Italy heatwave: 25 of 27 biggest cities on red alert
Health ministry expands its highest-level health warning to almost the entire country as scorching temperatures of the Italy heatwave continue to claim lives.
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Husband of Cabinet Minister Roccella missing in lake
Emergency rescue teams are conducting an overnight search at Lake Vico, a volcanic crater lake north of Rome, after Luigi Cavallari, the 84-year-old husband of Italian Cabinet Minister Eugenia Roccella, went missing on Saturday afternoon.
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Triple homicide in Rome – manhunt underway
ROME — Italian authorities have launched an intense manhunt following a brutal triple homicide late Friday night in the Casalotti district, on the western outskirts of Rome. Three members of a family of Bangladeshi origin were stabbed to death in their apartment on Via Montiglio.
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Mary Shelley’s ‘The Last Man’ honoured at exhibition
ROME — Two centuries after Mary Shelley published her radical, visionary novel about the end of humanity, The Last Man, Rome’s Keats-Shelley House is honouring the milestone with a new exhibition. Titled A World on the Verge, the exhibition explores the haunting contemporary relevance of a work that essentially founded the modern apocalyptic fiction genre.
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Uffizi revamp: curation triumph or visitor nightmare?
As Simone Verde’s ambitious redesign of the Botticelli rooms at the Uffizi draws international praise, Florence’s licensed tour guides are raising pointed questions about who the changes are actually for. Perhaps the real question is whether a museum generating nearly €62 million a year in revenue can afford to ignore its customers’ experiences.
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Worker dies of suspected heat stroke at Padua building site
Stefano Tonin, 57, collapsed at a construction site in San Martino di Lupari on Wednesday afternoon. This despite a regional ordinance prohibiting outdoor work during the hottest part of the day. Padua prosecutors and workplace safety inspectors are now investigating.
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Antitrust Authority opens probe over Microsoft 365 price hike
The AGCM alleges that consumers were given inadequate information about the integration of Copilot and Designer into their Microsoft subscriptions and were automatically transferred to costlier plans.
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Napoleon’s Elba reopens after major renovation
A €2 million PNRR-funded project has returned Napoleon’s two Elba retreats, and thousands of square metres of their historic gardens, to the public.
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Qatar’s Al Thani dynasty acquires Berlusconi’s Sardinian villa
Villa Certosa, the extravagant Costa Smeralda estate that served as the late prime minister’s playground for politicians, billionaires and Bunga Bunga parties, has found a buyer three years after Berlusconi’s death. The Qatari Al Thani royal family has made the winning bid.
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Italy faces backlash over Rutte’s “reckless” Iran flights remarks
Defence Minister Crosetto warns that imprecise comments by NATO Secretary General Rutte risk serious consequences beyond Italy’s borders. Rome insists all US flights from Italian bases during Operation Epic Fury were strictly logistical.
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