Sofia Corradi, the Italian educational pioneer who created the Erasmus student exchange programme, has died in Rome aged 91. Her family announced her death on Saturday, describing her as “a woman of great energy and intellectual and emotional generosity.”
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Premier Giorgia Meloni unveiled Italy’s 2026 budget bill, describing it as a “serious” plan built around families, business growth and tax relief. The cabinet approved the draft on Friday.
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The Vatican has confirmed that King Charles III and Queen Camilla will make an official visit to the Holy See on Thursday, 23 October, during Italy’s Jubilee Year. The visit will include a private audience with Pope Leo XIV and several events highlighting the shared commitment of the Catholic and Anglican Churches to environmental care […]
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A powerful bomb exploded late on Thursday outside the home of Rai investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci, in what Italian authorities have described as a deliberate act of intimidation.
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Belmond invites travellers to discover Italy in style aboard their 2026 luxury rail journeys with the legendary Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. The luxury rail company has announced four exclusive journeys from Paris to some of Italy’s most iconic destinations — Venice, the Amalfi Coast, Florence and Portofino — each paired with a stay at one of Belmond’s […]
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ROME — President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will attend the State funeral on Friday in Padua for three Carabinieri officers killed during an eviction near Verona. The government has declared a national day of mourning.
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ROME — Italy’s banks and insurance companies are to play a central role in funding the 2026 government budget. The Draft Budgetary Plan (DBP) submitted to the European Commission calls for a €4.4 billion contribution in 2026 — equal to 0.19 % of GDP. The financial sector’s contribution is to come via the extension of […]
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Rome, 16 October 2025 – The Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers (FIEG) announced on Wednesday that it has filed a formal complaint with the Italian communications authority, AGCOM, targeting Google’s AI Overviews feature. The federation accuses the service of siphoning off user traffic from publishers’ websites and undermining their core revenue model of online advertising.
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Milan, October 15, 2025 — A 29-year-old model and entrepreneur, Pamela Genini, was brutally murdered on Tuesday night in an apartment in the Gorla district of Milan. Her former partner, 52-year-old Gianluca Soncin, is under police guard in hospital after allegedly stabbing her 24 times and then attempting to take his own life.
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A devastating fire tore through the 17th-century Bernaga Monastery in La Valletta Brianza, near Milan, on Saturday night. Twenty-one cloistered nuns escaped as flames consumed parts of the historic building.
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