One passenger dead and 15 injured in tourist bus accident in Tuscany
One passenger died and at least 15 were injured in a motorway accident involving a tourist bus near the city of Arezzo, eastern Tuscany, on Sunday, Italy’s national fire service said according to AFP.
The bus, which was carrying 25 tourists, was headed north on the national A1 motorway when the accident occurred, the fire service wrote on X.
Efforts to extract the wounded from the bus were ongoing on Sunday evening, it added.
Italy’s Corriere della Sera daily said the passengers were of Chinese nationality and had been travelling from Rome to Florence when the accident unfolded.
Capri island bans smoking on beaches
The Italian island of Capri, a popular holiday hotspot in the Bay of Naples, has banned smoking on local beaches, with fines of up to €500 for those flouting the rule, Il Corriere della Sera reported on Sunday.
The ban was part of a new decree aimed at protecting "decorum, liveability and public health" across the island, the report said.
The decree also made it illegal to throw cigarette butts and any other smoking-related waste on the ground or in the island’s waters.
Capri authorities were set to allow visitors to smoke within specially designated smoking areas far from other beachgoers, the report added.
Errani and Paolini clinch first Olympic tennis gold in Italian history
Italy's Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini beat Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider 2-6 6-1 (10-7) to win Olympic gold in the women's doubles on Sunday, the Gazzetta dello Sport daily reported.
It was Italy’s first-ever Olympic tennis gold, with Errani and Paolini following up Lorenzo Musetti’s bronze in the men’s singles, which marked the country’s first tennis medal at the Olympics in 100 years.
Russians Andreeva and Shnaider, who were competing as individual neutral athletes, took the opening set but had to settle for silver after the Italian pair fought back.
Spain's Cristina Bucsa and Sara Sorribes Tormo beat Czech pair Linda Noskova and Karolina Muchova earlier in the day to win the doubles bronze medal.
Seven EU states call on Venezuela to publish voting records
The leaders of seven EU member states, including Italy, on Saturday called on Venezuela to publish its voting records to show the "full transparency and integrity of the electoral process", AFP reported.
A joint statement from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands expressed "strong concern" over the situation in the South American country following a contested presidential election.
Nicolas Maduro claimed victory in last weekend's vote, but the opposition has disputed the official result, claiming Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia won.
"We call on the Venezuelan authorities to promptly publish all voting records" to "recognise the will of the Venezuelan people," the statement from the seven EU countries said.
The statement came as thousands of Venezuelans gathered across the country to challenge Maduro's claim he won the election, with at least eleven people killed in local protests, according to AFP.
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