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ROME – The most fragile members of society, such as the homeless, refugees, and those who live in precarious conditions, are at tangible risk of becoming infected with the coronavirus, and neglecting them will worsen the overall epidemiological situation, the International Vincentian Family stated in a press release. The International Vincentian Family have signed a global appeal to protect the homeless from COVID-19.

24 Apr 2020
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ROME – Trials started on Friday morning for three hours on some bus lines and in some metro stations in Rome as Atac, the public transport body, tested various measures to ensure people comply with safety distances, report La Repubblica. Alongside the use of quotas, masks will made mandatory on public transport, rates will vary based on the time of day, tickets will be distributed electronically, and the way people can enter and exist stations will be tightly controlled.

24 Apr 2020
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ROME – Liberation Day, which usually entails a traditional procession to Piazzale Ostiense to commemorate the end of World War II in Italy, will instead involve the small ceremony of a wreath placement on Saturday morning, as authorities prepare to shut down opportunities for celebrations and social gatherings outside Rome by strengthening controls on all unwarranted travel over the weekend, under directives from the Italian Interior Ministry. 

24 Apr 2020
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CAIRO – Patrick Zaki, the Egyptian student from the University of Bologna, held in an Egyptian prison in on charges of subversive propaganda, with stay there for another 15 days, prompting his family to launch an appeal and write a letter to the Italian ambassador to Egypt, Giampaolo Cantini, asking him to put pressure on the Egyptian government, reports Amnesty International.

23 Apr 2020
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VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called on people to pray for families battling with debt and loansharks during his Thursday mass at Santa Marta. “Let us pray for these families, for those many children of these families, for the dignity of these families. And we also pray for usurers: that the Lord touches their hearts and are converted," as quoted in Il Fatto Quotidiano.

23 Apr 2020
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ROME – The Serie A League assembly has confirmed that the 2019-2020 season will try to be completed if allowed by the Italian government, after a positive vote from all twenty associated companies by way of a video conference, with the resolution already approved by some Italian football clubs such as Turin and Brescia, according to a press release.

  The League also mandated the safeguarding of its contracts with Sky, in response to a letter which asked for a discount, the amount to which would be dependant on the resumption of the championship, reports La Repubblica.

22 Apr 2020
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ROME – In the Middle East, the effects of the coronavirus are creating new regional challenges and potentialities, and this was the subject under discussion in the fifth online event in a series hosted by the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) in collaboration with the NATO Defence College Foundation. The panel of speakers included: Lina Aburous, Managing Director at ‘Euraffex’; Oded Eran, Senior Research Fellow at the ‘Institute for National Security Studies’; Umberto Profazio, Maghreb Analyst in ‘NATO Defense College Foundation’; and Ahmed Al Baz, Director at the ‘Early Warning Centre’.

22 Apr 2020
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MILAN – Francesco Bonura, 78, part of a triad that led Cosa Nostra before his arrest in 2006, and who was sentenced to 18 years and eight months in 2012, has been released from the Opera prison in Milan and granted house arrest by a Milan judge, reports Il Fatto Quotidiano, according to a provision signed by the judge on April 20.

22 Apr 2020
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ROME - The Arctic Ocean in summer will very likely be ice free before 2050, with the climate-protection measures adopted before then determining for often and for how long this occurs, according to a new research study involving 21 research institutes from around the world, including authors from the Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), which was established in 2005 with the financial support of various Italian government ministries.

21 Apr 2020

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