Controversial F-35 ceremony cancelled
ROME – A ceremony planned to mark the opening of an assembly plant for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been cancelled amid a parliamentary row about the sky-high cost of the defence program.
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ROME – A ceremony planned to mark the opening of an assembly plant for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been cancelled amid a parliamentary row about the sky-high cost of the defence program.
ROME – A judge misdiagnosed with cancer ended his life in a euthanasia clinic in Switzerland despite being in good health, an autopsy has shown.
ROME -- Local finance police have arrested a 62 year-old man who had been posing as a magician in order to abuse and extort money from women in Milan.
Rome –- Italy’s parliament has been brought to a virtual standstill following the supreme court’s decision to rule earlier than expected on Berlusconi’s appeal against his conviction for tax fraud.
ROME –- The French conglomerate LMVH, known worldwide as Louis Vuitton, has purchased 80 percent of Italy’s historic cashmere company, Loro Piana.
ROME -- Ex-serviceman Harry Shindler is to appeal the decision made by the European Court of Human Rights not to overturn the ban on expats voting in UK elections once they have lived abroad for ov
ROME -- According to a recent release from the White House, John R. Phillips will be the next US ambassador in Italy.
ROME –- The deportation of the wife and child of a well known Kazakh dissident has caused a storm amid accusations it was carried out by Italian authorities as a favour to the Kazakh president.
PESCASSEROLI, Aquila -- Yet another Marsican brown bear has been found dead in the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise. The bear, nicknamed Stefano, was killed by three bullets.
LAMPEDUSA, Sicily -- The Pope called today for a "reawakening of consciences" regarding the plight of illegal migrants, thousands of whom have lost their lives trying to reach this remote Sicilian
SIRACUSA, Sicily -- A boat containing around 100 immigrants was intercepted this morning off the coast of Siracusa.
TURIN-A 72 year-old man was devoured by his three hungry pet tigers Wednesday after entering their cage to feed them in the hilly grounds of a disused wildlife park in Pinerolo in northern Turin pr
ROME -- Media mogul Silvio Berlusconi was convicted Monday of sexually exploiting a 17-year-old Moroccan prostitute in the "Rubygate" scandal and ordered to serve a seven year prison term.
ROME -- Today a verdict was expected in one of the two trials involving Karima el Mahroug aka Ruby.