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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.

Italy

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.

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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

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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.

Italy

Watch: Italian MP proposes marriage during debate in parliament

Romantic hotspots of Italy: Florence, Venice and... the parliament?

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Migrants tell of their 'Libyan hell' as they arrive in Europe

The testimony of the 79 people rescued by the Aita Mari match with those of human rights organisations working in Libya: detention centres are places for torture and extortion. "You get arrested just because you are black," Ismail explained.

Italy

Watch: Dramatic footage shows diver rescuing baby girl from frozen sea

Dramatic footage shows the coast guard rescuing a baby from the waves, after a shipwreck left dozens of migrants stranded in the open sea off Lampedusa

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Watch: Shocking footage shows girl rescued by divers off Italian coast

The coastguard saved 149 people, including 13 women and three children, from a ship that sank on Saturday.

Italy

Watch: Youth boxing at Naples church keeps boys from life of crime

In a neglected Naples neighbourhood, this church has been transformed into a boxing ring. There is 40% youth unemployment here and one of the few organisations with jobs on offer is the mafia.

Italy

Ischia: Italian island sitting on volcano with no evacuation plan

A 2017 earthquake highlighted just how difficult it can be to manage an emergency on the island. That night about 20,000 people — locals and tourists — came to the port to be evacuated but there were not enough ferries.

Italy

Venice mayor says flooded city is 'on its knees'

St. Mark's Square in Venice was awash with water and closed on Sunday as city authorities prepared for another exceptional high tide just days after devastating flooding.

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Venice flooded by third record-setting high tide in one week

Venice faced a new high tide on Sunday (November 17), a few days after the lagoon city suffered the worst flooding in more than 50 years.

Italy

Watch: Nearly three-quarters of Venice flooded after latest high tide

Venice has been hit with another round of flooding on Friday just days after it experienced its worst high tide in more than half a century.

Italy

Steel plant accused of thousands of deaths related to toxic emissions

The Tamburi site is at the centre of a huge legal case. Experts cited by prosecutors have said some 7,500 people were killed in the area over seven years by diseases linked to toxic emissions.