Imane Khelif and Western delusions of white innocence | Paris Olympics 2024

Imane Khelif and Western delusions of white innocence | Paris Olympics 2024

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif appears determined not to be browbeaten by the global controversy over her gender, defeating Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng on Wednesday to cruise to the gold medal bout at the Paris Olympics. Khelif exploded into the global spotlight when her Italian opponent Angela Carini withdrew just 46 seconds into their match….

‘The sea has taken everything’: How rising salt is destroying Italian coast | Environment

‘The sea has taken everything’: How rising salt is destroying Italian coast | Environment

Along the rice fields of Porto Tolle in Veneto, the areas damaged by salt seeping into the soil are clearly visible. It has been caused by both direct irrigation with brackish water and by saltwater rising from the subsoil. In the Po Delta, the problem is particularly bad because the fields…

Italian journalist Giulia Cortese told to pay PM Giorgia Meloni 5,000 euros for Tweet mocking her height
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Italian journalist Giulia Cortese told to pay PM Giorgia Meloni 5,000 euros for Tweet mocking her height

A Milan court has ordered a journalist to pay Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni damages of 5,000 euros ($5,465) for making fun of her in a social media post, news agency ANSA and other local media reported. The journalist Giulia Cortese was also fined 1,200 euros ($1,307) and suspended for…

Venice entry tax failed to deter tourists, critics say | Tourism News

Venice entry tax failed to deter tourists, critics say | Tourism News

Venice has wrapped up its pilot programme of charging a 5-euro ($5.46) entrance fee for day trippers arriving on particularly congested days, after opponents called the experiment a failure. Authorities in the famed Italian destination, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in April introduced an entrance levy, hoping it would…

Pope says democracy ‘not in good health’ as he warns against populists | Politics News

Pope says democracy ‘not in good health’ as he warns against populists | Politics News

At an event in northeast Italy, Pope Francis says a ‘crisis of democracy’ is having an impact on several nations around the world. Pope Francis has decried the state of democracy and warned against “populists” during a short visit to Trieste in northeast Italy. Speaking at an annual Roman Catholic…

At least seven dead as fierce storms lash France, Switzerland, Italy | News

At least seven dead as fierce storms lash France, Switzerland, Italy | News

Authorities say hundreds evacuated as torrential rains cause flooding and landslides. Ferocious storms and torrential rains that lashed France, Switzerland and Italy this weekend have killed seven people, local authorities have said. Three people in their 70s and 80s died in France’s northeastern Aube region on Saturday when a tree…

Von der Leyen gets nod for second EU term, Estonia’s Kallas as top diplomat | European Union News

Von der Leyen gets nod for second EU term, Estonia’s Kallas as top diplomat | European Union News

Ursula von der Leyen has been nominated for a second term as head of the European Commission while Estonia’s prime minister, Kaja Kallas, has been tapped as foreign policy chief after European Union leaders reached a late-night deal on the institution’s top jobs. Under the agreement, reached despite resistance from…

Nothing ‘out of the box’ about Italy’s asylum offshoring deal with Albania | Refugees

Nothing ‘out of the box’ about Italy’s asylum offshoring deal with Albania | Refugees

Imagine for a moment that you are a racist Western government plagued by an influx of asylum seekers, many of them dark-skinned. Wouldn’t you dream of packing them off to a distant land to be dealt with out of sight and out of mind? Well, that dream is now becoming…

At least 11 people dead after two shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea | Migration News

At least 11 people dead after two shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea | Migration News

UN agencies say 64 people are missing after shipwrecks off the coast of southern Italy. At least 11 people have died and 64 others are missing after two shipwrecks off southern Italy, according to a German charity, the Italian coast guard and United Nations agencies. The German aid group RESQSHIP,…