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A 46-year-old man who has been paralysed for 8 years on Monday chose deep sedation as a way to end his life. Euthanasia is illegal in Italy but recent court cases have acquitted people involved in assisted suicide, and the...

More than three months have elapsed and there’s no end is in sight for the devastatingly vicious Ukrainian war. In addition to the incommensurable human costs, the economic consequences of the conflict are going to be dire. They will inevitably...

Italy's 20 or so confirmed monkeypox cases are all men, the country's top infectious disease hospital, the Spallanzani in Rome, said Friday. It said it was "plausible" they had contracted the disease during sex. An article published by Spallanzani researchers in...

It's no secret that the industrialized countries throw out enormous quantities of food while in the developing countries people are starving. In the US alone, 108 billion pounds of food is wasted every year. That equates to 130 billion meals and more...

Read in Italian One of the spheres that makes up the futuristic headquarters of Amazon in Seattle will be lit up with the colors of the Italian flag – green, white and red. The e-commerce colossus has, in fact, decided...

From climate and environment themed videogames to special features, pop-ups, and real-life tree-planting opportunities embedded within beloved classics like PAC-MAN or Angry Birds, the gaming industry is working with the United Nations to engage audiences like never before and inspire...

Italian Catholic Church pedophilia victims' group Italy Church Too said Friday they had already been rebuffed by the new head of the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI), Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, in their demand for an independent inquiry into predator priests along...

Italy's seas are feeling the effects of the climate crisis in a big way, with rising water temperatures causing drastic changes to marine biodiversity, according to a new report by Greenpeace. The second edition of the Mare Caldo (Hot Sea)...

Published today in Scientific Reports, an online peer-reviewed open access scientific journal, were the findings of Italian researchers who have mapped the DNA of a Pompeii resident for the first time. The geneticist Dr. Gabriele Scorrano from the University of Copenhagen, and the...

Italians concerned about the climate crisis are joining many scientists and environmental associations from across the continent in calling for the European Commission's proposed sustainable finance 'taxonomy' plan to be rejected, saying it would give the green light to greenwashing....

The sacrosanct adherence to the Second Amendment is almost totally based on ignorance about the Bill of Rights, and the NRA exploits this ignorance to justify their self-interested agenda.

The Italian peace plan for Ukraine is "not serious," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday. Italy's four-stage plan would feature a ceasefire, talks on Ukraine's 'international status,' i.e., whether it is neutral, a bilateral agreement between Kyiv and Moscow...