ROME - Italian literature has often been enriched by writers of the north-eastern frontier region where Italian, Germanic and Slavic cultures mingle.

 ROME – In the wake of the Senate’s rejection of the Five Star Movement’s no-TAV motion, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is calling for the scalps of three ministers or he will dissolve the go

ROME – The Senate has rejected the Five Star Movement’s motion to stop the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail-link project by 181 votes to 110, political sources said on Wednesday.

ROME – The writing on the façade of the CasaPound office has been removed from the historic seat of the neo-fascist political party and now Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has called for the group to eva

ROME – Tourists face fines of up to 400 euros for sitting or lying down on the Eternal City’s Spanish Steps, made famous abroad by Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in the 1953 film, Roman Holida

CASARGO, Lecco – 140 people have been displaced in the Lecco area after mud and landslides swept away cars following a wave of bad weather that hit northern Italy on Tuesday night.

 BERGEGGI, Savona – A 17 year-old boy has confessed to throwing from the cliff-top above a beach, a bin that hit a 12-year-old French boy in the face, landing the victim in Genoa hospital’s intensi

ROME – Passengers will have to use alternative transport means throughout August during closures for maintenance works on Metro line A.

 ROME – Kidnapped Italian aid worker Silvia Romano had filed a complaint against an Anglican pastor accusing him of molesting some girls before she went missing, Il Fatto Quotidiano report

ROME – Finnegan Lee Elder believed he was “the target of an attack,” claiming he was “afraid of being strangled” and that he didn’t know the man he allegedly killed was a Carabiniere paramilitary p

 MILANO MARITTIMA –  Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is set to continue his beach tour as an unofficial election campaign amid talk of a possible government collapse, Il Messaggero 

ROME – A new employment protection decree will allocate 16.9 million euros to Whirlpool in a bid to save 420 jobs and prevent the American home appliances manufacturer from shutting its Naples prod

ROME - With nuclear treaties being dismantled and bilateral dialogue unravelling, the danger of a nuclear catastrophe is higher today than it was during the Cold War, a former US defence secretary

ROME – Mayor Virginia Raggi is forging ahead with her scheme to relocate ‘street stalls’ despite Minister of Economic Development Luigi di Maio’s request for her to abandon the “decorum plan” for t

LIBYAN COAST - German Sea Eye NGO ship the Alan Kurdi, which rescued 40 migrants off the coast of Libya on Wednesday, is heading towards Lampedusa in defiance of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Sa

ROME – Ethan Elder arrived in Rome to visit his son for the first time Thursday, 19-year-old Californian Finnegan Lee Elder who is accused of murdering a Carabiniere paramilitary policeman last wee

MARTINA FRANCA – A 29-year-old Japanese opera singer accused of persecuting an Italian conductor for eight months, has been arrested in the province of Taranto, Apulia, for stalking the musician. 

LIBYAN COAST – The Interior Ministry has signed an entry ban preventing German Sea Eye NGO ship the Alan Kurdi, which rescued 40 migrants around 30 miles off the Libya coast on Wednesday m

ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is giving his blessing for the migrants aboard the Gregoretti Coast Guard vessel moored in Augusta, Sicily, to disembark now that five European coun

SARDINIA – A German arms factory with a production plant in Sardinia and headquarters in Ghedi, in northern Italy, has suspended the export of aircraft bombs to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emi

MILANO MARITTIMA, Ravenna – A video showing the son of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini enjoying a ride on a police jet-ski at Milano Marittima beach has caused the League leader embarrassm

ROME – The Supreme Court of Cassation has ruled that students in Turin can no longer take sandwiches to school from home, judicial sources said on Tuesday.

ROME – The Italian foreign ministry uses hundreds of poorly paid local contractors around the world to carry out strange and delicate ‘missions,’ Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.

NUORO, Sardinia – In two separate attacks in the early hours of Tuesday morning, there was a huge gas explosion which badly damaged Democratic Party (PD) headquarters and the car of a mayor was bur