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Ya Biladi
12-05-2025
- Ya Biladi
Moroccan man helps police catch thief, receives expulsion order from Italy
A 29-year-old Moroccan is facing expulsion from Italy after helping police arrest a thief during a break-in in Turin. According to El Corriere della Sera, police identified the young Moroccan and discovered he was living in Italy without a residence permit. He had arrived in Turin less than a year ago via Ventimiglia, traveling through Spain and France, but had not applied for the necessary documentation. Although he had secured a trial job assembling and dismantling market stalls and was offered accommodation by a colleague, he failed to file for a residence permit, which led to an expulsion order being issued on May 7. In an interview with Repubblica, Zakaria expressed his disappointment: «I made a nice gesture, I didn't think they would punish me by sending me away», he said. «I want to stay in Italy, work, and build an honest future in Turin. My wife is still in Morocco, and I would like her to join me», he pleaded sadly.
7NEWS
25-04-2025
- Health
- 7NEWS
Pope died quickly and without suffering, doctor says
Pope Francis died quickly from an unexpected stroke without suffering undue pain and there was nothing that doctors could have done to save his life, the head of the pontiff's medical team says. Sergio Alfieri, a physician at Rome's Gemelli hospital, oversaw the Pope's treatment there during a five-week stay when Francis was fighting double pneumonia earlier in 2025. In interviews published on Thursday, Alfieri said he received a phone call about 5.30am on Monday to go quickly to the Vatican and arrived about 20 minutes later. 'I entered his rooms and he (Francis) had his eyes open,' the doctor told Corriere della Sera newspaper. 'I ascertained that there were no respiratory problems. 'And then I tried to call his name but he did not respond to me. 'In that moment I knew there was nothing more to do. 'He was in a coma.' In a separate interview with La Repubblica, Alfieri said some officials who were present with the Pope suggested moving him immediately back to the hospital. 'He would have died on the way,' the doctor said. 'Doing a CT scan we would have had a more exact diagnosis, but nothing more. 'It was one of those strokes that, in an hour, carries you away.' Francis was 88 and had nearly died while fighting pneumonia but his death came as a shock. Just the previous day he appeared in St Peter's Square in an open-air popemobile to greet cheering crowds on Easter Sunday, suggesting his convalescence was going well. After Francis returned to the Vatican on March 23 after a 38-day hospital stay, Alfieri and the Pope's other doctors had prescribed him a two-month period of rest to allow his ageing body to heal. Francis, known to push himself hard, kept working. He met briefly with US Vice-President JD Vance on Easter Sunday, and had visited a prison in Rome on April 17, Holy Thursday, to offer well wishes to the inmates. Alfieri said the Pope listened to his doctors' advice and did not push himself too hard. The doctor said he last saw Francis on Saturday afternoon. 'He was very well,' Alfieri said, adding he gifted the Pope some pie in a flavour he knew the pontiff liked. He recounted the Pope saying: 'I am very well, I have started working again, and I like it.' 'We knew that he wanted to go home to be pope up until the last moment,' the doctor said. In the Repubblica interview, Alfieri said Francis had shared one final regret with him. While he was happy to have visited the prisoners on April 17, he wished he had been able to perform a foot-washing ritual for the Church's celebration of Holy Thursday. ' 'This time I couldn't do it' was the last thing he said to me.'
Perth Now
24-04-2025
- Health
- Perth Now
Pope died quickly and without suffering, doctor says
Pope Francis died quickly from an unexpected stroke without suffering undue pain, and there was nothing that doctors could have done to save his life, the head of the pontiff's medical team says. Sergio Alfieri, a physician at Rome's Gemelli hospital, oversaw the Pope's treatment there during a five-week stay when Francis was fighting double pneumonia earlier in 2025. In interviews published on Thursday, Alfieri said he received a phone call about 5.30am on Monday morning to go quickly to the Vatican and arrived about 20 minutes later. "I entered his rooms and he (Francis) had his eyes open," the doctor told Corriere della Sera newspaper. "I ascertained that there were no respiratory problems. And then I tried to call his name, but he did not respond to me." "In that moment I knew there was nothing more to do. "He was in a coma." In a separate interview with La Repubblica, Alfieri said some officials who were present with the Pope suggested moving him immediately back to the hospital. "He would have died on the way," the doctor said. "Doing a CT scan we would have had a more exact diagnosis, but nothing more. "It was one of those strokes that, in an hour, carries you away." Francis was 88 and had nearly died while fighting pneumonia, but his death came as a shock. Just the previous day he appeared in St Peter's Square in an open-air popemobile to greet cheering crowds on Easter Sunday, suggesting his convalescence was going well. After Francis returned to the Vatican on March 23 after a 38-day hospital stay, Alfieri and the Pope's other doctors had prescribed him a two-month period of rest to allow his ageing body to heal. Francis, known to push himself hard, kept working. He met briefly with US Vice-President JD Vance on Easter Sunday, and had visited a prison in Rome on April 17, Holy Thursday, to offer well wishes to the inmates. Alfieri said the Pope listened to his doctors' advice and did not push himself too hard. The doctor said he last saw Francis on Saturday afternoon. "He was very well," said Alfieri, who said he gifted the Pope some pie, in a flavour he knew the pontiff liked. He recounted the Pope saying, "I am very well, I have started working again, and I like it." "We knew that he wanted to go home to be pope up until the last moment," the doctor said. In the Repubblica interview, Alfieri said Francis had shared one final regret with him. While he was happy to have visited the prisoners on April 17, he wished he had been able to perform a foot-washing ritual for the Church's celebration of Holy Thursday. "'This time I couldn't do it' was the last thing he said to me."
Local Italy
04-04-2025
- Local Italy
Murders of two female students spark calls for 'cultural revolution' in Italy
The murder of Ilaria Sula and Sara Campanella came nearly one and a half years after the shocking killing of student Giulia Cecchettin by her ex-boyfriend – a high-profile case that many said would mark a turning point in Italy. "Forever twins in an atrocious death," the Repubblica newspaper said of the country's latest femicides. Sula, 22, a statistics student at Rome's La Sapienza University, was stabbed in the neck by her ex-boyfriend, an architecture student. He confessed to the crime, according to news reports. Several days after her March 25th disappearance, her body was found in a suitcase in an unauthorised dump just outside the capital. Campanella, also 22, was killed in broad daylight in Messina, Sicily, on Monday by a fellow student who had started stalking her after being rejected. She was stabbed in the middle of the street in front of numerous witnesses. Her stalker has also confessed to the murder, according to local media. In the wake of the killings, rallies have been held in the country to denounce femicide and demand tougher measures from the government to protect women. "Another world is possible," read a banner outside La Sapienza in Rome during a march attended by hundreds of students on Wednesday. "It's not an impulse, it's patriarchy," read another in Messina, where thousands of people joined a procession for Campanella on Thursday evening. Italy's Corriere della Sera on Thursday called for a "cultural revolution" that would educate adolescents about "non-violence and respect for others." "This is a matter of urgency. We can't wait any longer," read the paper. 99 femicides last year Ten women were killed by their partner or ex-partner in the first three months of this year, according to interior ministry statistics. Some 61 women were killed by their partner or ex-partner in 2024, with the number rising to 99 when family members are included in the list of perpetrators. The deaths of the two young women have been a stark reminder of how little has changed since the November 2023 murder of Cecchettin, a 22-year-old biomedical engineering student at the University of Padua. In December last year, her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta, also 22, was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping Cecchettin and stabbing her over 70 times before leaving her body in a gully. Cecchettin's murder sparked rage and disbelief in Italy, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets to demand an immediate cultural shift. But critics say that the government's response has fallen well short of the demands so far. In March, it introduced a draft law to make femicide a crime in its own right and no longer a simple variant of homicide. Italian law already recognised aggravating circumstances in cases where the killer was a husband or relative – but the change expanded their scope to crimes where the victim was targeted just because she was a woman. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – Italy's first woman premier – hailed the reform as "a new step forward [...] towards tackling violence against women". But rights activists and opposition parties have criticised the government for focusing on penalties rather than education to address the cultural roots of the problem in a society that's still largely patriarchal. Members of the government, including Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara last November, have occasionally made links between femicide and immigration. Justice Minister Carlo Nordio – a member of Meloni's Brothers of Italy party – sparked outrage on Thursday after suggesting that young people from "some have our sensitivity towards women". According to official figures, 94 percent of female murder victims in Italy were killed by Italian nationals.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Yahoo
Stabbing deaths of 2 women college students spark outrage in Italy
The brutal stabbings of two women students in Italy within days of each other have unleashed a wave of anger and calls for a "cultural revolution" against violence towards women. The murders of Ilaria Sula and Sara Campanella in separate incidents in recent days come nearly a year and a half after the shocking killing of student Giulia Cecchettin by her ex-boyfriend, a high-profile case that many vowed would mark a turning point in Italy. "Forever twins in an atrocious death," read the Repubblica daily this week of the country's latest femicides in a country where macho attitudes often still hold sway. Sula, 22, a statistics student at Rome's La Sapienza University, was stabbed in the neck by her ex-boyfriend, an architecture student. He confessed to the crime, according to news reports. Several days after her March 25 disappearance, her body was found in a suitcase, abandoned in an unauthorized dump outside the capital. In a Facebook post, La Sapienza University said her murder left the community "speechless and heartbroken." Campanella, also 22, was killed in broad daylight Monday in Messina, Sicily, by a fellow student whom she had rejected but who had continued to stalk her. She was stabbed in the middle of the street in front of numerous witnesses. A passer-by who reportedly heard Campanella's screams tried to chase the attacker, who managed to flee, the BBC reported. Her stalker -- later identified by prosecutors as 27-year-old Stefano Argentino -- eventually confessed to police, according to local media. The Messina prosecutor, Antonio D'Amato, said that Argentino had "insistently and repeatedly" harassed Campanella since she started university two years ago, the BBC reported. "Sara Campanella, our CdL student in Biomedical Laboratory Techniques... another young woman, another life cut short," her school, the University of Messina, wrote on social media. In the wake of the killings, rallies have been held in the country to denounce femicide and demand tougher measures from the government to protect women. "Another world is possible," read a banner outside La Sapienza in Rome during a march attended by several hundred students on Wednesday. "It's not an impulse, it's patriarchy," read another at a rally in Messina, where thousands of people also joined a torchlight procession on Thursday evening for Campanella. Italy's newspaper, the Corriere della Sera called Thursday for a "cultural revolution" to educate adolescents about "non-violence and respect for others." "This is a matter of urgency. We can't wait any longer," read the paper. Critics say government responses have fallen short Ten women were killed by their partner or ex-partner in the first three months of this year, compared with 13 in the same period last year, according to interior ministry statistics. Some 61 women were killed by their partner or ex-partner in 2024, with the number rising to 99 when family members were included in the list of perpetrators. The deaths of the two young women have been a stark reminder of how little has changed since the November 2023 stabbing death of Cecchettin, a 22-year-old biomedical engineering student at the University of Padua. Her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta, also 22, was sentenced in December to life in prison for kidnapping Cecchettin and stabbing her over 70 times before leaving her body in a gully. The BBC reported that Giulia's father, Gino Cecchettin, spoke to reporters after the sentence was read out in court, saying: "Nobody is giving me Giulia back so I am neither more relieved nor more sad than I was yesterday or than I will be tomorrow." Cecchettin's murder provoked rage and disbelief in Italy, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets calling for cultural change. But critics say government responses have fallen short. Most recently in March, to coincide with International Women's Day, the government introduced a draft law to make femicide a crime in its own right, and no longer a simple variant of homicide. The law already recognized aggravating circumstances where the killer was a husband or relative but the change expanded this for crimes where the victim was targeted just because she was a woman. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni -- Italy's first woman premier -- hailed the reform at the time as "a new step forward... towards tackling violence against women". However, activists and opposition parties have criticized the hard-right government for its focus on penalties rather than education to address the cultural roots of the problem in a still largely patriarchal society. Members of the government, including the education minister last November, have occasionally made links between femicide and immigration. The alleged killer of Sula, who has Albanian origins, is of Filipino descent. On Thursday, Justice Minister Carlo Nordio, a member of Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy party, drew outrage when he suggested young people from "some ethnicities... don't have our sensitivity towards women." Official figures show that 94% of women murder victims in Italy were killed by other Italians. Authors of "Autism Out Loud" on motherhood, diagnosis and growth on the spectrum Kentucky whiskey producers react to Trump tariffs Markets tank, world reacts to Trump's sweeping tariffs
