In Italy, while some agencies put people in touch locally, others help customers find a spouse in Asia — and then fly them over for the nuptials.
Source: LA STAMPA
La Stampa, originally known as Gazzetta Piemontese, is a prominent Italian newspaper established in 1867. Headquartered in Turin, it is owned by the Fiat Group and widely distributed across multiple European countries.
It started as an unlikely marriage of convenience: after Italy’s elections in March 2018, the far-right League party and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) formed a coalition government. Fighting over the choice of prime minister, the two parties settled for an unknown political figure: Giuseppe Conte, a lawyer whose 12-page résumé raised more than […]
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Business models are changing, but Chinese presence in Italy’s business world remains high.
Former center-right politician Flavia Perina says Italy won’t easily move backwards when it comes to women’s rights, because the female electorate is watchful.
Italy’s political leaders who rejoiced with Brexit referendum are now silent.
Kali and Marika have been stuffed with nandrolone and carnitine, doped and “dried,” waiting to represent the Wild Boys Kennel against rivals Top Line. And so it would end: the former died, the latter won. Zeus instead had been tested with a couple of sparring matches, waiting an encounter with Dwaith: they tore each other […]
Researchers are sending remote-controlled aircraft into residential neighborhoods to figure out just who’s burning what in their stoves or fireplaces.
A recent survey of Italian political views shows a seeming contradiction: a willingness to forego democracy but submit to EU economic and military directives.
Outside of Naples, researchers have turned land polluted by illegally-dumped chemicals into a living laboratory.
AGAZZANO — This village in the northern Italian province of Piacenza is tucked between the hills. The locality is celebrated primarily for its castle, a complex that represents an incredible synthesis between defensive medieval architecture and the elegant, ladylike mansions of the Renaissance. And the beautiful interior of the Castle of Agazzano is the perfect […]
Far-right and far-left from around the world voice support for the popular uprising in France.
A forensic expert heads a dedicated team working to try to identify those who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean. It is often to simply close the wounds of broken-hearted loved ones back at home.
The state of the health of Italy’s economy is of serious global concern. Who do you believe?
Nemesis of Italy’s anti-immigrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, Mayor Domenico Lucano of Riace was placed under house arrest for his pro-refugee policies.
‘Italy is our starting point, and Salvini the model,’ says this Belgian politician bringing the populists of Europe under one roof with the help of Donald Trump’s former right-hand man.
Located in one of southern Italy’s poorest regions, once thriving Crotone has the worst youth unemployment rate for women in the entire country: 90%.
CASTELMEZZANO — Basilicata is facing a bona fide demographic crisis. The small region, located between the boot and heel of southern Italy, is home to roughly 570,000 people. But due to a low birthrate and high rates of unemployment and emigration, it loses approximately 3,000 inhabitants every year. By 2065, according to a report by […]
In northwestern Laos, Chinese businesses dominate the Ton Pheung district, a special economic zone that has become a hub for all kinds of trafficking.
In the southern city of El Hamma, young Tunisians attempt to emigrate all the time for a dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. One recent tragedy left dozens dead.
A marginalized Muslim community wants to convert an old slaughterhouse into a multi-purpose housing and events space. But don’t call it a mosque.
Migrants have begun to live in an informal camp 70 miles from Belgrade, hoping to start a new life westward in Europe.
Rhetoric coming from anti-establishment Five Star Movement and League evoke the words of historic tyrants like King Louis XIV, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini.
The populist Five-Star Movement and the right-wing League won over half the vote in the struggling mid-sized city of Foggia by promising more jobs and less immigration.
The political novice set to become Italy’s next prime minister has called himself the ‘defense lawyer’ of the people. While Conte’s words mirror the aspirations of today’s anti-establishment parties, they also have deeper roots in Western history.
VENICE — Venice and its 80,000 regular inhabitants are drowning in tourists. Some 30 million flock to its famous canals every year, stressing the infrastructure. Fed up, the lagoon city’s businessman-turned-mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, has a simple but controversial plan to stem the tide: turnstiles. City authorities recently set up turnstiles on four bridges that connect […]
A sociologist is helping underpaid, over-worked agricultural laborers organize in the city of Latina, southeast of Rome.
A programmer in Turin decided to enter into a digitally-enhanced universe of his own creation — for an entire month — and lived to tell to the tale.
In northern Italy, the city of Pavia has higher-than-average cancer rates and widespread cases of illegal garbage burning. Are these two facts just a coincidence?
Slated to open in 2020, Israel’s National Blood Services Center is a high-tech insurance policy to ward against existential threats such as chemical attacks.
Electing a first-ever prime minister could resolve the current Italian post-election impasse, and send a message abroad.
Like the the UK and U.S. election surprises before, Italy’s recent populist triumphs marked a revolt by voters outside the major urban centers.
ROSARNO — A shantytown of tents and shacks stretches out across an abandoned industrial district halfway between the towns of Rosarno and San Ferdinando, deep in the southern Italian region of Calabria. Some 2,500 farm workers from at least 16 different countries live in deplorable conditions surrounded by waste, with no access to running water […]
Inside an elite unit of the Carabinieri military police using old and new tactics to track down fugitive leaders of the powerful ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
Voters in the northern town of Spirano helped put a hardline conservative in the senate. Only the man in question —Toni Chike Iwobi — is an immigrant from Nigeria.
In Sunday’s stunning national elections, the former leftist stronghold near Naples joined the outsider revolt against the political establishment. What comes next, however, is still not clear.
From both the left and right, populist leaders in Italy are again at the forefront of the movement around the world.
Slovakian authorities are investigating ties between politicians and the Calabria-based Ndràngheta crime syndicate following the killing, last week, of an investigative reporter. Mobsters have been siphoning EU development funds.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric has become increasingly commonplace as political forces jockey for position ahead of this Sunday’s national elections.
Five Russian-linked Twitter accounts are clearly favoring anti-establishment Italian parties Five-Star Movement and Northern League ahead of March 4 national elections.
Researchers at the University Of Macerata used volunteers and online bots to help translated the 19th century children’s classic.