Italy

There is great debate in the country about whether or not the invitation made by Amadeus, artistic director of the famous Sanremo festival, a song competition, to Ukrainian President Zelensky is appropriate

There is controversy over the words of Sangiuliano, Minister of Culture, according to whom 'the founder of right-wing Italian thought is Dante Alighieri'

Italian skier Federica Brignone has made sports history by winning gold in the combined event at the 2023 Alpine Ski World Championships; it is the first medal ever for an Italian in the discipline

In the region of Liguria, the tattoo parlour has been created, which will enter the regional health system with a bill that will make tattoos for medical purposes part of the regional health system's services

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