Italy bans US-based AI chatbot Replika from using personal data
Italy’s Data Protection Agency said on Friday it was prohibiting artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot company Replika from using the personal data of Italian users, citing...
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Ten migrants die off Lampedusa coast, including baby and three women
Ten migrants, including a baby and three women, have died on a particularly harrowing crossing from Tunisia to Italy, the Italian coastguard said on Friday....
Italy’s Meloni in Libya to conclude $8 billion gas deal
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Tripoli on Saturday to conclude an $8 billion gas deal aimed at boosting energy supplies to Europe despite the insecurity and...
Italy arrests top mafia boss Messina Denaro at Sicilian hospital (updated)
Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested by armed police at a private hospital in Sicily on Monday, where the man who...
Italy police seize Rubens masterpiece after fraud investigation
Italian police said on Friday they had seized a painting on display by the 17th century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens after a fraud investigation...
Italy prison suicides spike as post-COVID misery lingers
Suicides in Italian jails have jumped to a 10-year high, the national ombudsman for prisoners said on Friday, noting that three years of the COVID-19...
Italy takes in 33 migrants from rescue ship as weather worsens
A charity-run rescue boat carrying 33 migrants was allowed to dock and disembark on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa early Friday, while two more NGO vessels with...
Landslide kills at least three on Italy’s island of Ischia (Updated)
At least three people, including a young girl, were killed on the southern Italian holiday island of Ischia after a landslide caused by torrential rain...
EU ministers seek to ease tensions on migration after France-Italy spat
EU interior ministers sought to ease resurgent tensions over illegal migration at an emergency meeting on Friday, after the fate of migrants rescued in the...
Animal bones, ancient Romans’ snack food found in Colosseum
A year-long study of the drainage system under the Colosseum has unearthed fragments of the bones of bears and big cats that were probably used...
