ROME – Doctors were monitoring the health of Italian screen diva Gina Lollobrigida after an incident at home, hospital sources said on Monday.
The incident only came to light because the popular actress, 91, was due to appear on yesterday’s episode of national television chat show Domenica in.
La Lollo started bleeding from the nose before her appearance and as a precaution decided to go to San'Eugenio hospital in Rome's south.
As schools reopened across Italy this month, the row sparked by the government’s watering-down of a 2017 law on mandatory vaccinations for children has laid bare the passions aroused by this issue. It also highlights how the rise to power of Italy’s coalition populist government has been a shot in the arm for the nation’s vociferous anti-vaccine movement. Leading figures in the new government had already expressed scepticism about the benefits of certain vaccines before coming to power this May and had promised to repeal the 2017 Lorenzin law that made vaccines for 10 illnesses compulsor
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ROME – UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has pleaded with the international community to tone down the political rhetoric to do with refugees, in a press conference in Rome on Friday.
“I urge all political forces not to create space for racism,” Mr Grandi said. “I do not accuse anyone, but the language of politics has become very aggressive, not just in Italy, and it can give space for latent tendencies in society to transfer tensions to migrants and refugees.”
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FRANKFURT – European Central Bank President Mario Draghi calls for Italy’s government to keep its debt and budget plans under control as wild promises and conflicting messages have already hurt the economy, a press conference heard on Thursday.
“Words have changed many times in the last few months, I am waiting for the new budget plans and the parliamentary discussion following it. Words have had negative consequences and have created some damage. Interest rates have gone up for households and gone up for firms,” said Draghi.
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ROME – A couple poisoned by mushrooms it had mistaken for eggs, has died after four days in intensive care at Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli Hospital, health sources said on Friday.
Giancarlo Dantini, 78, collected the mushrooms in the Rocca di Papa woods. His wife, Giuseppina Borriello, 72, used them to prepare what she believed to be an egg salad for Sunday lunch with relatives. Instead she had unknowingly served up Amanita phalloides – said to be nature’s most toxic and dangerous mushroom – causing lethal intoxication by attacking the liver and kidneys.
ROME – Italy needs to cut wasteful spending and focus on investment and infrastructure spending that will help promote growth said European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Pierre Moscovici on Thursday.
“It’s in Italy’s interest to reduce its very high public debt,” Moscovici said when asked to comment about the Conte premiership at the European Commission event held in Paris.
MILAN - A ‘game of suffocation’ proved fatal for a 14-year-old boy last week found hanging in his bedroom from a bunk bed with a rope around his neck, police sources said on Thursday.
Initially thought to be a suicide, investigators examining Igor Maj’s PC and smartphone discovered the boy had watched “The 5 Dangerous Challenges to Get Off Without Drugs” on YouTube.
Among the “challenges” presented in the video is ‘blackout’ – a game involving the deprivation of air for longer and longer periods until fainting, then regaining consciousness.
