In the late 70s, many young Italian doctors probably dreamed of emigrating to the USA, to work in a major urban hospital or perhaps start a practice in some small university town.

 MESSINA – The Italian authorities gave permission Sunday for 182 migrants to disembark from the Ocean Viking at the port of Messina, Sicily.

 ROME – Support is growing for reform to the Dublin Regulation ahead of a meeting of EU leaders in Malta on Sept.

 AVEZZANO – A priest in Abruzzo has found a novel way for parishioners to ‘pay’ for car parking – prayers. 

 ROME – Italian universities have done well in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings. 

 ROME – Three police officers are being investigated in relation to a Jet Ski joyride taken by the son of former Interior Minister and leader of the Northern League Matteo Salvini, police sources s

 NAPLES – The miracle of San Gennaro was repeated on Thursday as the saint’s solid blood became liquid.  Although this is regarded as a positive sign, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe used the homily of th

 BARI – The Navy are dealing with a World War Two sea mine accidentally discovered by a fishing trawler off the coast of Puglia.

 ROME – The Chamber of Deputies has voted by secret ballot not to place Forza Italia deputy Diego Sozzani under house arrest, in an early defeat for the new government.

 HELSINKI – On the second day of the Informal Meeting of Ministers for Economic and Financial Affairs (Ecofin), Sep. 14, the ministers discussed energy taxation and also EU fiscal rules.

 ROME – President of France Emmanuel Macron is arrived in Rome on Wednesday for talks with Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte.  The discussions focussed on the issue of migration.

 ROME – The local administrations of Rome are being investigated for allegedly using funds from its system of draconian fines intended for road maintenance on “bizarre” expenses, all while Rome’s b

 ROME – UNHCR announced 18 September that the winner of the 2019 Nansen Refugee Award for Europe would be the Italian organisation Humanitarian Corridors.

 MILAN – Benetton, the empire that went from sweaters to highways, has accepted the resignation of the CEO of Atlantia, the company controlling Autostrade per l’Italia (ASPI), which runs t

 TRENTO – The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (Mart) is launching a series of exhibitions and events for its Mart’s Grand Autumn 2019 programme.

 ROME – Pasquale Di Filippo, former Cosa Nostra killer turned state witness, has given an interview with La Repubblica in which he appeals for Matteo Messina Denaro, thought to be one of t

 ROME – Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has announced he is splitting from the ruling Democratic Party (PD), saying his decision to leave is driven by the lack of a “vision for the futur

 AVELLINO – Following a fire in Avellino, near Naples, which left a toxic cloud hanging over the town, prosecutors have opened an investigation into the environmental disaster and a demonstration i

 TURIN – Twelve diehard Juventus fan group leaders have been arrested in Turin for criminal association, extortion, money laundering and violence linked to ticket sales, police said on Monday.

 LODI – A child of four fell from a second-floor balcony but was caught by a 20-year-old.

 PALERMO – Three people accused of kidnapping, trafficking and torturing refugees in Libya, have been arrested in Messina, Sicily, after being identified by their victims, local authorities said on

ROME - The ban on ‘skip-the-line’ promoters implemented by the Polizia Urbana di Roma Capitale since June has drastically harmed tour agencies’ businesses and increased the number of illegal promot

  ROME – Following the death of four farm workers by drowning in a sewage tank, wider concerns about a rash of accident