ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has offered fresh support for the Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo 2026 Winter Olympics bid on Wednesday, sources say.

ROME – Carabinieri and Italian police carried out arrests of 68 people suspected to be involved with illicit online gambling systems that were being run by mafia clans, police sources said on Wedne

ROME - When I arrive in Malta I expect a racy island with fast living gaming expats, speeding around on boats and jet skis.

BRUSSELS - The winners of the first edition of the European Capital of Smart Tourism competition were awarded on Nov.

ROME - A bilateral meeting arranged between Conte, Haftar and Libyan prime minister Fayez Al-Sarraj on Tuesday morning reportedly ended amicably, as leaders shook hands before going their separate

ROME - Reuters Italia journalists are striking on Monday and Tuesday in protest against the dismissal of 16 of their journalists.

ROME - Égalité, a bakery in Milan, has announced it will host an event on Nov. 15 to celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau Day.

ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini went on the offensive yet again this week, calling on the European Union to stop “jerking Italy around” over its tough sta

ALGIERS – Former BBC fixer and respected journalist Said Chitour was released from prison in Algeria on Sunday, according to judicial resources.

ROME - The annual Commonwealth Remembrance Day Service took place Friday at the Testaccio Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery.

ROME - Rome has been represented at London’s World Travel Market (WTM), one of the world’s most prestigious tourism fairs, for another year running.

ROME - The impact of various strategies of asymmetric warfare used in Middle Eastern conflicts was the central theme of three talks, hosted by the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) by Professor P

ROME - The body of 30-year old Simona Carpignano has been found beneath the rubble of one of the two buildings that collapsed in Marseille on Tuesday Nov. 6.

ROME - To the relief of Roman residents and tourists alike, Minister of Culture Alberto Bonisoli has decided against charging an entry fee to the Pantheon.

ROME - Elisa Isoardi, girlfriend of Matteo Salvini, has posted a selfie of herself in bed with the Minister of the Interior and Vice-President on Instagram, to the alarm of rivals and colleagues al

ROME - Despite claims to the contrary, esteemed art critic Cristina Acidini has suggested the location of Da Vinci’s ‘Landscape with river’ (‘Paesaggio con fiume’) has yet to be confirmed.

MARSEILLE – Following the collapse of two buildings in Marseille on Monday, an Italian woman has been revealed to be missing, French media sources say.

ROME - The husband of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted on charges of blasphemy, has begged the Italian government to help his wife and family escape Pakistan.

ROME - An agreement to open a new sub-regional office in Istanbul, for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialised agency of the United Nations, was signed yesterday w

LUXEMBOURG CITY – The European Court of Justice has ordered Italy on Tuesday to recoup an estimated four to five billion euros of ICI property tax that has not been paid by the Catholic Church, jud

ROME - The Regional Administrative Court of Palermo (TAR) had reportedly issued a demolishment order for the “Villa of Death”, the house near Palermo in which nine people were killed by fl

ROME – The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has expressed its concern over the Italian government's security decree on migrants currently being discussed in the Italian Senate, according to a statement re

ROME - Further strengthening its summer holiday deals for leisure customers, Finnish airline Finnair will open three new routes to Bologna, Bordeaux and Porto for the peak summer season in 2019.

ROME - The Sicilian leader of the Five Star Movement, Giampiero Trizzino, has announced his party's plans to dismantle the MUOS (mobile-user objective system).