VIBO VALENTIA – A former local election candidate, Matteo Vinci, who campaigned in the region of Calabria, has been killed in a car explosion, police said on Tuesday.

ROME – Acid attack victim and Ballando con le Stelle (Dancing with the Stars) contestant, Gessica Notaro, spoke out on TV saying that she would not be silent and, contrary to what she was

NAPLES – Eight members of the Neapolitan criminal organisation, the Camorra, have been arrested following a breakaway from the group’s leadership to enter the illegal drug trade.

MILAN – The European Commission (EC) has given the green light to the purchase of Italo-Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (Italo) by Global Infrastructures Partners (GIP).

ROME – An Italian Navy helicopter has crashed into the Mediterranean during an overnight “Mare Sicuro” (Safe Sea) training drill, carried out with five crew members.

ROME – The M5S were the final party to meet Italian President Sergio Mattarella as government-formation consultations came to a close following two days of discussions.

PALERMO – The League has come under fire after two party members were arrested in Sicily, tied up under allegations of deals to trade employment for votes during the regional elections last year.

BRSCIA – Previous offender, Cosimo Balsamo, has killed two businessmen in the north of Italy, at separate locations, before escaping and eventually committing suicide.

SAN GIMIGNANO – Local authorities and heritage experts were assessing the damage to the Tuscan city of San Gimignano on Wednesday morning after a 20-metre section of its historic walls collapsed, w

FLORENCE – An autopsy and toxicology tests have been called on Wednesday for the body of a former Italian champion cyclist who was found dead at her home, after a suspected overdose, according to C

ROME – Neither the M5S, nor the League appeared willing to back down as the parties were preparing to convene in government-formation consultations with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, one mon

VICENZA – Two former US soldiers, husband and wife, were found dead at their home in Pozzoleone.

CAGLIARI – In a communal apartment in Cagliari, nine athletes drawn from across Europe have left behind school and family life to train eight hours a day alongside their coaches.

NAPLES – The Regional Administrative Court has rejected a ruling in Naples which prevented butchers from displaying lamb and goat in shop windows.

ROME – The terror cell associated with Anis Amri, the perpetrator of the massacre at a Berlin Christmas market in 2016, considered a strike in the Italian capital itself, with an attack on a metro

MILAN – Silvio Berlusconi has lodged an appeal against his disqualification from running for political office at a court in Milan in the hopes of reinvigorating his party, Forza Italia, which saw i

ROME – A public prosecutor from the Italian capital has requested harsher sentences for the former head of a neo-fascist terrorist group, his right-hand man and the leader of a similar organisation

ROME – The latest in a series of terror raids across Italy saw police round up several people linked to the network of Anis Amri, the Tunisian man responsible for the 2016 attack on a Christmas mar

TURIN – An arrest in Turin has thwarted the imminent risk of an alleged ISIS militant “poised to attack”.

 LEGHORN – An explosion at this Tuscan port killed two workers on Wednesday afternoon with a third believed to be in a critical condition, police said.

ROME – Italy came from behind to grab a 1-1 draw against England as the Azzurri finally found the back of the net, but the winless streak continues.

ROME – Relations between the Five Star Movement and the right-wing coalition had turned sour on Wednesday morning after a bruising day of rhetoric appeared to set plans for a new government back co

ROME – The Milan Prosecutor’s Office has accused five police officers in the city of elevating the fees necessary for the issue of residence permits, pocketing the cash themselves to buy grandiose

ROME – Matteo Salvini has opened the door to a joint programme of government with the Five Star Movement (M5S) by arguing that there could be room for a deal on key policy issues like the citizens’

ROME – An Egyptian man has been arrested in the Apulian city of Foggia and accused of being an associate for the Islamist terrorist group ISIS, after having made comments online in support of the g