ROME - A Rome court has rejected a request by Rudy Guede, currently serving 16 years in prison for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, to spend the rest of his sentence doing community service.

 ROME – Judging by the enthusiastic support given to the idea by main political parties, 16-year-olds in Italy could soon get the vote.

 ROME – On his first official visit to Italy as U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo was to have a private audience with Pope Francis at a Vatican symposium on Wednesday.

 Calabria is sometimes seen as a backward region corroded by a criminal underworld but this afflicts mainly its southern zones.  A recent trip to its northernmost province revealed instead a surpri

 GENOA – Further revelations in the Morandi Bridge investigation suggest that attempts to save money on maintenance owing to a deal with German and Chinese companies may have played a role in bring

 ROME – Silvia Romano, the Italian aid worker kidnapped in Kenya in 2018, has been converted to Islam and forced to marry, Il Giornale reported on Monday.

 SIENA - The 27^th annual Anglo-Italian conference has ended in an atmosphere of goodwill and cooperation, political sources report.

 FLORENCE – Two Belgian brothers found dead in a hotel room are suspected to have succumbed to a powerful cocktail of drugs and alcohol, La Repubblica reported on Monday.

 VENICE – Venice city council has placed a ban on low-cost fashion and souvenir shops opening in the San Marco and Rialto areas for the next three years, local sources report.

 MILAN – Claudio Descalzi, CEO of Eni, and his wife Maria Magdalena Ingoba have been placed under investigation by the Milan prosecutor’s office for not having declared a conflict of interest, judi

 ROME – Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister of Italy and current leader of the Forza Italia party, is under investigation on suspicion of collaborating with the Mafia to organise murders and b

 ROME – 180 cities in Italy will see climate strikes over the course of the day as students and schoolchildren leave classrooms to protest, reports La Repubblica.

 ROME - AS Roma has teamed up with World Cup hosts Qatar to develop football in Italy at grassroots level in a four-year partnership.

 ROME – A pioneering film about Italy's ruthless business world directed by a former oil company executive has just finished a month's shooting in Rome. 

 ROME – A memorial to Peter Tompkins, an American Second World War spy whose daring work with Italian anti-Fasist agents in occupied Rome played a crucial role in the battle of Anzio, was unveiled

 ROME – The Italian constitutional court has ruled that assisting suicide cannot be punished if it is done under certain conditions, report judicial sources.

 MILAN – Eni, the Italian oil and gas giant, is facing investigation by the Milan public prosecutors regarding an alleged deal with Russian oil companies in which money may have gone to fund the Le

 VALLE D’AOSTA – Up to 250,000 square metres of ice may be about to fall from the Planpincieux glacier on the Grandes Jorasses peak of Mont Blanc.

 ROME – For the first time, the number of new cancer cases in Italy is falling.

 NEW YORK – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has reaffirmed Italy’s commitment to fighting climate change at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.

 MONTEFIASCONE – To mark 300 years since the wedding of the parents of Bonnie Prince Charlie, a cultural event to honour the marriage is being held by the Polish embassy to Italy and the municipali

 ROME – Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio is demanding answers from Egypt over the case of Giulio Regeni.

 VALLETTA – Italy, Malta, France, Finland and Germany have reached an agreement at Malta regarding the handling of the migrant crisis.

 AMATRICE – Three years on from the devastating earthquake that killed 300 people in 2016, central Italy is continuing to suffer aftershocks, reports Il Messaggero.

 ROME – Ramon Cristobal Santoyo, a main director of cocaine smuggling from Mexico to the USA, has been arrested at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, reports Il Messaggero.