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Italy has more or less given up on the idea of ditching the euro, but Sunday’s elections still cast a big shadow over the common currency.
Italian pairs figure skaters Valentina Marchei and Ondrej Hotarek capped off their time in PyeongChang with a memorable gala performance.
On the evening of Italy’s March 4 general election, Tiziana Stellato will be counting ballots in the hospital where she works. But like many disgruntled Italians, she may not even vote.
The last hope for a competitive race among Europe’s top five soccer leagues rests with a hard-luck team from a rough Italian city with a chain-smoking, former banker of a coach and a 28-year itch since Diego Maradona last delivered a title.
On Last Week Tonight John Oliver took a break from Donald Trump and the U.S. coal industry and turned his attention to Italy, a.k.a. “the country that gave us spaghetti, the Colosseum, and in a roundabout way, the guy who played Turtle [on Entourage].”
It's not often you see would-be priests pelting each other with snowballs. But as the old saying goes, "When in Rome..."
Residents of the Italian capital woke up on Monday to find their city covered in snow, the unusually freezing conditions prompting some seminarians to launch a snowball fight in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.
Market watchers and foreign politicians are carefully watching developments in Italy, where voters will elect a new prime minister and parliament on March 4.
The outcome of the vote could spark jitters among Europe in the face of rising support for populism at a time when the Italian economy is at a critical juncture.
Polls suggest that the election won't result in a majority government and political parties will have to form an alliance in order to govern.
Here are the main contenders in the Italian election and their coalition partners.
While Italy's economic growth has picked up this year, it belies grim realities below the surface, few of which are being addressed directly as politicians stump for a national ballot on March 4.
PROTESTORS from the social centres, anti-racist and anti-fascist movements have clashed with police tonight during a rally against a meeting of the Italian far-right party ‘CasaPound’ in Turin ahead of the Italian election on March 4th.
SANTA MARIA DI CASTELLABATE, Italy — On a recent afternoon, Alessia D’Alessando ran into a couple of friends on the boardwalk of the town along the southern Italian coast where she spent her teenage summers swimming in the sea and living with her mother in the local prince’s historic palace.