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Italy’s political future hangs in the balance – will it see another chaotic grand coalition, or take an anti-EU populist step into the unknown?
Deep inside Monte Kronio, hot, humid and sulfurous caves held an ancient secret.
Giuseppe Savino, La Venta Esplorazioni Geografiche
Growing grapes and making wine come with a lot of implications about a culture’s capabilities. Apparently, Sicily of 6,000 years ago was more sophisticated than archaeologists had given it credit for.
Aftermath of an attempted massacre.
Guido Picchio/EPA
A recent attack on migrants came ahead of Italian elections in March where migration is a key campaign issue.
Actor Asia Argento arrives at the 2017 Cannes film festival.
EPA/Ian Langsdon
A brutal backlash against a Harvey Weinstein accuser has helped galvanise the feminist movement.
A mock-up funeral poster lists Riina’s victims.
EPA/CIRO FUSCO
The former ‘boss of all bosses’ has died aged 87 while serving 26 life sentences.
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Food is a real flashpoint in the power dynamics between asylum seekers and the people looking after them.
EPA/Ettore Ferrari
With corruption scandals dogging practically every party, it’s difficult to see how the electorate can have faith in their representatives. And yet, they keep voting for them.
A fire recently tore through an Italian memorial to Mussolini made of trees.
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A forest that is also a disturbing memorial to Mussolini recently burned down.
Mariano Mantel
With such a colourful political past, the British prime minister will be hoping for a show of substance in choosing the Tuscan city.
Anopheles mosquito.
Jim Gathany-CDC/Flickr
The death of a young Italian girl from cerebral malaria has scientists scratching their heads.
A protest in Rome on August 26 after violent evictions from Piazza Indipendenza.
Angelo Carconi/EPA
Police used water cannons and tear gas to remove a group of migrants and refugees from a square in Rome in August.
Young doctoral candidate on the stage of the competition “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” at Polytechnique.
Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay/Flickr
Despite an international context in transformation, the doctorate seems to have difficulty evolving in Europe. What are experiments have been tried and what are the avenues of innovation?
Benito Mussolini’s bust and crypt in San Cassiano cemetery are a sensitive topic in Predappio, Italy.
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Politicians hope that a “museum of fascism” in Benito Mussolini’s hometown can help the country face its demons. Historians aren’t so sure.
Matt Canavan says he did not know he was an Italian citizen, claiming his mother signed him up on his behalf.
AAP/Lukas Coch
Matt Canavan was seemingly able to obtain Italian citizenship without being born or spending any time in Italy.
‘Damenkneipe,’ or ‘Ladies’ Saloon,’ painted by Rudolf Schlichter in 1923. In 1937, many of his paintings were destroyed by the Nazis as ‘degenerate art.’
The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. Then came fascism and the Nazis.
A ship with rescued migrants arrives at the Italian port of Salerno in late June.
Ciro Fusco/EPA
It is a dangerous and illegal move to make.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock.
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Arthur Conan Doyle may have stitched something into the detective books that nobody ever noticed.
Antonio Nardelli / shutterstock
Of the 14 subspecies of brown bear, this is the most endangered.
Virginia Raggi.
Angelo Carconi/EPA
Is there a new migrant emergency in Rome?
Memorial to early 1990s war in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Clay Gilliland
Everyone has forgotten there were almost as many asylum seekers in Europe in the early 1990s as today.