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Boosting Italy’s birthrate has become a patriotic cause for the far right. But it’s an idea that’s doomed

With the country’s population tumbling, what Italy really needs is greater immigration, yet how could Giorgia Meloni sanction that, asks author Tobias Jones

The Guardian - UK

Vox leader’s ‘strung up’ remark about Spain PM referred to public prosecutor

Socialists claim Santiago Abascal’s comment about Pedro Sánchez is ‘incitement to hatred and even violence’

The Guardian - UK

La Scala's gala premiere of 'Don Carlo' is set to give Italian opera its due as a cultural treasure

Italian melodrama’s official recognition as a global cultural treasure is getting trumpeted with La Scala’s season premiere of Verdi’s “Don Carlo.”

The Independent UK

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The media must stop enabling Trump's attention-seeking use of fascist rhetoric

Donald Trump is campaigning for the presidency of the United States the same way that Adolf Hitler in Germany and Benito Mussolini in Italy campaigned almost 100 years ago.

The Conversation

Illinois governor ‘deeply concerned’ by Trump rhetoric reminiscent of Nazi era

JB Pritzker, who’s of Jewish descent, says Trump ‘is dangerous for our democracy’ and ‘dangerous for specific minority groups in US

The Guardian - US

Biden slams ‘loser’ Trump for Nazi rhetoric

‘There’s a lot of reasons to be against Donald Trump, but damn he shouldn’t be president,’ Biden tells campaign donors

The Independent UK

Trump compared to Hitler after ‘vermin’ attack

‘Calling people ‘vermin’ was used effectively by Hitler and Mussolini to dehumanize people and encourage their followers to engage in violence,’ historian says

The Independent UK

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Italy's far-right Premier Meloni defies fears of harming democracy and clashing with the EU

When Giorgia Meloni took office a year ago as the first far-right premier in Italy’s post-war history, many in Europe worried about the prospect of the country’s democratic backsliding and resistance to European Union rules

The Independent UK

Italian lawmakers debate long-delayed Holocaust Museum revived by far-right-led government

Italian lawmakers have marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi roundup of more than 1,200 Roman Jews in the Holocaust with a debate on a measure to partially fund a long-delayed Holocaust Museum in the capital

The Independent UK

The battle for births: how the far right are exploiting Italy’s ‘demographic winter’

Massiola is a village slowly dying, and it’s not the only one. Dwindling populations are affecting the whole of Italy – will this crisis reshape the country’s future?

The Guardian - UK

‘She plays the moderate but winks at those who are not’: the many faces of Giorgia Meloni

After almost a year in power critics of Italy’s PM say nobody should be fooled: those giving her plaudits have forgotten her past

The Guardian - UK

HG Wells, Hitler and Tasmania’s dark past: the stories behind arrival cards in Australia’s National Archives

Archive material captures arrival in Australia of celebrities including Princess Anne, Fred Astaire and four-year-old Russell Crowe, as well as The War of the Worlds author’s explosive 1938-39 visit

The Guardian - AU

Italian leader tones down divisive rhetoric but carries on with pursuit of far-right agenda

When Giorgia Meloni was running to become Italy’s first far-right head of government of the post-war era, she steeped her winning campaign in the sharply ideological rhetoric of national sovereignty, “traditional families” and fear of migrants

The Independent UK

Contested memory in Giorgia Meloni's Italy: how her far-right party is waging a subtle campaign to commemorate fascist figures

Since coming to power, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni and her party Brothers of Italy have repeatedly raised the question of who and what is remembered in Italy. They have paid particular attention to how the experience of Italian fascism is told.

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The Independent UK

Biden is welcoming far-right Italian Prime Minister Meloni for White House talks

President Joe Biden is set to welcome Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the White House for talks

The Guardian - UK

Hollywood on the Tiber: stars return to Rome studios once home to Heston and Fellini

Sprawling Cinecittà complex is in demand again thanks to tax breaks and boom in film and TV production

Manchester Evening News

Applause for Little Italy: The magical moment on the streets of Ancoats

Proud and vibrant, men in immaculate suits with sashes across their chests, women and children in traditional costume, they gather on the streets of Ancoats. The picture below was taken in 1955 and the occasion was an annual parade. But black ribbo

The Independent UK

Ancient Rome temples complex, with ruins of building where Caesar was stabbed, opens to tourists

Four temples from ancient Rome stand smack in the middle of one of the modern city's busiest crossroads

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Tom’s Guide

I cannot believe Disney's working on a live-action Bambi movie — this needs to stop

No Disney property is safe, apparently, as Bambi is the latest to be on track for a live action adaptation.

The Guardian - UK

Silvio Berlusconi obituary

Media tycoon and Italy’s longest-serving postwar prime minister whose period in power ended in sex scandals, a debt crisis and convictions for tax fraud

Reuters

Italy's Meloni distances herself from fascism on Liberation Day celebrations

Italy's ruling coalition has no "nostalgia for fascism", Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday, looking to push back against critics who have accused her Brothers of Italy party of failing to distance itself from its neofascist past.

The Canberra Times

The artist who had the world at her fingertips

She was one of the world's most highly regarded sculptors so why isn't Dora Ohlfsen a household name?

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Why do so many young white men in America find fascism ‘cool’?

Last fall, just blocks from my apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a gang of neo-Nazis gathered in Harvard Square on a Sunday afternoon. Videos showed a group of masked white men shouting, spitting, cursing homophobic slurs and chest-thumping at students. They were part of the Nationalist Social Club, a local neo-Nazi…

The Independent UK

Italy partisans criticize Meloni over Nazi massacre comment

Italy's premier has marked the anniversary of one of the worst World War II-era massacres in German-occupied Italy

Reuters

Italian public sector boss resigns after Mussolini email

The head of an Italian state-controlled company resigned on Tuesday after it was revealed that he sent an internal email quoting from an infamous speech by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

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