ROME – Security around Rome and throughout Italy has been heightened for the Easter weekend following terrorist attacks in Moscow, after a Committee for Order and Security meeting chaired by Minis

 ROME – Three Sicilian orchestra members were suspended with cut pay for criticising "inconsistent" guest conductor Beatrice Venezi whose admirers include Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, orchestral

 ROME — Florence prosecutors said they seized more than 10 million euros, including 920,000 gifted by late prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, from Forza Italia founder, former senator, and Mafia con

ROME- The Rome Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation, coordinated by the Deputy Prosecutor Giovanni Conzo, into the crimes of counterfeiting of food substances and receiving stolen goods.

 ROME - The new Roman headquarters of the Association of the Foreign Press in Italy, ASEI, inaugurated in the presence of the Head of State Sergio Mattarella, gave the Italian and foreign media who

 GAETA – An inquiry has been opened after a female American soldier fell from a fourth storey balcony while partying in this southern Lazio military port, police said.

 ROME – Demonstrations took place throughout Italy on Thursday morning to remember the innocent victims of the mafia, sources said. 

 ROME – An Iranian woman was found dead inside a car with her boyfriend in Secondigliano, Naples, police said.

MILAN — Saturday morning, the cycling world welcomed the first major classic race of the season: Milan-San Remo.

 ROME — In Pope Francis’ wide-ranging memoir, out this week, the pontiff writes that thanks to a new Vatican inquest into Emanuela Orlandi’s disappearance, “light will be shed on this story, and th

 ROME – Bosnian police have issued an arrest warrant for an Italian man who allegedly oversaw the issuing of fake medical degrees from a made-up university in Bosnia-Herzegovina, police said.

 ROME – A 53-year-old died in Turin after falling into the river Po while taking a photo, police said. A Bangladeshi man dived in after him. 

 ROME – At least 60 migrants have died after their dinghy broke off the coast of Libya, leaving them at sea for a week without food or water, rescue services said.

 CORLEONE, Sicily – The courageous anti-Mafia priest Don Luigi Ciotti spearheaded solemn ceremonies this week recalling the 76^th

 ROME – A 66-year-old former informant was shot and killed in a supermarket car park in Naples on Tuesday evening, police said. 

 ROME – Three Palestinians were arrested in L’Aquila, Abruzzo, on terrorism charges for allegedly planning to blow up Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank with car bombs, police said.

 ROME – A four-year-old boy fell from a third-floor balcony in Carvico, Bergamo, falling 12 metres and fracturing both legs, police said.

 ROME – Marco Marsilio, of Fratelli D’Italia, won the regional elections in Abruzzo after receiving 53.5 percent of the vote.

 ROME — Palermo prosecutors failed for 26 years to name a suspect in the murder of Domenico Geraci, a militant unionist who railed against Mafia influence before he was shot dead at his own doorbel

 ROME – Italian street artist, Jorit, defended himself on social media after he posed for a photo with Vladimir Putin at the World Youth Festival in Sochi.

 ROME – Two Brighton fans have been stabbed in Rome ahead of the clash with Roma in the Europa league on Thursday.

 ROME – During the summer period in Rome, most public transport will not be running, leaving tourists and locals alike unable to commute in the city.

 ROME – Visitors to Pompeii received a guided tour of the area from Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of the Archaeological Park of Pompei, sources said.

 After 22 years the Foreign Press Association has moved out of its headquarters in Via dell’Umiltà, or Humility Street, a stone’s throw from the Trevi Fountain, and will begin a new chapter at swa