Italian commentators are mourning new UK rules blocking the army of youngsters who for decades have travelled to London for adventure, English lessons and the chance to hover over restaurant diners with an oversized pepper grinder

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Andrea Margelletti, a think tanker who advises the Italian defence ministry, predicts European states will sooner or later send a 90,000 strong army into Ukraine to fight Russia, defending a front line running from Kyiv to Odessa

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US director Abel Ferrara on why he moved to Rome: 'There’s a tremendous amount of empathy here. I went back to New York and said good morning to the kid serving me in Starbucks and he put his hands up thinking I was holding him up.”

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An Italian poet is recruiting Hollywood stars to stand in front of ancient Roman statues in Italy and recite the death-themed, often bloody poems he has written about them

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“About 20 cities have asked us for information about what we are doing. They are calling from all around the world,” said the mayor of Venice. One interested city was in the UK, he added, declining to say which one.

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'As pieces from the world’s largest private collection of Roman statues prepare to go on the road for a first overseas show in June in Paris, the stars are passing the time in a Rome store room resembling a bus queue of self-absorbed gods and mortals'

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It's that time of the year in Rome when locals are in scarves and tourists are in flip flops

Why a tweet about Berlusconi’s secret door went viral and why it turned out it wasn’t Berlusconi’s and it wasn’t really secret either

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'As Marine Le Pen and Matteo Salvini team up to attack Meloni over her increasingly pro-EU stance, analysts say Italy risks turning from a proving ground for the European right to a fault line for its internal bickering'

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An excavated building site at Pompeii has confirmed the Romans used a concrete mixing technique - first theorised by MIT researchers - which produces a 'self healing' type of concrete - explaining why buildings like the Pantheon are still standing

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Italy’s Foreign Press Association moved into Silvio Berlusconi’s old Rome apartment this morning. First discovery was a secret door to a back staircase. Good way to allow party guests to leave in a hurry?

'As a sign of how things don't change, expat Brits at dinner parties in Rome today start the evening sober complaining about Italian red tape then end the night after a bottle of red singing the praises of an unknown trattoria they have discovered'

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Male Brits on the Grand Tour in Rome in the 1700s complained a lot, were suspicious of the Pope, greedy for souvenirs but short of cash, struggling with Italian and having trouble meeting women, their letters home reveal. So glad things have changed

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Stopped by the Pantheon in Rome to hear a poetry reading by an up and coming actor.. Sound on

Black Italian athletes set to compete in the Paris Olympics are challenging the belief that black people cannot be Italian, even if born and raised in Italy

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Is this the case for coloured pens Giorgia Meloni was clutching in parliament today?

Nice nugget in new papal autobiography: When answering letters in the morning, Francis likes to play Argentine tango music by the singer Azucena Maizani, who was given the last rites by Francis when she died in 1970

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A consultancy firm expects to obtain one thousand Italian passports this year for Americans, from both the left and right, who are fleeing to Europe because they are sick of US politics

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'Smashed masonry, ruptured pipes and splintered wood from collapsed cabins lay in the shallows after another winter of the monster waves that are eroding Italy’s beaches, as climate change shifts up a gear in the Mediterranean'

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Of the €3.7bn invested in construction and property in Albania last year, it’s estimated €1.3bn was drug money. No wonder the Tirana skyline is so high thetimes.co.uk/article/how-br…