Carabinieri intervened after intercepting messages in which a pupil at the “Nicotera-Costabile” school allegedly planned to attack his Italian teacher. The case comes amid growing concern over violence against teachers in Italian schools.
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Premier Giorgia Meloni’s proposal to cap foreign pupils at 30% per classroom has drawn criticism from opposition politicians and head teachers. It also appeared to prompt a pointed intervention from President Sergio Mattarella on the role of schools in integration.
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Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has apologised to women who felt offended by comments suggesting that less flamboyant women who wear longer skirts make better wives and mothers and are less likely to cheat. The remarks drew a wave of criticism from politicians across the spectrum.
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Italian police carried out searches across the country on Friday targeting 17 people, including 14 minors, suspected of glorifying white supremacist attackers, spreading Nazi propaganda, and proposing methods for carrying out racially motivated attacks online.
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Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli has announced the Colosseum will reopen on Saturday, three days after 22-year-old rope-access worker Andrea Moretti fell to his death while installing lighting inside the monument, in what he called Italy’s “umpteenth workplace fatality”.
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The feast of Sant’Eustachio (Saint Eustace), one of Rome’s most enduringly popular legendary martyrs, falls on 20 September. His story blends a vision of a stag bearing a crucifix, years of family hardship, and a brutal death under the emperor Hadrian.
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More than 650 West Nile virus cases have been recorded nationwide this year — around half of all infections logged across Europe — as health authorities link the trend to longer, hotter summers.
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A violent, prolonged downpour on Friday flooded neighbourhoods across the city of Agrigento in Sicily, sent mud and debris onto roads leading out of town, and swallowed a car when the road gave way in Piazza Marconi.
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Thousands of museums, archives and archaeological sites across the country will host special tours and late openings on 26–27 September. The theme for the 2026 European Heritage Days is “Heritage at Risk: Revive, Resist, Reimagine”.
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The Barilla Group is restructuring its southern Italy operations, with two other plants set to pass to industrial partners under multi-year supply deals.
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