AOSTA – A French ski instructor has been killed falling from a helicopter in the Alps, local authorities report.

 ROME – Italy will maintain forces in Iraq as tension remains high over Iran, Italian defence sources said.

 TURIN – Diesel cars with European emission standards 5 or under have been prevented from travelling in the Piedmont capital Wednesday as the city is on a red alert for smog, local authorities repo

 NAPLES – Interior minister Luciana Lamorgese has announced that cameras will be installed on Naples ambulances, political sources reported Monday.  This follows a number of incidents of attacks on

 PALERMO – The Palermo city library was scheduled to be dedicated to Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia on Wednesday, the 99^th anniversary of his birth.

 ROME – Italy’s government was looking increasingly shaky as politicians of ruling-coalition party the Five Star Movement resigned, defected or were expelled from the party, political sources repor

MACERATA - The children of the ancient Andriatic town, thanks to the solidarity of Qatar, received Saturday a modern school complex to replace the one damaged by the earthquakes that hit Central It

 ROME – Part of the Embassy of Pakistan in the Eternal City was transformed into a dazzling fashion catwalk this week as students of the Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design showed off their cr

 ROME – A pragmatic approach making use of local powers and groups with practical influence in the area is essential to bringing about an end to conflict in Syria, Russian diplomat Marija Chodynska

 ROME – The Sardines look set to continue as a protest movement, issuing a new statement summarising their aims after a protest in Rome drew 100,000 people according to the organisers.

 ROME – In an embarrassing episode for Italy’s public broadcasting company RAI, a journalist’s interview with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad which RAI allegedly did not want to broadcast became a

 ROME – “The blue tsunami,” La Stampa labelled it, “collapse of the red wall” – the Italian media reaction to the UK election was dramatic reporting for a dramatic night.  Most papers agre

 MILAN – Mayors from all over Italy gathered for a demonstration in support of Liliana Segre, the 89-year-old Holocaust survivor and senator for life who has recently been targeted by vicious onlin

 TURIN – Two trams have collided in Turin, injuring 11 people, emergency services reported.  No one was severely hurt.

 FLORENCE – An earthquake tremor of magnitude 4.5 struck Tuscany early Monday morning, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) has recorded.  There were no immediate reports of

 ROME – To mark World Soil Day on Thursday, IBM unveiled “soil sculptures” outside the Roma Convention Centre aiming to raise awareness of issues of soil degradation and to encourage more sustainab

 ROME – British Ambassador to Italy Jill Morris held a conversation with writer and television creator Daisy Goodwin about the topic of women in leadership in an inspiring evening at Villa Wolkonsk

 ROME – UniCredit is planning to cut jobs in Italy and elsewhere as part of its 2020-2023 plan, business sources reported.

 ROME – The rector of the University of Siena has condemned allegedly pro-Hitler tweets by a professor who may now lose his job, Il Messaggero reported Tuesday.

 ROME – Alexander Yurievich Korshunov, accused of industrial espionage by an Ohio court, has been released from Poggioreale prison and is now under house arrest, Corriere della Sera report

 ROME – SOS Mediterranee is calling for “maritime authorities and a coalition of willing European States to urgently mobilise and facilitate the assignment of a Place of Safety to the Ocean Viking,

 ROME -- Under the current citizenship laws in Italy, the beginning of a domicile relationship with the streets of your city, is a state which starts at birth.

 ROME – Three hikers have been found dead in the Apennines, apparently killed by mountaineering accidents, local authorities report.

 VENICE – A vote to divide La Serenissima from the town of Mestre for administration has failed to reach the quorum that would make it valid, Italian media report.

 ROME – 19 far-right extremists who allegedly wanted to create a new Nazi party have been arrested, police sources said.