Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has summoned Israel’s ambassador to Italy to the foreign ministry in Rome after two Italian Carabinieri officers were threatened at gunpoint in the West Bank whilst on official duty.
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The Italian government has declared a national state of emergency for Calabria, Sicily and Sardinia following widespread destruction caused last week by Cyclone Harry, Civil Protection Minister Nello Musumeci announced after a cabinet meeting on Monday.
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Italian political debate has intensified after confirmation that the United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will play a security support role during next month’s Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics. The announcement has sparked alarm across political circles in Italy, mostly in response to controversial actions by ICE agents in the United States in recent weeks.
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The Italian painter Giovanni Lanfranco, regarded as one of the leading masters of High Baroque painting in Rome, was born on 26th January, 1582 in Parma. Lanfranco’s work, particularly his dome frescoes, set new standards for illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening.
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Florence will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January with a programme of free guided visits at some of the city’s most important places of memory.
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Footage of two Italian journalists being threatened by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Minneapolis has sparked political controversy in Italy.
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The parents of a man, Claudio Carlomagno, who confessed to killing his wife in a femicide earlier this month were found dead at their home north of Rome on Saturday evening.
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More than 2,500 online contents linked to the improper use of the Chianti name have been identified in the past six months, according to a monitoring report commissioned by the Consorzio Vino Chianti.
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Italy has formally protested the release on bail of the owner of a Swiss bar destroyed in a deadly New Year’s Day fire and has recalled its ambassador to Switzerland.
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Italy’s wolf population has risen to an estimated 3,000 to 3,500 animals, a dramatic recovery from the early 1970s when the species was close to extinction.
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