ROME--Italy’s Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti has suspended payments for F-35 Strike Fighter planes purchases awaiting the results of a parliamentary fact-finding survey.

ROME- The Italy Reads program sponsored by John Cabot University connects Italian high school students with college students from JCU.

ROME– The Tiber, now more resembling a swamp, is inhabited by ducks, gulls, and garbage. Spring has finally arrived in Rome.

ROME—The Court of Cassation has confirmed Berlusconi’s two-year ban from public office for tax fraud disqualifying him from running in EU elections in May.

ROME-A collection of weapons, letters, personal objects and the emblematic red shirts has been brought to the public for the first time in the newly opened Garibaldi Museum in Amorosi.

BERLIN--Apulia's delegate for Tourism Silvia Godelli announced that "for the second consecutive year, the stand of Apulia was honored at ITB Berlin as the 3rd best exhibitor in the category Europe

VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis will be joined by around 700 relatives of mafia victims in a vigil to pray for the innocent who lost their lives to mafia violence.

 VATICAN CITY—On the first anniversary of his election Pope Francis asked his twitter followers for prayers while on a spiritual retreat in Ariccia.  

VATICAN CITY—Priests and seminarians from around the world will descend on the pitches at the Pontificio Oratorio to compete in this tiny city state`s soccer championsh

ROME—Taxi drivers at Fiumicino airport refuse to pick up passengers in a strike against illegal practices in passenger transport industry.

Dear Anibal, Again, Italian politics is shifting- You, and many of my friends, have asked me to explain what is happening.

ROME--In a year marked by significant war anniversaries, the question of importance of remembrance and honouring the past seems more relevant than ever.

BRUSSELS -A UK MEP has demanded to know why Commissioner Andor wants sanctions on Switzerland over free movement but condones Italy's discrimination of foreign lettori.

ROME—Under-secretary Antonio Gentile announced his resignation in light of recent allegations of censorship pressures put upon the chief editor of a Calabrian newspaper

MILAN—More than 30 people suspected of belonging to the 'Ndrangheta have been arrested by the police in Lombardy and other regions of Italy since early morning Tuesday.

POMPEII—Another wall collapse in Pompeii prompted culture minister Dario Franceschini to summon an emergency meeting to discuss the state of the heritage site on Tuesday.

ROME—The unemployment rate in Italy has risen by 0.2 percentage points since December to reach a 35-year record high at 12.9%, the latest report by ISTAT has revealed.   

Rome – Anzio veteran Harry Shindler, 93, received an MBE from the British Ambassador to Italy and declared his struggle for expatriate voting rights will continue.

ROME– The American student found dead in a Roman railway tunnel might have been drugged while drinking, police said Wednesday.