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

ROME – Thousands of “Rangers and Rovers” of the Scout organisation (boys and girls between 16 and 21) will come to Italy July 27 to August 3 in one of their biggest international gatherings of the

ROME – The Italian senate has given the final go-ahead on the Code Red bill, aimed at protecting victims of domestic and gender violence, and handing out harsher penalties for stalking and revenge

ROME – Italy’s brain drain is costing the economy 14 billion euros a year, according to Economy Minister Giovanni Tria.

BARI – A group of migrant farm workers occupied Tuesday the San Nicola Cathedral, demanding proper accommodation instead of the “ghettos” they are currently forced inhabit in the Puglian countrysid

ROME – The renowned writer Andrea Camilleri died Wednesday morning aged 93 after a month on life-support at the Santo Spirito, according to hospital sources.

ROME – A 12-hour siege has led to the eviction of 78 families from a former school in the Primavalle district in Rome’s northwestern outskirts, police sources said on Tuesday.

ROME – A man who threw himself into the Trevi Fountain Monday dressed as a senator from Ancient Rome, wanted to capture the attention of Matteo Salvini, police sources said.

ROME – Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio has called on Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to report to parliament over alleged plans to use Russian oil money to finance the League in a post on his

VATICAN CITY – The contents of two ossuaries will be examined in the ongoing search for the remains of Vatican schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi, who mysteriously disappeared some 36 years ago.

ROME – The editor of the Italian Insider  John Phillips was convicted Friday on charges of besmirching the image of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), but was cleared of cha

ROME – The editor of the Italian Insider was found guilty at the Rome Tribunal Friday of criminal libel against the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), but was cleared of charges relating

ROME – The Catholic community of Sant’Egidio, an international lay organisation based in Rome, has organised parties to keep Rome’s prisoners from loneliness and isolation over the summer months, t

ROME – The row over alleged plans to use Russian oil money to finance the League as part of a secret and illegal deal with the Kremlin has been reignited after Buzzfeed News published a transcript

ROME – The League’s Alessandra Locatelli has been made Family and Disabilities Minister, replacing Lorenzo Fontana who is the new Europe Minister, according to government sources.

Wild weather has hit the Adriatic coast, forcing locals and tourists on Tortoreto Lido beach, in the province of Teramo in Abruzzo, to run for cover dodging flying umbrellas and other objects.

BARI – The former Council of State judge Francesco Bellomo as a cautionary measure has been placed under house arrest for alleged maltreatment and extortion of some of his female students, on whom

ROME – From open-air museum to open-air tip, the Eternal City produces more garbage than it can cope with.

ROME – President Vladimir Putin managed to squeeze in a catch up with long-time friend and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on his lightning trip to Rome but his desire to take home a relic

ROME - The Italian government has banned a ship that has rescued 54 migrants from a rubber dinghy in distress 12 miles off the coast of Lampedusa, from approaching the island.

ROME – President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Rome, landing at Fiumicino airport at 12.58 on Thursday. Welcoming the Kremlin Leader at the airport were Italian a

ROME – Italy has experienced population decline for the first time in 90 years and, according to a new report, two factors are to blame: fewer women having babies and more Italians abandoning their

ROME – It is said that Vladamir Putin does not eat any food that has not been carefully checked. Not just to verify quality but also to make sure it has not been poisoned.

ROME – UN Refugee Agency UNHCR is appealing to Eritrea not to close the Umkulu refugee camp after hundreds of refugees left the site in recent weeks, amidst reports that local authorities had asked