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After gathering a huge online following and writing a book about her life in Italy, TikTok star Kacie Rose Bus tells The Local how the country drew her in and what she’s leaed along the way. , ...ادامه مطلب

L-R: Katja Meier, Rosalind Pratt, Valeria Duflot. 2017 has been a significant year for some of Italy's biggest names, with a comeback apparently on the cards for Silvio Berlusconi and a dramatic disappointment for the national football team just two of the year's major stories. The Local has spent the year reporting on national and local news from up and down the country, but sometimes the most interesting stories are those which don't generate global headlines. Italy is more than the twists and tus of politics or the reputation for great food and culture; more than anything, Italy is the people who live here, whether by birth or by choice. A refugee home worker, a British baker and reality TV star, and the Verona women who respond to thousands of love letters are among seven of our most inspirational interviewees this year. Read their stories below. The trained Swiss actress who ran a Tuscan refugee home Photo: Private Katja Meier came to Italy looking for a career break in an olive grove, but along the way, she and found herself running a refugee home. She spoke to The Local about the contrast between how 'expats' and refugees view and exper, ...ادامه مطلب

Italy's Court of Cassation. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Clicking 'like' on a terrorist video on Facebook counts as evidence of apology for terrorism, Italy's top court has ruled. Taken alongside other evidence, a Facebook like can be a "serious indication of guilt and therefore justifies pre-trial detention in jail", the Court of Cassation ruled. The judgment related to a Kosovan man resident in Fiesse in the Brescia area, who was expelled from Italy in November 2016 on charges of online propaganda. He had lived in the country for around ten years and at the time of his expulsion, the Interior Ministry said, the man's Facebook page "contained documents and files of jihadist propaganda, as well as contacts with two well-known Islamists". However, the man denied any intent to share jihadist propaganda and distanced himself from Islamist violence. A Brescia Court of Review twice ruled that the evidence against him was insufficient, noting that: "Evoking holy war does not necessarily result in the creation of organized structures aimed at carrying out terrorist acts", the local Gioale di Brescia reported. The court further said that the man's refe, ...ادامه مطلب

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) has given €500,000 to help the earthquake relief effort in Italy. Photos: AFPFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told Italian students how the social media site gave €500,000 to the Italian Red Cross following Wednesday's devastating earthquake in central Italy. Facebook's billionaire founder announced the donation had been made in the immediate aftermath of the the 6.0-6.2 magnitude quake, which left 290 dead and 2,700 homeless, while holding a Q&A at Rome's Luiss University on Monday. But the donation does not involve actual cash and instead comes in the form of Facebook advertising credit, which Zuckerberg says will benefit the organization in the long-term. “Organizations like the Red Cross are going to be focused on this disaster long after the T.V cameras,” he said. “The credits can be used to promote any activities they need, such as collecting funds, making appeals for blood donations and finding volunteers.” In a subsequent stateme, ...ادامه مطلب

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Rome on Monday for a Q&A with employees. Photo: Drew Angerer/AFPFacebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will hold a Townhall Q&A in Rome on Monday, the latest in a series of events during which employees get to interrogate the social media site’s owner. The billionaire arrived in the Italian capital after spending a week in Lake Como, where he attended the wedding of Sofia and Daniel Ek, the CEO of Spotify. The Townhall Q&A will be held at 4pm CET, the Facebook founder announced...on Facebook. On Monday moing, he posted a photo of himself jogging by the Colosseum. Zuckerberg's travels in Europe come after a report from the UK govement lambasted Facebook, and others including Twitter and Google, for failing to do enough to fight extremism on their sites. “Huge corporations like Google, Facebook and Twitter, with their billion dollar incomes, are consciously failing to tackle this threat and passing the buck by hiding behind their supranation,facebook ceo india,facebook ceo income,facebook ceo india salary,facebook ceo interview,facebook ceo information,facebook ceo in hindi,facebook ceo india visit,facebook ceo in china,facebook ceo in singapore,facebook ceo in australia ...ادامه مطلب

Spending too much time on Facebook in Italy could cost you your job. Photo: Joe The Goat Farmer/FlickrItaly’s top court has ruled that spending too much time on social media could cost you your job. The Court of Cassation has sided with an employer which sacked a member of staff after they were found to be spending hours each day using the inteet during work time. Over a period of 18 months, the employer discovered that the employee had gone onto the inteet, for non-work purposes, 6,000 times. Out of that, they accessed Facebook 4,500 times – averaging about 16 hits a day, which equated to three work-hours a day. For future cases, the court ruled that the severity of the punishment handed down by an employer should be decided on a 'case by case' basis, but that they are within their rights to sack someone for squandering too much time online. An employer also has the right to check an employee’s inteet search history, without flouting privacy laws, if they believe the person’s online conduct could harm the company. Story continues below… Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini has defended himself in an interview with a Swedish magazine. Photo: Lorenzo Galassi/TT/APScandal-hit Italian surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who is accused of using Swedish patients as guinea pigs, has told a medical magazine that he wasn't to blame for patients' complications, in his first interview since being ousted from his post in Stockholm. Previously an inteationally renowned surgery star who operated on numerous Swedish and inteational celebrities, Paolo Macchiarini was sacked in March by Sweden's Karolinska Institute (KI) after growing controversy surrounding his medical methods.The Italian attained world fame after completing the first synthetic trachea transplant using stem cells in 2011. However six of his eight patients died, while another remains in hospital in the US."The complications are not related to the transplant," Macchiarini told Swedish medical joual Läkartidningen in an article published on Wednesday."When you are on the front line you run the risk of being attacked, and we have been, by the so-called whistleblowers. But I hope that everyone in Sweden will consider us innocent before we are convicted of anything," he argued."Those who are criticising should be aware that there are hundreds of articles on large animal studies of transplants using synthetic windpipes."KI first filed a complaint alleging that Macchiarini had downplayed the risks of the procedure in 2014 and suspended all synthetic trachea transplants shortly afterwards.A previous article in Läkartidningen described the Macchiarini case as an "ethical Cheobyl" for the institute."His actions have had tragic consequences for the individuals conceed and their families," said Mats Engelbrektson, the institute's director of human resources after announcing that he had been fired earlier this year."His behaviour has damaged the credibility of KI and research in general."Story continues below…Swedish police are investigating Macchiarini on suspicion of gro, ...ادامه مطلب

An Italian man has been charged for making offensive comments about Italy's southeers on Facebook. Photo: ChristopherA 40-year-old man from northe Italy has been charged with defamation and inciting ethnic hatred after writing a post on Facebook insulting the inhabitants of Italy's south. The man, from Settimo Torinese, a small town outside the northe Italian city of Turin, left several comments on the social media site on a story about the death of a 17-year-old student from Siracusa in Sicily, La Stampa reported.The student was killed in a road accident while driving his scooter in October.The man's posts made liberal use used the word terrone, a highly offensive word used to describe people from south or central Italy. The word comes from the root terra, meaning land, and is used to deride people living south of Bologna.The word implies that southeers are lazy, ignorant peasants and is testament to the strong cultural and economic divide that exists between north and south Italy. “That's one terrone less for us [northe Italians] to support,” he wrote. “I know that in the coffin there is an ignorant southeer and I enjoy it.” Another post read “Good evening sh***y terroni, will any more of you die today?” His shocking comments were widely shared by incredulous people on social media and were eventually reported to police in Siracusa. Story continues below… Prosecutors used a specialist telecommunications investigation unit to track down the man, who had used a fake profile to make the offensive remarks.  “Among all forms of poverty, moral poverty poses the greatest risk to humanity,” the public prosecutor, Francesco Paolo Giordano, was quoted as saying by La Stampa.   Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب