Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan and the EU's top trade official Valdis Dombrovskis spoke Friday as Canberra digested news that Italy banned a shipment of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines to Australia. A European Commission spokeswoman said the...
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Italy has blocked a shipment to Australia of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in the first such export ban under an EU vaccine monitoring scheme, an EU source told AFP on Thursday. Rome's order blocking the dispatch of 250,000 doses was accepted by the...
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A Serie A match between Juventus and Napoli abandoned in October following an outbreak of coronavirus has been rescheduled for March 17, the Italian football league announced Wednesday. Napoli failed to turn up to the October 4 fixture after being...
Maximiliano Genova agrees to extradition
Italy's new government ordered more school closures Tuesday after data showed the majority of coronavirus cases to be of the more contagious British variant. All schools in the highest risk regions will switch to distance learning under new rules to...
39-year-old arrested at 2am, as Italian police arrested 29 others
The popular Italian song contest Sanremo is returning today without a live audience for the first time in its 71-year history. The festival is also being held about a month later than usual, following the example of other major international events...
Valentino Rossi is embracing a fresh start with Yamaha SRT after dropping down from the manufacturer’s factory team for his 22nd season competing in motorcycling’s top category. Rossi, 42, has won the MotoGP championship seven times but endured his...
Romelu Lukaku scored after 33 seconds and set up another in Inter Milan’s 3-0 win over Genoa on Sunday to keep their title push on track ahead of city rivals Milan, who beat Roma 2-1. Inter remain four points ahead of second-placed Milan, who got back...
ITALY Rachel Cuschieri came on in the second half for Lazio in their 0-0 draw against Riozzese Como. Martina Borg was a starter for Sassari Torres in their 8-0 rout of Roma Decimoquarto in Serie C. Nicole Sciberras (picture) was in the starting line-up...
Atalanta shook off their Champions League defeat to Real Madrid midweek with a 2-0 win at Sampdoria on Sunday to move up to fourth in Serie A. Ruslan Malinovskiy broke through five minutes before the break with Robin Gosens adding a second with 20...
Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 19th goal this campaign but champions Juventus settled for a 1-1 draw at Hellas Verona in Serie A on Saturday. The draw gives leaders Inter the chance to pull 10 points clear of Juventus when they play mid-table Genoa at...
Ferrari is confident its new SF21 car will be stronger on straight-line speed this year as the Italian Formula One outfit launched its team for the 2021 season. The Italian outfit endured a frustrating 2020 campaign, with its SF1000 hampered by both...
Manchester United and Milan will face off in the last 16 of the Europa League after being paired together in Friday’s draw in Nyon. United, who beat Real Sociedad 4-0 on aggregate in the previous round, will face the seven-time European champions in a...
The Italian ambassador killed in an ambush in the Democratic Republic of Congo while travelling on a UN convoy was "betrayed" by someone close to the family, his widow said in an interview published Friday. Luca Attanasio, 43, was shot dead on Monday...
Italian champions Juventus on Thursday reported losses of 113.7 million euros ($139 million) for the first half of the current financial year, more than double the deficit for the same period the previous season largely due to the coronavirus...
Italian club Torino’s league game on Friday against Sassuolo has been postponed because of a coronavirus outbreak in the club, the Lega Serie A confirmed. The match will take place on Wednesday, March 17 at 1500 local time (1400 GMT). At the insistence...
Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini fumed over “football suicide” on Wednesday after his team played more than 70 minutes a man down in their 1-0 loss in the Champions League to Real Madrid. The Italian side had Swiss midfielder Remo Freuler harshly...
Zinedine Zidane said Tuesday that Real Madrid were preparing for a “different game” against an Atalanta side the Spanish giants meet for the first time in the Champions League in Italy midweek. “For us it’s a different game, we don’t know our opponent.
AC Milan’s virtuoso soloist Zlatan Ibrahimovic will juggle football and music next week, the Swede having agreed to be one of the star presenters of the annual San Remo music festival. A tailor-made score has been established to allow the footballer to...
In coronavirus-hit Italy, mafia groups are eyeing the health sector and EU-funded infrastructure projects as their next big money-spinners, police warned in a report Wednesday. "Significant criminal investments are conceivable in companies operating in...
Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini brushed aside talk of injuries at Real Madrid, insisting instead that the record Champions League winners “transform” on the elite European competition’s stage. The Italian club, who have never won a title apart from...
Italy's foreign minister said on Wednesday he had asked the United Nations for an investigation into the killing of its ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo in an ambush. The envoy Luca Attanasio, 43, died on Monday after a World Food...
The new Italian PM must now heal the sick man of Europe
If there's someone who can get Italy ticking, it's Mario Draghi
Napoli forward Victor Osimhen was hospitalised on Sunday after losing consciousness following a knock to the head in Sunday’s 4-2 defeat to Atalanta in Serie A. The Nigeria striker was stretchered off the pitch in Bergamo after 90 minutes after hitting...
A jubilant Luna Rossa will race holders Team New Zealand for the America’s Cup after completing an overwhelming 7-1 victory over Ineos Team UK in the challenger series final in Auckland on Sunday. “Fantastico! Fantastico, Bellissimo,” a delighted Luna...
Luis Alberto scored the only goal as Lazio battled past Sampdoria 1-0 to move fourth in Serie A on Saturday. Lazio’s six-match winning streak ended last weekend with a painful 3-1 defeat at Inter Milan. But Spaniard Alberto struck after 24 minutes in...
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