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 A Syrian girl with eye cancer has been flown into Italy for treatment, becoming the first to benefit from a new 'humanitarian corridor' hoping to stop desperate refugees from attempting a Mediterranean crossing to Europe. 

 Dark humorists like to point out that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's only worthwhile historical contribution was getting trains to run on time. 

 With a little help from some big American companies, the Italian technology sector is taking off in the early part of 2016. 

 Forty-five boxes of antiquities have been returned to Italy after they were confiscated by Swiss authorities at a warehouse in Geneva. These artifacts were likely dug up by tomb robbers in central Italy, where the Etruscan civilization flourished, though without archaeological context, the origins of the objects are murky. 

Investment in the cloud and storage is rising rapidly in Italy as customers see the benefits of cloud storage for many use cases and the savings it can bring 

 "When people come they look at my turban and say, you are Italian? I say yes, I have Italian passport I can show you. Then I show them I am an Italian citizen and they are very happy." 

 Italian police have seized 85,000 tons of olives from previous years’ harvests covered with a chemical aimed at making them more colorful 

 Italian political and cultural commentators have come out in droves to bash the Italian government's censorship of nude classical Roman statues; reportedly to avoid offending Iranian president Hassan Rouhani during a state visit 

 Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have appeared to weigh in to an impassioned debate about gay people's rights in their home country with cozy designs showing same-sex couples with children 

 Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio was received by Pope Francis at the Vatican on Jan. 28, to discuss their mutual concern for the environment 

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