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Italian footballer Davide Astori died at the age of 31
April 2018 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Italian footballer Davide Astori died at the age of 31 on March 4, 2018. The captain of Italy’s Fiorentina team likely died of cardiac arrest due to a slow heart rate, sources report. Fiorentina and Astori’s former club, Cagliari, announced they...
German discount supermarket Aldi opened its first locations in northern Italy
April 2018 | La Gazzetta Italiana
German discount supermarket Aldi opened its first locations in northern Italy last month. Although the store gets its namesake from “Albrecht” and “Diskont,” the west German brothers who founded it, the store’s Italian marketing campaign sought out...
Pope Paul VI will soon be made a saint
April 2018 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Pope Paul VI, who oversaw the sweeping “Vatican II” reforms of the Catholic Church in the 1960s, will soon be made a saint, the Vatican announced last month. The pope put Paul VI on the path of sainthood by beatifying him in October 2014. The Pope...
urkey fined an Italian citizen nearly 100,000 euros
April 2018 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Turkey fined an Italian citizen nearly 100,000 euros for trying to illegally smuggle white truffles out of the country. The suspect was caught trying to cross the border to Bulgaria.
La Turchia ha multato un cittadino italiano di quasi 100.000...
Italian villa featured in the Oscar-winning film is on sale
April 2018 | La Gazzetta Italiana
The Italian villa featured in the Oscar-winning film for Best Adapted Screenplay, “Call Me by Your Name,” is on the market for 1.5 million euros. The 17th century villa in Lombardy has 14 bedrooms and seven bathrooms and boasts stunning views of...
A town toward the center of Sardinia was selling homes cheaper than a cup of coffee
March 2018 | La Gazzetta Italiana
A historic hillside town toward the center of Sardinia was selling homes cheaper than a cup of coffee. In an effort to boost the shrinking population of the tiny town, Ollolai, a mini-metropolis which dates back thousands of years, was selling...
Facebook has added a fact-checking feature to articles appearing on the social media site
March 2018 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Italy is the fifth country added to the short list of countries where Facebook has added a fact-checking feature to articles appearing on the social media site. Italian fact checkers Pagella Politica, who focus on political disinformation, have...
Italy's illegal, or black, economy is experiencing a great boom
March 2018 | La Gazzetta Italiana
While Italy experienced a sure sign of an economic recovery last year, a new report states that Italy’s illegal, or black, economy is experiencing an even greater boom. Confcooperative, an organization representing Italian cooperatives, and Censis,...
Italy's Giuseppina Projetto is now the oldest living person in Europe
March 2018 | La Gazzetta Italiana
Italy’s Giuseppina Projetto is now the oldest living person in Europe. Born in 1902 in Sardinia, “the grandmother of Italy” is the third-oldest person in the world today, after two Japanese women born in 1900 and 1901. The 115-year-old will turn...
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