This morning, the Italian National Olympic Committee received an electronic message stating the threat of a terrorist act during the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. According to representatives of the Italian Olympic Committee, IOC and a number of countries received such letters, whose participants will go to the Olympics, the grand opening of which is scheduled for February 7, 2014.
Category: Society
Esquire, an American magazine specializing in men's fashion, has put Pantific in first place in the ranking of the most stylish and elegant celebrities in 2013. Pope Francis is liked by absolutely everyone. It was as if he “came from the ends of the earth” and in less than a year he won the hearts of people in all corners of the planet: adults and children, zealous and not so religious believers, simple workers and prominent politicians.
The Italian authorities cannot solve the problem of the extremely large flow of migrants from North Africa who are trying to take refuge in the Apennine Peninsula in search of refuge. According to an official government press release, today the Italian naval forces saved about a thousand immigrants from Syria and other African countries in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
A passionate Italian woman living in the south of the country in the city of Casoria, a province in the Napoli region, found a very original solution to all problems when she realized that she found it difficult to choose between her husband, with whom she had been married for more than 10 years, and lover 10 years younger than her. The woman took extreme measures, inviting the two applicants for her hand and heart to draw up a kind of agreement that would help her decide on the call of her heart.
This is a real battle to save the child. The doctors of one of the hospitals in the city of Padova (Padova) went today to Rome to fight for the life of an eleven-year-old girl. A child suffering from a rare metabolic disease urgently needed an urgent liver transplant. And this body was found.
It turns out that thieves have a heart. On Christmas Eve, robbers in Italy returned to a desperate girl her puppy, stolen a week ago. The Italian thieves showed their generosity by returning to their five-year-old girl Paola her puppy named Gaia, whom they stole last week, breaking into the house of the Piazzolla family, who lives in the town of Sangano.
The Italian Court of Appeal amazed the whole country with its sensational decision: the judges fully acquitted the 60-year-old resident of the city of Catanzaro in the south of the country. Pietro Lamberti was accused of molesting an eleven-year-old girl. The court ruled that a real feeling flared up between the accused and the girl.
“They won’t call a good deal marriage.” Residents of sunny Italy agreed with this saying. According to the census of Italy, conducted two years ago, the number of Italians who filed for divorce doubled. Such data are provided by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT).
Lieutenant Barbara Balanzoni may face trial and be sentenced to at least one year in prison for saving a pregnant cat, Italian news agency La Nazione reports. Balanzoni, 49, from Crevalcore, Bologna region, worked for several weeks at the NATO military base in Kosovo as an anesthetist.
Experts say that Italy can rightfully be called one of the most aging countries. The homeland of wine and fashion has been awarded this title by the Central Bureau of Statistics (ISTAT) based on recent research. According to the ISTAT annual report, the constant increase in the life expectancy of Italians, as well as a decrease in the birth rate, have moved the country of romance to the top five of the oldest nations in the world.
Pope Francis called on the Italian government to find homes for all families Speaking to the congregation in the main square of the Vatican, among whom there were protesters against the Italians, Pope Francis called on the Italian authorities to provide shelter to all those in need. The protesters pope tried to express his opinion and achieve goals peacefully, without using any violence.
A couple of days ago, in the capital of Italy, the famous robber of the Trevi Roman Fountain died, who stole a trifle from a local landmark with impunity for more than thirty years. Roberto Chercheletta, nicknamed D'Artagnan due to the high boots in which he "went to work", died at the age of 62, most of which he devoted to his favorite pastime - extracting coins thrown by tourists into one of the most famous fountains in the world.
A recent study by the statistical service of the European Union showed that 34 percent of Italians have never "surfed" the Internet, while 54 percent regularly go to the pages of the world wide web. Eurostat explained that half of the population of the sunny country regularly devotes a couple of hours to surfing the Internet, while in the European Union the number of fans of the World Wide Web reaches 70 percent.
According to Italian media, the four natives of Africa, who were detained and held in a special center near Rome, sewn up their mouths, thereby protesting their detention. Four people from North Africa took part in this "action", two of whom are twenty years old, and the other two are already thirty.
Pope Francis, who celebrated his 77th birthday on Tuesday with three homeless people, was voted The Man of the Year by The Advocate, the oldest American gay magazine. According to the editors of the magazine, despite the fact that the pontiff does not support gay marriage and couples, he became the first pope to completely change the "rhetoric regarding homosexuals."
Almost 90% of European cities have exceeded the norms of permissible air pollution, but not one can be compared with Italy: the worst situation is in Padua, and of the 30 most polluted cities in Europe, 23 are Italian. Although pollutant emissions across Europe have declined, 88% of European cities are still exposed to substances recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as harmful to the body.