カテゴリー: Italy
Video of passengers and gondolier ending up in canal water widely shared onlineA group of tourists fell into a murky, cold canal in Venice when the gondola in which they were travelling capsized after they failed to heed an order to stop taking selfies…
Vikas Oberoi named as suspect after Swiss couple die in collision between Lamborghini and FerrariAn Indian billionaire is under investigation in Italy after his Lamborghini collided with a Ferrari during a supercar tour in Sardinia, leaving two people …
‘Improvised and atrocious’ decision in 2019 made Italy the only major western member, says Guido Crosetto, the defence ministerJoining China’s vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was an “atrocious” decision, Italy’s defence minister has said, and the i…
Temperatures reached as high as 53.3C in the US and flooding hit South Korea and India A remote township in the north-western region of Xinjiang set a Chinese record of 52.2C (125.9F) on Sunday – in a country that was battling -50C weather six months a…
Extreme heat lingers, leading to wildfires and even giant hailstones. Plus Philippines braces for fifth typhoon of the seasonExtreme heat has lingered over southern Europe throughout the past week, with all-time records broken in a number of locations….
Alerts issued in Italy and China as wildfires rage in Greece, and temperature in California’s Death Valley nears global recordExtreme heatwave – latest news updatesTemperatures continued to reach extreme highs across many parts of the northern hemisphe…
Spain joins Italy in requiring arrivals to show a negative result as Chinese state media calls move ‘discriminatory’European countries are preparing to scale up the monitoring of potential new coronavirus variants from China, as Spain becomes the secon…
Italy urges action at European level as more than 50% of recent arrivals from China test positive at Milan airportMember states of the European Union have resisted pressure from Italy to immediately impose mandatory anti-Covid checks on travellers ente…
Other countries including Italy have taken similar steps after Beijing’s rollback of ‘zero-Covid’ policies led to surge in casesThe US has announced all travellers from China must provide a negative Covid-19 test to enter the country, joining other nat…
Civil rights group claims outposts are used to monitor Chinese population abroad and force dissidents to return Italy hosts the highest number of unofficial Chinese “police stations” out of a network of more than 100 around the world, a report by a Spa…
In Siena, Luisa worries about social media. In Delhi, Nikita is trying to proof her house against air pollution. Here, couples who have welcomed a new child in recent months share their dreams and fears for them on an ever more crowded planetTuesday 15…
From generous one-off benefit payments to caps on rent increases, state intervention is taking shape across the G7As Liz Truss’s government prepares to unveil a huge package of tax cuts, alongside energy price caps for UK households and businesses wort…
Analysis: Talks close with pledge to support Kyiv for ‘as long as it takes’ but price caps on Kremlin oil and gas remain sticking pointRussia-Ukraine war – latest updatesWestern leaders ended the three-day G7 summit in Germany promising to increase the…
Vienna Cammarota will tread the Silk Road in 13,000-mile ‘walk for peace’A 72-year-old Italian woman has embarked on an epic journey between Venice and Beijing by foot, following the path of the legendary merchant Marco Polo along the ancient Silk Road…
Analysis: From Pakistan to the US, Australia to Germany, the cost of living is rising to new highs and causing new hardshipsUS inflation reaches 40-year high at 7.5%Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsAfter decades lurking in the …