ROME – Passengers evacuated train carriages and walked hundreds of metres along the subway tunnel following “technical problems” on Rome’s Metro B, train commuters said on Friday.

 ROME – As the Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship awaits a green light for a safe port to dock, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is confident of a “prompt solution” following his meeting with Eu

 ROME – Three people have been arrested and six suspended as part of the ongoing investigations following the Morandi bridge disaster.

 BERLIN – Germany’s support for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is crucial for continued assistance to millions of Syrians inside and outside the country, said the UN

 TURIN – Planting 60 million trees – one for every Italian citizen – as soon as possible throughout the country is the challenge set by Slow Food movement guru Carlo Petrini in the fight against cl

 NAPLES – A top Chinese model has had two and a half million dollars’ worth of jewellery stolen while a wedding guest in Capri.

 ROME – 600,000 Italian students dropped out of school in the academic year 2018 to 2019, reports Il Fatto Quotidiano.

 GENOA – The local government of Genoa, which has come under fire for sponsoring an anti-stalking event, has denied supporting an “Apertif with the stalker,” local sources said on Thursday.

 NAPLES – The “Naples Naples: Of Lava, Porcelain and Music” exhibition is opening September 21, at the Museum and Royal Forest of Capodimonte. 

 ROME – The Ocean Viking migrant-rescue ship carrying 84 migrants "must enter, no ifs or buts," Democratic Party (PD) leader Nicola Zingaretti said in a television interview late on Tuesday, when a

 ROME – New Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte was meeting with EU officials on Wednesday to discuss issues of budgets, funding and migration, after winning confidence votes in the two chambers

 PIACENZA – Forty-five-year-old Massimo Sebastini, who confessed to strangling Elisa Pomarelli, 28, has admitted to watching over and sleeping near his victim’s lifeless body, Il Messaggero 

 VENICE – The new minister for Cultural Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, has committed to end the presence of large cruise ships in Venice.

 ROME – Stefano Delle Chiaie, neo-fascist terrorist and former fugitive implicated in the 1980 Bologna massacre that killed 85 people, has died overnight in Rome’s Vannini hospital aged 82, local s

 ROME – The Run for Peace is helping to fund charity work in aid of the victims of domestic violence.

 NAPLES – Not only are Rome’s relations with Moscow being tested over the arrest in Italy of a Russian executive suspected of industrial espionage, the case marks one of the first challenges facing

 ROME - The company Sanex is holding an online poll to choose an Italian artwork to be restored as part of its "Libera l'arte" publicity campaign.

 COSENZA – A 4.2 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Calabria in Cosenza, causing train delays of up to 100 minutes, local authorities said on Monday.

ROME – Ciro Grillo, the 19-year-old son of comedian and Five Star Movement co-founder Beppe Grillo, has been accused along with three friends, of taking part in the gang rape of a model, Italian me

 ROME – Democratic Party (PD) secretary Nicola Zingaretti and former DP leader Matteo Renzi have come to the defence of new Minister for Agriculture Teresa Bellanova after she was attacked on socia

 ROME – The most important newcomer in the new Giuseppe Conte government cabinet is arguably that of the Interior Minister. Why?

 ROME – Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his new brood of Cabinet ministers were sworn in by the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, at the Quirinal Palace, on Thursday.

 ROME – The following is a list of ministers in Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s new, second government:

 Cabinet under-secretary: Riccardo Fraccaro

 ROME – After the positive results of the Five Star Movement’s Rousseau vote, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte formally told President Sergio Mattarella Wednesday that he has reached agreement

 GENOA – The birthplace of the Vespa is set to outlaw older models of the iconic scooter, in a bid to combat pollution, local authorities said on Wednesday.