The ruins of Pompeii have once again rewritten the historical record, casting new light on the military technology of the ancient world. A team of Italian researchers has identified impact marks on the city’s northern defensive walls that they believe were made by a polybolos. The Greek-engineered repeating artillery weapon (‘machine gun’) was capable of […]
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Survivors from a Libya crossing say 105 people were on board. Only 32 migrants were rescued alive as the Mediterranean death toll hits its highest level in over a decade.
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Milan Linate, Bologna, Venice and Treviso have imposed emergency jet fuel limits, with Ryanair warning of potential summer flight cancellations if the Iran conflict persists.
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Francesco Laparelli was born on 5 April 1521 in Cortona, one of the ancient Etruscan cities of what is now Tuscany, into one of the city’s wealthiest and most distinguished families. It was a beginning that gave him access, education and connections, and the opportunity to create one of Europe’s most extraordinary capital cities – […]
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He was one of Italy’s most wanted fugitives, hunted for more than a year on charges of murder. But Roberto Mazzarella, 48, head of one of Naples’ most powerful Camorra clans, was undone not by a tip-off or an informant but by an Easter holiday.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has embarked on an unannounced diplomatic tour of the Gulf, meeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah on Friday before heading to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. This makes her the first leader from an EU or NATO country to visit the region since the current Middle […]
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A leftwing Italian mayor has made headlines after her council successfully purchased Benito Mussolini’s former summer home, Villa Mussolini, at auction. The council beat a private buyer with neofascist ties in the process.
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Florence’s Uffizi Galleries have confirmed they were the target of a cyber-attack earlier this year. However, the museum is pushing back hard against reports that its world-famous art collection was ever at risk.
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On 3 April 2026, Gianmarco Mazzi was sworn in before President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale Palace, in the presence of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, officially taking up the role of Minister of Tourism. Mazzi succeeds Daniela Santanchè, who resigned from the ministry on 25 March.
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Born with every gift Florence could bestow, Cosimo I’s brilliant eldest daughter, Maria de’ Medici, was dead at seventeen. Her story casts a long shadow over one of history’s most powerful families.
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