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ROME (AP) — Italian news reports say a young Sudanese bus passenger grabbed the steering wheel and tried to pull the vehicle off the road in Sicily before off-duty soldiers on board intervened. The ANSA news agency says there were moments of fear among the other passengers aboard the bus, which was heading from Trapani to Palermo on Tuesday. A motive hasn't been ascertained, but Palermo prosecutors are investigating.

Thousands of protesters and strikers calling for solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza took to the streets in Italy on Monday, with some storming Milan’s central train station and clashing violently with police. Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors, including public transportation, trains, schools and ports. The strike caused disruptions across the country, with long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome. In Milan, tensions escalated when dozens of protesters dressed in black and...

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 07, @05:45PM from the need-to-know-basis dept. jaromil writes "Today at about 18:00 CET FBI raided the indymedia servers hosted by Rackspace both in US and England. At present, the italian indymedia and numerous other local IMC websites are obscured, while the reasons why the hard drives were taken are still unknown."

Italian rapper Fedez has apologized for publishing music lyrics saying that tennis player Jannik Sinner speaks with "Adolf Hitler's accent," which prompted the musician to be accused of inciting racial hatred. Fedez recently posted an Instagram story featuring lyrics of a new song that said in Italian: "Italian has a new idol named Jannik Sinner. Pure-blooded Italian with Adolf Hitler's accent." A city council member in Bolzano -- the capital of the German-speaking autonomous province of Alto Adige in northern Italy where Sinner is from -- on Thursday filed a formal complaint with prosecutors over Fedez's lyrics based on an...

(15:20) Terror suspect tells German court: 'You're all Jews.' By Melissa Eddy, The Associated Press April, 16 2002 FRANKFURT, Germany - The trial of five Algerian men charged with plotting to blow up a French holiday market opened with a flourish today when a defendant disrupted the proceedings and was removed from court. While the other defendants shielded their faces from a TV camera allowed to tape the opening five minutes, 31-year-old defendant Lamine Maroni, speaking in Arabic, recited Koranic verses, swore and urged the others not to testify. He was warned not to continue, but went on in English...

As noted bluntly by Health & Human Services secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. at a Senate hearing last week, “We were lied to about everything:” A new study of the entire population 11 years and older of a single province in Italy, 300,000 people in total, has now proven that the mRNA COVID jab results in a terrifying and skyrocketing increase in the numbers of cancer cases.

Leading experts in Italy have just sent shockwaves through the scientific world after a bombshell peer-reviewed study confirmed that deadly “turbo cancers” are surging among people who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.” The findings have blown apart the carefully crafted narrative pushed by Big Pharma, corporate media, so-called “fact-checkers,” and government health bureaucrats. For the first time, a population-wide cohort of nearly 300,000 people tracked over 30 months shows alarming signals. The study confirmed that the so-called “safe and effective” mRNA injections are responsible for sharp global increases in multiple rapidly spreading cancers. The high-profile team of researchers was led by...

Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar It almost (!) happened again. The Italian police thwarted an Islamic terror attack in the small town of Viterbo last night, where two Turkish men armed with machine guns were planning to open fire on a crowd of 40.000 Christians who were gathered to celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Rose. The men had already set up their weapons in a rented apartment looking out over the square where they were waiting for the procession to arrive so they could kill as many people as possible from their window. Thankfully, the police stormed the premise on time...

Another day and another one of those things we’re not supposed to talk about. In the past few weeks, two Muslims were arrested for plotting to bomb the Eiffel Tower and another was shot down in France after stabbing 5 people. (Authorities are still searching for the motive of the stabber who was shouting “Allahu Akbar”. It’ll turn out to be ‘mental illness’. Now over to Italy. An attack foiled at the Santa Rosa festival in Viterbo . The newspaper Il Messaggero reports that two Turkish citizens were arrested by the Italian Special Operations Division (DIGOS) with machine guns and...

Iconic fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91, the Armani Group confirmed on Thursday. "With infinite sorrow, the Armani Group announces the passing of its creator, founder and tireless driving force: Giorgio Armani," a statement posted on Instagram by several Armani Group-affiliated accounts read. The statement said that the designer was "surrounded by his loved ones" when he passed.

How ancient Rome was excavated in Italy in the 1920s. Unique rare videos and photos. | 10:03 World Treasures | 16.8K subscribers | 582,835 views | June 11, 2021

Though the likely 2028 candidates are JD Vance, Marco Rubio, or Ron DeSantis, one can’t help but wish that we might have our own Giorgia Meloni.“I am Giorgia!” she proclaimed in a now-famous speech. “I am a woman. I am a mother. I am Italian. I am a Christian, and you can’t take that away from me.” And three years after this defiant 2019 appearance on the political stage, Giorgia Meloni added yet another powerful proclamation: “I am the Prime Minister of Italy.” In the three years since, she has become perhaps the most consequential of European leaders, the...

Wild video shows a US tourist yanking a suspected pickpocket by the ponytail after the teenager allegedly stole her purse and passport while on vacation in Venice. Footage of the dramatic incident, which took place last Thursday, shows the furious woman gripping the teen girl by the hair in front of a crowd of onlookers in the world-famous Italian city. The mom of eight was able to track down her stolen purse by using the “Find My Friends” feature on her AirPods, which were inside it, according to her daughter, Karis McElroy, who shared the original video of the confrontation...

Rob Sand is a gun-toting Christian from rural Iowa who goes deer hunting, drives a white Ford F-150 pickup, and opens speeches by quoting the Bible. He is also a rising Democratic star whose run for governor is spooking Republicans in the ruby red state. The father of two, 43, is the only Democrat to currently hold statewide office in Iowa and could hold the recipe for winning over voters in pro-Trump states.

For centuries, the waterfront resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples was the stomping ground of Rome's rich and famous. Located around 150 miles south of the capital, many of Rome's wealthiest citizens, including several emperors, built villas there to escape the scorching city heat and take in the area's sulfurous waters. However, most of the site today lies submerged beneath the sea and is preserved as a spectacular underwater archaeological park, as seismic and volcanic activity has caused the coastline to sink as much as 30 feet. Recently, according to a report by Finestre sull'Arte, a team of...

Movie Title: The Way of the Dragon

TWO people have died and two children are recovering in hospital after several people were poisoned by a toxic batch of guacamole. The fatally contaminated avocado dip was served up to unsuspecting customers at a food festival before they showed signs of botulism. School cook Valeria Sollai, 62, is said to have eaten the guacamole and then was rushed to hospital. But she died on Monday after spending weeks on life support. Roberta Pitzalis, 38, also ate the same batch of guacamole at the festival in Sardinia - before dying on August 8. An autopsy confirmed Roberta died from a...

Summary No one has claimed responsibility for 2022 pipeline blasts Suspect used sailing yacht to carry out attack, prosecutors say Suspect arrested while holidaying with family on Adriatic coast Suspect was former Ukrainian officer, WSJ reports Ukraine has previously denied involvement BERLIN/MILAN, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A Ukrainian man was arrested at a holiday bungalow in Italy on suspicion of coordinating attacks on three Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022, officials said on Thursday, a breakthrough in an episode that sharpened tensions between Russia and the West. Described by both Moscow and the West as an act of sabotage, the...

As birth rates plummet, the country is fawning over – and spending on – pets, says Amy Kazmin for Financial Times.Rome airport’s newest luxury hotel is designed to be a calming oasis for its guests. Rooms – with underfloor cooling – are suffused with aromatic oils such as lavender, tea-tree and mint and each has a private lawn. The property offers arnica massages, a communal garden where guests can mingle and large screens for video calls with faraway loved ones. Yet weary human travellers will not find succour here. With a capacity for 40 overnight guests, Dog Relais is an...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said a "glimmer of hope" has opened for peace talks in Ukraine after the summit between United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. "A glimmer of hope has finally opened for peace talks in Ukraine. Italy is doing its part, along with its Western allies," Meloni said. Her remarks followed a joint European Union statement on the talks, which she also endorsed.