‘Venice is worn out’: locals see Jeff Bezos wedding as symbol of city’s ills
City leaders claim days-long event will bring in riches but opponents say it will not benefit ordinary Venetians Marta Sottoriva, a teacher in Venice, has...
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Activists fear low turnout threat to Italy referendum on easing citizenship rules
Parties denounce lack of public debate on move to make it easier for Italian-born children of foreigners to be citizens Italians are voting in a...
US set to impose 50% tariffs on EU, Trump says – Europe live
US president calls bloc ‘very difficult to deal with’, lamenting the bloc’s ‘powerful trade barriers’ and ‘monetary manipulations’ US president Donald Trump has just called...
World’s seven wealthiest countries agree to counter China’s trade practices
G7 finance ministers and central bank governors pledge to address ‘economic imbalances’, without naming China Top finance officials from the world’s seven wealthiest democracies set...
Campaigners seek help amid search for victims of Argentina’s military dictatorship
Families of the ‘disappeared’ say kidnapped children may be living across Europe Women whose relatives were murdered and disappeared under Argentina’s military dictatorship will meet...
Pope Leo XIV holds inaugural mass at St Peter’s Square
Volodymyr Zelenskyy and JD Vance among 150,000 present as Leo says he wants Catholic church to be ‘leaven of unity’ Pope Leo XIV said he...
The Pope Leo XIV effect: Rome hopes for papal blessings of a US tourist boom
Traders anticipating increase in high-spending Americans are already working up Leo-themed beers and ice-creams Even before the chimney on top of the Sistine Chapel emitted...
Mike Lynch’s superyacht sank in high winds, says report
Investigators said Bayesian, which sank in Italy killing 15 people, was destabilised by wind The late tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s superyacht, Bayesian, sank after it...
Operation to recover Mike Lynch’s superyacht suspended after diver dies
Work to raise the Bayesian is put on hold as investigators seek to establish the cause of the 39-year-old Dutchman’s death Recovery operations to raise...
Diver dies during salvage operation to recover Mike Lynch’s superyacht
Dutchman, 39, had been working underwater in Sicily during operations to raise British tech tycoon’s vessel A diver who was working on preliminary operations to...
