A piercing alarm burst from millions of cellphones, a signal to hundreds of thousands of people to pack their bags and flee one of Europe’s most dangerous volcanoes. But most of the Italians who heard it shrugged. It was around 5 o’clock on a Friday afternoon, and the alert wasn’t …
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Sammy Basso, an advocate for research into progeria, an ultrarare fatal disease that causes rapid aging in children, who was known for living with gusto and humor with the condition as he faced the certainty of premature death, died on Oct. 5 near his home in Tezze sul Brenta, in …
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Italy sent its first boat carrying migrants to Albania on Monday, part of a plan to send migrants who are rescued in the Mediterranean by Italian ships to detention centers in the Balkan nation, where their asylum claims will be assessed. The plan, which is being heralded by the Italian …
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After 14 years, the 21 women accused of helping to cover up Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s evening bacchanals had hoped that their long legal saga over the so-called “Bunga Bunga” scandal might be over. But Italy’s Supreme Court overturned their acquittals, ruling on Monday that the women could be retried, …
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Hardly a night goes by that Karima el-Mahroug does not think of what her life would be like if she had never met Silvio Berlusconi. Fourteen years ago, Ms. el-Mahroug, then 17 and known as the nightclub dancer Ruby Heart-Stealer, suddenly found herself at the center of a national scandal …
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