VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis was "slightly indisposed" Thursday and cancelled a planned trip to the Basilica of St Mary Major to hear the confessions of clergymen at the start of Lent, the Vatican

 ROME – Italy’s far-right League leader, Matteo Salvini, has denied he was planning to host an event in Liverpool but has invited the mayor of the city, who accused him of being fascist, to Milan f

ROME – Avinoam Shalem was appointed director of the American Academy in Rome (AAR) on Friday, following an announcement from the AAR President and CEO Mark Robbins.

ROME – On Wednesday the Senate Chamber approved a request to begin court proceedings against Matteo Salvini for refusing to allow a migrant rescue vessel to dock in 2019, initiating a legal process

ROME – The UFI Global CEO Summit, an event bringing to together around a hundred CEOs and presidents who organize the most important trade fairs in the world, ended in the Eternal City on Friday. 

ROME – One of the Italian nationals flown out of Wuhan on Monday has since been transferred to Spallanzani hospital after tests revealed that he has been infected with coronavirus, report Italian h

ROME – The Holy See has denied German press reports that Pope Francis has dismissed Prefect of the Papal Household Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, Vatican sources said on Wednesday.

ROME –  Barberini metro station’s A line partially reopened on Tuesday, although commuters have only been able to exit the station, with operators from the Rome agency for transport (ATAC) turning

ROME – Coronavirus scare stories and fake news have inspired a mural that calls for unity at the entrance of a market in Piazza Vittorio.

ROME – Marcello De Vito, president of the Capitoline Assembly (Rome city council) and spokesperson of the Five Star Movement, risks charges of corruption over the construction of the new AS Roma st

ROME – President of Italy Sergio Mattarella gave a televised speech on Monday remembering the Holocaust, before warning that anti-Semitism is not an isolated historical phenomenon.

 ROME – An Albanian prisoner on a day’s parole has been shot and killed outside his house in the northern suburbs of the Italian capital, judicial sources said.

ROME – On Wednesday police arrested Salvatore Mariano, 23, on charges of sexual violence and harassment, after victims emerged online with claims that he had stalked and molested them, reports 

 ROME – The partial reopening of Barberini Metro station, closed since March 2019, has been deferred yet again after an escalator failed a safety check, local authorities report.

ROME – A flight from Wuhan to Rome landed in Fiumicino on Thursday morning after taking-off from Wuhan just before Chinese authorities cancelled all future departures, reports Corriere Della Se

VATICAN CITY – On Wed 21 Pope Francis gave a speech that was scathing of those who defend "closed ports", according to Il Giornale.

ROME – Local voting rights, new residency application documents and the right to return with non-British family members are still unresolved issues, but “when you wake up on February 1^st 

 ROME – The temporary ban on diesel cars has proved ineffective in countering the Italian capital’s smog emergency as particulate levels remain high across the city.

MILAN – The Court of Appeal in Milan announced its decision on Wednesday to fully uphold the appeal of Saipem, an engineering company with Eni as the first shareh

ROME – The Antitrust Authority fines Eni 5 million for the misleading advertising of EniDiesel+, as Rome city extends Diesel ban by two days, official sources say.