British duo Natasha Dowie and Christy Grimshaw discuss life in Italy with AC Milan as they prepare for a crucial match against title rivals Juventus.

Italian is the lingua franca of Malindi, which can be a culture shock when walking its old Swahili streets.

A LEADING Australian MP has ridiculed the EU as "panicking" after suggesting Italy's decision to block a shipment of AstraZeneca doses to the country will have "minimal" impact

Italian is the lingua franca of Malindi, which can be a culture shock when walking its old Swahili streets.

ITALY imposed age restrictions on the AstraZeneca vaccine just a few weeks ago, before the EU stopped shipments of the jab going to Australia.

A row with drug firm AstraZeneca has caused Italy to block 250,000 doses to be sent to Australia.

Italy has blocked a shipment of 250,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine due to go to Australia, invoking an EU export authorisation scheme. Australia was not "a vulnerable country", Italy said, and its decision was due to a "persistence of the vaccine shortage in the EU and Italy," it added, The Guardian reports. The move was a "carte blanche for imitators" in other EU states, German MEP Bernd Lange said.

Italy blocked a shipment of 250,000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to Australia, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. This is one of the first interventions since the European Commission introduced the controversial export control mechanism - aimed at increasing transparency in vaccine shipments from the EU to third countries. Italian officials informed the EU executive about it last week. Brussels did not oppose the Italian decision.