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Government ministers from Israel, Cyprus, Greece, Italy and the European Union (EU) signed a joint statement at this week’s EastMed Energy Summit in Tel Aviv, agreeing to advance the creation of the world’s longest gas pipeline.

Members of Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement, have made opposing free-trade deals their foreign policy priority, underlining protectionist sentiment in the eurozone’s third-largest economy.

Rosetta Getty, designer of an eponymous line of streamlined pieces that the chicest woman in your office probably wears, splits her time between her home in Los Angeles and her office in New York, with the occasional summer jaunt to her family villa in Tuscany. Below, she shares her go-to travel look and the restaurants she always hits when she's on the road.

McDonald's (MCD) was accused in three separate complaints Tuesday of improperly driving up consumer costs in France, Italy, and Germany by forcing the company's franchisees to swallow antitrust practices.

British heir to the throne, Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, meet with Pope Francis on Tuesday afternoon as part of their five day visit to Italy.

British sourdough pizza chain Franco Manca has announced an ambitious plan to open a restaurant in Italy. The company, which was founded by Italian-born Giuseppe Mascoli in 2008, said on Monday it will begin selling its offerings in the home of pizza for six months of the year, starting in 2017.

Babies cry more in Britain, Canada, Italy and Netherlands than in other countries, while newborns in Denmark, Germany and Japan cry and fuss the least, researchers said on Monday.

Make that nine ships for luxury line Silversea Cruises. The Monaco-based cruise company on Monday took delivery of its first newly built vessel in seven years, the 596-passenger Silver Muse.

Perhaps the last thing Pope Francis expected to find during a visit to the northern Italian city of Carpi on Sunday was a huge 136-year-old plaque honoring the victims of "papal tyranny".

The Italian police announced yesterday that they have arrested four people suspected of plotting to blow up the Rialto Bridge in Venice. The New York Times reports that three suspects are still being held.

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