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 GENEVA/NEW YORK/ROME – A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a comprehensive new analysis released by the Global Nutrition Cluster. 

 As the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip enters its 20th week, food and safe water have become incredibly scarce and diseases are rife, compromising women and children’s nutrition and immunity and resulting in a surge of acute malnutrition.

19 Feb 2024
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 ROME – Footballer Sara Gama announced her retirement from international football on Monday. She captained the Italian women’s side from 2014 to 2023, making 139 appearances for the senior team.

 She made her senior debut at age 16 in a match against Ukraine which Italy lost 2-1.

 Gama then captained the Under-19 Italian side to victory in the 2008 European Championship and was awarded Player of the Tournament.

19 Feb 2024
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 ROME — Pancrazio Caranno, 42, had whittled a shard of his prison cell’s ceramic toilet bowl into a knife, then stowed the weapon in his rectum. He had talked his way into a face-to-face meeting with Lecce anti-Mafia directorate (DDA) prosecutor Carmen Ruggiero, who coordinated the blitz last July which put Caranno and 21 other alleged members of the Sacra Corona Unità behind bars. He had slipped the knife back into his hands. 

And he would have managed to slit Ruggiero’s throat, Caranno told investigators last week, if he hadn’t been so high.

19 Feb 2024
KATARINA HARRISON-GAZE

 ROME – Italy claimed 19 medals at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, placing them sixth in the medal table. The Italians won three gold medals, ten silver medals and six bronze medals across different disciplines.

 Italy’s first gold came in the form of Giorgio Minisini who won the men’s free solo artistic swimming, after also claiming silver in the technical singles.

 Star swimmer, Simona Quadarella, returned to the podium, winning both the 800m and the 1500m freestyle. In doing so, she qualified for the Paris Olympics later this year.

19 Feb 2024
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 ROME – Italians have expressed outrage after Il Sole 24 Ore reported Italians paid 1.535 billion euros in traffic fines in 2023.

 This is an increase of 6.4 percent from last year and an increase of 23.7 percent since 2019. The fines average out to 14.65 euros per capita.

19 Feb 2024
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 JUBA At least 25 million people are struggling with soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition as the crisis in Sudan sends shockwaves around the region, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns today, with thousands of families being displaced and forced across borders into Chad and South Sudan each week.

19 Feb 2024
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 TBILISI – Mixed martial artist Ilia Topuria knocked out Alexander Volkanovski in the main event of the Ultimate Fighting Championship at the Honda Center in California to become the new featherweight champion on Saturday.

 Topuria declared himself a UFC world champion in his social media bio for months before he actually became the first Georgian to win a title.

19 Feb 2024
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 ROME – Jannik Sinner claimed another victory on Sunday after he won the ATP 500 in Rotterdam.

 Sinner beat Australian Alex de Minaur in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4. 

 The Italian only dropped one set throughout the entire tournament.

 This comes off the back of his victory at the Australian Open. Sinner has won 15 consecutive matches and to some he seems almost unstoppable. 

19 Feb 2024
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 ROME - Italian President Sergio Mattarella has denounced the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in northern Russia as "bringing back memories of the darkest times in history." 

 Navalny opposed Putin and had previously tried to run against him in elections. However, he was barred by the Russian Central Election Committee due to previous trumped up convictions of embezzlement.

 In 2020, Navalny was hospitalised and transferred to Berlin after being poisoned by Novichok nerve agent, for which he and the West held Putin responsible.

17 Feb 2024

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