Italian digital payments firms merge to create $17.6B fintech group
Italy’s largest payments firm Nexi has struck a deal with its rival, SIA, to create a digital payments behemoth with a market cap of 15...
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One million coronavirus deaths: how did we get here?
Though an inevitable milestone for months, its arrival is still breathtaking. Deaths from Covid-19 exceeded 1 million people on Tuesday , according to a Johns...
Global coronavirus deaths pass 1m with no sign rate is slowing
The number of people who have died from Covid-19 has exceeded 1 million, according to a tally of cases maintained by Johns Hopkins University, with...
Powerful Vatican cardinal Angelo Becciu resigns amid financial scandal
A powerful Vatican cardinal caught up in a real estate scandal resigned suddenly on Thursday and gave up his right to take part in an...
Italian president rebuts Johnson’s ‘freedom’ remarks over restrictions
Italy’s president, Sergio Mattarella, said its citizens “also love freedom, but we also care about seriousness”, responding to Boris Johnson’s suggestion that the UK’s rate...
How rescuing drowning migrants became a crime
As patrol boats with flashing blue lights surrounded the Iuventa, just outside the port of Lampedusa on the evening of 1 August 2017, its crew...
From scandal to PR cock-up: how the Boris Johnson Perugia mystery unravelled
When someone at Perugia airport decided to drum up a bit of publicity on the back of the footballer Luis Suárez flying to Italy, they...
Far-right Brothers of Italy on course to gain Marche region from left
A candidate for the far-right Brothers of Italy looks set to end 27 years of leftwing rule in the eastern Marche region, and take the...
No 10 denies reports Boris Johnson went on secret Italy trip
One of Boris Johnson’s ministers has denied a report in the Italian media that the UK prime minister made a secret trip to the country...
Foreign offices: the Britons who work from home – abroad
When the coronavirus lockdown forced Mason Palmer, 26, to start working from home, the digital content creator had a rethink about where that home was...