Italy's ruthless 'Ndrangheta #mafia spreads far beyond its home territory of Calabria, forging links with Albanian gangs and Chinese underground money brokers as it grows rich on cocaine trafficking
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Correspondent for the Daily Telegraph + Sunday Telegraph in Rome since 2008. Previously in Sydney covering Australia, NZ, PNG, the South Pacific.
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🇦🇺 Australia’s most decorated living war hero has suffered a huge blow after a court ruled against him in a landmark case about alleged war crimes committed during the war in Afghanistan
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After a two decade legal battle, Italy has recovered millions of pounds’ worth of exquisite ancient artefacts that were looted by tomb raiders and illegally acquired by a disgraced British antiquities dealer
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🇮🇹 Giorgia Meloni boasted that there are no longer any “strongholds” of the Left in Italy after her Right-wing coalition triumphed in local elections.
reports from Rome:
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❌ The United States suspended Kosovo from a military exercise as the tiny Balkan nation was accused by its western allies of provoking a violent crisis with Serbia.
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Australia’s most decorated living war hero, a former SAS soldier who was awarded the VC, has suffered a huge blow after a court ruled against him in a landmark case about alleged war crimes in Afghanistan
A recently retired Mossad agent has died along with two Italian spies in a mysterious incident on Lake Maggiore in which a boat carrying dozens of intelligence officers capsized. With
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Giorgia Meloni boasts that there are no longer any 'strongholds' of the Left in Italy after her Right-wing coalition triumphs in local elections
Only in Australia. 'I was attacked from behind by a saltwater crocodile which got its jaws around my head. I was able to lever its jaws open just far enough to get my head out.'
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Kosovo tense after around 30 NATO soldiers were wounded in clashes with ethnic Serb protesters in the north. soldiers 'sustained trauma wounds with fractures and burns due to the explosion of incendiary devices.'
More trouble in #Kosovo. Dozens of Nato soldiers have sustained injuries and burns after they were attacked by ethnic Serb protesters in the powder keg north of the Balkan country
Four people die after a tourist boat capsizes on Lago Maggiore in Italy - including two members of the Italian security services, a Russian and an Israeli
🇦🇺 A snorkeller has described in chilling detail how a crocodile clamped its jaws around his head while he was swimming off the coast of Queensland in northern Australia
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Snorkeller describes how a crocodile clamped its jaws around his head while he was swimming off the coast of Queensland in northern Australia. 'I was able to lever its jaws open just far enough to get my head out.'
Four people have died after a boat capsized and sank during a sudden storm on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy
Drowning pigs, 'mud angels' and a rising death toll - the latest on Italy's devastating floods
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Drama at the #Vatican. A member of the tiny city state's gendarmerie shoots out the tyre of a car that rammed its way through one of the perimeter gates
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A Bruce Springsteen concert is to go ahead in a region of Italy ravaged by floods, despite criticism that it should have been cancelled in respect for the dead and as the death toll rises to 13
‘Tropicalisation has come to Italy.’ Wild weather, torrential rain and flooding claims lives in Italy’s north.
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Death toll from flooding in #Italy rises to eight, with the body of one victim swept down a river towards the Adriatic Sea
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'I would never in a million years take my wife’s life if she hadn’t asked me. I didn’t plan it, I swear to God.' British expat tells a court in Cyprus that for weeks his seriously ill wife begged him to kill her.
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British expat says his wife begged him to end her life as he demonstrates to a courtroom in #Cyprus how he suffocated her in what he says was assisted suicide
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Italian art experts believe they may have found a previously unknown portrait by #Caravaggio that depicts one of his young lovers, a high-class courtesan
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When engineers in Florida sent a robotic camera underground to explore a drain, they got quite a surprise – a 5ft-long #alligator was lurking in the murky water
It is an urban myth that has persisted for decades – giant alligators, dumped as pets, inhabit the dank sewer systems of big cities like New York. Now, myth has become reality – at least in Florida
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Big explosion in #Milan, possibly caused by a van that was full of oxygen canisters. Flames engulfed cars and mopeds, plumes of black smoke over the city. At least one person injured. Terrorist attack has been ruled out
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Italy’s withdrawal from China’s Belt and Road Initiative would be a “big loss symbolically for China,” says our expert .
Beijing could retaliate by imposing punitive measures against Italian companies doing business in China.
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Wrong culprit. A female bear that was captured after being accused of killing a trail runner in the mountains of northern Italy is innocent, environmentalists insist
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Italy seeks to bail out of China's controversial Belt and Road Initiative, often dubbed the New Silk Road, four years after signing up to it. Italy's exit will be 'a big loss symbolically for China'
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We are devastated to learn of the death of AFP video journalist Arman Soldin in eastern Ukraine today.
All of our thoughts go out to his family and loved ones.
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The initiative, launched by Xi Jinping in 2013, is seen by many in the West as a Trojan horse for Beijing to advance its strategic interests
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Crumbling Commonwealth? Two more Caribbean countries - St Vincent and the Grenadines + St Kitts and Nevis - say they want to ditch King Charles as head of state and become republics
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You're stranded deep in the Australian bush. Your car is bogged in mud. There's no mobile signal. No water. The only thing you have to drink is a bottle of wine. And you're a teetotaller
An Australian woman who got stranded in remote bushland survived for five days with only a bottle of wine to drink – despite being a teetotaller
After Jamaica and Belize, St Kitts and Nevis says it’s thinking of ditching the British monarch as head of state and becoming a republic
The British ambassador’s residence in Rome. Enclosed by a Roman aqueduct, with a huge garden full of classical statuary, it was a spectacular place to watch the #Coronation. Thanks to and his team
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Thanks to the British embassy team in Rome for a very memorable #Coronation picnic - complete with themed royal biscuits and pints of IPA - at Villa Wolkonsky, the residence of ambassador
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