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 There are more than 720,000 children across Italy living in absolute poverty right now, making the country one of the worst places in Europe to be a child these days, according to a new report by Save the Children Italy as it launched a “Childhood Alarm” initiative on Monday. 

  Italy ranks low among European Union countries when it comes to providing a bright future to its children, Save the Children reported Monday as it launched a national awareness campaign. Trailing behind Greece and Bulgaria, Italy is seventh to last in the 27-member EU according to the NGO's "poverty of future" list, which includes criteria such as offering education and work opportunities to children and adolescents. 

 Iginio Straffi, the director, writer, and producer behind Italy’s most successful animated films, will be honored as the filmmaker of the year at the Ischia Global Film and Music Festival, organizers said Monday, also naming the first six films that will screen at the summer festival. 

 The Italian judiciary's self-governing body, the Supreme Council of Magistrates (CSM), on Wednesday approved a document calling on Justice Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri to support judges "without any uncertainty" from attacks by former premier Silvio Berlusconi.