Poste Italiane suspends parcel shipments from Italy to US, Emily in Paris assistant director dies throughout filming in Venice, and extra information from Italy on Monday.
Poste Italiane suspends parcel shipments from Italy to US
Italian postal service Poste Italiane introduced on Thursday it had briefly suspended the transport of parcels to the USA because of altering US customs guidelines.
The Trump Administration’s rule change, which is about to come back into impact on August twenty ninth, ends the responsibility and tax exemption on small parcels.
Because of this, postal deliveries price lower than $800, which had been previously duty-free, can be topic to the identical tax charges as different merchandise imported into the US from the EU. The change doesn’t apply to presents despatched by non-public people price beneath $100.
In a assertion launched on Thursday night, Poste Italiane mentioned it had been “compelled, like different European postal operators, to briefly droop the acceptance of all shipments containing items destined for the USA, ranging from 23 August.”
Shipments not containing any items and and people despatched through its Poste Supply Worldwide Specific service would proceed to be accepted, the provider mentioned.
Emily in Paris assistant director dies throughout filming in Venice
An assistant director on the hit Netflix collection Emily in Paris has died whereas filming the present’s fifth season in Venice, in keeping with Italian media.
47-year-old Diego Borella reportedly collapsed whereas making ready to movie a scene on the metropolis’s Lodge Danieli on Thursday night.
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Makes an attempt by the medical workforce on set to revive him had been unsuccessful, La Repubblica reported.
“We’re deeply saddened to verify the sudden passing of a member of the ‘Emily in Paris’ manufacturing household,” a spokesperson from the present’s producers Paramount Tv Studios advised BBC Information.
Fb removes Italian group sharing non-consensual photographs of girls
An Italian Fb group wherein photographs of girls had been shared with hundreds of individuals on-line with out their consent has been taken down, in keeping with information stories.
Screenshots taken from the Mia Moglie (‘My Spouse’) group, which had round 32,000 members earlier than it was eliminated final week, confirmed footage ladies in numerous states of undress, asleep or in intimate moments.
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A few of the feedback reportedly praised the secretive nature of the photographs and described desirous to “rape” the ladies.
Writer Carolina Capria, who posted in regards to the group on-line, mentioned it made her really feel “nauseous” and “scared”. European Greens spokesperson Fiorella Zabatta described it as “digital rape”.
Meta, which owns Fb, mentioned it had taken down the group for violating its Grownup Sexual Exploitation insurance policies.
“We don’t permit content material that threatens or promotes sexual violence, sexual assault or sexual exploitation on our platforms,” the tech large mentioned.
