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Variety & Enjoyment: At the BIOFACH joint booth of the Italian Trade Agency, 62 businesses from all over Italy present the culinary delicacies they have to offer

Italy is leading the field when it comes to organically grown produce.Italy counts among the leading producers of organic products worldwide. Domestic sales as well as exports have increased steadily in recent years. With an export volume estimated at 3.37 billion euros in 2022 (+ 16% in comparison with 2021), Italy currently holds first place… Read More »

Train station protests fizzle in Italy as COVID passes start

ROME — Police outnumbered demonstrators at several of Italy’s main train stations as COVID-19 vaccination or tests became mandatory Wednesday for long-distance travel within the country. Threats by some of the rule’s opponents to block railroad tracks apparently fizzled. On the eve of the requirement’s taking effect, Premier Mario Draghi’s government had vowed to crack… Read More »

Covid-19 news: Italy, Spain, Belgium limit use of AstraZeneca vaccine

By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A health worker checks the patients queue during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign with AstraZeneca vaccine in Santander, Spain. Celestino Arce/NurPhoto via Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as of 5pm on… Read More »

The Latest: Italy weighing mandatory mask wearing outdoors

ROME — Italy’s health minister says the government is examining a proposal to make masks mandatory outdoors as the country enters a difficult phase of living alongside COVID-19, with the number of infections growing steadily for the last nine weeks. Roberto Speranza told the lower house of parliament on Tuesday that as infections spread, it… Read More »

48,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth unearthed in Italy

The discovery of a baby tooth belonging to an adolescent Neanderthal in northern Italy’s Veneto region is shedding light on the doomed hominid’s final days. By analyzing the tooth’s genome, fossilization and radiometric age — measured by the decay of radioactive isotopes in organic matter — scientists were able to determine that the “milk tooth”… Read More »