ROME – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced in a dramatic tweet Friday her relationship with longstanding partner Andrea Giambruno, whose flamboyant b

 ROME – Students protesting the increasingly sky-high costs of rents in the Eternal City have pitched tents in front of the Montecitorio Parliament building to dr

 MESTRE  – The driver of a tourist bus that careened off a bridge near Venice last month, in a bizarre accident in which 20 foreign tourists died, had no heart pr

 MESSINA, Sicily – The rector of Messina University, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, has announced his resignation over an expenses scandal that erupted when the university’

  MESTRE -- A pregnant newly-wed Croatian young woman from the Dalmatian coast who was on her honeymoon with her husband fulfilling a dream to visit Venice was na

 ROME – A professor at the Bocconi University sueing Italian Insider’s chief editor and Fatto Quotidiano newspaper for alleged defamation in articles about his alleged links to Calabrian crime gang

 MESTRE -- Dozens of Ukrainian, French, Croatian and German tourists were killed or injured Tuesday when a private coach ferrying them from Venice to a nearby campsite plunged off a bridge onto a r

 ROME - Between June and August of this year, at least 990 people, including children, have died or gone missing while attempting to cross the central Mediterranean, three times the number from the

 POZZUOLI – An earthquake tremor measured at 4.2 on the Richter scale rocked this southern seaside town for several seconds and awoke thousands of residents in th

 ROME -- A year ago Italy's right-wing coalition won the elections, all

 ROME – World leaders paid tribute Saturday to former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, who died on Friday at age 98.

ROME - Controversy has erupted after a devastating plane crash in Turin left a five-year-old girl dead and the rest of her family in hospital, police reported on Saturday.

 ROME – Chaos ensues on Island of Lampedusa as thousands of North African migrants wait to be boarded onto ships, police reported Thursday.

 NAPLES – A promising young chamber music French horn player, Giovanbattista Cutolo, was shot and killed in the centre of this violent southern city after a dispu

 TURIN – Five railway workers were run down and killed by a local train travelling at 160 kph as they were working to repair a stretch of track between Turin and

  TRAPANI, Sicily – Forest fires forced the closure of Trapani airport last week end and hundreds of tourists were evacuated by boat and dinghy from Tonnara di Sc

 UDINE – Britain’s King Charles III has sent birthday wishes to Italian former SOE agent Paola Del Din for her 100^th

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