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…
A Boeing 777 carrying hundreds of passengers was filmed tearing down an Italian runway with its tail dragging on the ground, sending smoke and sparks flying — with an expert praising the pilots for avoiding a “massacre.” The Chilean LATAM Airlines plane was mid-way through taking off at the Milan Malpensa…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
NewsFeed ‘Israel has fallen into Hamas’s trap to isolate it from the international community.’ That was Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s response when Al Jazeera’s Virginia Pietromarchi asked what it would take for the G7 to reprimand Israel for its war on Gaza. Published On 16 Jun 202416 Jun 2024…
Fasano, Italy – This year’s G7 summit bore the hallmarks of a fragile club, yet one that still manages to put up a good fight when it comes to shielding Western interests. On Saturday, the leaders of what were once the wealthiest countries in the world concluded the three-day G7…
G7 nations have agreed upon a $50bn deal to fund Ukraine through profits on frozen Russian assets, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has said. “I confirm to you that we have reached political agreement to provide additional financial support to Ukraine of approximately $50bn by the end of the year,”…
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