The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has returned to the country following Maduro’s capture and months in exile. Negotiations between the regime and the opposition are continuing, but the veto on her candidacy, political guarantees and the date of the new elections remain unresolved.

A professor of orthopaedics and traumatology at Sapienza University, he was also a competitive wrestler, judoka and sambo practitioner (the Soviet combat sport), having finished fourth at the European Championships: “I stopped because I didn’t have the time, not because I didn’t want to.” Interview

Whilst public debate focuses on the Maranza, there is a section of the country – which has always regarded the centre-right as a natural partner – that is protesting

The Salvini-Garavaglia clash takes place in a heavily guarded room; Romeo is attacked by the leader’s top aides and defends himself: “We’re losing votes; you’re boycotting me.” There is an air of purges, and Durigon suggests to Zaia that he join the political secretariat.

Tensions have flared between protesters and the police in several Italian cities. The entrances to the Colosseum were forced open. Piantedosi on the investigation into incitement to terrorism: “There are no safe havens.”

President Tango confirms that the association needs to review its accounts, but says that the average of salaries and arrears is “a long way from 100,000 euros”

Kierkegaard regards paradox as the true key to understanding reality, for example in the idea of eternal youth. The light of one’s youth is Ariadne’s thread, which everyone loses and rediscovers along life’s journey. The “Tre discorsi edificanti” are available in bookshops. 

Thousands of poor people were evicted, pushed to the outskirts of the city. Then one day, tall cranes arrived and, in the silence of the abandoned neighbourhood, began to tear down the buildings with a series of heavy thuds. A vast cloud of dust rose from the rubble. Just like the one, fifteen years later, from bombed-out Milan 

Whether in their professional or family lives, on television or in real life, American female diplomats are often a breed apart

Students gathered in one square, while Aleksandar Vučić held an impromptu rally in the other. The manifestos, the faces, and the latest slogans of two diametrically opposed societies, more divided than ever.