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ROME — Officials in northern Italy are warning of a high risk of avalanches after days of heavy, wet snow already set off one avalanche that killed a mother and her daughter on an off-piste ski run.
Italy’s centre-left Democratic party (PD) is struggling to forge alliances in the run-up to Italy’s election, a situation that could narrow its path to victory with polls predicting a tight contest in March.
The party, led by former prime minister Matteo Renzi, hopes to maintain its grip on government but is heading into the campaign hampered by dwindling poll numbers and a damaging rift with leftwing dissidents who formed a rival party last year.
Italy, Europe’s most indebted large economy, is at the crossroads again. Growth has picked up finally, and the country’s bank cleanup is in progress. But the national election due in early March is putting Italy’s debt of close to 135% of gross domestic product under the global spotlight again. The irony is, the debt burden may finally be about to fall.
Researchers at New York’s Columbia University, led by Italians Antonio Iavarone and Anna Lasorella, have discovered that genetic alteration is at the root of many forms of cancer, and have found the drugs to fight them.
Scientists in Rome have unveiled the first bionic hand with a sense of touch that can be worn outside a laboratory. The recipient, Almerina Mascarello, who lost her left hand in an accident nearly a quarter of a century ago, said "it's almost like it's back again".
In three months, the country will vote in a general election that’s likely to unsettle the Eurozone and bondholders.
Last Sunday, as most Europeans were off for the Christmas holidays and making last-minute social plans for the New Year’s Eve celebrations, Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella was attending to the functions of his largely ceremonial post.
Italy’s Ministry of Food and Forestry Policies and Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism have declared 2018 the year of Italian food in the world.
In a plot worthy of a Hollywood heist caper, thieves mingled in with other visitors to an exhibition in Venice on Wednesday before brazenly making off with gems worth millions of euros.
The working theory being developed by investigating officers suggests that at least two people entered the Doge's Palace -- a popular tourist spot in the canal city where a selection of Indian jewelry from the Qatari royal collection was on display to the public, Reuters reported.
BRUSSELS has issued a panicked plea for support, urging European Union citizens to “vote against populism” amid fears of the upcoming Italian election sparking instability.
THE Italian Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines Inc. (ICCPI) ended 2017 with a bang courtesy of L’Aperitivo Italiano: “Festa di Natale” held on December 14 at the Bonifacio Global City.