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Italy's Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora said on Wednesday the country's top-flight Serie A soccer championship looks unlikely to resume this season because of the COVID-19 epidemic. On March 9 Italy suspended the league campaign as part of a nationwide lockdown to curb a new coronavirus epidemic that has seen over 200,000 confirmed cases and mor...

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The tradition of families passing by open caskets to say silent farewells to the deceased at churches or at funeral parlours has been abandoned. The coffins are sealed directly at the hospital morgue near the tiny Italian town of Revello on the French border. Everyone in Revello understands it is safer that way since so many of those who have died...

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A foreign exchange student from Italy is having to deal with the effects of the coronavirus -- not just in the U.S. -- but also in his home country. Jacopo Battista came to Oklahoma in January for a semester at Broken Arrow High School. While he was settling into life in Green Country, his family and the rest of Italy was sheltering in place from t...

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Cavatore is an Italian restaurant, specializing in Northern Italian cuisine. Owner Federico Cavatore said the dishes come from his grandmother’s recipe book, who was raised in far Northern Italy. The top dishes on the menu include the lasagna, the fresh tossed Cesar salad, the Snapper Della Casa, and the chicken fettuccine alfredo. The restaurant i...

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Pamela Orlando was a hero.  She was a hero to her sons, 23 and 16, whom she raised after their father left their lives when they were young. She was a hero to her sisters, a friend and guide who always made them laugh. She was a hero to her mother, always looking out for family. She was a hero to hundreds of people whose lives she saved during her...

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I temporarily relocated to the northern region of Trentino from Bologna on March 1, a week before the lockdown was announced. I had no idea of course. I had decided to rent an apartment in a tiny mountain village months ago because I felt I needed a break from city life and because I am an outdoors lover. Being so lucky that I can work from anywher...

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The Pueblo Sister City Commission is working with Mayor Nick Gradisar and Pueblo Rotary 43 to raise funds for one of Europe’s most affected cities during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Masks, ventilators, drugs — those are the primary things needed to treat people who have it and are still being cured," said Michael Salardino, president of the Pueblo Sist...

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Alberto Barbera, Artistic Director of the Venice Film Festival, has outlined some of the coronavirus preventative measures that the event could employ for its next edition in September, if the fest does go ahead. Quoted in Italian outlet ANSA, Babera said that Venice would likely take place in a “necessarily experimental” form for 2020. “There will...

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As Italy's coronavirus quarantine restrictions are slowly lifting, the beloved country — that was once deemed the epicenter of the virus in Europe — still has a long way to go before la vita è...normal. There have been more than 187,000 confirmed cases in the country, including more than 25,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University’s tracki...

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For more than a month, Italy is experiencing an unprecedented situation: stores are closed, productivity has stopped, restaurants and aperitivi are distant memories that seem to belong to a different lifetime. The whole country has been put under forced quarantine since March 10 to stop the surge in coronavirus cases that is threatening the nationa...

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