ROME -- The widow of  Senator John McCain, from Arizona, is under consideration for appointment by the Biden administration as US Ambassador to the FAO and WFP,

  ROME - "We can look to the future with prudent optimism and confidence," said Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi as he announced at a press conference the measures for the gradual reopening of t

  ROME - Italy’s Constitutional Court, as announced in an official press release, has ruled that life sentences without the possibility of parole, which are currently in force, are unconstitutional

  PISA - Some 23 people have been arrested in a Carabinieri raid on ‘ndrangheta activity in Tuscany, carried out in conjunction with the Antimafia District Directorate (DDA) of Florence.

  PROCIDA - The island, that was in January nominated as Italy's 2022 Culture Capital, announced on Thursday that it is to hold the inaugural '50 top rosé' competition.

  ROME - Shamira is a beautiful Venetian, and an artist who decided many years ago to aspire to a prestigious goal: to be, with her art, a vehicle for openness an

  ROME - The Senate has approved the motion to grant citizenship to Patrick Zaki, the Egypt student and researcher at the University of Bologna who has been unlawfully detained in Tora prison by Eg

  ROME - Italian rugby is mourning the death of two of its greatest former players, Massimo Cuttitta and Marco Bollesan, who both died on Sunday.

  ROME - Following a fall in the number of vaccine doses administered over the Easter period, concerns are beginning to grow that Italy will not be able to reach the target of vaccinating 70 percen

  ROME -  The latest weekend of Serie A fixtures saw victories for all the top teams, and no changes in the standings of the top seven.

  ROME - Nemi, a small town in the Alban Hills 27 kilometres from Rome, has scored a recent double coup 

  ANKARA - Diplomatic relations between Turkey and Italy have seen further turns for the worse - following Mario Draghi calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a "dictator" - after several b

  ROME - A joint investigation by four separate prosecutors’ offices, in Rome, Naples, Catanzaro and Reggio Calabria, has led to the arrest of 56 people, with 15 others held for questioning, for in

  VENICE - The Italian government’s declaration that it has overcome years of its own dithering to deal with threats posed by gigantic cruise ships entering Venice’s delicate lagoon represents a st

  ROME - Italian Justice Minister Marta Cartabia has opened a file on the inquest of the Trapani prosecution into the links between NGOs and people traffickers after several accusations that law en

  TRIPOLI - The half day spent by the Prime Minister Mario Draghi in Libya had many indicative moments and served to clarify objectives and obstacles.

  ROME - The arrest of an Italian Naval officer for selling state secrets to Russia, revealed on Wednesday to be the frigate captain

  ROME - An officer of the Italian Navy has been arrested by Carabinieri ROS investigators in flagrante for passing state secrets to a Russian officer working at the Russian Embassy in Rome, offici