Camilla Tucci

ROME-- Bernini’s elephant statue in Piazza Minerva has been damaged, says local authorities. The tusk from the elephant sculpture which supports the Obelisk right near the Pantheon has been detached from the rest of the sculpture. This same tusk was damaged in 2016 and was restored a few days later. 

18 Feb 2026
Camilla Tucci

ROME– Dutch figure skater Jutta Leerdam broke the Olympic record in the speed skating 1000m and won her first gold medal on February 9, but it wasn’t just her reco

18 Feb 2026
Camilla Tucci

ROME-- Twenty-four years after the Jovine school collapse that left 27 students and a teacher dead in San Giuliano di Puglia in the Molise region, the community's

17 Feb 2026
Camilla Tucci

NAPLES-- A huge fire erupted Tuesday in Naples on Via Chiaia destroying the historic Teatro Sannazaro dome, according to local fire officials. 

17 Feb 2026
Darcie Peters

MILAN – The first hearing in a landmark class action against major social media companies has been postponed by three months, sparking disappointment and concern among parents’ associations, a

16 Feb 2026
Camilla Tucci

 ROME-- A French skier rescued after being hit by an avalanche in the Italian Alps died Monday after two of his friends were killed in the accident Sunday, hospita

16 Feb 2026
Loren Le Quesne
ROME - Police probing the brutal murder of a Ukrainian banker say presumed Russian mafia gangsters flung the businessman to his death from a fourth-floor window in Milan after torturing him to obtain codes to his crypto currency account. 
 
Oleksandr Adarich, 54, was found dead in the courtyard of a building on Via Nerino in central Milan, on January 23. Evidence suggests that he was dead before falling out of the window. Forensic pathologists are conducting an autopsy to determine Adarich’s cause of death. 
 
14 Feb 2026
Camilla Tucci

ROME-- A Bari court has convicted 12 members of the CasaPound neo-fascist movement on charges of reorganizing the fascist party and sentenced them to prison terms ranging from 18 to 30 months, judicial official's said.

 The conviction resulted in the loss of their political rights for the next five years and seven were also convicted of assault. The trial, which began in 2022, concerned a 2018 anti-racist march in the Liberta neighborhood. The march was organised after the visit of then Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. 

13 Feb 2026
Mattia Bortali
 ROME - In a development that could raise eyebrows among FAO observers already concerned over growing corporate influence at the troubled UN agency, former EU commissioner and veteran of Irish politics, Phil Hogan, has entered the race to become the next director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization.
 
13 Feb 2026

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