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State Italian broadcaster Rai has axed a factual organized crime series by Gomorrah creator Roberto Saviano out of the blue, prompting accusations of political interference.

Mediaset CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi has given his verdict on an upcoming video appearance by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Italy’s iconic Sanremo song festival, adding fuel to an ongoing political debate around the operation.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italy on Monday took a sharp turn towards the right as Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party, which has neo-fascist roots, emerged as big winners in the country’s national elections. Final results on Monday showed Meloni and her party winning roughly 26% of the vote and the center-right coalition she leads scoring 44% of parliamentary preferences, while Matteo Salvini’s anti-immigrant League won nearly 9% and former prime minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia took 8%. Meloni’s closest challenger, with some 19.3% of the vote, is the center-left Democratic Party headed by Enrico Letta, who has announced his resignation. Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement — which had won the vote in Italy’s 2018 parliamentary elections — saw its support halved to some 15% this time around.

Far-right politician Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party appears to be on the cusp of victory in Italy’s general election on Sunday, according to exits polls released shortly after the urns closed at 11 pm local time.

READ MORE: Finland's wild PM apologises as topless influencers snapped kissing at official party The horror video was blurred out, so neither the victim nor the perpetrator could be identified from the clip.However, it kept its audio in full - including the woman’s blood-curdling cries for help.The video was filmed by someone in an apartment above the pavement where the horrifying incident took place and was first shown on the website of a newspaper before the populist politician re-posted it.Before being removed the clip attracted widespread criticism from Meloni's opponents, but some praised the wannabe future prime minister - Meloni's coalition partners Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini, known for equally extreme anti-immigration policies, both expressed admiration for the politician after she posted the now-deleted clip.Salvini's views on immigration are so harsh that he is facing a kidnapping trial after he blocked a boat carrying asylum-seekers, leaving them in the scorching hot sun in the middle of the sea, while he was Italy's interior minister from 2018 until 2019.Meloni heads up the Brothers of Italy party, known for its right-wing views and logo featuring brazen fascist symbols, which is currently in the lead to win Italy's upcoming snap election according to recent polling.The far-right politicians are set to scoop up an easy win when the nation heads to the polls on September 25.The Brothers of Italy have been compared with Trump's government, and Meloni is known to be pally with Steve Bannon, who in addition to having been aligned with the BNP and English Defence League (EDL) in the past, headlined one of Meloni's conferences in Italy prior to the pandemic.Meloni would be Italy's first female prime

Richard Gere will soon be testifying in Italian court against far-right leader Matteo Salvini, who is on trial for attempting to block 147 people aboard the NGO rescue boat Open Arms from landing in the country.

asylum seekers who crossed the Mediterranean from North Africa. Mr Salvini, the head of the League party, is accused of illegally stopping around 150 migrants from disembarking on the island of Lampedusa after they were rescued at sea in August 2019.

Easter Sunday in a performance called Music For Hope.However, the blind tenor has now delivered a scathing criticism of the Italian government at a conference at the Senate, saying he was ‘offended’ by lockdown.Bocelli, born in Lajatico in Tuscany, said: ‘I felt humiliated and offended.

ROME — Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli on Monday issued a scathing criticism of the Italian government’s handling of the coronavirus, saying he was humiliated by a recent lockdown, and urged people to disobey rules still in place.