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Apartment block blasted by avalanche
ROME - The latest in a series of cold-weather battles in the north of Italy, an avalanche hit an apartment building in the town of Sestriere, near Turin, late Monday.
Women beautiful 'both on feet and wheels'
ROME - The Miss Wheelchair World competition has concluded, but its impact, in showing that women’s bodies are not ‘wonderful’ merely through physical ability, li
Pope tells diplomats 'painful' how often rights violated
Italy welcomes Nordic holidaymakers at Matka Travel Fair
Berlusconi's 2018 power bid with party coalition
ROME - The President of Lombardy, Roberto Maroni of the Northern League, plans to leave his position in order to return to Rome as a centre-right minister, making room for the consolidation of the
The Longobards in Naples
Jewels of the east stolen in Venice heist
La Dolce Vita in a Pugliese Masseria
NL Salvini calls Turin's Egyptian Museum racist
ROME - An effort by the Egyptian Museum of Turin to assist in the integration of 50,000 Arabic Italians in the region has led to associations of racism by the Northern League.
Evacuation of 10,000 tourists in alpine Cevinia green-lit
CERVINIA - Ten thousand tourists were blocked overnight in the Alpine resort town on Friday after two metres of snow fell in 24 hours due to Storm Eleanor.
Pensioner 'used as shield' in mafia shoot-out
BITONTO - Mafia hitmen trying to gun down a 20-year-old member of a rival clan near the Apulian city of Bari shot and killed an 84-year-old woman used as human shield as she was on her way to atten
Man arrested in 'Ambulance of Death' case
CATANIA – A Sicilian ambulance worker has been arrested on charges of murdering three elderly patients in his care in order to charge their families money for funerals, according to the public pros
Borsalino declared bankrupt
Brescia bomber Tramonte to be extradited to Italy
ROME - Maurizio Tramonte, a neo-Fascist convicted of a devastating bombing in Brescia 40 years ago, is set to be extradited from Portugal to Italy on Tuesday, according to news sources.
Leonardo wins deal for Kuwait airport
Galatina Air Force Base and International Flying School
LECCE - Deep in the heel of Italy, in this Baroque southern town, there is an Italian Air Force base recognized worldwide for its excellence.
Nigerian prostitution ring detained in South Italy
LAMEZIA TERME - The Carabinieri have arrested seven individuals believed to be part of a Nigerian prostitution ring in Southern Italy, according to news sources.
Amanda Knox battles misogyny in new TV show
Justice for murdered journalist delayed a second time
VALLETTA - For the second time, a magistrate presiding over the case of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has renounced her position due to personal connections to the writer, ac
Euro vote unless financial change says Five Star
ROME - The leader of the populist Five Star Movement, Luigi Di Maio, announced Sunday that an Italian referendum on leaving the euro was not off the table.
'Nationalist' Austrians give citizenship to Italians
Jewish uproar as King's remains brought to Italy
TURIN - The Jewish communities of Italy were dismayed as the remains of Victor Emmanuel III, the penultimate monarch of Italy who signed Fascist laws against Jews, were flown from Egypt to be laid