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Italians were disappointed and concerned as Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned on Thursday after his national unity government fell apart, setting the country on course for an early election and hitting financial markets.

TOKYO - Before he lined up among the fastest men in the world, in the final hours before he believed he could run faster than them for 100 meters, a broad-shouldered, baldheaded Italian man born in El Paso named Lamont Marcell Jacobs received a text message. The message came from another man named Lamont Marcell Jacobs. "I am junior," Jacobs said. "He is senior."

SAN FELE, Italy - The mountaintop town is four hours south of Rome, reachable by switchback roads - appropriately remote for an alternate reality. Here, far away from the coronavirus pandemic, in a place where nobody has tested positive or gotten sick, it was lunchtime, and a restaurant in town was filling up: tables of four, tables of six, a table of eight, and then the biggest table of all, reserved for teachers and middle schoolers celebrating graduation.

An Italian who allegedly posed as Hollywood superstar George Clooney to sell clothes online has been arrested with his wife in Thailand after years on the run, police said Sunday.

Relatives of a seriously injured fisherman have filed a report with Chalong police relating to an Italian expatriate, who was allegedly helming a boat that collided with a long-tailed fishing vessel on Sunday off Rawai, Phuket.

Police are hunting for a Thai motorist who broke an Italian motorcyclist's arm with a hammer in Chon Buri's Muang district on Wednesday night.

A 29-year-old Italian tourist was seriously injured on Tuesday when the 12-year-old male elephant he and a friend were riding as part of a tourist activity in Phang-Nga’s Mueang district suddenly shook them to the ground and gored him in the stomach.

An Italian tourist was gripped by panic on Tuesday evening after realising he had lost his bag containing 500 euros, passport and credit cards. But fear turned to joy in the blink of an eye when Alessio Trevisan, 67, arrived at Chumphon police station to find his worldly possessions waiting for him.

A Thai woman has been arrested for allegedly drugging and robbing an elderly Italian man in Pattaya.

Italian filmmaker and Cannes Film Festival winner Vittorio Taviani has died aged 88, according to media reports on Sunday citing family sources.

The Italian-Thai Business Forum was established in 2015 by the initiative of the ambassador of Italy to Thailand, Francesco Saverio Nisio, in collaboration with the Board of Trade of Thailand (BoT) with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

An Italian tourist claimed that he was drugged unconscious and robbed by two women inside his hotel room of cash and valuables worth more than Bt200,000.