some 34,000 people, many of them victims of Franco's regime, are buried anonymously in the complex. Relatives of those whose remains lie inside have been fighting for years to give their loved ones a burial under their own names near their families. In 2016, a court approved the exhumation of the brothers, but seven years later the family is still waiting.

Persons: Francisco Franco, San Lorenzo de El, Emilio Naranjo, El Pais, Purificacion Lapena, Manuel Lapena, Antonio, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Franco, Primo de, Felix Bolanos, Graham Keeley, Jan Harvey Organizations: REUTERS, Falange, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Spanish, Valle, San Lorenzo de, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, REUTERS MADRID, Madrid , El Pais, Cuelgamuros, Madrid

The ruling Colorado Party has dominated Paraguayan politics for the last three-quarters of a century, in power for all but five years. "We never talked about politics before, because a win for the Colorado Party was a done deal," 40-year-old bank worker Gustavo Vera told Reuters in the capital. "There's more corruption in Paraguay than work... All I know is we have to work much harder to make ends meet." The U.S. Treasury earlier this year imposed sanctions on party chief Horacio Cartes and Vice President Hugo Velazquez, citing "rampant corruption." Alegre, on his third presidential campaign, has pulled together a broad alliance of independent parties to challenge the powerful Colorado political machine.

☆ Spain to exhume fascist movement founder's body from Madrid mausoleum
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Charlie Devereux | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Juan MedinaMADRID, April 24 (Reuters) - Spain on Monday will dig up the body of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the fascist Falange movement that supported the Francoist regime, and remove it from a mausoleum carved into a mountainside near Madrid. Last year, the Valley of the Fallen was renamed Valley of Cuelgamuros - the original name of the site - under Spain's new Democratic Memory law. "It's another step in the resignification of the valley," Presidency Minister Felix Bolanos told reporters in Barcelona on Friday. The son of dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, who governed Spain from 1923-1930, Jose Antonio was shot by firing squad in November 1936 by left-wing Republican forces in Alicante. Franco, a conservative general, and Primo de Rivera, a flamboyant playboy, had little love for each other, according to Francos's biographer Paul Preston.

[1/3] A truck drives through a flooded road after an atmospheric river storm system in Hayward, California, U.S. March 10, 2023. As much as 5 inches (13 cm) of rain has already fallen in some spots across the county, with some seeing as much as 7 inches. U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday declared an emergency in California, ordering federal assistance to help local, tribal and state officials respond to the severe weather. The heavy rains in northern and central California raised concerns that melting snow from a spate of blizzards in mid-elevation mountains could add to runoff and cause flooding downstream. Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Chicago and Steve Gorman in Los Angeles, Editing by Rosalba O'BrienOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Italian Police Arrest Most-Wanted Sicilian Mafia Boss
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Members of the Carabinieri police stand outside the force’s San Lorenzo headquarters in Palermo. ROME—Italy’s Carabinieri military police have detained the country’s most notorious fugitive mafia boss, who had been on the run for 30 years, dealing a blow to one of the world’s most storied crime syndicates. Matteo Messina Denaro was in a private hospital on the outskirts of the Sicilian city of Palermo when Carabinieri swarmed the area and captured him on Monday morning, the Carabinieri said.

CNN —The head doctor at Spanish football club Atlético Madrid has been called upon by the Vatican to treat Pope Francis’ knee injury. José María Villalón, a specialist in orthopedic surgery and traumatology, told Spanish radio station COPE that he was part of a group of specialists who traveled to treat Pope Francis. In an interview with Reuters in July, Pope Francis spoke about the injury for the first time, saying he had suffered “a small fracture” in the knee when he took a misstep while a ligament was inflamed. Villalón told COPE that Pope Francis is suffering from an “arthritic process which is affecting various joints.”He continued: “Sometimes, it starts in a joint with arthritis and other joints worsen because they carry more load than normal. CNN has reached out to the Vatican and Atlético for comment.

☆ Legendarul fotbalist Sebastian Abreu s-a transferat la al 31-lea club din carieră
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-31 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Legendarul fotbalist uruguayan Sebastian Abreu nu se satură de fotbal nici la 44 de ani. Atacantul s-a transferat la al 31-lea club din carieră. Alte cluburi la care a evoluat sunt San Lorenzo, Nacional, Cruz Azul, Monterey, Tigres, River Plate, sau Rosario Central.În Europa, Abreu a jucat la Deportivo La Coruna, Real Sociedad, Aris Salonic și Beitar Ierusalim.La reprezentativa Uruguay-ului a jucat în perioada 1996-2012. În cele 70 de partide a marcat 26 de goluri. El a cucerit Copa America în 2011, iar un an mai devreme a ajuns cu echipa națională în semifinalele Campionatului Mondial.

Persons: Sebastian Abreu, Abreu Organizations: Club America, Sporting, Cruz, Plate, Deportivo, Real, America Locations: ţara, San Lorenzo, Nacional, Cruz Azul, Monterey, Tigres, Rosario Central.În Europa, Coruna, Real Sociedad, Aris Salonic, Beitar, Uruguay

☆ Fostul portar Jose Luis Chilavert va candida pentru funcţia de preşedinte al statului Paraguay
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-25 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Fostul portar Jose Luis Chilavert va candida pentru funcţia de preşedinte al statului Paraguay, la alegerile programate în 2023.Chilavert, în vârstă de 55 de ani, a declarat încă din vară că intenţionează să candideze, iar acum a postat un mesaj pe rețelele de socializare, în care a făcut anunțul oficial.Jose Luis Chilavert a evoluat de-a lungul carierei la Guarani, San Lorenzo, Real Zaragoza, Velez Sarsfield, Strasbourg şi Penarol.El s-a remarcat ca un portar-golgheter, marcând numeroase goluri din penalty şi lovituri libere. La echipa naţională a Paraguayului, Chilavert a jucat în 74 de meciuri și a marcat de opt ori, un record în rândul goalkeeper-ilor la acest ultim capitol.El a înscris în cariera de jucător profesionist 67 de goluri, multe decisive, fiind al doilea portar din acest punct de vedere după brazilianul Rogerio Ceni cu 131 de goluri.Chilavert a fost primul portar care a reuşit un hat-trick, în 1999, în meciul dintre Velez Sarsfield şi Ferro Carril Oeste, scor 6-1. Atunci, paraguayanul a marcat din trei lovituri de la 11 metri.

Persons: Jose Luis Chilavert, Luis Chilavert, Penarol.El, Chilavert, brazilianul Rogerio, paraguayanul Organizations: Real Zaragoza, naţională Locations: Paraguay, San Lorenzo, Velez, Strasbourg, Paraguayului, goluri.Chilavert

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