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Thousands of Indian farm labourers urged an end to "slavery" in Italy on Tuesday after the gruesome death of a worker shone a light on the brutal exploitation of undocumented migrants. ...

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 jih...

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 aounced 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...

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 aounced...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, a...

Faizan Patel poses with an image of his wife on a train in Italy.Over the past few days, an Indian newlywed has taken in the sights of Milan, Florence and romantic Venice as part of his honeymoon, but there’s just one thing missing: his wife. Having only taken a short break after their wedding, Faizan Patel and his wife Sana, from New Delhi, had looked forward to their dream honeymoon in Italy. But just two days before they were due to leave, they discovered that Sana had lost her passport. Seems like I am travelling alone tonight via @TurkishAirlines. My wife has her passport misplaced. Fingers crossed that we find it soon. — Faizan Patel (@faizanpatel) August 6, 2016 They failed in thei...