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Rome Caps Foreign Pupils and Bars Face Coverings in Schools
Deutsche Welle reports the government has approved rules limiting students who do not speak fluent Italian and banning face coverings in class.
New school rules approved by the Italian government cap the number of pupils who do not speak fluent Italian and ban face coverings in class.
Marco Di Sante · NATIONAL
Q8 Joins Italy's Fuel Price Cap as Pump Prices Begin to Ease
A third major retailer signs on to the thirty-day cap, and the business ministry reports the first declines at the pump
Q8 became the third major fuel retailer to cap petrol and diesel prices on Tuesday, as the business ministry reported the first signs of falling prices at the pump.
Lorenzo Ferraris · ECONOMY
A Pope Clarifies One Word, and the Church's Italian Structure Is the Subject
Le Monde reports Leo XIV walked back a reported description of abuse as 'systemic', narrowing it to organisations within the Church
On the flight back to Rome, the Pope said he had meant organisations within the Church that have, at times, been abusive as a system — a distinction with consequences in Italy.
Tommaso Veronese · INTERNATIONAL
In the Venetian Lagoon, a Biennial Turns Its Spotlight on Craft
Es Devlin gathers work by 500 artisans for the Homo Faber Biennial, which the New York Times reads as a defence of making by hand.
The designer Es Devlin has assembled 500 artisans for a Venice craft biennial that treats each maker as an island of talent.
Eleonora Vanzetti · CULTURE
Regional dispatches
Hundreds Rally Against Fur in the Middle of Milan Fashion Week
An AFP photographer saw the demonstration on Saturday, as the global style press weighs what the industry's fur stance now costs it.
Hundreds protested against the use of fur in Milan on Saturday, in the middle of fashion week, an AFP photographer saw.
Beatrice Comolli
Rome Caps Non-Fluent Pupils in Class as South Tyrol Reads the Rule
Deutsche Welle reports the government has approved new school rules limiting foreign pupils and banning face coverings, a measure a bilingual province will measure against its own statute.
Italy's government has passed school rules capping pupils who do not speak fluent Italian and banning face coverings, Deutsche Welle reports, a national measure a bilingual province reads with particular attention.
Klara Hofer
A Turner of Rome Returns Briefly, Then Leaves for Auction
The Guardian reports the painter's 'great love letter' to the city is back after nearly 200 years, bound for Hong Kong, New York and a record-expected sale in the UK.
A JMW Turner view of Rome has returned to the city after almost two centuries before travelling to Hong Kong and New York ahead of a UK auction, according to the Guardian.
Klara Hofer
A Turner Love Letter to Rome, and the Lagoon Light It Borrowed
The painter's Rome, From Mount Aventine returns to Italy briefly before a UK auction expected to set a record
Turner's 'great love letter' to Rome has come home for a few days before Hong Kong, New York and a London sale — and Venice has a stake in how the world reads it.
Tommaso Veronese
A Cairo Verdict, and Trieste Reads What Borders Do to the Missing
An Italian court convicts three Egyptian security officials in absentia over Giulio Regeni's 2016 death, closing a decade of inquiry without a handover.
The Regeni verdict lands in a border region that knows what it means when a state will not hand over its own.
Sergio Madrussan
Rome Caps Foreign Pupils in Class, and a Border Region Does the Arithmetic
New school rules limiting students who do not speak fluent Italian and banning face coverings raise a question the border provinces already answer daily.
A national rule on language in classrooms lands differently where two or three languages are already in the room.
Sergio Madrussan
A Third Retailer Joins the Fuel Cap, and the Pumps Begin to Ease
Q8 caps petrol and diesel as the business ministry reports the first falls at the pump, three days into Italy's price experiment
Q8 became the third major fuel retailer to cap prices on Tuesday, as the business ministry reported the first signs of falling prices at the pump.
Marina Doria
Turner's Rome Returns for a Last Look Before the Auction
The Guardian reports the painter's 'great love letter' to the city is back after almost 200 years, before a sale expected to set a record
Rome, From Mount Aventine has returned to the city after almost 200 years and will travel to Hong Kong and New York before an auction expected to set a record.
Marina Doria
Turner's Love Letter to Rome Passes Through, Briefly
A painting that left Italy nearly two centuries ago returns for a matter of days before an auction expected to set a record.
Rome, From Mount Aventine is back in the city it depicts for a fleeting visit, en route to Hong Kong, New York and the auction block.
Costanza Bardi
A Pope Clarifies a Word, and the Church Weighs What 'Systemic' Means
Pope Leo XIV says he was describing abusive organisations within the Church, not the institution as a whole, after victims in France heard otherwise
On the flight back to Rome, the pope narrowed a description that abuse survivors in France had received as a significant shift.
Niccolò Mariani
Turner's Rome Canvas Returns Briefly, and Italy's Smaller Museums Watch the Market
The Guardian reports the painting will tour Hong Kong and New York before a UK auction expected to set a record.
A Turner canvas of Rome returns to the city after nearly two centuries, before an auction that smaller Italian institutions can only observe from a distance.
Elena Marcheggiani
Turner's Rome Comes Home Briefly, Then Goes to Auction
The Guardian reports that a painting the artist made of the city from the Aventine has returned to Rome for the first time in nearly two centuries before sale in London.
A Turner view of Rome, described by the Guardian as his love letter to the city, has made a brief return there after almost 200 years.
Marco Di Sante
A Turner Love Letter to Rome Returns, Briefly, Before the Auction
The painter's view of the city from Mount Aventine comes home for a few days, then travels to Hong Kong and New York
JMW Turner's Rome, From Mount Aventine has returned to the city it depicts for the first time in almost 200 years, before an auction expected to set a record.
Antonio Petrella
Turner's Rome Returns Briefly, Then Goes to Auction
A painting the Guardian calls the artist's love letter to Rome visits the city for the first time in nearly two centuries before a record sale.
Rome, From Mount Aventine has come home for a fleeting visit, and the world's museums are watching what it fetches.
Rosaria Esposito
A New Voting Law, and a Question About Who Sits in Parliament
Analysts tell The Local Italy that an electoral overhaul could sharply reduce the number of women in the Chamber and Senate.
Italy's electoral system is being rewritten, and the projected casualty is female representation.
Rosaria Esposito
Italy Caps Foreign Pupils in Class as Puglia Counts Its Empty Desks
A new school decree limiting students who do not speak fluent Italian reaches a region where shrinking classrooms and migrant labour meet
The Meloni government has approved school rules capping non-fluent pupils and banning face coverings, a measure the foreign press reads as a signal on integration.
Francesca Lazzari
A Turner Love Letter to Rome, and What the South Keeps
The painter's view of Rome returns briefly before a record-setting auction, raising again the question of where heritage goes and who pays to keep it
Turner's 'Rome, From Mount Aventine' comes home to Rome for a few days before it is sold abroad, and the south reads the arithmetic of preservation.
Pietro Lasorsa
Pope Leo XIV Clarifies 'Systemic' Abuse Remark on Flight to Rome
After abuse survivors in France described a major shift, the pope said he meant Church organisations that have 'at times' been abusive
Le Monde reports that Pope Leo XIV, returning to Rome, narrowed his own reported description of sexual abuse in the Church as 'systemic'.
Concetta Vassallo
Italy Caps Foreign Pupils and Bans Face Coverings in Schools
The government's new school rules limit students without fluent Italian, a measure the world press reads as a signal
Deutsche Welle reports the Meloni government has passed school rules capping pupils who do not speak fluent Italian and banning face coverings.
Gavino Sanna
Italy's New Voting Law and the Women It May Cost
Analysts tell The Local Italy the electoral overhaul could sharply reduce the number of women in parliament
An electoral overhaul nearing enactment is being read abroad for what it does to representation, not just to party arithmetic.
Adriana Sole
Ferrari Close the Door on Horner and Back Vasseur
Maranello says the team has "made its choices", ending a week of speculation the world's F1 press had read as an open seat
Ferrari have publicly reaffirmed their commitment to team principal Fred Vasseur after Christian Horner said he would be interested in the job.
Tobia Marenghi
Italy Rout Turkey 4-1 as the Nations League Turns
The Guardian's round-up leads on Olise's late winner in Brussels, but the Azzurri's four-goal night in Turkey is the result the foreign wires are reading closely
Italy beat Turkey 4-1 in the Nations League on a night when France edged Belgium in Brussels, according to the Guardian's round-up.
Tobia Marenghi
Rome Caps Foreign Pupils in Class, and a Region Already Short of Children Reads the Rule
Deutsche Welle reports the government has passed rules limiting students who do not speak fluent Italian and banning face coverings in schools.
New school rules cap the share of pupils without fluent Italian, a measure that lands hardest where birth rates are lowest and classrooms are already emptying.
Elena Marcheggiani
Turner's Rome Painting Returns Briefly Before Record-Breaking Sale
Rome, From Mount Aventine goes back on view in the city it depicts, then travels to Hong Kong and New York
A JMW Turner painting of Rome described as his 'great love letter' to the city has returned there after almost two hundred years, ahead of an auction expected to set a record.
Lorenzo Ferraris
Turner's Rome Returns Briefly, and a Valley Reads the View
A painting called the artist's 'great love letter' to Rome is shown there again before a record-setting auction abroad.
Rome, From Mount Aventine has come back to the city after nearly two centuries, on its way to Hong Kong, New York and a London sale.
Camille Bréan
Q8 Joins Italy's Fuel Price Cap as Pump Prices Begin to Fall
The third major retailer to cap petrol and diesel follows Eni, and the business ministry reports the first declines at the pump.
Q8 became the third major fuel retailer to cap prices on Tuesday, as the business ministry logged the first signs of falling pump prices.
Beatrice Comolli
Opinion
The View From Aventine
Turner's Rome returns briefly after two centuries, and the world again looks at the city through borrowed eyes.
Editorial Board
The Regeni Verdict, and the Limits of a Courtroom
An Italian court has convicted Egyptian officers in absentia; the world reads the case as a test of what a state can and cannot deliver.
Editorial Board