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Eat, drink and shop. It’s a great day in Boston for lovers of Italian food. Eataly is open for business.
Before “Silence” makes its world premiere at the Vatican on Thursday before 400 priests and guests, the pic’s director, Martin Scorsese, will have a private audience with Pope Francis tomorrow morning at 8:45 a.m. Rome time before the pontiff has his regular weekly general audience. The news was announced by the Vatican press office today.
The day of reckoning for Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA, Italy’s No. 3 lender by assets and one of Europe’s most troubled, is drawing near.
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi on Wednesday opened the Circus Maximus archaeological area after six years of work. "For the first time the archaeological area of antiquity's biggest spectacle structure are open to the public," the city said.
In its report on energy efficiency, ENEA (the National Agency for Energy and the Environment), has highlighted the fact that Italy is one of the leading nations in Europe in this field, “with a level of energy intensity 18% lower than the EU average.”
Italian authorities are investigating an explosion outside the Bologna station of the Carabinieri national police that damaged the building overnight, but caused no injuries.
Heavy rains that pounded Italy over the past three days have left at least two people dead and two others are reported missing, Italian media said over the weekend.
A ship carrying 600 rescued migrants to safety has arrived in the Italian port of Catania.
When Oumoh, four, arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa earlier this month, no one could work out how she had reached there. Where was she from? Who and where were her parents? The authorities were mystified.
Pope Francis has extended indefinitely the power of Catholic priests to forgive abortions, making the announcement in an apostolic letter released Monday. It continues a special dispensation granted last year for the duration of the Year of Mercy -- which finished Sunday -- which gave all priests, rather than just bishops and specially designated confessors, the power to absolve the sin of abortion.