ROME, Dec.... Meteorological data indicate that this year is set to be the warmest in more than 150 years of record-keeping in Italy.... StarPicks Pioneering sustainability excellence Meanwhile, weather agencies predict the year will end with an unusually warm spell, with high daytime temperatures across much of the Italian peninsula, assuring that 2024 will start out on the warm side....

In a bid to safeguard its lucrative ￡7bn sausage industry from the threat of swine fever, Italy has announced a bold initiative: sending troops across the country on a year-long mission to hunt wild boar. The decision, spearheaded by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, aims to curb Italy's wild boar population by as much as 80 percent over the next five years.... This move comes as a preventive measure to halt the spread of African swine fever, a highly contagious virus that has recently plagued the