The Local
درباره سایت
آخرین مطالب
- Which European countries are already using the EES pre-registration app?
- EU to limit children's access to social media
- Italy braces for new heatwave with temperatures to hit 42C
- ‘Almost like gold’: Water debate rages on Italy’s Aeolian Islands
- How badly is your Italian region affected by wildfires?
- Margin of error: Italy takes hundreds of uncertified speed cameras out of action
- Italy arrests ex-secret service agent accused of spying for Russia
- Italy braced for new heatwave as ‘record-breaking’ summer forecast
- RANKED: Which Italian cities have the best climate?
- Trump calls Meloni 'a nice person actually' ahead of NATO talks
امکانات وب
Customers shopping at Diesel's opening of a real knock-off store on Canal Street during NY Fashion Week. Photo: A Presley/AFP
Diesel is ditching the catwalk to masquerade as knock-off merchants this Fashion Week, purporting to be a New York fake goods store only to flog customers the real thing.
It's a clever gimmick for the 40-year-old Italian label, which is using the fall/winter 2018 edition of New York's twice-yearly style fest to open a pop-up shop on Canal Street in Chinatown, the heart of knock-off city in the US financial capital.
Sweatshirts and T-shirts are stamped "Deisel" -- making the ruse believable. Hoodies cost $60, jeans $70 -- again believably fake. Except these clothes are limited-range, designer goods.
"We have so many counterfeit products all over the world I thought, 'Why can't we play with this problem that we have?'" Diesel founder Renzo Rosso told AFP, saying he believes that more than a million counterfeit Diesel goods are sold aually around the world.
"We created a fake product, a fake name, and we came to the counterfeit district."
The store opened under the radar last week and hundreds of customers have alr
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: يکشنبه 22 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 17:53
A Ryanair plane at Rome's Ciampino airport. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP
Work stoppages in Italy by Ryanair employees and air traffic controllers caused minimal disruption on Saturday.
Ryanair workers -- not including pilots -- staged a four-hour strike over their exclusion from contract negotiations with the Ireland-based budget airline, which is in talks with the pilots' union ANPAC.
Persoel of Ryanair rivals Blue Panorama and Vueling also struck on Saturday. Blue Panorama workers stayed away for four hours, while air traffic controllers and Vueling employees launched an eight-hour strike.
None of the three airlines reported flight cancellations Saturday at Italy's main airports, and their websites reflected minimal disruption.
The three unions representing Ryanair workers -- Cgil, Cisl and Uil -- have called for "serious negotiations" on wages, contracts and guarantees for "all categories of persoel" in Italy.
Ryanair, contacted by AFP on Friday, refused to comment on "rumours and speculation."
Ryanair suffered a turbulent end to 2017, forced to cancel 20,000 flights through to March 2018, mainly because of botched holiday sche
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: يکشنبه 22 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 17:53
People take part in an anti-racism demonstration in the central Italian town of Macerata on February 10th, 2018 Photo: AFP
Thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators rallied in the central Italian town of Macerata on Saturday a week after a far-right gunmen shot and wounded six Africans in a racially-motivated attack.
Gathered in the town centre on a freezing but suy afteoon, the protesters tued out following a call by NGOs, anti-fascist organisations, unions and several leftwing political groups.
"If there's unemployment, blame the govement, not the migrants," they chanted.
With tensions high in this normally sleepy town of 43,000 people, shops were shuttered early and schools closed for the day, an AFP correspondent said.
"The atmosphere is tense in Italy at the moment and in recent years we have allowed the right to flourish. I have always demonstrated but now we need to do so more than ever," said Mafalda Quartu, a retiree from Florence.
The town hit the headlines on February 3rd when Luca Traini, 28, allegedly carried out a two-hour shooting attack from his car in which he shot at around a dozen African migrants, wounding five men and a woman.
Spea
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: يکشنبه 22 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 17:53
Flavio Briatore. File photo: AFP
Flamboyant Italian tycoon and former boss of the Benetton and Renault F1 racing teams Flavio Briatore was Saturday sentenced on appeal to 18 months in jail for tax evasion in coection with his luxury yacht, press reports said.
Briatore, whose multi-million-dollar superyacht "Force Blue" was seized in 2010, had his sentence reduced from 23 months, despite prosecutors asking for a four-year sentence.
His lawyers said they would again appeal.
The 63-metre yacht is registered in the Cayman Islands.
Investigators contest Briatore's claims that he does not own it but merelyrents it from a company registered in the Virgin Islands.
They said he was the owner of the company -- and by extension -- owner of the yacht.
Briatore was convicted of not paying 3.6 million euros of VAT on the yacht's value and dodging 800,000 euros of fuel duties between 2006 and 2010.
Police say according to EU regulations, yachts registered outside the European Union may only avoid paying duty if they leave EU waters within eight hours of refuelling.
READ ALSO: Italy recovers record €19 billion haul in tax fraud crackdown
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: يکشنبه 22 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 17:53
Far-right protesters salute as they face off with police in Macerata. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP
Italy's President Sergio Mattarella waed on Friday against the "grave risks of extreme nationalism" as the country was gripped by high racial tensions ahead of next month's elections.
The president was speaking on the eve of Remembrance Day, which commemorates gruesome massacres carried out between 1943 and 1945 on Italy's north-easte border.
"Remembrance day marks an agonising chapter for our country [...] a tragedy caused by a calculated initiative to purge on an ethnic and nationalist basis," he said. "The massacres, violence and suffering endured [...] caot be forgotten, minimized or suppressed."
READ ALSO: Far-right demonstrators clash with police at baed protest in Macerata
Between 1943 and 1945, Yugoslav troops massacred thousands of Italians, throwing their victims dead or alive into 'foibes', deep stone cavities, typical of the border region with Slovenia and Croatia. This political and ethnic cleansing known as the "Foibe massacres" is commemorated every year on February 10th.
These events "make us aware of the grave risks of extreme nationalism, ethn
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: شنبه 21 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 5:06
Lorenzo Baglioni and his 2018 hit about the subjunctive. Photo: screengrab/YouTube
If the subjunctive just won't stick and you're fed up of the future simple, we've got the playlist for you. In honour of the 2018 Sanremo festival, here are seven songs that show sometimes the best way to lea Italian is to sing it.
READ ALSO: Everything you need to know about the Sanremo Music Festival, Italy's answer to Eurovision
The alphabet: A come Amore – Wilma De Angelis
[embedded content]
OK, so admittedly this only goes up to E – but it'll teach you some crucial vocabulary (amore, bacio, cuore), as well as helping to nail down pronunciation of the Italian C ("chi", not "cee") that can prove so confusing to English speakers.
Infinitives: Nel blu dipinto di blu – Domenico Modugno
[embedded content]
We'll bet you already know at least one of the many verbs in the infinitive featured in this 1958 classic: volare, the name it's better known by. The famous song has some catchy examples of them for begiers to memorize (as well as some juicy uses of the imperfect tense for those a bit further ahead).
Prepositions: Sapore di Sale – Gino Paoli
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: شنبه 21 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 5:06
The British govement aounced on Thursday that it would lift a ban on citizens voting in UK elections if they had lived longer than 15 years outside the country.
The govement statement said that UK citizens would now be able to vote in domestic elections regardless of how long they had been abroad, a rule change which will give millions of people living overseas the right to register to vote.
The 15-year time limit proved to be a constant source of frustration among British expats, particularly during the referendum on EU membership, when long-term expats felt like they were robbed of a voice.
“Participation in our democracy is a fundamental part of being British, no matter how far you have travelled from the UK,” Minister for the Constitution Chloe Smith. “It is right that we should remove the 15-year time limit on voting rights of British citizens living overseas and allow those who previously lived in the UK the chance to participate in our democracy.”
"Expats retain strong links with the United Kingdom: they may have family here, and indeed they may plan to retu here in the future. Mode technology and cheaper air travel has transformed the ability of
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 20 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 21:13
The Sicilian mafia is a powerful organized crime syndicate known across the globe, but its origins are murky. A surge in demand for citrus fruits in the 1800s could provide clues as to how it first emerged. Economic lecturers Alessia Isopi and Arcangelo explain.
The Sicilian mafia is arguably one of the most famous – or infamous – institutions in the Weste world. After its first appearance in Sicily in the 1870s it soon infiltrated the economic and political spheres of Italy and the US and has, at times, been considered a serious threat to the rule of law in both countries.
But despite the fact that we’ve seen plenty of evidence of mafia activity, both in real life and on screen over the past 140 years, the reasons behind its emergence are still obscure.
While some analysis by academics has focused on weak institutions, predation and the poor state enforcement of property rights, others – particularly when it comes to the Sicilian mafia – have suggested that the legacy of feudalism was an important driver, along with the development of latifundism (a system according to which agriculture is dominated by large estates) and a loss of social capital and public trust
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 20 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 16:04
Far-right demonstrators clash with anti-riot police in Macerata. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP
Police clashed with extreme-right protesters on Thursday evening in the central Italian town of Macerata, where tension is currently high following a shooting attack by a far-right sympathizer who targeted dark-skied foreigners.
The suspect has said he chose to carry out the attack after hearing that a local 18-year-old woman’s dismembered body had been found by police, and that a Nigerian man had been arrested in coection with her death.
Around 40 people reportedly participated in the unauthorized protest on Thursday evening, which was organized by the extreme-right Forza Nuova party. Counter-demonstrators chanted slogans including "we are all anti-fascists".
READ ALSO: Italy's centre-left was of 'retu of fascism' amid wave of support for far-right shooter
When the Forza Nuova supporters tried to enter the town’s central square, they clashed with riot police, with some officers hitting protesters with truncheons, Rai News reported. Twelve activists were taken to the police station, and could face charges for violating the police order that had baed the protest.
R
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 20 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 16:04
M5S leader Luigi Di Maio delivers a speech during the presentation of the movement's parliamentary candidates. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP
Italy's Five Star Movement (M5S), the country's most popular party according to polls, has been accused of plagiarizing a variety of sources in its programme for the March general election.
Online newspaper Il Post reported on Wednesday that 11 of the programme’s 20 chapters included material apparently plagiarized from other sources. A full comparison of the M5S manifesto and the unattributed sources can be found on the website in Italian.
These sources included articles, parliamentary papers, scientific studies, legal manuals, and even statements made by rival politicians.
According to Il Post, the M5S manifesto included material plagiarized from the Wikipedia pages for eco-museums, the ministry for communications, and a govement agency responsible for managing EU farming funds, while in other places definitions were identical to those found in legal manuals.
Other sections were identical to papers from the European Commission and the Italian parliament, reports from private and public think tanks, and a National Geographic re
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 20 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 8:33
People queue for entry during last year's edition of the festival. Photo: Marco Ravagli/AFP
One of the biggest events in the Italian music calendar, the Sanremo Music Festival, has kicked off with a song about the subjunctive, and Sting singing in Italian.
A total of 11.6 million people tuned into public broadcaster Rai for the show's first round on Tuesday night, representing more than half the total audience share.
So just what is it about the cheesy music extravaganza that gets Italians glued to their TVs?
This year, comedian Fiorello, opened the show on Tuesday night. One of Italy's most popular presenters and famed for his impressions, Fiorello's routine included a joke about Turkish resident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose visit to Rome earlier this week sparked protests.
"He's coming to Sanremo because he heard there are 1,300 free joualists here," joked Fiorello, who also had to deal with a protester when a man managed to storm the stage.
The second show on Wednesday featured a number of famous musical performers, including Italian favourites Il Volo and Sting, who owns a house and an award-wiing vineyard in Italy. The former lead singer of The Police s
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 20 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 8:33
The investigation into the death of cyclist Linas Rumsas, son of former professional rider Raimondas Rumsas, led on Thursday to sweeping arrests at his former Altopack Eppela amateur team, Italian prosecutors said.
Police raided several premises in the Tuscan town of Lucca early on Thursday and detained team owner Luca Franceschi, former sports director Elso Frediani, pharmacist Andrea Bianchi and ex-trainer Michele Viola for allegedly supplying young riders with doping products.
Altopack Eppela was the team associated with the Velo Club Coppi Lunata with which 21-year-old Linas Rumsas competed before his death following a heart attack on May 2nd 2017.
"Since the young man, in the weeks leading up to his death, had obtained excellent placings in particularly tough races, far superior to those obtained in the past, the suspicion immediately arose that the sudden death was due to the use or abuse of unauthorized drugs," police told a press conference.
Suspicions were reinforced because his father, Lithuanian rider Raimondas Rumsas, along with his mother Edita, had in the past been investigated for trafficking doping substances.
"The investigation has revealed th
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 20 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 8:33
Nearly 23 percent of Italy's population is over 65. Photo: Olivier Morin/AFP
Italy's population is older than ever after another drop in the number of babies bo here last year.
Some 464,000 babies were bo in Italy in 2017, according to the latest figures from national statistics bureau Istat. That was 9,000 below the 2016 total, which was already 12,000 fewer than the year before that.
The trend stretches back further: over the past ten years, births have fallen by 100,000.
The declining birthrate, combined with longer life expectancy, has left Italy with a significantly older population. By the start of of 2018, for the first time ever the mean age of Italy's residents was over 45 years old. Nearly 60 percent of them were 40 or older; nearly 23 percent were over 65. In contrast, only 27 percent were aged 15-39, and around 13 percent were 14 or younger.
Deaths also increased in 2017, leaving Italy with fewer people: just under 60.5 million by the end of last year, around 100,000 fewer than at the start.
Even an increase in the number of foreign nationals arriving in Italy (up 12 percent) and a decrease in the number of Italians leaving (down around 3 perce
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 20 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 8:33
UniCredit's headquarters in Milan. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP
Italian bank UniCredit said on Thursday that it retued to the black in 2017 as an ambitious reorganisation it embarked upon 18 months ago starts to pay off.
UniCredit said in a statement that it chalked up net profit of €5.47 billion last year, exceeding analysts' forecasts.
The year before, one-off items and writedowns had pushed the lender into a net loss of €11.79 billion.
UniCredit said 2017 full-year revenues edged 1.7 percent higher to €19.6 billion. In the fourth quarter alone, net profit amounted to €801 million, compared with a loss of €13.55 billion a year earlier.
"It was the bank's best fourth quarter in a decade," said chief executive Jean Pierre Mustier. "2017 was a pivotal year for UniCredit."
The numbers seemed to convince investors, too, with UniCredit shares bounding up 2.7 percent to €17.95, taking it 45 percent higher than a year ago.
UniCredit said its core tier-one capital ratio – a key measure of a bank's underlying strength – stood at 13.6 percent at the end of last year, only slightly below the very solid 13.8 percent seen in September.
The bank said its asset qualit
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 20 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 8:33
Around 200 people participated in a torchlit march in Macerata, central Italy on Tuesday, in honour of an 18-year-old woman whose dismembered body was found there last week.
Police found the body of 18-year-old Pamela Mastropietro in two suitcases on January 31st, though the cause of her death has not yet been established by investigators.
"It is inhuman what they did to my daughter; an absurd violence," her mother was quoted by the Ansa news agency as saying at Tuesday's march. "Pamela's death could have been avoided."
She had earlier described Mastropietro in a public Facebook post as "cheerful, spirited, beautiful, good-hearted, helpful to everyone, kind, a bit sensitive, generous... she was a lioness".
She has also aounced her intention to set up a non-profit organization in her daughter's memory, to offer support to young people in need. The 18-year-old had left a rehab facility just two days before her death, Italy's Rai News reported.
On Tuesday, protesters carried candles through the rain, as well as baers reading 'Stop the violence'.
Two men are currently under investigation in coection with Mastropietro's death. One of them is currently in d
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: پنجشنبه 19 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 3:49
Eni's headquarters near Milan. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP
Fifteen people have been arrested in Italy on suspicion of having "adjusted" lawsuits in favour of Italian energy giant Eni, according to judicial sources.
Italian financial police on Tuesday raided the offices of Massimo Mantovani, a member of the Eni management and the group's former legal director, the sources said.
One of Eni's lawyers, Piero Amara, is also among those arrested.
Investigators are probing if the pair tried to throw Italian investigators off course in order to spare the Eni group and its general manager Claude Descalzi corruption allegations surrounding an oil contract in Nigeria.
Eni and fellow petroleum company Shell are due to stand trial in Milan next month over charges of bribery and corruption in the 2011 purchase of an offshore oil block in the west African country.
The companies are accused of graft in the acquisition of OPL245, estimated to hold nine billion barrels of crude, for $1.3 billion.
Among the defendants are Eni's current boss Descalzi, his predecessor Paolo Scaroni, as well as other executives and executives of Shell and the Italian group, as well as Nigerian ex
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: پنجشنبه 19 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 3:49
An anti-tetanus vaccine. Photo: Fred Taeau/AFP
Prosecutors in Turin are considering charging a couple with injury by negligence after they failed to vaccinate their daughter against tetanus and she went on to contract the infection.
The girl, seven, was rushed to the Regina Margherita Paediatric Hospital last October suffering from convulsions and was diagnosed with tetanus – a rare disease in Italy, where it has been compulsory to vaccinate children against it for the past 50 years.
It emerged that neither she nor her ten-month-old brother had received shots for tetanus or any other of the 12 diseases that Italy requires all school-age children to be vaccinated against.
While her parents said they were not part of Italy’s growing “anti-vax” movement, they said they were worried about potential side effects of vaccinations, according to La Repubblica.
Turin prosecutors are now weighing whether to open a case against them for negligent injury. They will first seek to establish whether the girl could have contracted tetanus if she had received the vaccination and whether it has permanently damaged her health, Il Secolo XIX said.
The girl was discharged after th
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: پنجشنبه 19 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 3:49
One of the goats of Palmaria. Photo: Gabriele Ferreri/Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
In what's been called the "biggest rescue operation ever attempted in Italy", animal lovers have begun removing around 100 stray goats from the island of Palmaria.
The goats are considered an invasive species on the island – part of a protected archipelago off the north-weste Italian coast that's designated a Unesco World Heritage Site – and will be taken to the mainland to be rehoused.
Goats have lived wild on Palmaria since the 1960s. No one is quite sure how they got there, but over the decades the herd has grown to far outnumber the island's human population, which currently stands at around 30.
A common sight on the island's steep cliffs, the dinky goats may be popular with tourists, but their tendency to chomp native flora and trample residents' crops made them a nuisance to the locals.
Photo: Roberto Celi/Facebook
Regional authorities have been seeking a way to get rid of the animals for years – culminating in a national furore in 2016 when reports began circulating that the mayor was considering having the goats culled.
The council eventually came to an arrangement last
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: پنجشنبه 19 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 3:49
Former pope Benedict XVI celebrating his 90th birthday in 2017. Photo: Osservatore Romano/AFP
Pope emeritus Benedict XVI hinted on Wednesday that he is nearing death and ready for his final "pilgrimage" at the age of 90.
"In the slow decline of my physical strength, inteally, I am on a pilgrimage to the House [of the Lord]", Joseph Ratzinger wrote in a letter published in the Corriere della Sera daily, which had told him many readers were conceed about his health.
The former pope, who will tu 91 in April, said he was moved that "so many readers want to know how this last period of his life is going".
"It is a great grace for me to be surrounded, in this last point of a sometimes tiring path, with affection and kindness that I would not have imagined," Benedict added.
Since his resignation five years ago, the German-bo pope has been living in a small monastery in the Vatican, with four nuns and his personal secretary Georg Gaenswein.
Two years ago, Gaenswein reported that Benedict was "going out like a candle, slowly and serenely".
Benedict celebrates mass every day, prays a lot, receives visitors in small numbers and responds to many letters.
He a
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: پنجشنبه 19 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 3:49
Carlo Tavecchio resigned in November. PHOTO: ALBERTO PIZZOLI / AFP
The head of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) has called for Monday's vote to elect a new president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) to be postponed for three months.
CONI president Giovai Malago believes the conditions are not right to elect a successor to Carlo Tavecchio, who resigned after Italy's World Cup qualifying fiasco last November which meant the four-time champions miss the finals for the first time in 60 years.
Three candidates are expected to go forward at Monday's vote before the FIGC general assembly in Rome -- Amateur League president Cosimo Sibilia, Lega Pro (third division) chief Gabriele Gravina and Damiano Tommasi head of the
Italian Players' Union.
"I hope that there is an awareness on the part of the three candidates so that the election does not take place, I wish it as do 90 percent of Italians," Malago said in quotes in the Italian media.
"For now the assembly is convened. But the candidates have acknowledged the difficulties and are considering with their supporters the path to take," said Malago, adding that if the vote went ahead it was
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: دوشنبه 9 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 10:48
An undated file photo showing French Trappist monks from the Priory of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibehirine, including those recognised by the Vatican as martyrs in view of their beatification. Photo: AFP
The Vatican on Saturday declared seven French Trappist monks beheaded by Islamists in Algeria in 1996 as martyrs, paving the way for their beatification - the first step towards sainthood.
On the night of March 26-27th 1996, the monks were abducted from the Priory of Our Lady of Atlas in Tibehirine, about 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Algiers, by members of the insurgent Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA).
Their heads were discovered two months later and their death was aounced by the GIA.
The monks are part of 19 clergy slain in Algeria between 1994 and 1996, including Bishop Pierre Claverie of Oran.
The Tiberihine monks -- Dom Christian de Cherge, Brother Luc (bo Paul Dochier), Father Christophe (Lebreton), Brother Michel (Fleury), Father Bruno (bo Christian Lemarchand), Father Celestin (Ringeard), and Brother Paul (Favre-Miville) -- were aged between 45 and 82.
The Vatican said the monks were murdered in odium fidei, or out of hatred for the faith.
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: يکشنبه 8 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 9:27
File photo of migrants being transferred to the Aquarius ship in December. PHOTO: FEDERICO SCOPPA / AFP
Two women died and many others are presumed drowned after a migrant boat carrying dozens of people sank in the Mediterranean, rescue services in Italy said on Saturday.
Among the 83 people rescued were three babies who were revived by medical teams.
"A tragic day in the Mediterranean. The Aquarius was mobilised for a rescue of a deflated boat," the rescue charity SOS Mediterranean said on Twitter. "People were already in the water, 83 people saved and safely on board. Two women could not be revived, leaving two children orphaned."
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), who also helped in the rescue operation, said "many people are missing and presumed drowned, including children."
Italian coast guards on Saturday said a total of 800 people were rescued in five separate operations.
According to the Italian home office, around 2,730 migrants from Libya have landed on the Italian coast since the start of the year.
The numbers have dropped significantly since Italy forged a controversial Brussels-backed deal last summer with forces in Libya t
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: يکشنبه 8 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 9:27
Etna pictured during a previous eruption. Photo: Controluce/AFP
When and how seriously will Italy's Mount Etna next erupt? Two volcanologists explain how they're using crystals to lea more about what's going on in the depths of Europe's most active volcano.
Predicting when a volcano is going to explode is a very difficult task. Every volcano has its own unique and complex maze of tuels that feed magma to the surface. So even when we detect volcanic activity, it’s very hard to know when the magma will make its way through these tuels and erupt.
But there’s now a way to assess this process using crystals that grow inside volcanoes and act like a record of its eruption. Our latest study on crystals from Mount Etna in Italy has shown that if new magma arrives in chambers 10km below Etna’s surface, an eruption can follow within two weeks. No wonder the Roman poet Lucretius said Etna “rages with flames from th’ lowest pit of Hell”.
Geologists used to think of the magma below volcanoes as being in a large single chamber, but mode research shows that feeding systems contain many coected compartments with complex transport routes. We also know what when new magma r
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: شنبه 7 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 15:07
File photo of a nurse preparing a syringe to vaccinate a young boy. Photo: Sergei Supinsky/AFP
There were almost 5,000 cases of measles in Italy last year, and four people died of the disease, according to newly-released data from the Italian health ministry.
The number of cases is almost six times as high as in 2016, and comes as two of Italy's political parties included promises to scrap compulsory vaccines in their election campaigns. In 2016, 844 measles cases were reported, up from 251 in 2015.
In 95 percent of the cases recorded last year, the patient had either not been vaccinated against the disease or had only received one of the recommended two doses, the figures released by the health ministry on Thursday show.
There were more measles cases in Italy than almost any other EU country, with Romania the only exception. Complications occurred in over a third -- 35.8 percent -- of cases.
The four people who died of measles in Italy last year included a 41-year-old and three under-10s, aged one, six, and nine. None of the victims had been vaccinated.
Among all of those affected by measles, the ages varied from one day to 84 years.
In May 2017, Italy's
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: شنبه 7 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 15:07
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
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: شنبه 7 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 15:07
Laura Boldrini, the speaker of Italy's Chamber of Deputies. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP
House Speaker Laura Boldrini has demanded an apology from the far-right Northe League after a regional youth wing of the far-right party bued a model of her in a public bonfire.
The figure was set alight on Thursday night in Busto Arsizio, a city near Milan in the north-weste region of Lombardy, where it is traditional to hold a bonfire in the last week of January.
The dummy of Boldrini, president of Italy's lower house of parliament and part of the centre-left govement that the Northe League hopes to defeat in an election in March, was placed in a model boat named the “Costa Discordia ONG”, a reference both to the Costa Concordia cruise ship that sank off the Italian coast in 2012 and to the NGO rescue boats that pick up migrants shipwrecked as they attempt to sail from North Africa to southe Italy.
Non ho parole per descrivere il disgusto provato nel vedere le immagini di Busto Arsizio. Un fantoccio raffigurante Laura Boldrini da bruciare in piazza. Chi brucia fantocci ricorda chi bruciava i libri e il motivo per cui lo faceva. La mia solidarietà a Laura. pic.twitt
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: شنبه 7 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 15:07
The Local
[email protected] @thelocalitaly
26 January 201817:52 CET+01:00
Share this article
A metro station in Rome. Photo: jovaig/[email protected] @thelocalitaly
26 January 2018
17:52 CET+01:00
Police in Rome are investigating whether a woman seriously injured by an underground train on Friday could have been pushed onto the tracks.
The woman, who is reported to be a Peruvian national, was hit by a B-line train at the EUR Fermi metro station in the south of the capital shortly before 1pm.
The impact trapped her between the platform and the train, with firefighters summoned to free her before she was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
She is expected to survive but may lose one of her hands, according to Roma Today.
Police are studying surveillance camera footage and eyewitness accounts to establish what caused the woman to fall onto the tracks.
They are considering the possibility that she was pushed, sources told Ansa.
The metro B was suspended in both directions for around three hours a
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: شنبه 7 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 15:07
The fully-functioning gold toilet. Photo: William Edwards/AFP
The request was for a Van Gogh to ado the walls of the president and first lady's private residence in the White House. The answer? No -- but how about a fully functioning, 18-karat gold toilet instead?
While it's customary for US presidents to borrow works of art during their time in office, the Guggenheim in Donald Trump's hometown of New York was polite, but firm in its refusal, The Washington Post reported.When the White House requested the renowned Dutch painter's "Landscape With Snow," the museum's chief curator -- an outspoken Trump critic -- countered that the 19th century painting was "prohibited from travel except for the
rarest of occasions.""We are sorry not to be able to accommodate your original request," wrote Nancy Spector in an email obtained by the Post, "but remain hopeful that this special offer may be of interest."
Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's "America" -- a gleaming gold toilet -- was on display at the Guggenheim for nearly a year, installed in a restroom for the private use of members of the public with a guard posted outside.Now that the exhibition was over, the artist would
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 6 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 14:32
Paolo Gentiloni says Italy's centre-left will not gove alongside the centre-right. Photo: Andrea Solaro/AFP
Paolo Gentiloni, Italy’s centre-left prime minister, said his party would not consider goveing alongside Silvio Berlusconi’s alliance of centrists and the far-right after a general election in March.
“The answer is no,” Gentiloni told CNBC on Wednesday when asked if the Democratic Party would consider a so-called grand coalition with the centre-right.
Speaking in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gentiloni said that he hoped the centre-left would win a majority in the March 4th vote – a possibility that looks more and more remote according to opinion polls, which have Berlusconi’s bloc leading but still falling short of the numbers needed to gove alone.
Most analysts predict a hung parliament, which means that every faction would likely need extra support from its non-traditional allies to form a govement.
“In any case, I think we will be the pillar of a possible coalition in our country,” said Gentiloni, who is not ruing for another term. “I think that... the populist, anti-EU position will not prevail.”
He was ref
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 6 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 8:11
Italian politics are full of characters – so many that sometimes it’s hard to keep track. If you want to know who’s ruling, who’s ruing and who’s making the headlines, check out The Local’s begier’s to the names you need to know before Italy goes to the polls on March 4th.
The incumbent: Paolo Gentiloni
Party: Democratic Party (PD)Position: Centre-leftRole: Prime Minister of Italy since December 2016
Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP
The main thing you need to know about Paolo Gentiloni, Italy’s centre-left prime minister, is that he’s on his way out. A former cabinet minister who was thrust into the top spot after the resignation of his predecessor (more on that below), Gentiloni has been in office for little over a year and isn’t ruing for another term. That’s despite the fact that he’s actually quite popular, his level-headed leadership having won him a higher approval rating than any of the 2018 candidates.
The comeback kid: Matteo Renzi
Party: Democratic Party (PD)Position: Centre-left, neoliberalRole: currently, Democratic Party leader and candidate; formerly, prime minister of Italy, 2014-2016
Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP
This is Matteo Renzi’s sec
برچسب: نویسنده: استخدام کار تاريخ: جمعه 6 بهمن 1396 ساعت: 8:11
صفحه بندی
آرشیو مطالب
- تير 1405
- آذر 1404
- آبان 1404
- شهريور 1403
- مرداد 1403
- تير 1403
- خرداد 1403
- ارديبهشت 1403
- فروردين 1403
- آذر 1402
- آبان 1402
- مهر 1402
- اسفند 1402
- بهمن 1402
- دی 1402
- مهر 1398
- ارديبهشت 1398
- فروردين 1398
- آذر 1397
- ارديبهشت 1397
- اسفند 1397
- بهمن 1397
- دی 1397
- آذر 1396
- آبان 1396
- مهر 1396
- شهريور 1396
- مرداد 1396
- تير 1396
- خرداد 1396
- ارديبهشت 1396
- فروردين 1396
- اسفند 1396
- بهمن 1396
- دی 1396
- آبان 1395
- مهر 1395
- شهريور 1395
- مرداد 1395
- تير 1395
- خرداد 1395
- ارديبهشت 1395
- فروردين 1395
- اسفند 1395
- دی 1395
- اسفند 1394
- بهمن 1394