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Italy

May 2024

  • Simon Tisdall

    Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards

    Simon Tisdall
    As elections loom across the continent, Italy’s prime minister and the commission’s president are in a dubious alliance
  • Participants play with a golden retriever puppy during a yoga class.

    Dog gone: Italy bans ‘puppy yoga’ after reports of alleged mistreatment

    Health ministry rules that only adult dogs can be used for ‘animal assisted’ wellbeing activities
  • Victorious Youth

    Italy can reclaim 2,000-year-old Greek statue from Getty Museum, court rules

    European court of human rights rejects appeal by US trust over lifesize Victorious Youth statue discovered in 1964
  • The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Pierre Jacques Volaire, 1777, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina.

    Plato’s final hours recounted in scroll found in Vesuvius ash

  • vials labeled with a bunch of science jargon and also "PFAS"

    PFAS increase likelihood of death by cardiovascular disease, study shows

  • A discarded migrant vessel marked with the date on which it arrived on a beach in Lampedusa.

    Lampedusa aid workers condemn UK’s Rwanda plan after Cleverly visit

  • Robert Fico

    Media freedom ‘perilously close to breaking point’ in several EU countries

  • Pope Francis is greeted by gondoliers upon his arrival in Venice.

    Pope visits women’s prison in Venice and tours Vatican show at art Biennale

    Pope Francis, 87, met inmates, staff and volunteers at Giudecca jail during first trip outside Rome for months
  • Black and white photo of Benito Mussolini in military gear marching past a row of soldiers

    Italian towns split over moves to end honorary citizenship of Mussolini

    Ustica stripped local recognition for fascist dictator in law snaring all those deceased, but debate continues elsewhere
  • Cityscape of Florence.

    Why tourists need to respect the locals

  • Smoke comes out of chimneys at a refinery against a backdrop of clear blue skies.

    Barclays accused of greenwashing over financing for Italian oil company

  • Simon Jenkins

    That sinking feeling: why long-suffering Venice is quite right to make tourists pay

    Simon Jenkins
    The overcrowded city is leading the way with a tax on day trippers, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
  • People waving flags confront police in blue helmets in a protest

    ‘Recipe for disaster’: Venice entry fee sparks confusion and protest on day one

    Some residents say €5 fee aimed at curbing tourist numbers goes against principle of freedom of movement
    • 'It will change nothing': Venice residents protest against tourism entrance fee – video

    • There’s Still Tomorrow review – resoundingly sentimental drama in postwar Rome

    • ‘Are we joking?’: Venice residents protest as city starts charging visitors to enter

  • James Cleverly walks past a sunken small boat during a visit to Lampedusa port.

    Rwanda flights will deport asylum seekers ‘indefinitely’, says Cleverly

  • The father of anti-fascist campaigner and Italian teacher who has been in prison in Hungary for 14 months says she is bearing up, despite being in conditions more akin to those found in a Nazi or fascist era

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    Ilaria Salis's father likens her treatment to fascist countries of the past – video

  • Tourists on Rialto bridge, in Venice, Italy.

    Venice access fee: what is it and how much does it cost?

  • An elderly woman with her hands on an ancient tree killed by Xylella fastidiosa in Puglia.

    The age of extinction
    Plant apocalypse: how new diseases are destroying EU trees and crops

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