Workers will stage a series of multiple sector strikes on Friday 27 March, disrupting public transport, closing schools and affecting parts of the national press. The industrial action reflects growing dissatisfaction over wages, working conditions and the ongoing privatisation of public services.
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Rome’s vast Sapienza University has again claimed first place globally in Classics and Ancient History in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026. For the first time, an Italian university has placed three subjects simultaneously in the top ten.
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Catherine Birmingham and her British husband Nathan Trevallion appealed to Italy’s Senate Speaker after their family was separated by social services last November. The couple were raising their three children off-grid, without electricity or running water, in the Abruzzo woods.
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Italy’s Tourism Minister, Daniela Santanchè, finally resigned yesterday afternoon (25th March). She gave in to an unprecedented public call from the prime minister, insisting she was no scapegoat for the government’s referendum defeat.
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Born in Florence on 25 March 1541, the second Grand Duke of Tuscany, Francesco I, left behind a legacy of art, alchemy, political ambiguity, and a death that has puzzled historians for more than four centuries.
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Italy’s flag carrier, ITA Airways, closes 2025 with a net profit of €209 million. It marks a historic milestone for an airline born from the wreckage of one of Europe’s most spectacular aviation collapses.
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A foreign-language teacher, stabbed in Trescore Balneario, is in a critical condition in hospital following the latest act of violence to strike Italy’s schools.
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Italy’s embattled Tourism Minister, Daniela Santanchè, arrives at her ministry undeterred, as opposition prepares a no-confidence motion from which Meloni appears unwilling to shield her.
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Andrea Delmastro becomes the first of two government officials to resign on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition reels from its first major electoral defeat.
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On 24 March 1926, one of the most provocative and prolific figures in twentieth-century theatre was born in the small Lombardy town of Leggiuno Sangiano, in the Province of Varese. Dario Fo would go on to write more than 80 plays, win the Nobel Prize in Literature, be banned from Italian television, and spend a […]
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