Venice

Police said that eight people are being investigated for inciting a crime.
A police statement said that searches were conducted in six Italian provinces, including Milan, Rome and Venice, and that eight people were under investigation as part of a group that calls itself "warriors" on the Telegram application, Reuters reports.

Venice celebrated the completion of a full restoration of its Rialto Bridge on Sept. 7, with tenor Andrea Bocelli singing opera atop the gem of Renaissance art spanning the Grand Canal.

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Afghan female filmmakers who fled the Taliban begged the world to not forget the Afghan people and to support its artists, warning on Sept. 4 that a country without culture will eventually lose its identity.

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One of the most hotly anticipated sci-fi blockbusters in years finally landed on Sept. 3, as the world premiere of "Dune" arrived at the Venice Film Festival.

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Visitors to Venice could be forgiven for not realizing that beyond the majesty of St. Mark's Square and the romance of gondola rides lies a city that helped provide a baseline of what the world knows today about containing pandemics.

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The Venice Film Festival returns on Sept. 1 with an ultra-glitzy lineup, including the world premiere of sci-fi blockbuster "Dune" and Kristen Stewart's turn as Princess Diana, cementing its status as a serious rival to Cannes.

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Koper – The Sea Dream, a luxury yacht-style cruise ship, will dock in Koper on Friday, the first cruise ship to visit Slovenia’s largest coastal city since 2019. The Sea Dream will bring around 50 passengers to Koper, mostly from the US and England.

Pedro Almodovar's "Madres Paralelas" (Parallel Mothers), starring the Spanish filmmaker's muses Penelope Cruz and Rossy De Palma, will open the 78th Venice Film Festival in September, organizers said July 19.

Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Lütfi Elvan and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on July 9 met on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Venice.

"We held a very fruitful meeting [with Yellen] for the improvement of our economic and trade ties," Elvan wrote on Twitter amid the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting.

A rare portrait of Suleiman I, the longest-reigning Ottoman sultan known as the Magnificent Suleiman, has been put up on display for Turkish people after it was donated to the Istanbul Municipality by an anonymous citizen who bought the artwork at an auction in London.