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Pope meets Roberto Benigni ahead of St. Peter monologue
Pope Leo XIV on Thursday met Roberto Benigni ahead of the ‘Life Is Beautiful’ star’s latest highly anticipated TV monologue, on St. Peter.
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Mogherini si dimette dal Collegio d’Europa
Si allarga la maxi-inchiesta che agita Bruxelles, con l’ipotesi di possibili nuovi filoni.
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Lawyer defending off-the-grid parents quits
The lawyer representing a British-Australian couple living off-the-grid in Abruzzo who had had their children taken away from them and put into care said Wednesday that he has quit the case.
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Sex unites couples, is not just for procreation - Vatican
The Vatican on Tuesday published a new doctrinal note approved by Pope Leo XIV arguing that sex unites couples and should not be seen as something to do only to have children.
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Smoker in church slaps priest
A man slapped a priest after he was told off for smoking in church in northern Italy over the weekend.
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Mogherini si dimette dal Collegio d’Europa

Si allarga la maxi-inchiesta che agita Bruxelles, con l’ipotesi di possibili nuovi filoni.
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Lawyer defending off-the-grid parents quits

The lawyer representing a British-Australian couple living off-the-grid in Abruzzo who had had their children taken away from them and put into care said Wednesday that he has quit the case.
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Pope meets Roberto Benigni ahead of St. Peter monologue

Pope Leo XIV on Thursday met Roberto Benigni ahead of the ‘Life Is Beautiful’ star’s latest highly anticipated TV monologue, on St. Peter.
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Sex unites couples, is not just for procreation - Vatican

The Vatican on Tuesday published a new doctrinal note approved by Pope Leo XIV arguing that sex unites couples and should not be seen as something to do only to have children.
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Smoker in church slaps priest

A man slapped a priest after he was told off for smoking in church in northern Italy over the weekend.
Politics

Pier Silvio Berlusconi doesn’t rule out political career

Pier Silvio Berlusconi, the eldest son of late former Italian prime minister and media billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, failed to rule out launching a political career on Wednesday, while stressing that a move of this kind was not imminent.
Politics

PD, M5S bicker over building an alternative to Meloni

The two biggest Italian opposition groups, the Democratic Party (PD) and 5-Star Movement (M5S), bickered on Saturday over how to build an alternative to the ruling alliance led by Giorgia Meloni.
Politics

M5S votes to change two-term limit, scrap Grillo’s role

5-Star Movement (M5S) members have voted to change the two-term limit for the group’s elected representatives.
Politics

Musk’s Albania intervention splits Italian politics

Elon Musk has on Tuesday condemned the Rome judges who nixed the detention of a second batch of migrants set to be processed in Albania.
Politics

Schlein proposes issue-based opposition alliances

Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein proposed that the parties opposed to Giorgia Meloni’s ruling centre-right coalition form shifting alliances on specific issues.
Business

We can talk about State stake in Stellantis says Urso

Business and Made in Italy Minister Adolfo Urso said Thursday that the government is open to taking out a stake in carmaker Stellantis, if CEO Carlos Tavares wants.
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IL GLOBO TV the first to offer Rai to Italians in the UK and Spain

With a new agreement between Rai COM & Il Globo TV, announced by Rai on December 6, selected Rai channels will provided for the first time to Italians in the UK and Spain from January 1, 2024.
Business

Nutella maker Ferrero to buy cereal maker WK Kellogg

Italian confectioner Ferrero, known for brands like Nutella and Kinder, is buying the century-old US cereal company WK Kellogg.
Business

Carlos Tavares leaves Stellantis

Carlos Tavares is stepping down from his role as head of Stellantis, effective immediately.
Environment

Mimmo the Dolphin refuses to leave Venice waters

Italy’s now famous Mimmo the Dolphin is refusing to leave St Mark’s Basin in Venice despite running the risk of being injured by boats or posing a hazard himself and is again delighting tourists with his playful frolics.
Environment

Venice vessels told to dodge lagoon dolphin

Vessels in Venice have been told to avoid hitting a dolphin that has been cavorting in the lagoon since July and which, since the start of last month, has been increasingly approaching liners, boats, water taxis and gondolas.
Environment

Wasp made alien by climate change destroying beehives

An Italian wasp which has turned into a more aggressive alien species due to climate change is wreaking havoc among Italian beehives, green farming officials told ANSA Tuesday.
Environment

Above-freezing week added by climate change in Italy - Report

Climate change from burning oil, coal and methane gas has caused, on average, a week-long increase in winter days above freezing in Italy during the 2014-2023 period.
Health

Swine fever: 24 outbreaks, ‘complex situation, caution’

There are currently 24 outbreaks of swine fever in Italy and the “complex” situation warrants “caution”, the Extraordinary Commissioner for African Swine Fever, Giovanni Filippini, told ANSA Monday.
Health

Italians find an engine behind pancreatic cancer

A team of Italian scientists have found one of the engines that drive cancer of the pancreas, one of the most aggressive tumours, in a discovery that has enabled them to identify a therapeutic target to hopefully slow the advance of the disease.
Health

Tailor-made cells against a serious brain tumour

A new weapon against glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive and difficult-to-treat brain tumours, has been developed by a team from the Neurological Institute of Milan.
Health

Trentino top for quality of life, Umbria last - report

Trentino is the top Italian region for health-related quality of life while Umbria is last, according to a new report out Wednesday.
Vatican

Swiss Guard probed for alleged insults to Jewish women

A Swiss Guard is reportedly under investigation for allegedly insulting two Jewish women at the Vatican during a papal general audience last Wednesday.
Vatican

King Charles, Pope Leo pray together in a 500-year first

Britain’s King Charles and Pope Leo have prayed together in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, in the first joint worship including an English monarch and a Catholic pontiff since King Henry VIII broke away from Rome in 1534.
Vatican

Pope blasts the weaponisation of hunger on World Food Day

Pope Leo XIV blasted the weaponisation of hunger and called for real political will to achieve the 2030 Agenda Zero-Hunger goal during his address at the World Food Day ceremony at the headquarters of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome on Thursday.