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More than 200 convicted in Italy mafia trial – with sentences totalling more than 2,100 years in jail

Defendants had been charged with crimes that include drug and arms trafficking, extortion and association with the ’ndrangheta organised crime syndicate

The Independent UK · Nov 20, 2023

Over 200 gang members sentenced to total of 2,100 years in jail after huge Italian mafia trial

Italy's 'Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate is one of the world's most powerful

Evening Standard · Nov 20, 2023

More than 200 mobsters convicted in historic Italian mafia trial

An Italian tribunal on Monday convicted 207 people and sentenced them to a combined 2,100 years in prison on charges related to their membership in Italy’s ’ndrangheta organized crime syndicate, one of the world’s most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups.

France 24 · Nov 20, 2023

England are real Euro 2024 contenders, a fact Southgate’s carping critics ignore

Like the nation’s cricketers in 2019, a talented Three Lions look not like a team who might get lucky but potential champions

The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2023

Venice Biennale’s new, rightwing director has art world guessing

Meloni’s party is pleased by the appointment but Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has surprised before – not least by adopting Islam

The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2023

More than 3,000 Roman coins and gems unearthed at 'magical place' in northern Italy

During ongoing excavations at Claterna, an ancient Roman site in Italy known as the "Pompeii of the North," archaeologists unearthed 3,000 coins and 50 gems.

LiveScience · Nov 17, 2023

Satellites watch lava flows of Italy's Mount Etna volcano eruption (image)

Sicily's Mount Etna volcano erupted on Nov. 12, and ESA satellites caught the event in infrared.

Space · Nov 17, 2023

More young people in the UK are living with parents and grandparents – here's what you need to know if you're considering it

In a recent court case in Pavia, northern Italy, the judge sided with the complainant, a 75-year-old woman, and ordered her adult two sons to move out of her home. The woman’s case was a last-ditch attempt to get the men to find what one journalist termed, somewhat elliptically, “more…

The Conversation · Nov 17, 2023

War ‘fatigue’: Is Europe tired of the conflict in Ukraine?

Are EU leaders tired of Russia’s war in Ukraine and ready to seek a way out? That was the message from Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, during a phone call in September with Russian comedians posing as an African Union official. Although Meloni’s office later said it regretted the PM’s…

France 24 · Nov 17, 2023

Italy bans lab-grown meat and ‘tofu steak’ in a bid to protect prosciutto and the people who make it

Factories found to be producing fake meat face fines exceeding $160,000.

Fortune · Nov 17, 2023