African swine fever (ASF) is sweeping across northern Italy, posing a significant threat to the country's renowned pork industry.

“It’s a desolation," Airoli said outside his farm in the northern Lombardy region that is ground zero for Italy’s swine fever epidemic. No one is allowed in and out except for employees, and then under strict hygiene protocols that require clean coveralls and boots for use only inside the premises.

Italy's Treasury said on Wednesday it had submitted a 700 million euro ($774 million) offer, jointly with Spanish infrastructure fund Asterion, for Telecom Italia's (TIM) submarine cable unit Sparkle.

Italy has made a new offer for Telecom Italia SpA’s Sparkle submarine cable unit, in a bid that values it at €700 million ($774 million), according to a statement Wednesday.

MILAN (Reuters) -Microsoft plans to invest 4.3 billion euros ($4.8 billion) over the next two years to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud infrastructure in northern Italy, it said on Wednesday.

Premier Giorgia Meloni received the President of Microsoft, Brad Smith, at Palazzo Chigi Wdnesday and hailed the major investment the US software giant is planning in Italy, a note from Palazzo Chigi said.

Microsoft plans to invest 4.3 billion euros ($4.8 billion) over the next two years to strengthen its artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud infrastructure in northern Italy, it said on Wednesday. Microsoft said in a statement the investment would be the U.

I have convened a leaders' level meeting for this afternoon," Meloni was quoted as telling her cabinet. Italy holds the rotating presidency of the G7 - the club of major Western democracies, which comprises the United States,

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will host a call of Group of Seven (G7) leaders later on Wednesday to discuss the crisis in the Middle East, her office said. "Italy will continue to strive for a diplomatic solution,