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Italy could soon become the first Western country to offer paid ‘menstrual leave’ to women who experience painful periods.
Italian police are investigating the discovery of a woman’s body stuffed in a suitcase that was found floating at a marina in the Adriatic port of Rimini.
Thousands of people took to the streets on Tuesday in a protest organized by anti-mafia organization Libera. The main march took place in Locri in Calabria - the toe of Italy's boot, but sister marches were organized across the country alongside other events aimed at raising awareness of mafia violence.
In what's being considered one of the biggest "wine and cheese busts" in recent Italian history, a group of ten people have been arrested by police for stealing more than $250,000 in fine wines and gourmet cheeses.
Events are unfolding rapidly in Westminster after a terrorist incident outside the Houses of Parliament.
Hollywood precedent notwithstanding, an Italian bishop has announced that known members of the mafia cannot be godparents for the Catholic sacraments of baptism or confirmation.
Italy’s president, whose brother was murdered by Cosa Nostra, traveled on Sunday to an organized crime stronghold to honor hundreds of Italians slain by the country’s crime clans over the past decades.
President Sergio Mattarella also praised the judges, prosecutors, police officers, union leaders, businessmen and politicians who courageously combatted or denounced organized crime.
There are good prospects for the Italy, the third largest euro economy, despite being run by a caretaker government, the chief executive officer of Generali told CNBC.
Italy will have a new general election either this year or the next following the resignation of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi after losing a public vote to carry on with structural reforms.
A stolen Etruscan vessel will be returned to Italy thanks in part to the efforts of a hunter of looted antiquities. Last month, Christos Tsirogiannis, a Greek-born researcher who has spent more than a decade poring over auction and antiquities catalogs trying to identify stolen Greek and Roman artifacts, spotted an Etruscan amphora for sale at a Midtown Manhattan gallery.
Alberto Bagnai, a professor at Pescara university with a blog called Goofynomics, this week made a typically provocative demand: that the US should promote a controlled end to the euro.
“Undoing the euro will be costly, though less costly than its alternative which is protracted stagnation of the European and hence the world economy, and the growing risk of a major financial collapse,” he wrote.