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The birthrate of Italian citizens fell to a record low in 2020, with the country recording just 1.17 births per woman.

A petition, which gained hundreds of signatures in a matter of hours, has demanded that Italian railway companies offer women-only cars following a report a woman was brutally raped aboard a train last Friday.

Italy’s competition authority announced on Thursday that it has fined Amazon roughly $1.3 billion (€1.129 billion), alleging that the company “has harmed competing operators” by abusing its dominant market position and pushing third-party sellers to use Amazon’s logistics service Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA).

Italian authorities handed out over 900 fines to violators of the country’s covid pass systems, including the “Super Green Pass”, a stricter version of the Green Pass coronavirus passport.

ROME — A squad of police officers subdued and arrested an African immigrant who was posing nude in a public fountain in Rome’s Piazza dell Repubblica Wednesday.

Restaurants, sports events, concerts, theatres, and other public events all off-limits even to those with a negative covid test from today.

MILAN (AP) – Italy is making life more uncomfortable for unvaccinated people this holiday season, excluding them from indoor restaurants, theatres, and museums starting Monday to reduce the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine sceptics to get their shots.

The city of Rome has reinstated its draconian outdoor mask mandate despite remarkably positive coronavirus data compared to last December.

A 50-year-old man in Italy reportedly wore a silicone arm to his vaccination appointment in an attempt to dodge the vaccine.

A suspected radical Islamic terrorist was arrested this week at a migrant reception facility in Venice. He is believed to belong to an Islamic State cell.

Stolen yachts, including some with U.S. registrations, are being used by people smugglers to sneak migrants into Italy.

Italian police have claimed that the number of fake coronavirus vaccine passports being sold online has surged and that some doctors may even be involved in the sale of fake certifications.

Italians travelling on public transport without a vaccine passport could face fines of up to a thousand euros under new restrictions.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has urged protesters against coronavirus vaccine mandates to exercise “responsible freedom.”

Pope Francis launched an appeal for migrants Sunday, insisting that when we think of migrants we should think of their suffering.

An African migrant was found dead in the Italian border city of Ventimiglia this week, with investigators believing he was stabbed to death. 

Matteo Salvini said that the demographic problems facing Italy and other Western nations cannot be solved through mass migration

The EU border agency Frontex reported that in the first ten months of 2021, illegal crossings into the bloc have increased by 70 per cent.

The Italian coalition government under Prime Minister Mario Draghi has approved a new decree restricting the activities of unvaccinated people and creating what has been called a “Super Green Pass”.

A teen Tunisian ‘influencer’ took criticism after she posted videos online of her aboard a boat of illegal immigrants heading to Italy. 

Private schools in Milan tasked with teaching basic skills to illegals have been accused of teaching far-left extremist ideologies to the migrants as well.

Mass demonstrations erupted across Europe on Saturday with anti-lockdown protests being staged in Vienna, Rome, and The Netherlands.

Italian epidemiologist Pier Luigi Lopalco has recommended that vaccinated Italians shun the unvaccinated at Christmas, saying they should not invite them to their homes for Christmas dinner.

A 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl living in Ostia near Rome, Italy, was hospitalised after her 17-year-old brother allegedly brutally beat her for not wearing an Islamic veil.

The Turin prosecutor’s office directed police raids in several Italian cities of people thought to be involved with protests against the Green Pass, Italy’s domestic coronavirus vaccine passport.

Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has restricted the activities of anti-vaccine passport protesters, banning them from historic centres and busy streets.

United Colors of Benetton has launched a ‘unisex’ Islamic veil known as the Hijab in partnership with an Italian-Tunisian rapper. 

Italy, France and Germany have all seen violence and in some cases attackers professing “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is Great” as they struck.

A total of 2,572 African migrants have disembarked in Italy in the week between November 2 and 8, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported Monday.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Milan, Trieste, Padua, and other Italian cities Saturday night to protest the obligation of a coronavirus “Green Pass” to enter restaurants, gyms, and places of work.

ROME (AP) — A German humanitarian ship with more than 800 rescued migrants aboard was sailing to Sicily on Sunday after being granted permission by Italian authorities after days of waiting at sea.

As many as 8,000 people are expected to participate in an anti-vaccine passport protest on Saturday in Trieste, Italy, which banned protests in a major square until the end of the year.

A 31-year-old African migrant from the Ivory Coast was badly electrocuted after trying to escape a check by French police by climbing onto the roof of a train.

The number of foreign-born pupils in Italian schools is on the rise, with at least 880 schools across the country now having more foreign-born pupils and native Italians.

Italy’s left-populist Five Star Movement (M5S) is under investigation by prosecutors in Milan over allegations of receiving millions of euros of illicit funds from the Venezuelan consul in 2010.

The local government of the Italian city of Trieste has banned all anti-vaccine passport protests at a central city square, claiming they could lead to higher Wuhan virus infection rates.