ROME – The Community of Sant’Egidio is urging EU countries to take in refugees that have been left homeless after fires destroyed Europe’s largest migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

 ROME – Sicilian mafia boss Giuseppe Fanara, who is serving a life sentence, has bitten and swallowed the finger of a prison guard during an altercation, Il Messaggero reports.

 PALERMO - Sicilian police have arrested a gang of human traffickers that facilitate illegal immigration from Africa, police said Tuesday.

 The Outsider, by the London Tablet’s Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb, is a sustained defence of Pope Francis.

 APULIA – “We are very proud of what you are doing and we continue to thank you and your Member States for granting such a professional contribution to our Operation”. With these words Adm

 MILAN – The eldest daughter of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has tested positive for Covid-19, sources close to the family said on Monday.

 NAPLES – Governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca is under investigation for alleged abuse of office and fraud after ‘favouring’ and promoting four traffic policemen to his staff, judicial sources sa

ROME – Italian Health Minister, Roberto Speranza, has announced that rapid tests will be part of the plan to aid the return of schools during the Coronavirus pandemic.

ROME – An Algerian delegation, including two ministers, arrived in Rome in August to discuss and draw up a short-term business agenda between the two countries.

ROME – Silvio Berlusconi, 84, who has led four different Italian governments as Prime Minister, has been taken to hospital in Milan for potential “bilateral pneumonia”, according to his staff.

BOLOGNA – Six people are being investigated, including an ex-candidate of political party League, for engaging in sex with underage prostitutes for the exchange of drugs, report judicial sources.

ROME – The Italian Coastguard stepped in to aid the motor patrol boat bought and funded by mysterious British artist Banksy in dealing with an emergency migrant situation on Sunday night. 

TROPEA – A 71-year old Sheikh arrived at this Calabrian port aboard his yacht and tested positive for Coronavirus on arrival, Italian health authorities have disclosed.

PISA – The passengers on board the flight with the man removed by staff in Hazmat suits after being found to be covid positive, will face no extra rules after landing in Italy.  

PORTO CERVO, Sardinia – The number of positive cases of the Coronavirus of those staff members tested in the Billionaire club is now 63 out of 90, reports Il Messaggero.

ROME – The region of Puglia first announced it would offer 1,500 euros to support those getting married and then Sardinia raised that figure to 4,000 later on, reports il Fatto quotidiano.

ROME – The number of new positive cases of the Coronavirus rose to 1,367 in Italy on Wednesday, with a record 93,000 tests carried out in 24 hours.

ROME – The former director of prisons in Reggio Calabria, Maria Carmela Longo, has been arrested under the charge of collusion with mafia associations.

SARDINIA - Flavio Briatore, 70, famous Formula 1 businessman and owner of luxury nightclub Billionaire is in a “serious condit

MODENA – Arrigo Levi, the journalist and writer who directed newspaper La Stampa and had a long career in the business died at 94, reports Il fatto quotidiano.  

ROME – Jerry Essan Masslo, the South African refugee killed in the countryside where he worked 31 years ago, will be commemorated by charity Comunità Sant’Egidio on Monday.

ROME – The number of new positive cases of the coronavirus in Italy stands at 1,210 in the last 24 hours and seven more people have died, according to data from the Ministry of Health.

TARANTO - The tourist summer 2020 in Taranto, not yet completed, has in fact recorded an increase in arrivals and overnight stays compared to the same month of the previous year.

ROME – Italy will not go into a second lockdown despite a burst of over 1000 new Covid infections registered on Saturday, the largest number in over three months, Italian Health Minister Roberto Sp