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The European Union health agency on Thursday reported a "troubling" surge in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) across Europe, which could be just "the tip of the iceberg". , ...ادامه مطلب

Sunday lunches are a coerstone of Italian life and society, but if you've been invited to one what exactly should you expect? , ...ادامه مطلب

From enjoying a traditional Sunday lunch Italian-style to finding the the country's lesser known World Heritage-listed sites, our weekly newsletter La Bella Vita offers you an essential starting point for eating, talking, drinking and living like an Italian. , ...ادامه مطلب

Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, son of Italy's last king and member of a dynasty discredited for collaborating with fascism, died in Switzerland on Saturday at 86, his lawyer told AFP. , ...ادامه مطلب

Streaming platform DAZN will continue to show Serie A matches in Italy after the league on Monday voted it the main broadcaster until 2029 as part of a deal worth at least 4.5 billion euros. , ...ادامه مطلب

From a flight price cap to LGBT rights and migration, Giorgia Meloni's govement has decreed countless new laws in the past year - but many seem designed for show rather than lasting change. , ...ادامه مطلب

Benito Mussolini (R) and King Vittorio Emanuele III (L) in 1938. Photo: France Presse Voir/AFP Eighty years after Mussolini began persecuting Jews, Italy is putting the dead king who backed his racial laws on trial. The setting may be a theatre, but the prosecutor, witnesses and three judges meeting in Rome are real, their scrutiny of the controversial monarch part of events organised to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Trial comes a few weeks after the remains of Vittorio Emanuele III were discreetly retued to Italy. The king, who  ruled from 1900 to 1946, fled in disgrace and died in exile in Egypt in 1948. Three high-ranking judges sit at a table under the motto hanging in courts across Italy: "The law is equal for all". The charge? Betraying the spirit of the monarchy's statute, which tasks it with guaranteeing all its subjects are equal. Witnesses describe the horror of laws the fascist regime introduced from 1938 to ban Jews from public life. At the time, there were 46,000 living in Italy. Thousands of pupils and hundreds of teachers were kicked out of schools, 400 civil servants and 24 generals were fired. The noose tightened further until deport, ...ادامه مطلب

A woman from Veneto is the first Italian to be fitted with a bionic hand. Almerina Mascarello, who lost her hand in a workplace accident in 1993, was fitted with the prosthetic as part of a six-month experiment at Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli hospital in June 2016. The hand, which has a sense of touch, was built by a team led by professor Silvestro Micera from Pisa’s Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and the Polytechnic of Lausanna. “The hand is an improved version of one fitted onto a Danish man in 2014,” Micera was quoted by Corriere as saying. During the experiment, Mascarello was able to use the hand beyond a laboratory thanks to the technology required to make it work being small enough to put into a backpack. But it was removed after six months as it was a prototype. The 55-year-old, from the town of Montecchio Precalcino, told Ansa she was looking forward to May when a bionic hand specially made for her is expected to arrive. "Only then will I be able to say that my life has been completely changed,” she added. Micera said that the technology includes a system which registers the movement of muscles, translating them into electrical signals, which are tued into a set of c, ...ادامه مطلب

G7 countries and tech giants including Google, Facebook and Twitter on Friday agreed to work together to block the dissemination of Islamist extremism over the inteet. "These are the first steps towards a great alliance in the name of fre, ...ادامه مطلب

Pope Francis made his first tweet in March 2013. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP The pope has racked up 40 million followers on Twitter, the Vatican said on Wednesday, underlining the Catholic leader's status as one of the world's biggest social media players. The total, spread across accounts in nine languages, leaves Francis neck and neck with his occasional online sparring partner US Presid, ...ادامه مطلب

"Inside Caravaggio" opens on Friday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP He is known as the master of shade, and now 21st Century technology is shedding new light on the creative process behind Caravaggio's groundbreaking painting. "Inside Caravaggio", an exhibition that opens on Friday at Milan's Palazzo Reale, unites 20 of the Renaissance giant's most important works with, ...ادامه مطلب

Rome's public transport authority ATAC has confirmed that a bus driver who swapped the destination on the front of his bus for his own protest message against vaccinations has been suspended. The driver of one of Rome's metropolitan buses had replaced the destination on the digital display at the front of the bus with words of his own: 'vaccinati sto cazzo' (word-for-word translation: vaccinate th, ...ادامه مطلب

File photo not related to the story. Photo: Berit Roald/NTB ScanpixInformation is one of the biggest weapons in mode warfare, and as fake news sites lose their power, real news organizations risk being hijacked by the spread of little lies. Joualists and audiences need to fight back. The waing, ...ادامه مطلب

A 45-year-old Italian nurse jailed for life for murdering a patient and widely suspected over the deaths of many others at the time has been acquitted on appeal, Italian media reported on Saturday. Daniela Poggiali was arrested in October 2014 in Lugo, northe Italy, and sentenced to life behind ba, ...ادامه مطلب

Ilva's Taranto site in southe Italy is at the centre of a huge legal case over toxic emissions. Photo: Alfonso Di VincenzoA consortium led by global steel giant ArcelorMittal said on Friday the Italian authorities had cleared it to buy struggling steel producer Ilva, but thousands of jobs are thre, ...ادامه مطلب