LIBYAN COAST – The Interior Ministry has signed an entry ban preventing German Sea Eye NGO ship the Alan Kurdi, which rescued 40 migrants around 30 miles off the Libya coast on Wednesday m

ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is giving his blessing for the migrants aboard the Gregoretti Coast Guard vessel moored in Augusta, Sicily, to disembark now that five European coun

SARDINIA – A German arms factory with a production plant in Sardinia and headquarters in Ghedi, in northern Italy, has suspended the export of aircraft bombs to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emi

ROME – The Supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that students in Turin can no longer take sandwiches to school from home, judicial sources said on Tuesday.

ROME – The Italian foreign ministry uses hundreds of poorly paid local contractors around the world to carry out strange and delicate ‘missions,’ Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.

ROME – For the first time, Facebook has taken down League posts denouncing the antiracist movement “Cara Italia” because they are in violation of its community standards, according to Cara Italia’s

ROME – Passengers in the Eternal city will receive an ATAC ticket for every 30 recycled plastic bottles they bring to special machines installed on a year long trial, part of a new scheme introduce

ROME – Icon of the spaghetti western, George Hilton, died in Rome on Sunday at the age of 85.

ROME – Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has branded the blindfolding by police of one of the two American teenagers accused of killing a Carabiniere paramilitary policeman last week a “crime.” The pho

VATICAN CITY -  The search for the remains of Emanuela Orlandi, the Vatican schoolgirl who mysteriously went missing in 1983, was once again frustrated as experts revealed that the most recent bone

ROME - "Fifty years after the ruling of the US Supreme Court of the United States - by Judge Black in 1971, who, speaking of the Pentagon papers related to American politics in Vietnam, recalled th

ROME – Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has railed against the decision to allow the construction of a McDonald’s near the world heritage-listed Terme di Caracalla (Baths of Caracalla) in the centre of Ro

ROME – The Italian Swimming Federation has labeled a non-compete clause in the agreement for Rome to host the 2022 Ryder Cup as “laughable” and “illegitimate,” arguing that organisers of the golfin

ROME – Confindustria, the Italian employers’ federation and FEI, the federation of Egyptian industries Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to “strengthen trade relations and promote econo

ROME – Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Wednesday that he supported the completion of the controversial high-speed railway (TAV) which would link Turin with Lyon in France, having expressed doubt

ROME – In a surprise visit to the building squatted by neo-fascist political party CasaPound, Rome mayor Virginia Raggi together with police has served a decree ordering the removal of the unauthor

ROME – Intense traffic snarls are expected in the last weekend of July as Italian holiday-makers make their way to summer destinations.

ROME – As Romans prepare for the mass holiday exodus, a two-day general transport strike has been scheduled for all modes of public transport on Wednesday, while on Friday, only those flying will b

ROME - Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has hit out at French NGOs SOS Mediterranée and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) after they announced on Monday the resumption of m

ROME – There is major disruption on train lines between Rome and Florence, with delays of up to four hours and problems expected to last well into Monday afternoon.

ROME – A naked rapper performing at the Rock in Rome festival was dragged off stage Thursday as an audience made up mostly of youngsters looked on, witnesses said.

ROME – Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio pledged to abolish Italy’s unpopular car tax Friday morning.

ROME – The renowned Italian writer and film director Luciano De Crescenzo died Thursday, aged 90, after being hospitalised in the Eternal City two weeks ago with pneumonia, according to his publish

ROME – Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi has applied to host the European Aquatics Championships in 2022, but this threatens the contract the city signed to hold the prestigious Ryder Cup in the same pe

AGRIGENTO – Carola Rackete, the captain of migrant-rescue ship Sea Watch 3 who was arrested June 29 after forcibly entering Italian waters, Thursday morning faced questions from Sicilian p