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Swathes of accounts inundated social media in countries across the EU with disinformation before the European Parliament elections in June, in addition to promoting French and German far-right political discourse, a new study has found. The Dutch Socialist and Democratic National delegation commissioned analysts at the Dutch consultancy Trollrensics to investigate potential disinformation networks influencing public opinion before the European elections. The consultancy carried out investigations in Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, in addition to a more general probe into English-l...
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The need for global business to be conducted on a "level playing field" was the message stressed by Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who opened the G7 trade ministers meeting in Italy on Tuesday. The main objective of the meeting — taking place in the Calabrian port of Villa San Giovanni — is to respond to the tensions and frictions that jeopardise global trade and sustainable and inclusive growth. "We want to ensure a level playing field for businesses in global markets. We need to ensure a level playing field and shared rules to enable our businesses to compete on an equal footing in...
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The Italian health ministry placed 12 cities under the most severe heat warning on Tuesday as a wave of hot air from Africa baked southern Europe and the Balkans. Temperatures soared over 40 degrees Celsius, with the worst still to come. Croatia reported the highest-ever temperatures of the Adriatic Sea, with the thermometer reaching nearly 30C at the southern walled city of Dubrovnik, the country’s most popular tourism spot. In Serbia, the state power company reported record consumption on Tuesday due to the use of air conditioning. Municipal authorities in several southern European and Balka...
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The debate over Ursula von der Leyen’s re-election as president of the European Commission has heated up across European capitals — and Rome in particular. As things stand, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni — who is also the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party (ECR) — remains undecided over whether to give von der Leyen her backing. The commission chief held a 50-minute meeting with the ECR parliamentary group on Tuesday morning, at which Meloni's Brothers of Italy reportedly requested a radical change in the EU's approach to the Green Deal. No official statement w...
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The heat has already caused several deaths, the Italian news agency ANSA reported 4 people dying over the past two days, believed to be linked to the heat. Including a 70-year-old man who fainted and died on the beach in Giovinazzo near Bari in Southern region of Apulia, two others on beaches and one elderly man who reportedly passed from a heat-related death in Rome. Multiple regions in Italy are under red high temperature warnings, as the whole of the country is heating up. For the moment and until Wednesday the following 12 cities are under red alerts; Ancona, Bologna, Campobasso, Florence,...
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New York (AFP) - Bill Viola, a pioneer in new media, video and installation art including immersive exhibits that drew thousands around the world, has died at age 73, his official website announced Saturday. He died at his home in Long Beach, California, after a long struggle with early-onset Alzheimer's disease, the Los Angeles Times reported. Viola was known for creating powerful video installations often dealing with the extremes of human emotion and experience -- of birth, death and consciousness. His "decades-long engagement with video proved vital in establishing the medium as an integra...
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A red alert is in place for all of Croatia as the country continues to swelter through a heatwave, with Friday's temperature reaching 37 degrees Celsius — a level recorded in the northeastern region of Slavonia and southern Dalmatia. And there’s been little respite in the sea. Water temperatures in some areas hit 28 degrees Celsius. The National Hydrometeorological Institute reports that Friday's exceptionally high temperatures prompted the issuance of Croatia's highest-level weather alert. Heat stroke is now a real risk for many people in the Mediterranean country. Its symptoms might include ...
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The Milan Malpensa airport has been officially renamed after former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a divisive figure in the country's history. The airport's full name is now International Airport Milan Malpensa — Silvio Berlusconi, effective immediately, a statement released by the Italian Ministry of Transport said on Thursday. Critics of the move blasted the decision to honour the late populist mainstay politician, who passed away last June at the age of 86. According to Italian law, a public place — be it a street, a square, or an airport — cannot be named after a person sooner t...
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Sicilians have been waiting for a bridge between the island and the Italian mainland for years, sick of using ferries to cross the Strait. But, now, one man has found a novel new way of making the crossing: on foot. Yes, really. Estonian slackline athlete Jaan Roose made history on Wednesday (10 July) as the first person to walk across Italy’s Strait of Messina. The slackline he used for the daring feat was the longest ever constructed - measuring 3,646 metres, more than 3.5 kilometres. Roose managed to complete the treacherous journey in just under three hours, technically beating the existin...
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The recent decision by Matteo Salvini's far-right League party to join Viktor Orbán's new bloc "Patriots for Europe," has raised a few eyebrows in Italy and with that, the question of whether Italy’s current ruling coalition will hold. The group not only now ranks as the EU Parliament’s third largest, overtaking the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), but Spain’s Vox party has also left the group led by Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Reports in the Italian media suggest Salvini’s move didn’t go down well with Meloni, describing her as even more isolated. Back home, she now has...
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