Deborah Cater

Shein faces growing backlash in Italy

November 8, 2025November 8, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

After facing scrutiny in France, Chinese-founded e-commerce giant Shein is now meeting opposition in Italy. The company is expanding operations in Milan — the centre of Italian fashion. While consumers have embraced the platform’s low-cost clothing, industry leaders and the government warn that “ultra-fast fashion” threatens Italy’s textile sector.

Lake Garda, Lombardy. Image credit: Pxhere

A quick guide to Lombardy

November 8, 2025November 8, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Lombardy combines energy, beauty, and history in one region. In northern Italy, it stretches from the Alps to the Po Valley, offering interesting cities, picture-perfect lakes, and world-class cuisine.

Lombardy - a popular region in Italy, voted the most desirable country in Europe by Wanderlust readers.

Italy the most desirable country in Europe to visit – survey

November 8, 2025November 8, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Readers of Wanderlust – a British travel magazine – voted Italy as the most desirable country in Europe to visit. Surprisingly, however, not a single Italian city made the top ten of the most desirable cities to visit in Europe in the same survey.

search for missing Italian in Nepal called off

Search for missing Italian biologist called off in Nepal

November 7, 2025November 7, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

The family of Italian mountain guide and biologist Marco Di Marcello said on Friday that the search for him in the Himalayas of Nepal has been suspended, with his death now considered virtually certain.

CGIL calls national strike for 12 December

CGIL calls national strike and for wealth tax on richest

November 7, 2025November 7, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Italy’s largest trade union federation, CGIL, has announced a national general strike for December 12 to protest the government’s 2026 budget, which it says fails to raise wages or support workers.

Meloni, Mattarella and Pope call for action on addictions

November 7, 2025November 7, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Premier Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella on Friday called for a renewed national effort to confront the growing challenge of addictions. Speaking at the seventh National Conference on Addictions, held at the Auditorium della Tecnica in Rome, both leaders urged for coordinated, long-term solutions to address what they described as one of Italy’s most […]

On this day in history: Cesare Lombroso born

November 6, 2025November 6, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Cesare Lombroso, the Italian professor often called the “father of criminology”, was born on this day in 1835 in Verona.

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Ex-Red Brigades member Anna Laura Braghetti dies

November 6, 2025November 6, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Anna Laura Braghetti, a former member of Italy’s far-left terrorist group the Red Brigades (BR), has died aged 72, her family announced on Thursday.

On this day in history: Alessandro Malaspina explorer born

November 5, 2025November 5, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Alessandro Malaspina, one of Italy’s greatest but least celebrated explorers, was born on 5th November, 1754 in Mulazzo, a small village in northern Tuscany. Though his name is far less famous than Columbus or Vespucci, his achievements as a navigator, scientist and cartographer were equally significant.

Young worker dies in silo fall in Rovigo

November 5, 2025November 5, 2025Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

A young worker dies after falling from a height of approximately 10 metres on a farm between San Martino di Venezze and Mardimago in the province of Rovigo. The accident occurred at the facility of the San Martino Corn Producers Cooperative, according to the Veneto branch of the union UIL.