ROME – Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has sent a formal request to Copasir for a meeting to assess his involvement in Italy’s growing Russiagate scandal, Il Messaggero reports.

 ROME – The Italian Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish ambassador Thursday, in protest over the Turkish offensive in Syria.

 ROME – Women in Italy are higher-achieving in education than men, but are less likely to find work, according to new statistics.

 ROME – The use of electronic cigarettes in hospitals, health facilities and medical offices is being banned throughout Lazio, health officials said on Thursday.

ROME – The 16th edition of the prize of the Taste Group of the Foreign Press Association in Italy will be held in Ascoli Piceno Nov.

 ROME – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Italy’s laws on life imprisonment must change, judicial sources report.

 ROME – Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” may not be lent to the Louvre after all, following a court ruling.

 ROME – A cut to the numbers of parliamentary deputies in Italy will pass into law following a landslide vote in favour in the Chamber of Deputies.

 CAPRI – As punctual as autumn, the traditional convention of young entrepreneurs of Confindustria is scheduled for October, with the 34th conference taking place on Oct. 18 and 19 in Capri.

 ROME – Notorious human trafficker Abd al-Rahman al-Milad, known as Bija, attended a 2017 meeting with Italian officials and the Libyan coastguard to discuss the control of migration, reports L

 FLORENCE – The parents of former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, have each received suspended sentences of one year and nine months for issuing fake invoices, judicial sources said on Tuesday

 CAPRI - "Capitalism has created massive problems” Nobel Prize peace winner (2006) Muhammad Yunus tells me when we meet at the EY Capri Summit on Saturday.

 CAPRI – The EY Capri Digital Summit 2019 was characterised by the message that while technology and innovation are of increasing importance, to guarantee environmental and social stability attenti

 LAMPEDUSA – Thirteen bodies so far have been recovered as the search for survivors of the latest migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea continues, police sources said on Tuesday.

 TRIESTE – The investigation into Alejandro Augusto Stephan Meran, who killed two policemen during a shootout at Trieste’s central police station, is now widening in order to discover more about hi

 GENOA – The Via dell’Amore (Lover’s Lane), the world famous hiking trail connecting the Cinque Terre villages of Riomaggiore and Manarola – is due to reopen in 2023.

 ROME – Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte is facing severe criticism from his political allies and competitors on issues surrounding defence and the secret services, according to political sour

 LAMPEDUSA – Nine bodies have been recovered after a small boat carrying around 50 migrants capsized off the Italian Island of Lampedusa, the Italian Coast Guard said on Monday.

 COSENZA – An exiled Turkish dissident who has been tortured and accused of terrorism, has picked up an award in the prestigious Premio per la Cultura Mediterranea held in Calabria on Frid

 VENICE - The first memorial reef balls in Europe have been used to commemorate three people including two Americans in an unusually environmentally friendly way in the crystal-clear waters of the

 ROME – The Trump administration has put 25 per cent tariffs on some European products, and Italian products such as Parmesan cheese and prosciutto ham are on the list, business sources report.

 ROME – Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, arrived in Rome Tuesday and will have an audience with Pope Francis Wednesday.  He has already held talks with President Sergio Mattarella and Prime

 PALERMO – Windfarm businessman Vito Nicastri has been sentenced to nine years in jail for bankrolling notorious Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, judicial sources report.

 FLORENCE – Sommelier Giorgio Pinchiorri is facing charges of stalking an employee.

 PALERMO – Police have netted 20 arrests throughout Italy in a blitz targeting local and international drug trafficking networks that delivered cocaine from Argentina, and hashish from Morocco, Ita