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A tiny Armenian island in Venice

One of the most fascinating and mysterious places in Italy is an islet in the Venice Lagoon known as St. Lazarus island, home to a Mekhitarist monastery. A small congregation of monks under Benedictine rule live here, in an area of no more than 7,000 m² and they hold their religious ceremonies entirely in Armenian.

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Who is the fixer in the war zones?

We have always wondered how Lucia Goracci and all the other intrepid reporters for the Italian and international press manage to get to the other side of the world in just a few hours, crossing unknown, dangerous territory and passing unharmed through roadblocks where bullying soldiers interrogate them in Arab or in incomprehensible local dialect. […]