Quirinale launches 80th anniversary website
As Italy approaches the 80th anniversary of the 1946 institutional referendum, the Presidency of the Republic is inviting citizens to share what the Republic means to them.
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Florence to marks anniversary of Via dei Georgofili bombing
A night vigil in Piazza della Signoria, a commemorative procession, and a conference on unresolved judicial questions will mark the anniversary of the 1993 Via dei Georgofili bombing on 26-27 May. The Cosa Nostra attack that killed five people in the heart of the city.
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Time Out places Florence ninth best city for culture
The Tuscan capital, Florence, is the only Italian city in the global top 20 in a Time Out survey. It is recognised for a cultural offering that extends well beyond its Renaissance monuments.
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Delta launches first direct New York–Sardinia flight
Delta Air Lines’s new JFK–Olbia service, chosen by a public vote, marks a historic shift in transatlantic access to one of the Mediterranean’s most coveted destinations.
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Rome prosecutors consider charges over Flotilla activists treatment
Italian investigators are examining allegations of beatings, sexual violence, and abduction following Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters. Around 50 activists have been hospitalised in Turkey.
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Carlo Petrini, founder of the Slow Food movement, dies
The Piedmontese visionary, Carlo Petrini, who turned a protest against McDonald’s into a global food philosophy leaves behind a movement active in 160 countries and an enduring legacy of culinary conscience.
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Meloni pledges €150 million for Niscemi
The premier returns to the landslide-hit Sicilian town of Niscemi four months on, as investigators examine authorisations granted over decades on an unstable hillside.
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US lifts sanctions on UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese
A federal judge’s ruling that the Trump administration had likely infringed Francesca Albanese’s constitutional rights has forced Washington into a retreat. The Treasury Department has quietly removed the Italian academic’s name from its sanctions blacklist.
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Nine face trial over Calenzano Eni depot explosion
Seventeen months after an explosion tore through an Eni depot near Florence, killing five workers, prosecutors have concluded their investigation and referred nine individuals to trial. They exonerated the energy giant as a corporate entity.
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4.4-magnitude tremor shakes Naples
Thursday’s tremor is among the strongest recorded during the ongoing bradyseismic crisis at the Phlegrean Fields. Ground uplift has now reached 140 centimetres since 2005 and a new study warns of a critical transition within a decade.
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