ROME – Italian left-wing politician, journalist and co-founder of maverick newspaper Il Manifesto, Rossana Rossanda, has died aged 96.

 ROME – Italian police have shot and killed a man during an alleged robbery in the EUR district, on the southern outskirts of Rome, police sources said on Monday.

 ROME – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged Pope Francis not to renew a two-year-old agreement between China and the Vatican, Italian media reported on Monday.

 MARTINA FRANCA – From Friday 18 until September 30, in the splendid setting of the courtyard of one of the most evocative 18th century palaces of Martina Franca, located along Corso Vittorio Emanu

 ROME – COVID-19 has, in appreciable ways, been good for women. A bold statement, indeed. But that is the case, according to a leading senior executive.

 ROME -- With two important anniversaries coming up - the Bicentenary of the death of John Keats' in 2021, followed by that of Shelley the year immediately after, heritage and conservation expert N

 MONZA – Police have found ‘precious’ books, stolen from a London warehouse almost four years ago, concealed under a house at a rural Romanian property, Monza police said Friday.

 In the photograph above it looks as though Saint John Paul II is blessing the Trumps. Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory called Trump’s visit ‘reprehensible.’

 ROME – With the slogan +BusXRoma, Rome’s mayor Virginia Raggi presented the brand new ATAC buses in Saxa Rubra square, in North Rome, 30 of which are already in service in the northern ar

 ROME -- The saga of foreign lecturers suffering discrimination based on nationality in Italian Universities is to be reviewed by the European Parliament's Committee for Petitions in Brussels next

 FLORENCE – Police have made dozens of arrests, seizing tonnes of cocaine and millions of euros, in a maxi anti-drug operation targeting a key Albanian drug trafficking cartel, local sources said o

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis paid homage to a murdered priest calling him a “martyr of charity” as he concluded his weekly general audience before a small crowd at San Damaso courtyard on Wednesday

 ANCONA - A huge blaze has devastated the port of Ancona in Italy’s central Marche region, destroying warehouses and sending noxious plumes of smoke throughout the city, local sources said on Wedne

 SASSARI – Prison escapee Giuseppe Mastini, better known as Johnny “Lo Zingaro” (the gypsy), has been recaptured in Sardinia, police sources said on Tuesday.

 MILAN – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been released from hospital following a bout of Covid-19, Italian media reported.

 HELSINKI – In light of the new update of the list of countries based on the national incidence rate of the virus, from 19 September 2020 Finland will reintroduce restrictive measures also for Ital

 ROME – Schools may have reopened Monday for the first time since being forced to close in March due to the coronavirus lockdown but there’s a cloud hanging over canteen services.

 ROME -- The Italian Interior Minister, Luciana Lamorgese, will in coming days make a visit to Algiers for talks with her Algerian counterpart, Kamel Beldjoud, and other senior officials including

 MILAN – A former bank director has told a Milan court the anomalous “movements” by League party-linked accountants on the records of Taaac!, a Milan-based company that provides film production ser

 MILAN – The Nigerian government is seeking more than $ 1 billion in damages from Eni and Royal Dutch Shell in one of the oil industry’s biggest corruption cases, Italian media reports.

 ROME – Twenty refugees awarded Italian university scholarships have landed in Italy as part of the University Corridors for Refugees project, The UN Refugee Agency said in a statement on

 PISTICCI – Italian police have made four arrests in the alleged gang rape of two underage English tourists in southern Italy, local sources said on Friday.

 VATICAN CITY – Vatican watchers mused over Pope Francis' policy on combatting coronavirus after he was photographed briefly wearing a mask when he was driven to the second weekly general audience

 ROME – The school year will begin regularly on Sept.