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Italian Olympians 'insulted' by torch relay snub
AFP, Published on 14/01/2026
» ROME - Persistent complaints by former Italian Olympians that they had been snubbed as relay torchbearers in favour of celebrities drew a reaction on Tuesday from politicians led by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.
Mother and daughter die days after Munich car ramming
AFP, Published on 16/02/2025
» MUNICH (GERMANY) - A two-year-old girl and her mother died Saturday from injuries suffered in a car-ramming attack two days earlier in the German city of Munich that left 37 others injured, police said.
Former pope Benedict dies at 95
Reuters, Published on 31/12/2022
» ROME: Former pope Benedict, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, has died at the age of 95 in the Vatican, a spokesman for the Holy See said on Saturday.
Prayers in Germany, Rome for frail ex-pope Benedict
AFP, Published on 30/12/2022
» VATICAN CITY - Ex-pope Benedict XVI's condition remains stable, the Vatican said Friday, as Catholics prayed for the 95-year old former pontiff whose health has seriously deteriorated.
Ex-pope Benedict's health serious but stable
AFP, Published on 29/12/2022
» VATICAN CITY: Former pope Benedict XVI remains in a serious but stable condition, Italian media reported Thursday, the day after the Vatican revealed the 95-year-old's health had deteriorated.
Brazil on edge as polarizing runoff goes down to wire
AFP, Published on 28/10/2022
» RIO DE JANEIRO - After a bitterly divisive campaign and inconclusive first-round vote, Brazil will elect its next president Sunday in a cliffhanger runoff between far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
In Lula's home state, Brazilian rodeo riders lean left
AFP, Published on 18/10/2022
» CABROBO: Brazil's powerful agribusiness industry may back far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, but at the "Grab the Bull Bush Rodeo" in runoff rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's home state, the death-defying cowboys love the leftist ex-president.
Shaken by Covid, some Americans try 'manifesting' a positive result
AFP, Published on 01/06/2021
» WASHINGTON - So you want money... love... success? Have you thought about trying to think about it -- really hard -- until your goals materialize? That, at least, is a core principle behind the trend, increasingly popular in pandemic times, of "manifesting," a mix of positive thinking and magical practices.
Three held over deadly Italy cable car crash
AFP, Published on 26/05/2021
» VERBANIA, Italy: Italian police on Wednesday arrested three managers from the operator of a cable car that crashed into a mountain killing 14 people, accusing them of deliberately disabling the emergency brake.
Italy mafias eye virus-weak businesses
AFP, Published on 23/10/2020
» MILAN - Italian entrepreneur Gabriele Menotti Lippolis can still hear the threat ringing in his ears: "Pay up, or we'll slit you from gullet to gizzard."