Maria Tavernini

Dereliction of duty: How Italy bungled the pandemic

A WHO report published last May struck a nerve among Italian officials after it revealed that Italy went into the crisis with an out-of-date pandemic plan. Was it technocratic incompetence or criminal negligence?

The 'massacre' of Italy's elderly nursing home residents

Covid-19 patients in Italy's virus epicentre of Lombardy were transferred to nursing homes by an official resolution with catastrophic consequences.

Vector spread from Austrian ski town was toxic mix of business and politics

Tourist revenue trumped public health in this alpine playground that helped spread coronavirus to several European nations.

Italy's caregivers face daily moral dilemma of who to treat in hospital

Guidelines in Italy require hospitals to limit the number of people admitted for treatment.

Italy wrestles with trauma, privacy and containment in coronavirus battle

Italy fights an uphill struggle against the coronavirus on every front.

Coronavirus panic grows in Italy, halts daily life and infects the economy

Italy could be facing a significant loss of jobs, business closures and international isolation.

'The government offers jobs to pellet victims, in return it takes our eyes'

India's 'non-lethal' weapon to crush protests in Kashmir takes lives - and those it doesn't kill, it maims permanently.

The parched lands of Gujarat bring climate change into stark view in India

One of India's most unique and fragile ecological systems is buckling under the pressure of climate change forcing people to abandon centuries-old traditions.

Chinese 'debt-diplomacy' is drowning Sri Lanka's economy and environment

With ever increasing interest rates and a snowballing debt, at what cost is debt in exchange for Chinese development too high?