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Italy’s military archbishop has defended the role of the armed forces and police in enforcing anti-coronavirus measures as Italy begins its third year under a “state of emergency.”

Italian President Sergio Mattarella was elected on Saturday night to a second seven-year term as the country’s head of state.

Support for Italian President Sergio Mattarella to stay on for a second term swelled on Saturday after days of failed balloting.

Italians over the age of 50 who are unvaccinated could face fines and suspension from work as the country’s vaccine mandate come into force.  

67% of votes were blank in the electoral college, but among those who did get votes was a former Prime Minister who has been dead 22 years.

Voting for Italy´s next president opened without a clear slate of candidates following ex-Premier Berlusconi´s reluctant withdrawal.

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is undergoing a series of medical examinations and has withdrawn from Italy’ presidential election.

Italian retirees could be forced to present their coronavirus health pass in order to access their pensions in person.

Professor Bassetti claimed people who tested positive and then died were automatically counted as having been killed by Coronavirus.

A Taliban delegation will travel to Norway for talks with representatives of the Norwegian authorities and several allied countries.

Libyan authorities intercepted 30,990 migrants heading for Europe in 2021 according to UN statistics, a trebling of the year prior.

Italy will once again expand its list of active COVID restrictions, with the next set of measures slated to come into force on Thursday.

In what looks like a potential repeat of the Djokovic controversy in Australia, France has declared that unjabbed foreign athletes will not be permitted to play in the country.

An Italian court ruled that migrants with work permits eligible to receive a baby bonus as well as a maternity allowance.

Italy has arrested four people smugglers, one of whom is said to be connected to the deaths of four migrants, including a woman. 

Two North African youths, one born to parents from Morocco and another who came to Italy from Egypt, have been arrested.

An MEP has called out the ‘brutal’ actions of police at lockdown protests in Europe, drawing comparisons to the old communist regimes.

Police raided 18 migrant-background youths over attacks that have been met with comparisons to the infamous Cologne attacks of 2015.

The Italian government has moved to ban unvaccinated people from public transport, outdoor dining, sports centres and more.

Italy has made vaccination against the Chinese Coronavirus mandatory for over-50s while also cracking down on access to workplaces.

Italy is currently mulling over the possibility of completely banning unvaccinated individuals from workplaces.

The former President of the European Parliament has accused China of “hoarding food stocks”, which he claims has contributed to rising food prices.

Nearly one-third of occupants in Italian prisons are migrants, with the latest official data showing over 17,000 prisoners came from abroad.

35,000 illegal migrants landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa in 2021, an all-time record for arrivals.

Hotel revenues in Italy have plunged as much as 65 per cent as the sector describes suffering “one cancellation per minute” over the Chinese coronavirus and restrictions on the unvaccinated.

Police officers in the Italian city of Turin arrested a Moroccan migrant on Sunday after he brandished a knife while being completely naked.

The German migrant taxi NGO Sea-Watch has picked up 446 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea over the Christmas weekend.

Pope Francis lamented Italy’s plummeting birthrate Sunday, calling the situation a “tragedy” on the day the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Family.

Around 800 migrants are on three different NGO migrant “taxi” ships are awaiting port access after being picked up in the Mediterranean. 

The city of Rome and the entire Italian region of Lazio have imposed a universal outdoor mask mandate beginning Thursday, despite no spike in deaths or patients in intensive care units.

In a period of just 48 hours, the Italian island of Lampedusa is said to have seen around 500 migrants arrive on its shores after a brief break arrivals in recent weeks.

The first witnesses in the trial of former Italian deputy prime minister and minister of the interior Matteo Salvini have been heard, with Admiral Sergio Liardo claiming that Salvini was not alone in responsibility for blocking an NGO migrant taxi in 2019.

LONDON (AP) – Nations across Europe are moving to reimpose tougher measures to stem a new wave of COVID-19 infections spurred by the highly transmissible omicron variant, triggering calls for protests from Paris to Barcelona.

Italian State Police, on behalf of the Naples Prosecutor’s Office, have conducted 40 searches and made 67 seizures of fake coronavirus health passes, identifying at least 120 buyers of the forgeries.

Police in Italy searched the home of a suspected serial sexual predator Friday who allegedly posed as a gynecologist to persuade numerous women to undergo vaginal exams through a weblink.

Nearly 70 percent of Americans say the coronavirus omicron variant does not necessitate additional mandates or restrictions, a Thursday Trafalgar Group poll revealed.