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Sofia Goggia of Italy celebrates her first World Cup win at home. Photo: Tiziania Fabi/AFPItaly's Sofia Goggia snatched her second straight Women's World Cup downhill on home snow at Cortina d'Ampezzo on Friday as an error left favourite Lindsey Vo in second.
Goggia followed her downhill win at Bad Kleinkirchheim in Austria last week wiing in 1 minute and 36.45 seconds, a margin of 0.47 seconds ahead of Vo.
"It's a dream come true," said the 25-year-old after her fourth World Cup win and first in Italy, which comes weeks ahead of the Winter Olympics in South Korea.
"Lindsey made a mistake, but if she hadn't she would probably have won by a large margin. After my performance I wasn't that happy."
Vo, with 11 wins in Cortina and the best time in both training runs this week, had been 0.14 seconds ahead of the Italian on the top half of the Olympia delle Tofane course.
But the 33-year-old American hit a bump and almost went into the netting, before recovering to finish on the podium.
"I still got second place which is outstanding," said Vo. "Hopefully I won't get caught in a bump again tomorrow. It's always nice to have a second chance."
Friday's race was originally schedule
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: شنبه 30 دی 1396 ساعت: 4:55
An aerial view of Hotel Rigopiano the day after the disaster. Photo: Vigili del Fuoco/AFPOn January 18th, Italy marks the one-year aiversary of a major avalanche in Rigopiano that engulfed a luxury hotel and killed 29 people.
The disaster was the deadliest avalanche in Italy in almost 100 years.
On Thursday victims' relatives, local residents and representatives of the authorities and emergency services said prayers, read poems and laid flowers outside the remains of the hotel as part of a commemoration day.
"Never again", read a display showing the portraits of those killed – some working at the Hotel Rigopiano and some simply holidaying there.
Here's how the disaster unfolded, and what's happened in the year since then.
What happened?
A combination of heavy snowfall and seismic activity in the Abruzzo region is thought to have caused the avalanche. The snow slide weighed 120,000 toes and hit the Hotel Rigopiano with a speed of around 100km/h – a force equivalent to 4,000 trucks.
Firefighters at work in the wreckage. Photo: Vigili del Fuoco
The four-storey hotel was ripped from its foundations and collapsed almost entirely, with only the cellars and spa left intact. Many of
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: پنجشنبه 28 دی 1396 ساعت: 23:28
A sea rescue by Proactiva Open Arms in October 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis/AFPA three-month-old baby has died after being picked up by rescuers at sea off Libya, because bad weather and a lack of boats made a medical evacuation impossible, aid organizations said on Thursday.
Over 1,600 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean since Tuesday, including many women and children. While some were brought to land on Thursday, hundreds of others could be trapped for days yet by stormy seas.
The Proactiva Open Arms and Sea Watch 3, which have plucked over 700 people from unseaworthy vessels between them, are too small to attempt the rough crossing back towards Italy with that number of people aboard.
They are currently being forced to take shelter off the coast of Tunisia until the weather calms.
1671 #migrants rescued in the waters between Libya and Italy in two days: 1457 on Tuesday and 214 on Wednesday. Three victims. (photo: @oimitalia staff this moing in Catania, where the ship Aquarius brought 505 migrants saved at sea) pic.twitter.com/OdAjMZRwqI
— Flavio Di Giacomo (@fladig) January 18, 2018
"This is one of the most difficult situations we have had to face so far," Laura Lan
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: پنجشنبه 28 دی 1396 ساعت: 23:28
The Italian Antitrust Authority fined six travel websites more than €4 million on Wednesday for lack of transparency and unfair practices, including adding credit card fees and charging customers premium rates for telephone inquiries.
The biggest penalty was for volagratis.it, which was fined €2.2 million for five commercial practices judged to impinge on consumers’ legal rights.
The website is owned by the lastminute.com group, whose Italian site (it.lastminute.com) was also fined. The other sites sanctioned were opodo.it, govolo.it and edreams.it, all part of the Opodo group, and the Fiish-owned gotogate.it.
Chief among the practices that Italy’s competition watchdog objected to was charging customers a fee to pay with certain types of credit card, which the regulator said “hampers the development of e-commerce and imposes a transaction cost that consumers caot avoid, unless they chooses a less convenient form of purchase and payment”.
The regulator also denounced sites for making customer service phone lines premium rate, failing to provide an email address for clients to contact, and not giving full details about who is actually providing the services booked online.
It open
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: پنجشنبه 28 دی 1396 ساعت: 1:59
Bad weather in Turin, 2011. Photo: Olivier Morin/AFPItaly was lashed by winds of over 100 kilometres an hour on Wednesday, causing trees to topple, disrupting transport and whipping up waves several metres high.
Gales that began sweeping in from the Atlantic on Tuesday night were felt all over the west of Italy, with the wind at its strongest in the north-weste mountains of Piedmont.
Gusts there reached up to 200 km/hour, according to La Repubblica, prompting the closure of several of the region’s ski pistes. In the famous Via Lattea cluster of resorts, only 31 of 320 kilometres were open for skiing, while buses between resorts were cancelled.
In Rome at least three trees fell onto cars, injuring two people. A tile was blown off the roof of a high school, striking a 15-year-old girl in the head. Rough seas lashed the coastline to the west of the capital, crashing over protective barriers and damaging some beachside buildings.
Many ferry services to outlying islands were severely delayed or cancelled, including in Lazio, Tuscany, the Gulf of Naples, Sicily and Sardinia.
Firefighters all over Italy were called out to deal with fallen trees and other debris blocking roads and dis
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: پنجشنبه 28 دی 1396 ساعت: 1:59
Italy's current law makes ten vaccinations compulsory and free of charge for all children. Photo: Fred Taeau/AFPTwo Italian populist parties ruing in elections in March are promising to scrap a compulsory vaccination law, a hot-button issue after a measles outbreak claimed four lives last year.
Under the decree, which sparked heated public debate when it took effect six months ago, children caot enrol in a creche or kindergarten unless they have been vaccinated against measles as well as nine other diseases.
Parents of unvaccinated children aged between six and 16 face fines of up to €500.
Previously only four vaccines – not including measles – were mandatory.
Now the far-right Northe League and the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) are proposing to scrap the decree ahead of the March 4th elections in which the two parties and a divided left will go up against a strong centre-right coalition.
M5S leader Luigi Di Maio says the law should revert to the previous four compulsory vaccines, while adding measles, after last year's outbreak sickened nearly 5,000 people and killed four.
He notes that Italy's measles immunisation rate of 87 percent is far below the 95 percent thresho
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: چهارشنبه 27 دی 1396 ساعت: 13:54
A crime scene in Naples. Photo: Mario Laporta/AFPInterior Minister Marco Miitti was in Naples on Tuesday to discuss the city’s problems with gangs of criminal teenagers, who have been blamed for a rising number of violent attacks.
Naples’ youth gangs are “a phenomenon that can no longer be tolerated”, said Miitti, who was due to meet the city’s prefect, law enforcement chiefs and juvenile court magistrates.
So-called “baby gangs” stand implicated in a string of recent street attacks in Naples, most of them on other teenagers. At least eleven incidents were reported in the past two months, according to Il Gioale, including the stabbing of a 17-year-old, the mugging of two teens by a gang armed with chains, and a beating so violent that the 15-year-old victim had to have his spleen removed.
The problem may be another consequence of organized crime’s deeply entrenched presence in Naples, where local mafia clans are recruiting younger and younger foot soldiers.
A successful campaign to arrest and jail the bosses of the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, left a power vacuum that “a younger, more reckless generation of aspiring clan leaders are now vying to fill”, according to Felia Al
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: چهارشنبه 27 دی 1396 ساعت: 13:54
Police inspect a train between Milan and Paris. Photo: Piero Cruciatti/AFPFrench police discovered the partially bued body of a man on the roof of a train travelling from northe Italy to southe France.
His body was found as the regional train arrived early on Sunday moing in Menton, in the south of France, its first stop after Ventimiglia station in Italy.
Police suspect that the man climbed on top of the train to make the 15-minute jouey across the border and may have grabbed hold of an overhead electric line to avoid being thrown off.
Passengers reported hearing three loud bangs and seeing flames, France Info reported.
It is the fifth such incident on the cross-border train line in a year, according to Ansa, most recently in August. Four people died of their injuries, while one was rescued.
While the number of people arriving in Italy via the Mediterranean fell significantly in the past six months, migrants already in Italy continue to risk their lives attempting to cross into other European countries illegally.
Rescue teams in the mountains between north-weste Italy and France have waed of an “emergency” as migrants try to hike across the border despite heavy snow
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: سه شنبه 26 دی 1396 ساعت: 7:16
A Northe League supporter in Milan. Photo: Paco Serinelli/AFPAttilio Fontana, the leading candidate to gove Italy’s most populous region, says he made a slip of the tongue when he claimed that migration threatened to wipe out “our white race”.
Fontana, a member of the far-right Northe League who is ruing for president of Lombardy with the backing of a centre-right coalition, made the Idea to his party’s official radio station on Sunday.
“We can’t take in everyone here, because if we did the social and ethnic reality would no longer be us,” Fontana said during a lengthy discussion on migration.
“Because there are many more of them than us and they are much more determined to occupy this country. It isn’t a question of being xenophobic or racist, but being logical or rational. [...]
“We have to decide if our ethnicity, if our white race, if our society should continue to exist or if it should be wiped out.”
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Hear Fontana's full interview above.
As opponents condemned his Idea, Fontana on Monday put them down to a “slip of the tongue”, insisting he meant to say that Italy should rethink its migration policies to protect “our history and our society”.
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: سه شنبه 26 دی 1396 ساعت: 7:16
Silvio Berlusconi discussing his tax proposal on TV. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPA promise of a flat tax by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday sparked sharp reactions from opponents ahead of a general election and head-scratching among economists.
Campaigning ahead of a general election on March 4th at the helm of the conservative Forza Italia movement, Berlusconi said on TV late on Thursday that such a tax would start at the current minimum rate of 23 percent, before being brought down to below 20 percent.
The remarks by Berlusconi – who never sought to introduce a flat tax during his three terms as prime minister – immediately drew criticism from centre-left former prime minister Matteo Renzi, who said he wondered where the money to finance the move would come from.
"The flat tax at 15 percent would cost €95 billion, and at 20 percent €57 billion," Renzi said on Friday.
A 15-percent flat tax proposal has been part of the platform of far-right Northe League, allied with Forza Italia, for years.
Its supporters says it would replace the current progressive tax rates, which run up to 43 percent.
Forza Italia parliamentary chief Renato Brunetta called a flat tax "a revo
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: شنبه 23 دی 1396 ساعت: 8:05
A rough sleeper in Rome. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPPolice in Zevio near Verona have questioned two teenagers, one 13 and the other 17, who allegedly set fire to a car in which a homeless man had taken shelter.
The man, 64-year-old Ahamed Fdil, was found dead inside the vehicle on the evening of December 13th. Police said his charred body was partially outside, suggesting that he tried to escape.
The younger of the two boys has admitted lighting paper towels and throwing them at the abandoned Fiat Brava, which Fdil regularly used as a shelter, police sources told the press on Friday.
He told investigators that “we only wanted to prank him”, according to the Corriere del Veneto.
#Clochard carbonizzato a S. Maria di Zevio, #Verona: accusati dell'omicidio sono 2 ragazzi di 17 e 13 ai. "Era uno scherzo", dicono → https://t.co/NIBnbzUNUO pic.twitter.com/gMkIs2aL1q
— Rainews (@RaiNews) January 12, 2018
Neither boy has been arrested. The case was referred to the regional juvenile prosecutor’s office, though since Italy does not consider children legally responsible for crimes until the age of 14, the younger boy caot be charged.
Fdil, a Moroccan living in Italy who reportedly became home
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: شنبه 23 دی 1396 ساعت: 8:05
If Twitter users were elected, the socks-and-sandals combo would be outlawed. Photo: Federico Bezzi/TwitterIt’s election season in Italy, and promises are cheap.
Want to go back to jobs for life? We’ll get rid of reforms. Think pensions were better in the old days? We’ll scrap the cuts. Sick of paying for a TV licence? Under us, it’s gone. Don’t want student debt? Bye bye, tuition fees.
Politicians’ pledges to do away with anything and everything that voters don’t like have been flying thick and fast as the March 4th election looms.
In the past few weeks alone, the Democratic Party’s Matteo Renzi promised to scrap the television licence fee, Silvio Berlusconi said his Forza Italia party would cancel employment law reforms, Matteo Salvini of the Northe League swore he’d get rid of both pension cuts and compulsory vaccinations, while Pietro Grasso of the Free and Equal alliance declared that public universities would no longer charge tuition.
Taking the biscotto is the Five Star Movement, which created a dedicated website for voters to nominate the laws they’d most like to see abolished. The anti-establishment party says it has already received more than 130 suggestions and would
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 22 دی 1396 ساعت: 10:25
A rubbish truck in Rome. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPThe region of Abruzzo has agreed to accept up to 39,000 toes of rubbish from Rome to help ease a garbage crisis in the capital.
Rubbish has been piling up on Rome’s streets since Christmas, when Romans had more to throw away than usual and collections were interrupted for the holidays. Some parts of the capital have yet to clear away the overflow, which has become a pungent embarrassment for the city’s administration.
The govement of Abruzzo, the region to the east of Rome, on Thursday agreed to process a maximum of 39,000 toes of the capital’s refuse at three waste treatment facilities over 90 days.
It comes a day after Italy's environment minister waed that the European Union could intervene if Rome failed to come up with a plan.
The Five Star Movement (M5S), which goves Rome via Mayor Virginia Raggi, has accused its political opponents of seeking to exploit the crisis ahead of Italy’s general election in March.
AXA, questa sera, 7 dicembre. Pronti, tra 2 mesi, ad affidare il Paese a chi sta tenendo la capitale in queste condizioni da più di un ao e mezzo? @RaiNews @romafaschifo @rep_roma @Corriere @LaStampa @virgini
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 22 دی 1396 ساعت: 10:25
Ryanair desks at Rome's Ciampino airport. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPThree Italian air transport unions on Wednesday aounced their intention for a nationwide strike for Ryanair staff on February 10th, expressing disappointment after the first meeting with management of the Irish low-cost airline.
The strike notice includes pilots, even though pilots' union ANPAC said management had a "positive approach" during talks on Tuesday. Ryanair had raised the possibility a deal could be reached with ANPAC before the end of the month.
But the three other Italian air transport unions were not satisfied, calling for "serious negotiations" on wages, contracts and guarantees for "all categories of persoel".
Ryanair suffered a turbulent end to 2017, forced to cancel 20,000 flights through to March 2018, mainly because of botched holiday scheduling for pilots.
The fiasco triggered pilots' demands for better working conditions and representation, with some departing for other carriers.
The discontent also saw Ryanair hit by the first-ever strike action by pilots in its 32-year history, with German staff staging a short stoppage ahead of Christmas resulting in delays but no cancellations.
In Dece
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: پنجشنبه 21 دی 1396 ساعت: 16:44
Italy's Ferrero is closing in on a $2.8-billion deal for Nestle's US confectionary business, Bloomberg said on Wednesday, amid signs a deal could be completed by Sunday.
Nestle USA registered sales of some 900 million Swiss francs (€828 million, $900 million) in 2016, in a market worth an overall $8 billion, according to Ibis World – equivalent to around a fifth of the global market.
The firms declined to comment on the deal.
Earlier reports had said Ferrero, above all known for its Tic Tac, Nutella and Ferrero Rocher brands but which has traditionally preferred organic growth to acquisitions, had been vying with Hershey and private investor groups including France's Rhone Capital for the deal.
Nestle owns brands including Crunch, Butterfinger, Baby Ruth and Skiy Cow.
The acquisition would see Ferrero, world number three in the candy sector after doubling tuover to €10 billion in the past ten years, become the third-largest sweets producer in the United States behind Hershey and Mars.
Currently, its US business only accounts for around five percent of its business having bought Ferrara Candy in December.
A Nutella production line in France. Photo: Charlie Triballeau/AFP
Family-
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: پنجشنبه 21 دی 1396 ساعت: 16:44
Roads to the Alpine resorts of Cervinia and Cogne in Valle d’Aosta reopened on Wednesday, freeing thousands of visitors stranded in the snowed-in ski stations.
The road between between Valtouenche and Breuil-Cervinia, closed on Monday due to a high risk of avalanches, remains covered by a metre and half of snow, a local mountain guide told Ansa.
“It will take some time to make it passable again,” he said, adding that traffic should be able to retu from Wednesday afteoon.
The regional road to Cogne, also closed on Monday after an avalanche dumped several metres of snow on the route, reopened to cars on Wednesday moing.
Roads to the towns of Valnontey, Gaby, Gressoney-Saint-Jean and Gressoney-La-Trinité were also expected to reopen.
Authorities were still assessing the danger in Valgrisenche and Valsavarenche, where sliding snow has cut off electricity and telephone coections.
Some 5,000 people, mostly foreign tourists, were stranded in Cervinia alone as the avalanche waing hit maximum in the north-weste mountains between Valle d’Aosta and Piedmont.
The alert has since been lowered to four out of five, meaning that the risk remains high but not critical. The danger w
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: چهارشنبه 20 دی 1396 ساعت: 21:30
Italy players after Sweden knocked them out of the World Cup play-offs. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFPOutgoing Italian football federation (FIGC) president Carlo Tavecchio said on Wednesday he did not expect a new coach to be appointed before next June.
Italy have been without a coach since Giampiero Ventura was sacked after the four-time champions failed to qualify for the World Cup finals last November.
Tavecchio was forced to resign as FIGC chief but will remain in charge until his successor is elected later this month.
"I'm in charge until January 29th, and I don't think that by that date there will be the new national team coach," the 74-year-old said on the sidelines of the presentation of the new 2017-2018 Panini Collection in Milan.
"I won't be the one that chooses the new coach. I can also tell you that the best coaches are under contract until June. It's difficult for the new coach to be appointed before then."
Among the names being touted are Zenit Saint-Petersburg's Roberto Mancini, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte and former Baye Munich coach Carlo Ancelotti.
Under-21 coach Luigi Di Biagio will oversee Italy's friendlies against England and Argentina while the country awaits
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: چهارشنبه 20 دی 1396 ساعت: 21:30
Juventus midfielder Blaise Matuidi. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFPSerie A club Cagliari will not be punished for racist chanting by their fans against Juventus midfielder Blaise Matuidi, the Italian league said on Tuesday.
Matuidi revealed after Juve's 1-0 win in Sardinia on Saturday that he had been the subject of racist chanting, with Cagliari issuing an apology to the 30-year-old French player the following day.
But Lega Serie A's disciplinary report released on Tuesday found that "no determination can be made with regard to Cagliari for the deplorable expressions of racial discrimination of which Juventus player Blaise Matuidi reports he was the subject".
"No sanction can be brought [because] those expressions were not heard by either the match referee nor by [Italian football federation] FIGC employees, nor filed in the match report."
After hearing abuse from the stands Matuidi rushed to referee Giampaolo Calvarese, but the official ignored his pleas to intervene and Medhi Benatia and Paulo Dybala had to calm their teammate down.
Matuidi was bo in France to an Angolan father and a Congolese mother.
Saturday's abuse follows similar racist chants directed at Matuidi during Juve's 3-
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: چهارشنبه 20 دی 1396 ساعت: 7:13
Workmen removing, then reinstating, Spelacchio's decorations on Tuesday. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPFinally, some good news for Rome’s much-mocked Christmas tree: the balding spruce will be tued into a shelter for breastfeeding mothers after it is removed from the capital’s Piazza Venezia on Thursday.
There had been talk of consigning the infamous tree – nicknamed Spelacchio, or “Baldy” – to a museum of mode art. But on Tuesday it was aounced that the tree would instead be chopped up and used to build a wood cabin for parents and children, equipped with a nursing chair, changing table and play area.
One part of the lumber will be kept for permanent display, Rome’s Five Star Movement mayor, Virginia Raggi, said.
“Over time Spelacchio won the overwhelming majority of people’s fondness and affection,” Raggi commented. “Now it will get a new life. We want to make this inteational star a concrete example of creative recycling.”
The tree – which Raggi’s office paid nearly €50,000 to transport from a forest in the north of Italy to Rome – will be taken down on Thursday in an official send-off ceremony.
There was a false alarm on Tuesday moing, when workers were spotted removing s
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: چهارشنبه 20 دی 1396 ساعت: 7:13
An alpinist in mountains of Piedmont. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFPAuthorities in Piedmont have raised the avalanche alert to five, its highest level, waing of large, spontaneous snow slides.
The risk in the region’s north-weste mountains is “very strong” in parts and “strong” in others, Italy’s environmental protection agency, Arpa, said on Monday.
The danger will be highest oveight and into Tuesday moing.
While snowfall is easing, the fresh snow is so dense and wet that it has made the mass of snow covering the slopes extremely unstable, Arpa said.
The risk should gradually begin to lessen in the coming days as humidity reduces, the agency said, though venturing off piste will remain extremely dangerous.
Arpa's map of Piedmont showing the avalanche waing at five (maximum) and four.
Two off-piste skiers, an 11-year-old German girl and her mother, were killed last week in an avalanche in Val Venosta, in the northe Alto Adige region.
On Monday roads to the ski resorts of Cervinia and Cogne, both in Valle d’Aosta to the north-west of Piedmont, were closed – in the first case by precaution, in the second because an avalanche blocked the route. It is the second time in a week
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: سه شنبه 19 دی 1396 ساعت: 3:00
A survivor arrives in Catania, Sicily. Photo: Giovai Isolino/AFPTen migrants perished over the weekend and dozens are missing, including children, after their boat sank off the Libyan coast, aid organizations said on Monday.
An inflatable boat loaded with men, women and children left Garabulli, 50 kilometres east of Tripoli, on Friday night, but after eight or nine hours it began to deflate and take on water.
Several people fell overboard, while others clung on to what was left of the boat as the bodies of drowned victims floated in the sea.
The Libyan navy and Italian coastguard rescued 86 people and recovered the bodies of six women and two men.
When the survivors arrived in Catania in Sicily on Monday, they said the boat had left with 140 to 150 people on board, meaning dozens were missing, including 15 women and six children aged two to six, according to aid groups – the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Inteational Organization for Migration (IOM) and Doctors without Borders (MSF).
Sono 64 le vittime del naufragio avvenuto sabato tra Libia e Italia. Tra i sopravvissuti c'è anche questa bambina che ha perso la mamma e di cui ora l'OIM si sta prende
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: سه شنبه 19 دی 1396 ساعت: 3:00
The former editor of the Economist, an influential UK weekly which once slammed Silvio Berlusconi as "unfit to lead Italy", said Saturday the ex-premier could stop populists at the upcoming general election.
"I've not changed my opinion: Berlusconi is still unfit to lead Italy," Bill Emmott said in an interview with the Corriere della Sera daily, in reference to the three-time leader famed the world over for his "Bunga Bunga" erotic parties.
"But he could be decisive in forming a centrist coalition able to prevent the (anti-establishment) Five Star Movement or (anti-immigrant) Northe League from being the driving force in the new govement" at the March vote, he said.
The populist Five Stars (M5S), which was founded in 2009 and supports a hotchpotch of policies from across the ideological spectrum, is the leading single party in opinion polls but is slammed by critics as immature and incompetent.
In a stinging commentary, Emmott said the movement could be compared to the current United States administration.
"It may be a bit unjust to say it would be like (Donald) Trump's White House, but in some ways it would: it could potentially be just as experimental and chaotic," he said.
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: يکشنبه 17 دی 1396 ساعت: 4:18
It was mocked for its wilting needles and bare branches, but Rome's Christmas tree has captured the hearts of locals and tourists alike and there are now plans afoot to save it from the chipper.
The Eteal City's tree, affectionately nicknamed "Spelacchio", which translates as "Mangy"or "Baldy", may end up on display in Rome's MAXXI mode art museum, the Corriere della Sera and Messaggero dailies said Saturday.
The Norway spruce -- which was estimated to have cost the city some 48,000 euros ($57,000) -- was declared dead on its arrival in Rome from northe Italy in December, with many saying it was a metaphor for the state of the capital.
But the underdog, pitifully weedy in comparison with the majestic trees at the Vatican and rival cities like Milan, soon built up a following of devoted supporters, as well as a Twitter account of its own.
"They say they want to put me in a museum. Move over Caravaggio," it tweeted, in a reference to the Italian Baroque painter.
Fans have been hanging messages of encouragement on the tree, with one naming it the "9th king of Rome, after (Francesco) Toti," the city's most famous football player.
Should a second life in a museum be out of the que
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: يکشنبه 17 دی 1396 ساعت: 4:18
Juventus players hold the trophy after wiing the Italian Tim Cup final in May 2017. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPDouglas Costa and Mario Mandzukic scored in either half as defending champions Juventus advanced to the semi-finals of the Italian Cup on Wednesday with a 2-0 win over city rivals Torino.
Brazilian Costa opened after quarter of an hour in the Allianz Stadium with Croatian Mandzukic adding the second amid controversy on 69 minutes to set up a meeting with Atalanta, who eliminated Serie A leaders Napoli 2-1 on Tuesday, in the final four.
Lazio, finalists in 2017, will meet AC Milan in the other semi-final played over two legs on January 31 and February 28th.The wiing team will ea a direct entry to the group stages of the Europa League.
"We've reached the semi-final for the fourth year ruing and the lads took the right approach to this game," said coach Massimiliano Allegri.
Torino had wanted a free-kick for Sami Khedira's challenge on Afriyie Acquah in the build-up to Mandzukic's goal which was awarded after consultation with the video assistant referee (VAR).
"I didn't see the incident and I will not comment. I never comment on VAR. I will just say we could have score
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Exports of Italian wine reached a record six billion euros ($7.2 billion) in 2017, up 7.0 percent on the previous year thanks largely to Russia, Italy's largest agricultural union said on Wednesday.
Sales of everything from the full-bodied to the fruity were glugged with glee in established markets, with sales up eight percent in Britain, six percent in the United States and three percent in Germany.
Sales in China increased by 25 percent, though they were still relatively limited compared to the import of French wines.
But Russia proved the most partial to an Italian glass or two, with sales there leaping 47 percent on a 12-month comparison.
And much of the fizz came from sparkling wines, such as prosecco, with sales of bubblies up 15 percent to nearly €1.1 billion, the union said.
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Juventus' midfielder Blaise Matuidi. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFPSerie A club Verona have been fined €20,000 ($24,000) for racist chants by their fans toward Juventus midfielder Blaise Matuidi last weekend.
The abuse of the French inteational took place as he opened the scoring six minutes into the game which the six-time reigning champions won 3-1.
Sporting Judge Gerardo Mastrandrea ruled on Wednesday that Verona will also have to play one game without spectators in their Curva Sud (South End).
However, as it is the first time this season there have been racist chants the execution of the sanction to close the South End was suspended for a year.
"If during this period a similar violation is committed, the suspension will be revoked and the penalty will be added to that imposed for the new violation, in addition to the fine of €20,000," a statement issued by theleague read.
Matuidi, 30, joined Juventus last summer from Paris Saint-Germain in a deal worth an estimated 20 million euros.
Paulo Dybala also scored twice in the final 20 minutes of last Saturday's league game as Juventus stayed a point behind leaders Napoli.
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Livoo port official Gregorio De Falco is an M5S parliamentary hopeful. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPThe man hailed a hero in Italy after ordering the captain of a stricken cruise ship to retu aboard was on Thursday one of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement's parliamentary hopefuls.
Livoo port official Gregorio De Falco shot to fame for his orders to Francesco Schettino after the captain abandoned the Costa Concordia, which sank off Italy in 2012 in a disaster that killed 32 people.
Thousands of Italians have put themselves forward to run for the populist Five Stars (M5S) at the general election in March, according to Italian media reports, with De Falco the best known.
The movement's site crashed repeatedly on Wednesday as the deadline fell. Candidates will be selected in an online vote.
De Falco, 51, hopes to be picked to run for a seat in the Senate, the Corriere della Sera daily said.
Schettino, dubbed "Captain Coward" by the media for abandoning ship, spent most of the evacuation on a rock as terrified passengers threw themselves off the tilting liner at night after it hit an outcrop off the island of Giglio.
A telephone call transcript later emerged of De Falco de
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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’Aa School of Advanced Studies and the Polytechnic of Lausaa.
“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
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Walter Mazzarri was handed the reins at Torino on Thursday. Photo: Oli Scarff/AFPFormer Inter Milan and Watford coach Walter Mazzarri was handed the reins at Torino on Thursday after the Serie A side sacked Sinisa Mihajlovic.
Mihajlovic was fired following Torino's 2-0 Italian Cup defeat to holders Juventus, allowing the experienced 56-year-old to take over the northe side.
"Torino Football Club aounces that it has entrusted the role of coach of the first team to Mr Walter Mazzarri," a statement on the club's website confirmed.
It said Mazzarri began work immediately and took charge of training on Thursday.
Torino had earlier confirmed Mihajlovic's departure after 18 months in charge, thanking the 48-year-old and his staff "for their commitment and passion".
Torino slumped out of the Italian Cup to Juventus amid controversy in the Allianz Stadium midweek after goals from Douglas Costa and Mario Mandzukic.
Mihajlovic had been banished from the sidelines during the game as he protested Mandzukic's second-half goal which came after a Sami Khedira challenge on Ghana inteational Afriyie Acquah.
He paid for Torino's recent form which has left the club tenth in Serie A with just fiv
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A child mummy in Italy was thought to display the oldest medieval evidence of smallpox, but a new DNA analysis shows the disease was actually hepatitis B, researchers said on Thursday.
The small child was buried in the Basilica of Saint Domenico Maggiore in Naples, Italy during the 16th century, according to the study in the joual PLOS Pathogens.
An apparent facial rash led experts to believe, initially, that the child had smallpox, also known as variola virus.
Researchers at McMaster University took a second look, using small tissue samples of skin and bone to identify fragments of DNA.
Their genomic analysis showed the virus was hepatitis B, which attacks the liver and can also cause a rash.
The discovery confirms that hepatitis B has been around for centuries, and has changed little in the past 450 years, said Hendrik Poinar, an evolutionary geneticist with the McMaster Ancient DNA Center.
"These data emphasize the importance of molecular approaches to help identify the presence of key pathogens in the past, enabling us to better constrain the time they may have infected humans," he said.
"The more we understand about the behavior of past pandemics and outbreaks, the greater
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