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Watch: Rome holds special parade to welcome in the new year

Marching bands took centre stage in the Italian capital on Wednesday as it toasted the arrival of a new decade.

Italy

Avalanche in Italian Alps kills woman and two girls

They had been skiing at 2,400 metres on the Val Senales glacier in South Tyrol on Saturday.

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Italy PM Conte warns Russia and Turkey are setting Libya agenda

Conte also said his government will launch an ambitious programme to tackle tax evasion. amid a stagnant economy.

Italy

Italy's education minister resigns over lack of funding

The fallout from Italy's newly agreed budget has seen education minister Lorenzo Fioramonti resign.

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Europe News

2019 Year in Review: Elections, elections, elections

From Spain's double take, to Britain's last minute entry - 2019 was a year of elections. We take a look back at the political upheaval of the past 365 days in Europe.

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Venice expects 130cm 'acqua alta' peak

A 120-cm peak of the acqua alta (high water) was reached in Venice on Saturday and a 130-cm peak is announced for Sunday.

My Europe Series

Italy's 'sardines' have bigger fish to fry

They call themselves the sardines and have taken to the streets of Italy in mass protests. We find out who they are and where they are heading.

Egypt

Prosecutor says Egypt of deliberately hiding cause of PhD's death

The 28-year-old researcher was found dead in a ditch by the side of the road in Cairo in February 2016

The Cube

Serie A sorry for “inappropriate” paintings in anti-racism campaign

Italian clubs AS Roma and AC Milan say they were “very surprised" by the lack of communication and do not believe "this is the right way" to tackle racism. Serie A later apologised for the "inappropriate" paintings.

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Italy approves €900 million rescue for bank Popolare di Bari

The Italian government bailed out Popolare di bari for €900 million on Sunday.

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Riccardo Muti conducts Christmas concert in Italian Senate

Christmas Concert in the Italian Senate with world-famous director Riccardo Muti conducting the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra.

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Italy: 54,000 Brindisi residents evacuated as WWII bomb defused

More than 54,000 residents were evacuated from the southern Italian city of Brindisi as experts defused a British bomb dropped during WWII.

Italy

Thousands of Italy's anti-Salvini "sardines" protest in Rome

They have no party symbols, mottos or flags. They are mainly young people, and in only a month they have filled Italy's major squares to protest against far-right leader Matteo Salvini.

Iran

Foreign football coaches in Iran are collateral damage to US sanctions

Hundreds protested in Tehran on Monday after Italy's Andrea Stramaccioni quit as manager of Esteghlal FC because US sanctions prevent him from getting his salary.

Italy

King Kong, ET and the Alien on display at Carlo Rambaldi exhibition

Special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi was awarded Oscars for all three creatures, after learning how to make his first mechanised dummies at his father's bicycle repair shop.

Italy

Are Uefa and FIGC fit to tackle racism without any black executives?

In the two most important football institutions in Italy and Europe, which claim to want to fight racism on the pitch, those who make the most important decisions are almost always white.

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Rare sighting for coastguards as orcas visit Italian coastal waters

The group – three adults and a calf – were seen swimming just a few hundred meters from the Ligurian shore

Italy

University condemns professor's 'shameful' pro-Nazi tweets

The university rector had said the tweets were expressed in a "personal capacity" before releasing a revised statement denouncing the tweets.

Economy

Italy's Di Maio says Rome must delay approval of ESM reform

The head of Italy's ruling 5-Star Movement said on Saturday the government should not sign off on a reform of the euro zone's bailout fund until plans for a wider banking union became clearer.

Italy

Mafia crook among 19 suspects in plot to form Italian Nazi party

Italian police carried out a number of raids on Thursday as part of a two-year investigation into far-right extremists suspected of planning a new Nazi party in Italy.

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