CATANIA – Eastern Sicily was placed on a red weather warning and western Sicily on a yellow one as bad weather hits the island, said local authorities on Friday.

 BOLOGNA – Finance police carried out search operations in Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Lazio on Wednesday as part of an investigation into the top executives of company Bio-on.

 MILAN – Linate airport was set to reopen as the most technologically advanced airport in Italy after a closure lasting three months on Oct 27, said the airport authorities.

 VIESTE – Judicial sources reported Wednesday that 15 people thought to be part of the Raduano criminal organisation have been arrested.

 OTTAWA – The Italian companies Salini Impregilo and Astaldi have won a contract to build a new railway line in Ontario, said business sources Wednesday.

 TARANTO – There is increased concern that Europe’s largest steelworks will close as ministers and managers fight over ArcelorMittal’s Ilva plant in Taranto, say business sources.

 ANTARCTIC – The 35^th Italian scientific expedition into the Antarctic has begun with the opening of the Italian station “Mario Zucchelli” (MZS) on Baia Terra Nova.

 ROME – The Italian women’s football team were awarded the Invictus prize Monday at the Foreign Press Association in Rome.

 MILAN – Much of Milan is flooded due to an ongoing storm.

 ROME – Young Italians’ drink and drugs crisis was demonstrated again tragically on Saturday night with the deaths of two teenage boys in Palermo and a young woman in a Florence nightclub.

 ROME - If the House of Commons does vote through Boris Johnson’s deal, the impact on Italy and Italians will be felt only slowly, Il Messaggero reports.

 LAMPEDUSA - The full tragedy of the Mediterranean migrant crisis has again been shown with the discovery of the bodies of a young woman and a child on the sea floor, still embracing.

 ROME – Paolo Bonaiuti, journalist and a former spokesman for ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was a respected friend of foreign journalists from across the political spectrum, has died at

 WASHINGTON – When Italian President Sergio Mattarella met his American counterpart at the White House for a quick and frank meeting over trade issues and the avoidance of retaliatory tariffs, Dona

 VENICE – Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man can go to Paris, the Veneto regional administrative court has ruled.

 ROME – Around 40 passengers were injured when a city bus collided with a tree shortly after 9 a.m. on Wednesday.

 BOLZANO – The replacement of the name “Alto Adige” with “Province of Bolzano” in draft legislation may be sufficient grounds for the Italian government to challenge a new law.

 ROME – The EU agreements to condemn the current Turkish offensive in Syria will have limited immediate effect, say political sources.

 GENOA – Heavy overnight storms that continued into the morning have caused flooding and mudslides, forcing school closures and causing road and rail disruptions, local authorities said on Tuesday.

 ROME - The Ocean Viking rescue ship, which has picked up some 176 migrants – among them six minors – in two separate operations, once again finds itself seeking a safe port, the NGO said on Monday

 NAPLES – Carabinieri are using metal detectors in the ‘war’ against so-called baby gangs to combat the rise in knife crime in the Naples’ hilltop district of Vomero, police sources said on Monday.

 ROME – The capital’s mayor, Virginia Raggi, knew the separate waste collection service for non-domestic users was inefficient, lending itself to abuse, according to satirical political affairs pro

 ROME – Turkey is one of the Italian weapons industry's major clients according to statistics, raising calls for arms exports to the country to stop immediately.

 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.