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 ROME – Director Paolo Taviani died aged 92 on Thursday in Rome after a short illness, his family announced.

 Taviani was a well-known director who worked with his brother Vittorio, making famous films such as Padre Padrone and La notte di San Lorenzo, known in English as the Night of the Shooting Stars.

1 Mar 2024
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 ROME – One German tourist died and at least two more were injured after being caught in an avalanche at Racines di Dentro, in the Alto-Adige region, police said.

 Four Germans had been on a ski mountaineering trip in the Dolomites when the avalanche occurred. The avalanche happened near the Wumblslam refuge, an isolated area over a kilometre away from the nearest ski lifts.

29 Feb 2024
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 ROME – Italy were defeated 5-1 by England’s Lionesses in a friendly in Spain, ahead of the European qualifiers.

 England hit the ground running, with Lotte Wubben-Moy scoring her first goal for England exactly one minute into the match. The Arsenal centre-back headed the ball past Laura Giuliani after receiving Alex Greenwood’s corner kick.

 Wubben-Moy nearly scored again, heading the ball downwards on the end of a Chloe Kelly free kick, however, was brilliantly denied by Giuliani.

28 Feb 2024
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 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis was taken to the Gemelli hospital in Rome on Wednesday for a CAT scan of his lungs, the Vatican said.

 The pontiff cancelled several engagements last week due to a “mild bout” of the flu, but carried out his usual general audience on Wednesday morning in which he apologised for still having a slight cold and was aided by Monsignor Filippo Ciampanelli who read the catechesis.

28 Feb 2024
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ROME – Three Italians who were kidnapped in Mali in 2022 have been released and returned to Italy, Palazzo Chigi said in a statement.

Rocco Langone, 64, Maria Donata Caivano, 62, and their son Giovanni Langone, 43, were kidnapped from their house May 19, 2022, in Mali. They lived in the suburbs of Koutiala, a city around 170 miles south-east of Mali’s capital city Bamako, near the border with Burkina Faso.

28 Feb 2024
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 ROME – Alessandra Todde of the 5 Star Movement was elected as president of Sardinia, after the island held a regional election on Sunday.

 Todde won with 45.4 percent of the vote, representing a centre-left coalition of the 5 Star Movement, the Democratic Party and other smaller left leaning parties. She has become the first female president of Sardinia and the first to stand for the 5 Star Movement.

27 Feb 2024
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 ROME – A 37-year-old was shot and killed in the Sperone neighbourhood of Palermo, while another man remains in a critical conditions, police said.

 The shooting took place on Monday night. The victim was identified as Giancarlo Romano, and the wounded man was named as Salvo Alessio Caruso.

 Investigators said both men had been shot several times, with Caruso receiving multiple injuries to his abdomen.

 It is also believed that the two men were shot at by two different guns, as examination of bullet casing revealed four of the same calibre and two others.

27 Feb 2024
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 ROME — A Calabrian parish priest who has criticized the 'Ndrangheta in his sermons survived an attempt to poison him by diluting his sacramental wine with bleach, the Corriere della Sera reported.

 Father Felice Palamara consecrated the Eucharist as normal during services at San Nicola di Pannaconi, his hamlet church in the province of Vibo Valentia. But when he moved to drink from his chalice of transubstantiated, sacramental wine, a strange smell made Palamara suddenly feel ill, he said. 

26 Feb 2024
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 ROME – Italy’s organised tourism businesses have lost 300 million euros in revenue in the last year and a half, due to the inability to obtain or renew passports quickly, the president of Confcommercio’s Federation of Organised Tourism claimed.

26 Feb 2024

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