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Sinkhole in Naples swallows car with two people inside
ROME – A sinkhole in Naples swallowed two cars, a tree and two people in the early hours of Wednesday morning, police sources said.
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Ira von Furstenburg, princess and 60s icon, dies age 83
ROME – Princess Ira von Furtsenburg, Italian socialite, actress and model, died on Sunday aged 83, her family announced.
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Supreme Court rules handing migrants back to Libyan coastguards is a crime
Bishop and mayor row over Giordano Bruno cathedral projection
ROME – A social media row between the mayor and bishop of Nola, Sicily, has divided the town after an image of Giordano Bruno, philosopher and heretic, was projected onto the side of Nola’s cathed
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Children's lives threatened by malnutrition in the Gaza Strip
GENEVA/NEW YORK/ROME – A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a compr
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Brave anti-Mafia prosecutor disregards prison shank murder attempt, gory lamb's head death threat
ROME — Pancrazio Caranno, 42, had whittled a shard of his prison cell’s ceramic toilet bowl into a knife, then stowed the weapon in his rectum.
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'Scandalous' traffic fines make 1.5 billion euros in revenue
ROME – Italians have expressed outrage after Il Sole 24 Ore reported Italians paid 1.535 billion euros in traffic fines in 2023.
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History making Sinner claims another victory
President Mattarella denounces murky death of Russian opposition leader
ROME - Italian President Sergio Mattarella has denounced the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in northern Russia as "bringing back memories of the darkest times in history."
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Accusations of 'climate hell' amid profits of 8.2 billion for Eni
ROME - Eni, Italy’s leading energy company, announced profits of 8.2 billion euros on Friday, i
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Julian Assange made honorary citizen of Rome
Twenty four fascist apologists searched in Ferrara
ROME – Police in Ferrara have carried out 24 searches in relation to 24 men between the ages of 20 and 30 who are accused of racism, violence and praising Nazism, the Ferrara State police said.
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Murdered envoy's father says 'weak' Italy bowed to 'WFP blackmail' over suspects' immunity
ROME -- The father of a murdered Italian ambassador spoke out against the WFP "blackmailing" Italy after a preliminary court upheld diplomatic immunity for two World Food Programme employees alleg
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Only Italian born with half a heart gives birth to twins in Rome
ROME — Italy’s only baby to be born with half a heart is now 36 years old — and the mother of newborn twins, La Repubblica reported.
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Bricklayer says evangelicals urged him to kill wife and sons: 'There was the devil in the house'
ROME — A 54-year-old bricklayer killed his wife and two sons, 16 and five, “to free them from demons,” Carabinieri said he told them on Sunday.
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Brothers arrested for helping mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro
ROME – The two sons of mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro’s driver have been arrested, Palermo Carabinieri said.
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Two 'disabled' men arrested for fraud after driving car
ROME – Two men in Monza have been arrested on charges of aggravated fraud after faking being disabled, Monza financial police have said.
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Sanremo Gaza 'genocide' outcry as RAI accused of 'censorship'
Outrage over blessing gay Catholics is 'hypocrisy,' Francis says
Italian Foreign Ministry launch new virtual assistant
Farmers block Rome's ring road as national protests continue
Carabinieri arrest 23 alleged Mafiosi for EU funds fraud
ROME — Two years ago a Patti court sentenced 91 associates of the Tortorici Mafia to 600 total years of prison time for conspiring to receive more than 5 million euros of subsidies meant for Europ
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UK Defence Committee visits Italy, focus on new fighter jet
ROME - A delegation from the UK Parliamentary Defence Committee is in Rome this week to strengthen ties with Italy in the defence sector, the UK Ministry of Defence have said.
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Smuggler gets steep sentence for migrant tragedy, questions over alleged state rescue failure persist
ROME - A human trafficker involved with the Cutro shipwreck has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined 3 million euros, the Crotone tribunal court said.
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