ROME -- Pope Francis will be hospitalized at Gemelli Polyclinic for several days to treat a respiratory infection, the Vatican said.
The pontiff was taken by hospital to Gemelli Wednesday afternoon after presiding over his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square. The pope has various events scheduled in the coming days with the arrival of Easter, and the audiences scheduled for the next two days have been cancelled.
Rome– A new proposed article 580-bis of the penal code will punish ‘thinfluencers’ by introducing fines from twenty thousand to sixty thousand euros and imprisonment of up to two years for those who encourage and facilitate anorexia, bulimia, and other unhealthy methods for ext
MOLISE – Magnitude 4.6 and 5.1 earthquake tremors were recorded in Molise, with the epicentre of the quake in Montagano, on late Tuesday night causing schools across the region to close on Wednesday, regional officials said.
The earthquake was also felt in neighbouring regions, especially Campania, Abruzzo, lower Lazio and Puglia.
Over the last few days, many small tremors have been recorded in the area, but nothing as severe as the tremors on Tuesday night in which some residents fled to the streets and decided to sleep in their cars.
PARIS – The French Court of Cassation ruled against extraditing ten former Italian far-left militants on Tuesday, each of whom were accused of attacks in the 1970s and 1980s, according to French officials.
Some of the convicted were linked to the Red Brigades, an Italian far-left terrorist group that operated during the violent "Years of Lead" from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. Murder and kidnapping are among the crimes the former members are convicted of.
ROME – The British government would be set to follow up on the issue of discrimination against foreign university lecturers in Italy, the British Minister for Europe, Leo Docherty said.
The EU Commission started infringement proceedings in September 2022 for Italy’s failure to pay arrears in wages to non-Italian university lecturers.
