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News Articles: Italy

Italian Premier Mario Draghi waves to lawmakers at the end of his address at the Parliament in Rome on Thursday.

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  • Europe

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigns after his government implodes

Draghi's government of national unity collapsed Wednesday after members of his uneasy coalition of right, left and populists rebuffed his appeal to band back together.

July 21, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Italian Premier Mario Draghi (center) flanked by Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio (left) and Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini, delivers his speech at the Senate in Rome on Wednesday.

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  • Europe

Italian Prime Minister Draghi wins a confidence vote, but his coalition unravels

The rapid collapse of Mario Draghi's 17-month-old coalition could prompt President Sergio Mattarella to dissolve Parliament, opening the path to holding an early election.

July 20, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Italian Premier Mario Draghi told his Cabinet he will offer his resignation on Thursday evening.

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  • Europe

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi offers to resign

Italian Premier Mario Draghi has told his Cabinet he will offer his resignation on Thursday evening to the president, following the refusal of a coalition ally to support a government bill.

July 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A rescue helicopter hovers over the Punta Rocca glacier near Canazei, in the Italian Alps in northern Italy, Monday, July 4, 2022.

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  • Environment

Rescuers are using drones to help search for avalanche survivors in Italy

The terrain being searched is still so unstable that rescue crews are using drones to try to find any survivors while helicopters searched overhead.

July 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
From left, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Prime Minister of Italy Mario Draghi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, France's President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday. The French, German, Italian and Romanian leaders vowed to back Kyiv's bid to become an official candidate to join the European Union.

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  • World

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (June 16)

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

June 16, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
Pope Francis caresses a child in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Friday, April 8, 2022. Italy's Constitutional Court ruled that children should receive both parents' surnames at birth, not just the father's.

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  • Europe

Italian children should not automatically receive their father's surname, court says

Italy's Constitutional Court ruled that automatically assigning newborns the father's surname at birth is unconstitutional and damaging to the children's identity.

April 29, 2022
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
Irene Schouten of Team Netherlands skates ahead of Francesca Lollobrigida of Team Italy during the Women's 3000m on day one of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at National Speed Skating Oval.

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  • Sports

Speedskaters at the Winter Olympics are adapting to a new venue and its special ice

Beijing repurposed some of the sites used in the 2008 Summer Games. The National Speed Skating Oval is the city's only new ice-sport venue built for the Winter Games.

February 05, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
Ibrahim Songne, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, opened a pizza spot called IBRIS in the Italian town of Trento. He overcame local prejudices — and now has been named to a list of the world's top 50 pizzerias.

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  • Food

An African immigrant's pizza wins global raves — and overcomes Italian prejudices

Ibrahim Songne's pizza place triumphed over local anti-immigrant sentiments — and now has earned a spot on a worldwide top 50 pizza list! To think — he didn't even like pizza when he first tried it.

January 30, 2022
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  • Ian Brennan
The Villa Aurora, a palace in Rome that houses the only mural by Caravaggio and that's at the center of a messy legal battle between a Texas-born princess and the sons of her late husband, an Italian prince, will go up for auction on Jan. 18.

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  • Europe

An epic inheritance fight will soon cost a Texas-born princess her 16th-century villa

After years of legal wrangling, the sprawling Roman villa filled with masterpieces from antiquity to the Renaissance will hit the auction block Tuesday with a starting price of $534 million.

January 18, 2022
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  • Sylvia Poggioli
GPB News NPR

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  • Europe

EU Parliament President David Sassoli dies at age 65

The Italian journalist had been hospitalized since Dec. 26 due to abnormal functioning of his immune system.

January 11, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In this file photo from 2016, a bookshop owner in Pakistan shows a National Geographic magazine with the cover photograph of Afghan refugee woman Sharbat Gula. She arrived in Italy as part of the West's evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said Thursday. The office of Premier Mario Draghi said she asked to be helped to leave the country.

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  • World

The woman from National Geographic's famous 'Afghan Girl' photo is evacuated to Italy

Sharbat Gula arrived in Italy as part of the West's evacuation effort, Italy's government said Thursday. Premier Mario Draghi's office said Italy organized her evacuation after she asked for help.

November 25, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
An old mental hospital sits in Trieste's San Giovanni Park. The facility closed over 40 years ago, but its ocher pavilions are filled with activity.

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  • Mental Health

A public mental health model in Italy earns global praise. Now it faces its demise

Trieste has a reputed approach to bringing people with mental illnesses out of hospitals and into the community. Now the region's hard-right politicians are breaking the system apart.

November 24, 2021
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  • Sylvia Poggioli
Anti-riot police officers face demonstrators trying to reach the Chigi Palace government office in Rome during a protest Saturday against green pass.

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  • World

Pelosi's trip to Rome was disrupted by violent anti-vaccine mandate protests

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to be escorted from a Mass in Rome on Saturday after major protests against Italy's new vaccine mandates broke out.

October 12, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
GPB News NPR

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  • Europe

Italy Is Making COVID-19 Health Passes Mandatory For All Workers

The "green pass" will show whether a person has been vaccinated, recently recovered from COVID, or tested negative for the virus. Workers failing to present a pass will be suspended without pay.

September 17, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin and
  • Sylvia Poggioli
In a TV landscape where racial insensitivity is rampant, <em>Zero</em> stands out for depicting Italy's increasingly multicultural society. The series is "opening up a door in Italy that was just waiting to be opened," says lead actor Giuseppe Dave Seke.

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  • World

In New Italian Netflix Series 'Zero,' A Black Hero Makes Invisibility His Superpower

The series is Italy's first with a majority Black cast. Lead actor Giuseppe Dave Seke tells NPR that Zero is "opening up a door in Italy that was just waiting to be opened."

May 27, 2021
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  • Sylvia Poggioli
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