VALLETTA – A private vessels stranded outside Maltese territorial waters devolved into chaos as migrants armed with knives from the kitchens threatened to detonate a gas cylinder and kidnap crew me

“If Hong Kong's role in connecting China to the rest of the world no longer exists, it will be the end of Hong Kong,” said Dalù, a journalist whose brave defiance of the CCP (Chinese Communist Part

BRINDISI – Enel, the Italian energy company operating in over 30 countries worldwide, have begun the process of decarbonisation with the announcement the closure of one of the four coal-fired group

VENICE – After a night of freak weather events, high waters returned to Venice on Friday having reached 116 cm, met only twice in the past 20 years, which flooded St Mark’s Square and created probl

ROME – Some 70,000 tourists were in the Italian capital on the first day without travel restrictions after the opening up of ‘Phase 3’, as visitors flocked to the eternal city from abroad on flight

ROME – On the first day of ‘Phase 3’, which allows Italians to travel freely throughout the country once more, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte met with journalists and spoke about the next st

VERONA – The ‘Arena-Nicoscia’ gang, one of the many 'Ndrangheta affiliations, was dealt a blow of 23 arrests, with suspects held on multiple charges of mafia association, drug trafficking, money la

VALLETTA – Four private vessels are stranded outside Maltese territorial waters with 400 rescued people on board, in what have effectively become offshore detention centers, as chaos in the Mediter

ROME – A masked Sergio Mattarella, the Italian head of state, attended the 74th anniversary of the Day of the Republic, and said in a speech that "alongside the pain for the losses and the sufferin

PALERMO – An investigation into the disappearance of the New Isis’ fishing vessel on the night of May 11, thought to have vanished somewhere between San Vito Lo Capo and Ustica, has been piecing to

ATHENS – Italian tourists arriving in Greece from the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, will be subject to swabs and a quarantine of a minimum of seven days, according

MILAN – A procession of over 600 protestors organized by local social centers gathered under the Lombardy Regional management building on Wednesday, resulting in clashes with police on the Via Melc

BRESICA – An expert virologist is cautiously optimistic about summer, after a less powerful variant of the Sars-Cov-2 virus was identified in the Microbiology laboratory of the Asst Spedali Civili,

REGGIO CALABRIA – There were 11 public officials, including the manager of the National Autonomous Roads Corporation (ANAS) for the Reggio area, amongst the 63 people arrested on Thursday morning o

ROME –  The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s annulment of the takeover of the Certosa Trisulti abbey by the ‘Dignitatis Humanae Institute’ (DHI), a Judeo-Christian think tank and academy wit

ROME – The Italian politician Francesco Boccia formed a proposal for the Italian government to rely on 60,000 ‘civic assistants’ to regulate nightlife and enforce the requirements of Phase 2 withou

PALERMO – A pregnant woman, 34, who returned to Sicily from the UK with a stopover in Rome, was admitted to the Cervello hospital in the Sicilian capital on Sunday evening after testing positive fo

AGRIGENTO – A reported 400 migrants landed on the Sicilian beach in Palma di Montechiaro on Sunday at 2:00 p.m., with video taken by beach-goers showing an inflatable vessel moving along the coast,

ROME – Lombardy is the only region in Italy to have registered an increase in coronavirus positive cases on Thursday, and after M5S deputy Riccardo Ricciardi gave a speech in the Chamber of Deputie

ROME – The China ambassador to Italy, Li Junhua, has said that China respects the US-Italy alliance, and that it should not be an obstacle to the Italy China partnership, and further said that Chin

ROME – All across Italy more people were outside and there was more traffic on the roads as the new round of re-opening began after Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte signed off on a new timetab

ROME – A university allegedly allowed Florentine police officers to cheat in exams by providing the answers to prospective and current Florentine police officers, which has led to corruption charge

ROME - ANSA's assembly of journalists proclaimed a 48-hour strike from Friday until Sunday, according to ANSA’s own website.

MILAN – The Seveso river, which flows through the provinces of Como, Monza e Brianza, and Milan, and which has overflowed consistently through the years, flooded again in Milan during the night as

ROME – The Italian foreign intelligence agency (AISE), has elected Gianni Caravelli, 59, as the new President of the agency, and will replace Luciano Carta, who leaves his leadership position to ta