ROME – Ethan Elder arrived in Rome to visit his son for the first time Thursday, 19-year-old Californian Finnegan Lee Elder who is accused of murdering a Carabiniere paramilitary policeman last wee

MARTINA FRANCA – A 29-year-old Japanese opera singer accused of persecuting an Italian conductor for eight months, has been arrested in the province of Taranto, Apulia, for stalking the musician. 

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