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Northern League leader Matteo Salvini: Could end up in a position of power, either as interior minister or even prime minister – a scenario that could disturb investors and EU policymakers. Photograph: Riccardo Antimiani/EPA
Salvini sets anti-migrant tone as Italians prepare to vote

Just after the start of one of his final campaign rallies this week, Matteo Salvini lunged into the kind of provocative anti-Muslim pitch to voters th(...)

Italy and abortion

Sir, – I refer to the article “Italy offers taste of what may come over abortion” (May 29th) on the supposedly detrimental effects a right by doctors (...)

Cannizzaro hospital in Catania, Sicily. Valentina Miluzzo was denied a termination at the facility last year and died, despite abortion being legal in Italy for 40 years.
Italy offers a warning for new maternity hospital

In October 2016, 32-year old Valentina Miluzzo died of sepsis after a doctor at Cannizzaro obstetrics and gynaecology hospital in Catania on the east (...)

The impressive interior of St Colman’s Cathedral.
Fundraising drive to restore Cobh cathedral pipe organ hits high note

Its soaring sound provided the backdrop to countless prayers of hope for generations of Irish emigrants leaving Cobh for America over the last 100 yea(...)

The Vatican’s “gay lobby” does not campaign for gay rights; rather it is an informal group of gays who look out for each other
An all-male community: Attractions of priesthood are obvious

In 2002, at the height of the US Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis, Pope John Paul II summoned American bishops to Rome for 10 days. During the visit(...)

Relatives and friends of Salah Abu Laban, Sahar Qouidar, Ghassan Abu Laban and Reem al-Sebaei, all victims of EgyptAir flight 804, grieve following prayers for the dead, at al Thawrah Mosque in Cairo, Egypt. Photograph: AP Photo/Amr Nabil
Egypt sends submarine to hunt for crashed plane

Egypt deployed a submarine on Sunday to hunt for the EgyptAir plane that crashed in deep Mediterranean waters, president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said, w(...)

People queue up to see the relics of St Anthony in Fairview, Dublin, in 2013. File photograph: Collins Photos
St Anthony’s relics to go on tour across Ireland

Thousands of people are expected to visit the relics of St Anthony when they are brought to Catholic churches across Ireland and Knock shrine next mon(...)

Five Star Movement’s leader Beppe Grillo: “We’ll see when [Mr Khan] blows himself up in Westminster,” he said. The controversy is troublesome for the party with Rome’s mayoral election next month. Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images
Uproar as Beppe Grillo makes terrorist joke about Sadiq Khan

The comedian who leads Italy’s second-largest political party quipped that Sadiq Khan might “blow himself up in Westminster”, equating London’s first (...)

‘Him’: waxwork Hitler by Maurizio Cattelan goes to auction on May 8th at Christie’s in New York
‘Hitler is everywhere’, even in a $15 million waxwork

A waxwork figure of Hitler is the unlikely highlight of a Christie’s auction of Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art in New York on May 8th. Made (...)