VENICE – The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, is proposing smoke-free zones in the centre of the lagoon city, officials said on Tuesday.

  ROME – Around 30,000 Five Star Movement (M5S) members have already voted on the birth of a new government with the Democratic Party (PD), led by Giuseppe Conte, political sources said on Tuesday.

 LAMPEDUSA – The Italian coastguard has seized migrant rescue ship Mare Jonio, currently anchored at the island of Lampedusa, Interior Ministry sources said on Tuesday.

 LAMPEDUSA – After going more than 40 hours without water, medical staff aboard the Mare Jonio of Italian NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans, have issued a new urgent request to dock, due to t

 ROME - Plans to permanently reopen WWII dictator Benito Mussolini’s tomb as a place of pilgrimage have sparked public outrage spearheaded by the national partisans’ association ANPI. 

 STROMBOLI, Aeolian Islands – Holidaymakers and residents have spent another anxious night on the island of Stromboli after three more volcanic eruptions, police and residents said Friday.

  TRIESTE – Messages of solidarity have poured in for reporter Giovanni Taormina who found three bullets on the seat of his locked car parked outside his home in Fruili on Thursday, an act of intim

 VENICE – Jury president of the 76^th Venice Film Festival Lucrecia Martel supports the controversial inclusion of Roman Polanski in the competition but will not attend a dinner organised

 ROME – Nicola Zingaretti, leader of the Democratic Party, has made official his party’s agreement to a second government under Giuseppe Conte, after meeting with President Sergio Mattarella, polit

 ROME - The Five Star Movement and Democratic Party resumed talks Tuesday afternoon on finding an arrangement that would allow them to form a coalition government, according to political sources. 

 ROME – About 40 migrants, including children, are feared to have died in a tragic shipwreck off the coast of Libya. 

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 There has been a small earthquake near Rieti, in Lazio, Central Italy.

 LAMPEDUSA – Not only are Italy’s ports closed to NGO rescue ships, its airports are also closed to NGO planes used for Mediterranean fly-overs to assist in locating migrants in distress at sea, 

 ROME – 10 September marks the opening of the “Living Memory” exhibition at the Historical Museum in Cassino. 

 NEW YORK - A prostitute has been arrested in New York over the death of Italian chef Andrea Zamperoni, found dead in a hotel in Queens on Aug. 21, American media reports.

 NAPLES – A Polish prisoner, who used a rope made of knotted sheets to escape down a prison wall, has been recaptured just one kilometer from notorious Poggioreale prison, police said on Tuesday.

 ROME – The Democratic Party and Five Star Movement were still discussing the possibility of a coalition ahead of Tuesday’s second round of consultations with President Sergio Mattarella.  

 BRESCIA – A man who had been in a coma for 31 years following a serious car accident, has died aged 54, doctors said Monday. Ignazio Okamoto was just 22 years ol

 ROME – Maintenance works for the city’s subway Metro A have officially ended and the entire line, including the section from Battistini to Termini, is now back to normal. But from Sept.

 VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis called for the “vital lungs” of the planet - the Amazon forest - to be saved, at his Angelus on Sunday.