Italy’s data protection authority has handed Poste Italiane and its payments subsidiary PostePay a combined fine of more than €12.5 million. The authority concluded that the companies unlawfully processed the personal data of millions of users through their mobile apps.
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Born on 22 April 1891, in a small Piedmontese town, Vittorio Jano went on to become one of the most consequential figures in the history of motor racing. He was a quiet, methodical genius whose engines powered world champions across four decades and three of Italy’s most famous automotive brands.
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Palermo has claimed its place in the record books with the creation of a giant arancina weighing 62.3 kilograms. Unveiled last Sunday on Palermo’s Mondello beach, it surpasses a previous record set in Messina in 2023.
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Russian state television presenter Vladimir Solovyov, the Kremlin’s most prominent propaganda voice, launched a foul-mouthed attack on Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on live television on Tuesday, prompting Italy to summon the Russian ambassador in formal protest.
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The government is racing against a Liberation Day deadline to salvage its flagship security decree. President Sergio Mattarella signalled he cannot sign off on a controversial €615 incentive for lawyers who secure the voluntary repatriation of migrant clients.
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Elvira Amata, Sicily’s regional tourism councillor and a member of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, has been ordered to stand trial on corruption charges. She is the latest in a series of judicial difficulties to beset the right-wing coalition’s Sicilian operation.
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On 21 April 753 BC according to legend, tradition and the calculations of Rome’s own ancient scholars, a man named Romulus ploughed a furrow around the Palatine Hill and founded a city. Today, that city, Rome, turns 2,779 years old.
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The Italian government is prepared to restart the nation’s coal-fired power plants as a contingency measure. They will be put into action if natural gas prices surge to €70 per megawatt hour, Environment and Energy Security Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin announced on Monday.
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A newborn baby boy was safely recovered on Sunday morning after being left in the “Culla per la vita” (Cradle for Life) operated by the Italian Red Cross in Bergamo’s Loreto district. Emergency services were alerted automatically at 9:45 am. The infant was swiftly transferred to the Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, where doctors confirmed he […]
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A trans activist and Torino Pride volunteer has been slapped in the face by a group of teenagers in central Turin after being targeted for their rainbow backpack. The incident, which occurred near the Cinema Massimo late on Saturday evening, has prompted swift condemnation from the city’s mayor, the President of the Piedmont Region, and […]
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