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The last leaf on the vine wall is a red heart, for love, until the next squall

Inside Lucca: the fortress town that became a jazz mecca thespaces.com/?p=118967 via The Spaces

Foreign press footballers honour colleague killed in Ukraine shar.es/afRYwU

Courageous democracy campaigner imprisoned in Hong Kong. #Free Jimmy Lai

Vigil for Alexei Navalny on Rome’s Capitoline Hill

Rome wins Foreign Press Association ski race in Santa Caterina Valfurva/Bormio: Gustav Hofer, Christian Schubert, Andrew Spannaus

Free Assange campaign at Rome’s Largo Argentina archaeological site

In central Rome

Springtime with monuments

Trump and Vance are apparently Christian. So it should seem strange that they appear to be more concerned about the fate of American cats and dogs than that of hungry Haitians (assuming there was any truth to the stories about migrants eating American pets ).

The Book of Genesis tells us that God gave man dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air and “every living thing that moves on the earth”. Perhaps the part where animals take precedence over men is only in the Trump Bible.

Pope Francis’ Christmas tree

Donald Trump is selling out the Ukrainians and driving a hard bargain over their mineral resources while the country is on its knees. Perhaps time to change the bird symbol of the United States from eagle to vulture.

Vance and Trump humiliate Zelensky by telling him to thank Trump for the aid given by Biden and which Trump is taking away. Unbelievable, and disgusting.

Trump is known for "the art of the deal" so it's a strange negotiating ploy to tell the world, and your "enemy", that your client state has no cards in his hand at the start of peace negotiations.

New lights for Trajan’s Forum

As seen in Rome

Valeria Solesin, Italy’s sole victim of the #Bataclan massacre, cared for people she didn’t know as a volunteer for the health charity Emergency, because of her beliefs. Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving terrorist, killed people he didn’t know because of his.

I see there has been controversy over the Kennedy Center being renamed the Donald J Trump and John F Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. I didn't realize Trump had died.