GENOA – Some 368 kilos of cocaine, which has a market value of over 100 million euros, was seized by undercover police in an internationally co-ordinated operation when the ‘Ndrangheta sailing boat

ROME – For the first time, Facebook has taken down League posts denouncing the antiracist movement “Cara Italia” because they are in violation of its community standards, according to Cara Italia’s

ROME – Icon of the spaghetti western, George Hilton, died in Rome on Sunday at the age of 85.

ROME – Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has branded the blindfolding by police of one of the two American teenagers accused of killing a Carabiniere paramilitary policeman last week a “crime.” The pho

PIEDIMONTE SAN GERMANO – One year after the death of Sergio Marchionne, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) remembers its late CEO with an image from the Science Gateway project, the scientific educati

ROME - "Fifty years after the ruling of the US Supreme Court of the United States - by Judge Black in 1971, who, speaking of the Pentagon papers related to American politics in Vietnam, recalled th

ROME – Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has railed against the decision to allow the construction of a McDonald’s near the world heritage-listed Terme di Caracalla (Baths of Caracalla) in the centre of Ro

LONDON – After being banned from the Turin Book Fair, neo-fascist publishing house Altaforte has suffered another blow, this time from across the Channel, where a London university has cancelled th

ROME – Confindustria, the Italian employers’ federation and FEI, the federation of Egyptian industries Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to “strengthen trade relations and promote econo

ROME – Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Wednesday that he supported the completion of the controversial high-speed railway (TAV) which would link Turin with Lyon in France, having expressed doubt

ROME – In a surprise visit to the building squatted by neo-fascist political party CasaPound, Rome mayor Virginia Raggi together with police has served a decree ordering the removal of the unauthor

GWANGJU, South Korea – It was more triumph for Italy Wednesday at this year’s World Aquatics Championships, as Federica Pellegrini cemented her place among the all-time greats of Italian sports, wi

Gary Celima was born in New York City and lived there until retirement. He has always considered himself Italian, but found moving to his homeland later in life a bureaucratic nightmare.

CUNEO – Two British men are dead after two planes collided mid-air Wednesday over the Italian-French alpine border, Italian news agency ANSA reports.

ROME – Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was one of many leaders to congratulate Boris Johnson, who is set to become the UK’s prime minister later today as Theresa May resigns.

FOGGIA – Three young migrants were attacked and hospitalised Tuesday morning as they walked to work in the Puglian countryside, having stones thrown at them from a moving car.

ROME – There will be a general transport strike affecting buses, trains, ships and metro services Wednesday, and a further air transport strike Friday, confirmed union sources Tuesday.

GWANGJU, South Korea – Italy’s Simona Quadarella won gold in the women’s 1500 metres freestyle at the world aquatics championships in Gwangju, South Korea, breaking the Italian record at just 20 ye

ROME – Intense traffic snarls are expected in the last weekend of July as Italian holiday-makers make their way to summer destinations.

ROCCELLA IONICA – Two Russians suspected of people smuggling have been arrested for allegedly landing 42 Iranian and Iraqi migrants at Roccella Ionica, on the east coast of Reggio Calabria in south

Rome – All charges relating to allegations of sexual assault made against footballer Cristiano Ronaldo will be dropped, according to US prosecutors.

ROME – Unicredit, a major Italian bank which has its headquarters in Milan, will lay off 10,000 employees from December according to leaks reported by Bloomberg News.

COSENZA – Two men were shot dead in their car in the countryside of Corigiliano Rossano in what may have been a double murder organised by local criminal groups, according to Il Fatto Quotidian

ROME – As Romans prepare for the mass holiday exodus, a two-day general transport strike has been scheduled for all modes of public transport on Wednesday, while on Friday, only those flying will b

MILAN – Francesco Saverio Borrelli, who was Milan’s chief prosecutor in the so-called Mani Pulite anti-corruption campaigns of the 1990s, died Saturday aged 89.