TROPEA – A 71-year old Sheikh arrived at this Calabrian port aboard his yacht and tested positive for Coronavirus on arrival, Italian health authorities have disclosed.

PISA – The passengers on board the flight with the man removed by staff in Hazmat suits after being found to be covid positive, will face no extra rules after landing in Italy.  

PORTO CERVO, Sardinia – The number of positive cases of the Coronavirus of those staff members tested in the Billionaire club is now 63 out of 90, reports Il Messaggero.

ROME – The region of Puglia first announced it would offer 1,500 euros to support those getting married and then Sardinia raised that figure to 4,000 later on, reports il Fatto quotidiano.

ROME – The number of new positive cases of the Coronavirus rose to 1,367 in Italy on Wednesday, with a record 93,000 tests carried out in 24 hours.

ROME – The former director of prisons in Reggio Calabria, Maria Carmela Longo, has been arrested under the charge of collusion with mafia associations.

SARDINIA - Flavio Briatore, 70, famous Formula 1 businessman and owner of luxury nightclub Billionaire is in a “serious condit

MODENA – Arrigo Levi, the journalist and writer who directed newspaper La Stampa and had a long career in the business died at 94, reports Il fatto quotidiano.  

ROME – Jerry Essan Masslo, the South African refugee killed in the countryside where he worked 31 years ago, will be commemorated by charity Comunità Sant’Egidio on Monday.

ROME – The number of new positive cases of the coronavirus in Italy stands at 1,210 in the last 24 hours and seven more people have died, according to data from the Ministry of Health.

TARANTO - The tourist summer 2020 in Taranto, not yet completed, has in fact recorded an increase in arrivals and overnight stays compared to the same month of the previous year.

ROME – Italy will not go into a second lockdown despite a burst of over 1000 new Covid infections registered on Saturday, the largest number in over three months, Italian Health Minister Roberto Sp

PORTO CERVO, Sardinia – The popular Italian island faces another hotspot after seven employees at the Billionaire nightclub in Porto Cervo, run by Formula 1 magnate Flavio Briatore, tested positive

AOSTA – A man, 39, and a woman, 36, died on Thursday after a climbing accident in the d’Ayas valley in the Italian Alps, according to Val d'Aosta Mountain Rescue.

MONZA – The two drivers of the train that derailed on Wednesday in Monza were ordering a sandwich as it rolled out of the station.

MONZA – A railway accident took place at around 11:45 Wednesday morning in the station of Carnate Usmate in the province of Monza in Lombardy, no serious injuries

RIMINI – The ex-chief of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, has stolen the limelight at the annual Catholic Rimini Meeting with an urgent speech warning “we have to give more to young people.

 SANTO STEFANO, Sardinia – 21 of the 300 swabs returned from the 470 people isolated in Santo Stefano have come back positive, after a seasonal worker there contracted Coronavirus. 

ROME – Nightclub owners around Italy are objecting to the government’s decision, announced on Monday, to close all clubs from Sunday until at least Sep. 7.

ROME – There have been 523 new cases of Coronavirus in Italy while arrivals from Greece, Malta, Spain and Croatia will have to take a quick test that regions are struggling to supply.

ROME –Community of Sant’Egidio, the Roman Catholic movement, will be holding events for the Ferragosto holiday in Rome and across Italy on Saturday from 12 at the

ROME – Two of the five MPs who took a 600 euros bonus meant for the self-employed disadvantaged by the Coronavirus pandemic have been suspended by their party, the League.  

BRESCIA – Four million bees have died over the course of two days in a stretch of land between Brescia and Cremona in the Northern region of Lombardy, reports Il fatto quotidiano.

CUNEO – A Land Rover with nine people on board careered off a road in Cuneo on Tuesday, five of the passengers, all under the age of 25, have died, police say.