32 h. ago Giorgia Meloni hits back at François Bayrou in ‘tax nomadism’ row

Italian PM rejects Bayrou’s accusation that Italy is luring French taxpayers with lower rates

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4 d. ago Italian PM Giorgia Meloni 'disgusted' after doctored pictures of her and other prominent women appear on depraved porn site

The pictures included shots taken at political rallies and private holiday photographs taken from social media that had been altered to sexualise body parts.

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4 d. ago Giorgia Meloni ‘disgusted’ at posting of photos of her and other women on porn site

Italian platform Phica closes after sharing altered images of PM, her sister, opposition leader and othersThe Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has said she is “disgusted” that photos of her and other women were posted on a pornographic website, and called for the perpetrators to be swiftly identified and “punished with the utmost firmness”.Images of Meloni’s sister, Arianna, and the opposition leader, Elly Schlein, were also discovered on the Italian platform Phica, which had more than 700,000 subscribers before its managers closed the site on Thursday, blaming users for “using the platform incorrectly”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Outrage in Italy over pornographic website with doctored images of prominent women

Phica posted altered photos, with vulgar and sexist captions, of women including prime minister Giorgia MeloniA pornographic website that posted doctored photos of a host of high-profile Italian women, including the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and opposition leader, Elly Schlein, has sparked outrage in Italy.The photos, accompanied by vulgar and sexist captions, were either harvested from personal social media accounts or public sources before being altered and published on the Italian platform, called Phica, which has more than 700,000 subscribers. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Outrage in Italy over porn site with doctored images of prominent women

Altered photos of women including Giorgia Meloni were posted on site along with vulgar and sexist captionsA pornographic website that posted doctored photos of a host of high-profile Italian women including the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and the opposition leader, Elly Schlein, has sparked outrage in Italy.The photos, accompanied by vulgar and sexist captions, were either harvested from personal social media accounts or public sources before being altered and published on the Italian platform Phica, which has more than 700,000 subscribers. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Israeli attacks on Gaza are 'beyond the principle of proportionality,' Italy's Meloni says

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has condemned Israeli attacks on Gaza as disproportionate, saying there have been “too many innocent victims.”

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7 d. ago Female students to be forced to share toilets and changing rooms with biological males as top universities across the UK flout the rules

Women at University College London (pictured, file photo) have revealed the institution has continued to allow trans women to use female facilities.

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8 d. ago Dreams on the diamond: photos of Women's Professional Baseball League tryouts

The Women’s Professional Baseball League is set to launch next year, with tryouts held Aug. 22-25 in Washington. The tryouts are open to all players, making way for competitors of all ages to chase their dream of playing professionally.

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2 w. ago Meloni caught making strange confession to Trump at Ukraine summit

Giorgia Meloni was heard telling Donald Trump that she never wants to speak to the Italian press during the summit on Ukraine in Washington, DC on Monday, 18 August.

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2 w. ago Italian PM Giorgia Meloni caught rolling her eyes as Merz ‘lectures’ Trump during Ukraine talks

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was caught rolling her eyes at German Chancellor Friedrich Merz during the Ukraine peace talks.

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2 w. ago The Latest: European leaders arrive for White House meeting on Russia

Ukraine’s future could hinge on a hastily assembled meeting at the White House as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy brings an extraordinary cadre of European leaders with him to show U.S. President Donald Trump a united front against Russia

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2 w. ago Two men who despise each other, one hour that will change the world: Trump and Zelensky to face

The Prime Minister will join France's Emmanuel Macron, Germany's Friedrich Merz, Italy's Giorgia Meloni and Finland's Alexander Stubb in the White House.

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2 w. ago UK and EU at Zelenskyy’s side in Washington for meeting with Trump

Emmanuel Macron, Friedrich Merz and others will aim to push back against ceding of Ukraine territory in ‘peace plan’European leaders including Keir Starmer will join Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a White House meeting with Donald Trump on Monday in an extraordinary joint effort to push back on a US-backed plan that would allow Russia to take further Ukrainian territory.As well as the UK prime minister, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, Italy’s PM, Giorgia Meloni, and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, will all accompany Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Man caught at Walmart had hundreds of upskirt photos of different women on his phone, police say

Damian Bravo, 23, was arrested on suspicion of invasion of privacy, authorities said.

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2 w. ago ‘We made it our catwalk’: the photos showing Black British women’s Saturday night fashion through the ages

Archivist Deborah Carnegie has gathered 70 years’ worth of photos of women from the Windrush generation to the present day getting ready for a big evening out – and changing the face of fashion in the UK as they wentBefore the beat drops, there is first the bedroom. A hot comb sizzling fresh from the stove, the gentle whirring of a sewing machine. A group of women cross-legged on the floor, swapping clothes and gossip: who got turned away at the club door last weekend? Who might show up tonight?For the London-based archivist Deborah Carnegie, there is something atavistic and sacred about the pre-night out ritual, in particular for Black British women. It is the subject of her latest work, a photography archive spanning 1950 to the present day, chronicling Black British women’s Saturday night fashion across the decades. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Thousands of users’ personal data — including their IDs — were leaked from a popular male revenge dating app

A widely downloaded new app invites men to review the women they’ve dated, and asks for photo ID to verify their identity. What could possibly go wrong?

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2 w. ago Thousands of users’ personal data — like their IDs — were leaked from a popular male revenge dating app

A widely downloaded new app invites men to review the women they’ve dated, and asks for photo ID to verify their identity. What could possibly go wrong?

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2 w. ago 'Monster' raped woman as she slept and took covert photos of women on the toilet

Ian Hennah, 58, was discovered with the indecent images of women using the toilet after a hard drive was examined by the police

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2 w. ago A male revenge app is currently #2 on the app charts — and the IDs of the men using it have been leaked

A widely downloaded new app invites men to review the women they’ve dated, and asks for photo ID to verify their identity. What could possibly go wrong?

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2 w. ago A boat carrying migrants capsizes off Italy, killing at least 26

A boat carrying nearly 100 migrants capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 26 people

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