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Venice to limit tourist groups and ban loudspeakers

Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 13:59:42 +0000

Rome (CNN) — Venice has announced it will limit tourist walking groups to 25 people and ban the use of loudspeakers in its latest effort to combat mass tourism. Groups will also be prohibited from stopping in narrow streets, on bridges or in passageways.The new regulations, which further restrict tourist activities in the overcrowded city,

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More than 200 mobsters jailed in one of Italy’s biggest mafia trials

Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:46:19 +0000

Rome (CNN) — An Italian court has sentenced more than 200 crime gang members to a total of 2,200 years in prison, following the country’s largest mafia trial in three decades. During the trial, which began in January 2021 and took place in a purpose-built bunker in the southern Italian town of Lamezia Terme, more

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni publicly dumps partner over lewd remarks

Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 12:39:19 +0000

(CNN) — Italy’s “family-first” prime minister Giorgia Meloni has broken up with her TV journalist boyfriend after lewd comments in which he grabbed his genital area as he propositioned a co-host to a “threesome or foursome,” led to the suspension of his television show. Meloni took to social media Friday to announce the split from

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Pope Francis suggests for first time some people in same-sex unions could be blessed

Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 07:06:58 +0000

Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis has suggested for the first time that people in same-sex unions could be blessed by Catholic priests on a “case-by-case” basis, a seeming reversal of previous statements. The Pope made the suggestion in a letter to his harshest critics within the Catholic ranks, written in response to a letter from

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Venice ‘not at risk’ after all? UNESCO leaves city off its heritage in danger list

Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 15:31:06 +0000

Rome, Italy (CNN) — The Italian city of Venice and its lagoon were not listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage in Danger list during a meeting of the UN agency in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, according to Italy’s culture ministry. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee had warned in July that Italy was not doing enough to

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Outrage as mother of biscuit-stealing bear cub shot dead in Italy

Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 07:48:38 +0000

(CNN) — The cold-blooded killing of a mother bear known as Amarena has angered animal rights groups and local politicians in Italy. The brown bear was shot by a local resident of San Benedetto dei Marsi just outside the national park of Abruzzo in central Italy, the park confirmed on Friday. Her 4-year-old cub Juan

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Cocaine worth nearly $440 million found floating in the sea off Italy

Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 03:27:00 +0000

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Climate activists dye Spanish Steps fountain water black

Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 11:46:33 +0000

(CNN) — A group called Ultima Generazione or Last Generation have poured what they described as a charcoal-based black liquid into the water of the Barcaccia fountain at the base of the Spanish Steps in central Rome. The group posted a video on Twitter, showing three men and a woman inside the fountain opening paper

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Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words

Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 07:20:26 +0000

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Venice hunts for ‘idiot’ who jumped off three-story building into canal

Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 11:06:33 +0000

(CNN) — Italian authorities are searching for a man who jumped off a three-story building into a canal in Venice on Thursday. Calling the man an “idiot”, Venice’s Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said in a Twitter post that he would give the man a “certificate of stupidity and a lot of kicks” for the act, which

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