Free Republic 4th Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $2,171
2%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 2%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: italy

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • 2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

    10/03/2025 5:30:41 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 13 replies
    AP News ^ | October 3, 2025 | GIADA ZAMPANO
    More than 2 million people across Italy rallied in over 100 cities Friday for a one-day general strike to support the residents of Gaza and a humanitarian aid mission, Italy’s largest union said. Italian unions proclaimed the strike after the Global Sumud Flotilla that was trying to break Israel’s naval blockade to deliver aid to Gaza was intercepted by Israeli naval forces Wednesday night. Protests and demonstrations have sprung up all over Europe and globally since then, but they have been particularly strong in Italy. Italy’s conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had sharply criticized the strike. She anticipated it would...
  • Italy Moves Closer to Restoring St Francis Holiday

    10/01/2025 12:48:30 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    Italy could soon see October 4 reinstated as a national holiday in honour of St Francis of Assisi, after the country’s lower house of parliament overwhelmingly backed the move. Supporters say the change is about more than just an extra day off work – it’s about reaffirming a piece of Italy’s soul. Parliament backs St Francis Day return On Tuesday, September 23, deputies in the Chamber voted 247 to 2 in favour of the bill, with eight abstentions. The legislation now heads to the Senate, where final approval is expected in the coming weeks. If passed, millions of Italians would...
  • Muslim teen in wants elderly Christian women to die (video)

    09/30/2025 8:20:12 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 12 replies
    TikTok ^ | 09 30 2025 | fahhadalfarann
    1 minute video of a Muslim teen who confronts elderly Christian women and tells them he wants them to die. "I wish I could break the Cross." fahhadalfarann TikTok video (no audio)
  • Report: UEFA set to vote to suspend Israel over war in Gaza

    09/28/2025 8:08:44 AM PDT · by Twotone · 24 replies
    ESPN ^ | September 25, 2025 | Staff
    European soccer body UEFA is moving toward a vote to suspend its member federation Israel over the war in Gaza, people familiar with the proposal told The Associated Press on Thursday. A majority of the UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) 20-member executive committee is expected to support any vote in favor of suspending Israeli teams from international play, two sources told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. Such a step would prevent Israeli national and clubs teams from playing in international competitions including next year's World Cup. Israel's men's team is...
  • When the "Nice People" Want to Kill You

    09/26/2025 10:53:57 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 7 replies
    Steyn Online ^ | 23 Sep 2025 | Mark Steyn
    Two years ago, after some medical treatment following my third heart attack following the Mark Steyn Adriatic Cruise, I took a cab to Milan's central station to board one of the most agreeable trains I've ever ridden. The dining car had an excellent wine list, better than most restaurants.I don't recall the station being quite as impressive as the train, but it had a handsome atrium. I remember standing awhile and looking up at the ceiling. I wouldn't do that today, because I might fail to spot the incoming projectile and duck in time. This was the scene yesterday:(video at...
  • Reports: Passenger tries to steer bus off road in Sicily

    06/20/2017 10:50:23 AM PDT · by PROCON · 19 replies
    AP ^ | June 20, 2017 | AP
    ROME (AP) — Italian news reports say a young Sudanese bus passenger grabbed the steering wheel and tried to pull the vehicle off the road in Sicily before off-duty soldiers on board intervened. The ANSA news agency says there were moments of fear among the other passengers aboard the bus, which was heading from Trapani to Palermo on Tuesday. A motive hasn't been ascertained, but Palermo prosecutors are investigating.
  • Italian workers’ strike in solidarity with Gaza brings disruptions across the country

    09/22/2025 6:34:09 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 28 replies
    AP ^ | September 22, 2025 | GIADA ZAMPANO
    Thousands of protesters and strikers calling for solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza took to the streets in Italy on Monday, with some storming Milan’s central train station and clashing violently with police. Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike in both public and private sectors, including public transportation, trains, schools and ports. The strike caused disruptions across the country, with long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome. In Milan, tensions escalated when dozens of protesters dressed in black and...
  • Indymedia Servers Raided by FBI [drive removed, some site(s) up]

    10/07/2004 3:44:44 PM PDT · by Mike Fieschko · 104 replies · 1,715+ views
    slashdot ^ | Oct 7, 2004 | jaromil
    Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 07, @05:45PM from the need-to-know-basis dept. jaromil writes "Today at about 18:00 CET FBI raided the indymedia servers hosted by Rackspace both in US and England. At present, the italian indymedia and numerous other local IMC websites are obscured, while the reasons why the hard drives were taken are still unknown."
  • Italian Rapper Apologizes for Jannik Sinner-Hitler Lyric

    09/20/2025 12:35:00 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    Italian rapper Fedez has apologized for publishing music lyrics saying that tennis player Jannik Sinner speaks with "Adolf Hitler's accent," which prompted the musician to be accused of inciting racial hatred. Fedez recently posted an Instagram story featuring lyrics of a new song that said in Italian: "Italian has a new idol named Jannik Sinner. Pure-blooded Italian with Adolf Hitler's accent." A city council member in Bolzano -- the capital of the German-speaking autonomous province of Alto Adige in northern Italy where Sinner is from -- on Thursday filed a formal complaint with prosecutors over Fedez's lyrics based on an...
  • Terror suspect tells German court: 'You're all Jews.

    04/16/2002 7:00:29 AM PDT · by Cachelot · 16 replies · 362+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | April 16, 2002 | Melissa Eddy
    (15:20) Terror suspect tells German court: 'You're all Jews.' By Melissa Eddy, The Associated Press April, 16 2002 FRANKFURT, Germany - The trial of five Algerian men charged with plotting to blow up a French holiday market opened with a flourish today when a defendant disrupted the proceedings and was removed from court. While the other defendants shielded their faces from a TV camera allowed to tape the opening five minutes, 31-year-old defendant Lamine Maroni, speaking in Arabic, recited Koranic verses, swore and urged the others not to testify. He was warned not to continue, but went on in English...
  • New study of 300,000 people in Italy proves COVID jab caused gigantic increase in cancer cases

    09/09/2025 6:17:19 PM PDT · by Ronaldus Magnus III · 49 replies
    Behindtheblack ^ | Robert Zimmerman
    As noted bluntly by Health & Human Services secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. at a Senate hearing last week, “We were lied to about everything:” A new study of the entire population 11 years and older of a single province in Italy, 300,000 people in total, has now proven that the mRNA COVID jab results in a terrifying and skyrocketing increase in the numbers of cancer cases.
  • Italy Raises Alarm Over Skyrocketing ‘Turbo Cancers’ Among Covid-Vaxxed

    09/06/2025 11:27:08 PM PDT · by fireman15 · 80 replies
    Slay News ^ | 09/01/2025 | Frank Bergman
    Leading experts in Italy have just sent shockwaves through the scientific world after a bombshell peer-reviewed study confirmed that deadly “turbo cancers” are surging among people who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.” The findings have blown apart the carefully crafted narrative pushed by Big Pharma, corporate media, so-called “fact-checkers,” and government health bureaucrats. For the first time, a population-wide cohort of nearly 300,000 people tracked over 30 months shows alarming signals. The study confirmed that the so-called “safe and effective” mRNA injections are responsible for sharp global increases in multiple rapidly spreading cancers. The high-profile team of researchers was led by...
  • X: Attack by Muslim Terrorists Thwarted in Italy

    09/05/2025 1:48:50 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 18 replies
    Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar It almost (!) happened again. The Italian police thwarted an Islamic terror attack in the small town of Viterbo last night, where two Turkish men armed with machine guns were planning to open fire on a crowd of 40.000 Christians who were gathered to celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Rose. The men had already set up their weapons in a rented apartment looking out over the square where they were waiting for the procession to arrive so they could kill as many people as possible from their window. Thankfully, the police stormed the premise on time...
  • 2 Muslims With Machine Guns Arrested at Christian Festival of 40,000 in Italy

    09/04/2025 8:37:54 AM PDT · by DFG · 20 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | 09/04/2025 | Daniel Greenfield
    Another day and another one of those things we’re not supposed to talk about. In the past few weeks, two Muslims were arrested for plotting to bomb the Eiffel Tower and another was shot down in France after stabbing 5 people. (Authorities are still searching for the motive of the stabber who was shouting “Allahu Akbar”. It’ll turn out to be ‘mental illness’. Now over to Italy. An attack foiled at the Santa Rosa festival in Viterbo . The newspaper Il Messaggero reports that two Turkish citizens were arrested by the Italian Special Operations Division (DIGOS) with machine guns and...
  • Billionaire fashion designer Giorgio Armani dead at 91

    09/04/2025 8:26:57 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 24 replies
    FOX Business ^ | Sept. 4, 2025 | By Rachel Wolf
    Iconic fashion designer Giorgio Armani has died at the age of 91, the Armani Group confirmed on Thursday. "With infinite sorrow, the Armani Group announces the passing of its creator, founder and tireless driving force: Giorgio Armani," a statement posted on Instagram by several Armani Group-affiliated accounts read. The statement said that the designer was "surrounded by his loved ones" when he passed.
  • How ancient Rome was excavated in Italy in the 1920s. Unique rare videos and photos. [10:03]

    09/01/2025 3:32:45 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    YouTube ^ | June 11, 2021 | World Treasures
    How ancient Rome was excavated in Italy in the 1920s. Unique rare videos and photos. | 10:03 World Treasures | 16.8K subscribers | 582,835 views | June 11, 2021
  • Giorgia Meloni in 2028 and the Revenge of Sarah Palin

    08/26/2025 1:36:22 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 31 replies
    The American Spectator ^ | August 25, 2025, 10:07 PM | James H. McGee
    Though the likely 2028 candidates are JD Vance, Marco Rubio, or Ron DeSantis, one can’t help but wish that we might have our own Giorgia Meloni.“I am Giorgia!” she proclaimed in a now-famous speech. “I am a woman. I am a mother. I am Italian. I am a Christian, and you can’t take that away from me.” And three years after this defiant 2019 appearance on the political stage, Giorgia Meloni added yet another powerful proclamation: “I am the Prime Minister of Italy.” In the three years since, she has become perhaps the most consequential of European leaders, the...
  • Furious US tourist yanks Venice ‘pickpocket’ by the ponytail after tracking teen using AirPods’ ‘Find My Friends’ feature

    08/26/2025 9:18:07 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 72 replies
    nypost.com ^ | August 19, 2025 | Anthony Blair
    Wild video shows a US tourist yanking a suspected pickpocket by the ponytail after the teenager allegedly stole her purse and passport while on vacation in Venice. Footage of the dramatic incident, which took place last Thursday, shows the furious woman gripping the teen girl by the hair in front of a crowd of onlookers in the world-famous Italian city. The mom of eight was able to track down her stolen purse by using the “Find My Friends” feature on her AirPods, which were inside it, according to her daughter, Karis McElroy, who shared the original video of the confrontation...
  • The gun-toting Christian who could help Democrats win over Trump voters

    08/26/2025 4:54:59 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 79 replies
    The Telegraph via Yahoo ^ | 8/26/25 | Susie Coan
    Rob Sand is a gun-toting Christian from rural Iowa who goes deer hunting, drives a white Ford F-150 pickup, and opens speeches by quoting the Bible. He is also a rising Democratic star whose run for governor is spooking Republicans in the ruby red state. The father of two, 43, is the only Democrat to currently hold statewide office in Iowa and could hold the recipe for winning over voters in pro-Trump states.
  • Baiae Bath Complex May Belong to Cicero's Villa

    08/25/2025 9:50:06 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 5 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | August 18, 2025 | editors / unattributed
    For centuries, the waterfront resort of Baiae on the Bay of Naples was the stomping ground of Rome's rich and famous. Located around 150 miles south of the capital, many of Rome's wealthiest citizens, including several emperors, built villas there to escape the scorching city heat and take in the area's sulfurous waters. However, most of the site today lies submerged beneath the sea and is preserved as a spectacular underwater archaeological park, as seismic and volcanic activity has caused the coastline to sink as much as 30 feet. Recently, according to a report by Finestre sull'Arte, a team of...