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Shorts Henrikh Mkhitaryan defended Inter Milan’s celebrations following their 2-1 victory over Bayern Munich, insisting they were merely expressing happiness and not over-celebrating. Bayern’s Harry…
Cliff Notes – King and Queen’s Italy tour The King and Queen expressed high spirits during their recent engagements in Italy, countering concerns over the…
On April 9, 2025, a series of major air travel disruptions across Europe for holidaymakers who were made to suffer and take out their frustrations…
Cliff Notes – Pope speaks in public for first time in five weeks The Pope speaks in public for first time in five weeks. The…
Cliff Notes – Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital after doctors confirm he has recovered from double…
Cliff Notes – King and Queen set to meet Pope next month State Visit Confirmed: King Charles and Queen Consort Camilla’s state visit to the…
Good Morning, Italy! We start the morning’s news breakdown with some sad news. Italian designer Robert Fliri has died in Val Venosta whilst hiking in…
Incident Involving Students in Barcelona Minor students from the La Farina High School in Messina were involved in a traffic accident while on a school…
Pope Francis suffered an “isolated breathing crisis” on Friday, the Vatican said in a statement. The development marks a setback in the 88-year-old pontiff’s two-week…
Is it a coincidence that the far right growth is linked to Trump’s presidency? The extremists enabling the far right expand its network on a…
Is Musk proposing a new Australia? Has Egypt given up control of the Suez canal with the IMF loan. It has been a busy start to 2025 and despite the distractions of the Christmas period lots of mischievous politicals deals have been in play, that have skipped under the radar (of most news publications) but not ours, and here’s a recap of what you may have missed and an idea of what’s happening in 2025.
There is a race on in Gaza – The Israeli Genocidal regime has kidnapped the medical director of the last hospital in Gaza and then set it on fire to the hospital so no medical treatment can be provided to the dying Palestinians. It is the perfect way to clear the land, as it means the Palestinians in Gaza must now relocate further to the south in order to get treatment in makeshift tents.
President-elect Trump has shifted the narrative of Israeli hostages, he has told the Palestinian Authority to get the Israeli hostages back, in order to get any kind of consolidatory appeasement in a proposed ceasefire deal.
French Nazi leader Jean Marie Le Pen has died, a convicted xenophobic criminal- he was known as the found of the French BNP and is the father of Marine le Pen, who has since watered down his racist rhetoric to fit it within the realms of what is acceptable in today’s society. The French coined him as “the devil of the Republic”.
Sir Keir Starmer has been avoiding questions and interviews on Gaza during the Christmas period, His PR team have not allowed any interviews that will discuss the genocide in Gaza because of the optics of starving and freezing children and the Christmas spirit. In a way, they have welcomed the distraction of the grooming gangs.
Nigel Farage is transforming his image from a crooked pint pulling thug to – to the alternative to Tommy Robinson. His PR team are busy making him look more Prime MInisterial, have you noticed his news suits? and he won’t be seen smoking or drinking a pint as often anymore.
President Mattarella, the Italian President gives a special mention to Gaza in New Years speech and urges peace to find a resolution to ‘undignified’ in…
At Campo Imperatore where rescuers are fighting against time: “We will bring them home”. But hope is starting to fade. No trace of Luca and…
CATANZARO – A 15-year-old boy died and six other young people were injured, some of them seriously, in a road accident that occurred last night…
Santarcangelo di Romagna – We live glued to the phone, waiting for a call to arrive from Abruzzo. «They told us they had to try…
They had already tried it other times. The parish priest of Orbassano: “They have never been abandoned, but human freedom is greater than everything” “Without…
TRIESTE – A 66-year-old woman died, her 73-year-old husband and 28-year-old daughter hospitalized in very serious conditions. This is the outcome of carbon monoxide poisoning…
More than a miracle, a team effort, with unprecedented training. When a patient at the large metropolitan hospital of Reggio Calabria is found to be…
In recent days Sicily, police officers showed up at Palermo hospitals asking for information on possible visits – for visits or hospitalisations – of the…
Almost 15 years after the seizure, the affair of the Force Blue, the yacht that cost Flavio Briatore a very long legal battle which ended…
Christmas arrived an hour ago, but no one noticed in Vicolo San Giliberto, in the heart of Ballarò. Two girls with hoodies on their heads…
Jubilee, the Pope opened the holy door ROME – Pope Francis opened the holy door of St. Peter’s. As the Pope opened the holy door…
Call them, if you want, Christmas suggestions, but this story that comes from Savona reassigns to the word “community” those values that have been lost…
The Trento prosecutor’s office has opened a case for the accident which, last week, involved a seven-year-old boy in San Martino di Castrozza, who was…
Two girls lost their lives in a tragic road accident that occurred during the night in San Pietro a Maida, Guarna (Catanzaro). One of the…
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