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A rival pair of populist and stridently anti-European Union political forces surged in Italy’s parliamentary election, but neither gained enough support to govern the country alone, preliminary results showed Monday.
Italy is headed towards a hung parliament Monday, following an election that saw voters shun mainstream politics and opt for anti-establishment parties.
Davide Astori, who played 14 times for Italy’s national soccer team, was found dead in his hotel room in Udine, Italy, on Sunday. He was 31.
Piera Aiello is a candidate for Italy’s M5S party – despite being unable to show her face in public
Few cities in the world bear the scars of such a tumultuous past as the ancient city of Rome. It has been sacked by the Gauls and the Goths, by the French and the Fascists, with each invader leaving a layer of history that adds to to its complexity.
Italian voters go to the polls on March 4 in a vote that has some striking similarities to Germany's political scene right now.
It happened in the United States. Then there were the Netherlands, France and Germany. One after the other, the West’s leading democracies have staged national elections in which Russia is accused of using social media and fake news to try to influence the outcome.
Silvio Berlusconi, the controversial media tycoon and former prime minister of Italy, has emerged as a potential kingmaker in a crucial general election to be held Sunday.
Italy’s centre-left government has defended its economic record four days before the country’s general election, after a lacklustre monthly jobs report showed the unemployment rate ticking up unexpectedly to 11.1 per cent, fuelling attacks from the opposition.
The late-winter snowfall continued into March, with the heaviest snow in the northern cities of Turin, Cuneo, Bologna, Parma and Reggio Emilia. Temperatures in the north were barely expected to climb above zero on Thursday.
Venice, Milan, Genoa, Florence and Pisa also had snow overnight, turning the cities' famous landscapes white and creating some spectacular photo opportunities.