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The Rome Public Prosecutor's Office is to acquire the 11-month suspension order issued by the defence ministry against Italian Army General Roberto Vannacci after disciplinary proceedings stemming from the publication in 2023 of a controversial book as par... (ANSA)

An Italian army commander has been suspended for 11 months after writing a book in which he called gay people “not normal” and said black immigrants could never be truly Italian.

Rightwing League party leader Matteo Salvini on Saturday said his high regard for "heroic" anti-gay general Roberto Vannacci was not in the slightest diminished by news of an investigation into a series of alleged financial irregularities committed when th... (ANSA)

Five years ago, Matteo Salvini confirmed his status as a rising star of European far-right politics when his League party swept a third of the vote in Italian EU parliamentary elections. His fortunes have since waned even as Italians have ushered in their most right-wing government since World War Two, his popularity eclipsed by the ascent to power of his ally Giorgia Meloni and her nationalist Brothers of Italy party. Salvini's League, a junior partner in the rightist coalition, is polling below 9% ahead of new European parliament elections in June, while Meloni's party hovers clo...