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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
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Topic: Italy

Italy approves world’s longest single-span bridge linking Sicily to mainland

The 3.7 km bridge, proposed since the 1960s to develop impoverished southern Italy, is a priority for PM Meloni, who has allocated €13.5 billion for it over the next 10 years.

Austrian skydiver & extreme sports pioneer Felix Baumgartner dies while paragliding in Italy

Baumgartner was known for record-breaking skydive from edge of space. He lost control of his motorised paraglider while flying over Porto Sant'Elpidio in Italy's central Marche region.

Vatican willing to host Russia-Ukraine peace talks, says Pope Leo to Zelenskyy

The pope, meeting the Ukrainian leader for the 2nd time in his two-month-old papacy, also discussed with Zelenskyy 'the urgent need for a just and lasting peace'.

Biblical motifs to bikini women—Delhi exhibition brings 2,000 years of Italian mosaic art

The exhibition, Mosaico: Italian Code of a Timeless Art, at the Humayun’s Tomb museum will run until 30 August.

What is Tehreek-e-Labbaik, the radical group under spotlight after arrest of 11 Pakistanis in Spain

In the 3rd phase of a 3-year-long investigation into radical groups operating in Barcelona, the 11 were held in a joint operation by the Spanish National Police & Italian police forces.

Italy’s ban on international surrogacy shows an ultra-conservative idea of family

The use of the term 'universal crime' to describe the ban evokes the Italian criminal code for crimes that contravene 'universal values'—putting surrogacy on par with genocide.

Italy makes it illegal to seek surrogacy abroad, activists say it targets LGBTQ community

Italy extends surrogacy ban already in place in Italy since 2004 to those who go to countries such as the US or Canada imposing 2-year jail term and fines of up to $1.09mn.

A little bit of Rome is now in Gurugram—Sistine Chapel to Renaissance art

Begeterre’s vastness is almost cathedral-like. And while it’s a homage to Rome, its culinary offerings are akin to Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, from India to Turkey to Mexico and Asia.

UK, Italy discuss boosting of ties, start of ‘new chapter’ in bilateral ties

The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni in Rome to build on an existing MoU.

After yacht sinks off Italy, search resumes for 6 missing, including Morgan Stanley boss

Specialist divers had reached the ship on Monday at a depth of some 50 metres, but access was limited due to objects in the way.

On Camera

Should Goa share Mhadei waters? A living river can’t be divided like property

Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.