Tag: Italy

Italy Eases Hunting Rules to Fight Wild Boar ‘Invasion’

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s ruling right-wing coalition is set to loosen hunting rules to deal with what the country’s farming lobby calls an “invasion” of wild boars. The boars are common in the countryside, but have recently also been spotted in central parts of Rome, attracted by the Eternal City’s chronically overflowing rubbish skips. In […]

So much for coordination: EU countries ignore pandemic lessons amid China’s COVID surge

Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. It didn’t take long for EU countries to abandon the biggest lesson of the pandemic.  The principle of collective response to health threats, which underpins the European Union’s so-called Health Union, was ignored at the first sign of trouble.  All it took was a […]

Laura Poitras film spotlights activist photographer Goldin

VENICE, Italy (AP) — When filmmaker Laura Poitras went to meet American photographer Nan Goldin about a project to document her protests against museums accepting money from the Sackler family, Goldin was slightly worried. “My worry when she came on was that I didn’t have any state secrets to share and I wasn’t important enough […]