ROME - The Italian journalist Alessandra Galloni is to become the first female editor-in-chief of Reuters when the global news agency's current head, Stephen J. Adler, retires this month.

  ROME - An Italian magistrate has ordered the arrest of the broker Gianluigi Torzi on charges of fraudulent billing, money laundering and other financial crimes, for his involvement in the scandal

  ROME - At what the organisers had promised was to be a peaceful protest, yet more bouts of violence between police and

  ROME - According to information from the Colombian embassy in Italy, the South American country's exports to Italy increased by 24 percent between January and D

  SARDARA - Yet more political polemics in Sardinia after 20 people, among them several local politicians, were arrested in a spa hotel in the south of the island by the Guardia di Finanza for brea

  ROME - Florentino Perez, the head of the Spanish civil engineering company ACS, has written to the Italian company Atlantia, expressing interest in purchasing a majority share in ASPI (Autostrade

  ANKARA - Italy's relationship with Turkey took a turn for the worse last night - with the Turkish government summoning the Italian ambassador in Ankara - after Mario Draghi called Turkish Preside

  ROME - For the first time, the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome will be offering a Licentiate in Judaic Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations, th

  FLORENCE - To mark the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the French poet Charles Baudelaire, the Uffizi gallery will be releasing a video of his poem 'Hymn to Beauty' from his 'Fl

  ROME - Thanks to the a trade agreement between Italy and Qatar, Italian products are promoted in large-scale retail supermarkets.

  ROME - On Wednesday, 627 new deaths from Covid-19 were reported, the highest since January, a number which has led many to question why Italy still has such a high death toll compared to other Eu

  ROME - The tourism industry is a fundamental voice of the Italian economy and the sector most affected by the pandemic, worth, according to Minister Garavaglia, at least 15% of GDP and, in perspe

  PALERMO - The Cosa Nostra boss Giuseppe Calvaruso has been arrested in Palermo airport, after returning from Brazil to celebrate Easter with his family in Sicily.

  ROME - Police and protesters were injured after demonstrations against the Covid restrictions outside Palazzo Montecitorio, the seat of the Chamber of Deputies, turned violent, with hundreds tryi

  ROME - "Health is a fundamental right for everyone," said the Community of Sant'Egidio, the lay Christian charitable organisation, in anticipation of World Health Day, April 7.

  ROME - Italy's already struggling vaccination campaign has produced yet more disappointing results after it was reported that over the Easter weekend, an average of less than 150,000 doses were d

  ROME - After the latest round of Aserie A fixtures over the Easter weekend, the first for two weeks due to the international break, Atalanta's victory over Udinese saw them take third spot from J

  ROME - After the recent mission of the three foreign ministers of Italy, France and Germany to Tripoli and the reaffirmed unity of the EU on the Libyan dossier,

  CITY OF SAN MARINO - One of the newly elected Captains Regent of San Marino has already caused scandal after being found by police, along with many other members of the Grand and General Council,

  ROME - The European Media and Information Fund will mobilise financial resources in support of media literacy and fact-checking initiatives, as well as research projects on online disinformation.

  MONZA - A 17th century painting by the French artist Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) has been recovered in an art dealers in Padua almost 70 years after it was taken from its Jewish owners in Poitier

  ROME - It has been announced that an additional £1 million of funding has been pledged to charities and voluntary organisations across Europe supporting vulnerable UK Nationals applying for resid

  ROME - Admiral Fabio Agostini, Operation Commander of EUNAVFOR MED IRINI, has attended the ceremony of the takeover of the new Force Commander, Rear Admiral Stefano Frumento of the Italian Navy,

  TRAPANI - The director of Sicily’s regional health authorities and two other health officials are under criminal investigation, and Sicily’s Alderman for Health has resigned after it was revealed

  SIENA - The incredible discoveries in 2020 of the remains of a Roman sanctuary at San Casciano Dei Bagni are being published in an authorative work on the excavations of the site.