ROME – The Six Nations Rugby match between Ireland and Italy will not take place as planned on March 7 due to the risk of the coronavirus, the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) have stated.

MESSINA – Sea Watch 3 arrived in the port of Messina on Thursday morning with 194 migrants on board, after three rescue operations which took place from Sunday to Wednesday were conducted north of

COSENZA – Tremors were felt in Calabria after a third earthquake jolt struck Italy the early hours of Thursday morning, with the epicentre in between the Eolian islands and the coastline of Calabri

ROME – Eight children have tested positive for the coronavirus in Lombardy, two of which were temporarily hospitalised, according to public health officials. A baby from Castiglione d'Adda was amon

VENICE - The world-famous Hollywood actor Tom Cruise was temporarily stuck in a 5 star hotel in Venice after the filming of Mission Impossible 7 was put on hold after the coronavirus outbreak in No

ROME – The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has levelled allegations of incompetence at health management officials in Northern Italy, while three countries, Kuwait, Jordan and the Seychelles

ROME – Defence and police officials from around the world met on Friday to discuss the problems of drug trafficking in the modern era, in an attempt to develop common strategies that will help figh

GENOA – Italian union workers blockaded the port of Genoa in protest against the attempted docking of the ‘Bahri-Yanbu’ freighter which is suspected of carrying explosive material to Jeddah, Saudi

GRADISCA - The Court of Gradisca has opened a murder enquiry into the death of Georgian citizen Vakhtang Enukidze, 38, who died in hospital after a violent altercation

 MILAN – A group of protesters surprised onlookers at Milan Fashion Week when they poured “toxic slime” over their bodies to highlight the hazardous waste products of the fashion industry. 

ROME – The Board of Directors of the Unione di Banche Italiane (UBI) met on Wednesday morning to discuss a public exchange offer from Intesa Sanpaolo, which the CEO of UBI, Victor Massiah, received

 ROME – The vandalizing of a mural depicting murdered Cambridge University student Giulio Regeni embracing Patrick George Zaki, another student arrested arbitrarily by security services and torture

 MILAN – Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana has joined forces with Humanitas University in the global fight against Coronavirus.

 LONDON – Jeremy Irons, Maggie Smith and Ian McKellen are among the luminaries celebrating the life and work of Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli at a special commemorative event in London on

 ROME – Italy’s far-right League leader, Matteo Salvini, has denied he was planning to host an event in Liverpool but has invited the mayor of the city, who accused him of being fascist, to Milan f

  SALÒ – Benito Mussolini will remain an honorary citizen of Salò, after a city council meeting rejected a motion from the politically progressive 'Salò futura' group to remove the status, reports

Arignano – A League councillor has been accused of making racist remarks aimed at Maty Fall Diba, the model who closed the Valentino fashion show and was on the front cover of the February issue of

TRIPOLI –  Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio landed in Tripoli on Wednesday to meet with Prime Minister Fayez al Sarraj of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), and has announced tha

ROME – On Wednesday the Senate Chamber approved a request to begin court proceedings against Matteo Salvini for refusing to allow a migrant rescue vessel to dock in 2019, initiating a legal process

MILAN – Following a shareholders meeting on Tuesday over videocall, a decision has been made not to recapitalise and to liquidate Air Italy, as stated in an official Air Italy statement.

ROME – The UFI Global CEO Summit, an event bringing to together around a hundred CEOs and presidents who organize the most important trade fairs in the world, ended in the Eternal City on Friday. 

ROME – Italian university courses have lost as many as 10,000 teaching staff over the last 10 years, and have missed out on approximately 67,000 students, reports Il Fatto Quotidiano.