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UK holidaymaker hit with £426 fine after breaking strict Rome fountain rule

The unsuspecting tourist was fined after security spotted him dipping his feet into a fountain in Rome

Chronicle Live

The Guardian view on Italy after Draghi: there may be trouble ahead

Editorial: A radical right government in Rome is an alarming prospect as Europe faces multiple crises

The Guardian - UK

Over 1,000 migrants arrive in Italy amid election campaign

Rome (AFP) - More than a thousand migrants arrived in Italy within a few hours while hundreds of others, rescued by humanitarian vessels, were waiting for a port to receive them, NGOs and authorities said Sunday.

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The Vatican and Western Canadian missions: A brief history

Pope Francis’s historic visit to Canada and his much-anticipated apology for the Catholic Church’s role in abuses Indigenous people suffered at residential schools raises the question of the overall relationship between the Vatican and Indigenous Peoples.

The Conversation

Pope heads to Canada to make amends for Indigenous school scandal

Aboard the Papal Plane (AFP) - Pope Francis left Rome on Sunday for Canada for a chance to personally apologise to Indigenous survivors of abuse committed over a span of decades at residential schools run by the Catholic Church.

AFP

Pope Francis leaves Rome for Canada apology tour

Pope Francis left Rome on Sunday for a trip to Canada to apologise for the role of the Roman Catholic Church in residential schools where many indigenous children were abused.

Reuters

Italy to hold September elections after PM Draghi resigns

Rome (AFP) - Italy's President Sergio Mattarella dissolved parliament Thursday, triggering early elections which could bring the hard right to power after the country's warring parties toppled reformer Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

AFP

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Snap elections called in Italy after Draghi resigns

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Italy's Draghi resigns, paving way to snap elections

Rome (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned Thursday after the country's fractious parties torpedoed his national unity government, kicking off a snap election campaign which could bring the hard right to power.

AFP

Italy's Draghi resigns after coalition implodes

Rome (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned Thursday after efforts to bring the country's fractious parties to heel failed, kicking off a snap election campaign which could bring the hard right to power.

AFP

Italy's 'Super Mario' Draghi undone by political infighting

Mario Draghi, the central banker turned Italian prime minister, won plaudits for his calm leadership as Italy emerged from the coronavirus crisis but suffered the same fate as many of his predecessors, brought down by fractious internal politics.

Reuters

Italy to hold September election after PM Draghi resigns

Italy will hold a snap national election on Sept. 25 after Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned following the collapse of his national unity government, sending tremors through financial markets.

Reuters

Last hours for Italy's Draghi after coalition implodes

Rome (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi was expected to resign Thursday after efforts to bring the country's fractious parties to heel failed, kicking off a snap election campaign before the government had even fallen.

AFP

Draghi on last legs as bid to save Italy government fails

Rome (AFP) - Italy's popular Prime Minister Mario Draghi was on the brink on Wednesday after three parties refused to back him, foiling efforts to resolve a crisis now expected to lead to his resignation and snap elections.

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Italy fate in parties' hands after Draghi asks: 'in or out?'

Rome (AFP) - Italy held its breath Wednesday as the country's fractious parties furiously debated whether to support popular Prime Minister Mario Draghi at a crucial confidence vote to end a political crisis that could send Italians to snap elections.

AFP

AC Milan's Bakayoko says Italy police stop could have ended badly

Rome (AFP) - AC Milan midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko said Wednesday that Italian police who pulled him from his car at gunpoint this month after mistaking him for a shooting suspect "clearly put our lives in danger".

AFP

Roma sign former Juventus forward Dybala

Rome (AFP) - Roma on Wednesday announced the signing of Paulo Dybala on a three-year contract after the Argentina forward's deal with Juventus expired.

The Independent UK

Russell Crowe’s private Sistine Chapel tour has people fuming over one detail

‘I’m not sure there’s a more special privilege in the world than to hold the key for the Sistine Chapel and to experience it’s glory in silence,’ says actor

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Italy's Draghi lays down conditions for government survival

Rome (AFP) - Italy's popular Prime Minister Mario Draghi told the country's fractious parties Wednesday they would have to support him at a crucial confidence vote or accept responsibility for a crisis analysts say could end in snap elections.

AFP

Italy's Draghi calls for 'new pact' if coalition to survive

Rome (AFP) - Italy's Prime Minister Prime Minister Mario Draghi said Wednesday the only way out of a political crisis threatening the country's stability was a new government pact based on "courage, selflessness, credibility".

Glasgow Live

Glasgow named third dirtiest city in the world in new Time Out readers' poll

A poll of 27,000 city-dwellers from Melbourne to Madrid, Chicago to Copenhagen and Tel Aviv to Tokyo, saw Rome come out top as the dirtiest on the globe followed by New York in second place.

Belfast Live

North Belfast women bump into the Gladiator while visiting Rome

The friends were enjoying a pint when they heard his "iconic voice" nearby

Reuters

Analysis-Wasted water saps battle against Italy's worst drought in decades

Vast swathes of land south of Rome were boggy swamps for thousands of years until a monumental drainage programme in the 1930s turned malaria-infested marshes into prime agricultural fields.

Daily Mirror

Henrik Stenson set to join LIV Golf with Ryder Cup captaincy to be stripped

Henrik Stenson was appointed as Europe's Ryder Cup captain ahead of the event in Rome next September, but the Swedish star is set to lose his title after opting to join the LIV Golf Series.

Tribune News Service

Italian parties brace for snap elections with Draghi unmoved

ROME — Italy’s political parties are readying for possible snap elections, even as some of them redouble efforts to persuade Prime Minister Mario Draghi to rethink his determination to resign.

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