BARDOLINO — With Italian wine producers facing mounting challenges, from global warming to changing lifestyles, wine experts gathered on the shores of Lake Garda this autumn to assess the way forward and raise glasses to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Consorzio Vini Bardolino.

ROME-- A Calabrian bishop has called for peace after mafia gunmen shot and killed Silvana Sibarelli, 60, the wife of Damiano Pepe, known as “Tripolino”. Investigators identify Pepe as a senior figure in the ’Ndrangheta mafia.

  Bishop Francesco Savino of Cassano all’lonio made an appeal to the attackers to repent following the killing of Sibarelli. He urged residents to reject fear and silence.

  “Repent! Lay down your weapons and take responsibility for the evil you have done,” he said in a statement issued on Oct.24.