ROME -- The European Union's anti-fraud unit, OLAF, has concluded its investigation into possible conflict of interest and nepotism by former FAO assistant director general, Roberto Ridolfi, and h

TARANTO – Italian Rear Admiral Fabrizio Rutteri has taken over from the Greek Rear Admiral Michail Magkos the Command Authority of the European Joint Force operating in the Central Medite

 DONETSK – An Italian soldier who fought with pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region of Ukraine was killed when he allegedly flung himself on a hand grenade to protect his comrades

ROME – Vladimir Putin feels "the time is not right" to speak to Zelensky said the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi in a press conference Thursday, one day after his first phone call wi

 ROME – Polls carried out by Ipsos for the Corriere della Sera newspaper saw Brothers of Italy party in first place with 21.5 percent of the votes, however 40.6 percent of Italians abstained, as to

 KIEV – Italian chef Stefano Antoniolli and his family decided to remain in Ukraine despite the immediate danger posed by the Russian invasion, he told Il Fatto Quotidiano during an inter

 ROME – Sources close to Silvio Berlusconi, have dismissed gossip disseminated by Novella 2000 that the leader of the Forza Italia party’s 32-year-old girlfriend is pregnant, calling it “

 ROME – The Italian public broadcaster Rai News 24 ran its first daily news programme in Ukrainian on Saturday, in service of refugees in Italy and in other European countries, wrote il Fatto Quoti

 ROME – The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC) participated for Italy in Pandora VI, the latest of a series of international operations coordinated by Inter

 KIEV – Giulia Schiff, a 23-year-old former air force pilot has enlisted voluntarily to the Special Forces of the International Legion in Ukraine to fight in the

 NAPLES – The eighth criminal section of the city’s Court of Appeal has rejected a request from Russia to extradite Ukrainian director Yevhen Lavrenchuk, who was arrested in Italy on Dec.

 PALERMO – For the second tournament in a row, Italy has not qualified for the Football World Cup, this time after it lost to lowly North Macedonia on Thursday, sports sources said.

 QUARONA, MILAN – Loro Piana, an Italian clothing brand owned by French group LVMH, officially distanced itself from Vladimir Putin after a parka from its latest collection was worn by the Russian

 NAPLES – A 22-year-old Ukrainian women who had recently fled the war in Ukraine allegedly was burned alive in her apartment by her partner, though her 5-year-old daughter was saved from

 ROME – The mafia is sure to be making money from the war in Ukraine by selling weapons and other products, according to National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho in an interview with

 NAPLES – Ukrainian and Russian dancers from the some of the world’s most prestigious theatres will perform together in ‘Ballet for Peace’ on April 4 at the Teatro San Carlo to raise fund

 ROME – The 32 people who work in the bar and canteen at the headquarters of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) have had their employment suspended indefinitely while the UN age

ROME – The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a speech to the Italian parliament on Tuesday morning, after which Prime Minister Mario Draghi emphasised "Italy wants Ukraine

 BRESCIA – Two German tourists who killed an Italian couple when they drunkenly crashed a motorboat into the pair’s small rowing boat on Lake Garda, have been sentenced to several years i

 ROME – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the Italian Foreign Ministry have stood up for Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini, after a Russian government figure called him “a hawk in the anti-Rus

 CARDIFF – After 36 consecutive Six Nations match defeats, the Italian rugby team beat Wales 22-21 with a spectacular last minute break by ‘elfin’ Capuozzo, reaffirming their place in the

 ROME – A circular was sent round the Italian military to say due to "evolutions on the international chessboard," implying the war in Ukraine, there would be extra training given and the number of

 ROME – In a press conference mostly addressing the end of Covid-19 restrictions, Prime Minister Mario Draghi also answered questions about the war in Ukraine, saying that the current sit

ROME – A circular sent out by Italian Army General Staff signalled a state of pre-alert with regards to the war in Ukraine, however there the Italian armed forces are far from battle read

 LECCO – A British father of two has died after the jet plane he was co-piloting crashed into a mountain near Lake Como, aviation sources said.