Italy

This year falls the 800th representation of the Nativity Scene staged for the first time in Greccio in 1223 by will of St. Francis of Assisi; real cave, live animals, manger and peasants aimed at making the birth of Jesus accessible to the simplest people

After a tragic landslide caused at least 8 victims in Ischia, it has been reported that not all of Italy is covered by geological maps, which describe the nature of the country palm by palm, and many are old in consequence of a funding cut

LEONARDO, the 4th most powerful supercomputer in the world, has been inaugurated at the Bologna Technopole; with a computing power of 250 million billion calculations per second it will enable unprecedented research into cancer and the human brain

The Italian region Umbria has been included among the 30 must-see destinations for 2023, announced by Lonely Planet after the choices of its experts; it is the only Italian destination in the selection

339 metres long, 41 metres wide and 76 metres high, over 170.000 tonnes for more than 5.600 guests in 2.270 cabins: Fincantieri has delivered the MSC Seascape, the largest ship ever built in Italy

If government doesn't decide on its revocation by 2/11, Italy-Libya Memorandum will be renewed for another three years; more than 40 organisations are calling on Italy and Europe to acknowledge their responsibilities and not to renew agreements with Libya

As provisional president of the Senate, Liliana Segre, a survivor of a concentration camp in World War II, recalled the value of the Italian Constitution and its anti-fascist foundations, before giving way to La Russa, a far-right politician

A right-wing party with ideological roots in fascism, Fratelli d'Italia, won the elections, with its leader Giorgia Meloni likely to become the country's first female premier

National Association of Partisans has called on the abstentionists to go to the polls next Sunday, arguing that going to the polls can be a vote in defence of the Constitution and in support of anti-fascism