The U.S. military is celebrating an all-Japanese U.S. Army unit that was key in liberating Italy’s central Tuscan region from Nazi-Fascist forces in July 1944, even while their family members were interned at home as enemies of the state following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

Record-breaking rain provoked floods in a vast swath of Tuscany as storm Ciarán pushed into Italy overnight.

The tourism minister of Israel’s new hardline government has promised to invest in the West Bank, calling the occupied area “our local Tuscany.”.

Italian authorities have announced the extraordinary discovery of more than 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring.

Violent thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds in France and Italy have left at least eight people dead.

Octogenarians in Tuscany watched in disbelief and indignation as lawyers, magistrates, professors and other younger professionals got vaccinated against COVID-19 before them, despite government pledges of prioritizing Italy’s oldest citizens.

(Cecilia Fabiano/Lapresse via AP)ROME – Italians turned out in droves to vote in regional elections and on a referendum on cutting the number of lawmakers by a third, despite the coronavirus pandemic and strict hygiene protocols at all polls. An army of volunteers, wearing head-to-toe protective equipment, made house calls to ensure that even virus-affected Italians could vote. Luca Zaia of the right-wing League party was expected to win his third mandate after helping Veneto avoid the worst of the pandemic. Italians also voted on a referendum to reduce the number of national lawmakers, which is backed by the 5-Star Movement. Most parties backed the constitutional reform, which passed parliament but without the two-thirds majority that would have avoided a referendum.