Tag: Italy

Knife Attack in Italy Kills 1, Wounds Soccer Player, Others

MILAN—A man grabbed a knife from a supermarket shelf Thursday and stabbed five people, killing one and wounding four others, including Spanish soccer player Pablo Mari, Italian authorities said. Police arrested a 46-year-old Italian man suspected in the attack at a shopping center in Assago, a suburb of Milan, carabinieri said. A supermarket employee died…


Italian Coast Guard Finds Bodies of 2 Minors on Migrant Boat

ROME—Two minors were found dead Friday on a migrant boat carrying nearly 40 people in the Mediterranean Sea and a search was under way for a woman reported missing from the vessel, Italy’s coast guard said. A coast guard statement said 36 people were found alive on the boat, which had been reportedly disabled by…


Brothers Killed in Italy as Fire Rips Through Flat

Three young brothers died and four other people were injured in a fire that broke out Friday night in an apartment in Catanzaro, Calabria. According to firefighters, a family of seven people lived in the apartment, including the three young sibilings, 12, 14, and 22, who died inside the apartment and were found by firefighters…


Gazprom Confirms Flows to Italy via Austria Have Resumed

Russia’s Gazprom said on Wednesday that it is resuming transportation of Russian gas to Italy via Austria after the state-controlled energy company held up supplies over the weekend amid regulatory issues. In a statement, the company said that together with the Italian buyers, it had managed to find a solution to gas sales following regulatory changes in Austria…


Rome: Gems Hidden in the Shadow of the Colosseum

Once, this city was the capital of the greatest empire the world has ever known, ringing the Mediterranean and stretching from the deserts of the Middle East all the way up to Hadrian’s Wall in England. Asserting power and influence across great swathes of the ancient world, the Romans built aqueducts to channel water for…


Russia Suspends Gas Flow to Italy After ‘Regulatory Changes’ in Austria

Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom held up gas supplies to Italy last weekend, citing a transportation issue in Austria, according to Eni, Italy’s largest energy firm. The halt in gas supplies was the result of regulatory changes in Austria that took place at the end of September, Gazprom said in a statement on Telegram, adding that it is…


The Left Smears Italy’s New PM

Commentary The left is worried about Italy. Giorgia Meloni—whose Brothers of Italy party unfortunately has historical links to Benito Mussolini’s fascists and has shown some support for Vladimir Putin’s Russia—won 44 percent of the vote on Sept. 26 and is set to become Italy’s first female prime minister. In her teens, Meloni praised Mussolini, which…


Chinese State-Run Media Disapproves of Italy’s Newly Elected Meloni

The coalition led by the Brothers of Italy won Italy’s general election on Sept. 25. The party’s leader Giorgia Meloni will become the country’s first female prime minister. The Chinese communist regime and its official media reacted to Meloni’s victory with a warning and negative prediction, as Meloni has expressed strong support for Taiwan and…


Nebraska Punter Apologizes for Praising Italy’s New Conservative Leader, Deletes Post

A college football player was forced to apologize on Twitter and backtracks his support for Italy’s presumptive new prime minister, a conservative nationalist depicted by Liberals as a fascist. “I apologize for posting without understanding the reality of what I was posting about,” Brian Buschini, a starting punter for the University of Nebraska, wrote via Twitter…


Meloni Baloney

Commentary Italy has elected its first female prime minister. Normally that would be cause for celebration by those who promote diversity, but press reaction in Europe and the United States is treating Giorgia Meloni as the second coming of Italian dictator and Adolf Hitler ally, Benito Mussolini. The leftist press labels those whose policies they…