ROME - Italy's largest lake, has reached its lowest water level in 70 years, new satellite data has shown. This compares to an average of 109 cm over the past 70 years.

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 GENOA – Manuel Di Palo, 38, a member of the far-right, fascist inspired Casapound movement, was shot and killed on Tuesday afternoon by a leading figure of an anti-vaccine association, Filippo Gir

 MIRANDOLA – The National Association of Partisans of Italy (ANPI) refused to speak at a Liberation Day parade in Mirandola, a town near Modena, due to the presence of the right-wing Nort

 ROME – The Italian President, Sergio Mattarella, has paid homage on Tuesday to the anti-fascist struggle as part of the annual Liberation Day celebrations in Cuneo’s Parco della Resistenza, as ove

 ROME – More than 800 people arrived on the island of Lampedusa on Monday following two shipwrecks off the Tunisian coast as the migrant crisis worsens, according to the Italian Coast Guard.

 ROME - This year's Cambridge English Awards have recognised two Italian schools, one in Palermo and one in Naples, as having achieved "excellence" in the field of language certifications. 

 NAPLES – A 33 year-old woman, Rosa Palma,  who on Saturday afternoon ran over and killed her 6-year-old daughter in reverse in Casalnuovo, in the province of Naples, was discovered to not have a d

 CATANIA, Sicily - A 4.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded by the Ingv (the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) in the province of Catania on Friday. 

 ROME –Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi, an American princess, has been evicted from a Roman villa that houses the only extant Caravaggio ceiling fresco on Thursday evening, officials said. 

 ROME - Francesco Terrone, 60, author of hundreds of poems, showcased his latest collection of poems published in a three language edition about the innocence of children at a press conference on T

 ROME - The search and rescue organisations SOS Humanity, Mission Lifeline and Sea-Eye are taking legal action at the Civil Court in Rome against the Italian authorities' systematic policy of assig

 ROME - Modernity confronts us with important evidence, such as the breaking down of barriers typical of the past, because of changes in immigration processes, housing and lifestyles, and the sprea

 VICENZA - A staircase has collapsed in a mosque shortly after 7 a.m. on Friday morning, leaving five injured, officials said. 

 MARSALA, Sicily – The British Ambassador to Italy, Lord Llewellyn, is set to go Marsala on May 11 to strengthen traditional ties between Britain and the port city that go back to the days when Lor

 FLORENCE – On Wednesday night a goods train wagon went off the tracks in Florence Castello.

 MILAN – Alfredo Cospito, an anarchist who was facing a life sentence for terrorist charges, has ended his six-month hunger strike which he started in protest against the judge’s decision to place

 ROME – A pair of American tourists, a man and woman, aged 25 and 22, were returning to their hostel by Rome’s Termini station when they were robbed at gunpoint by two young men, Il Messaggero repo

 ROME – On Thursday, AS Roma will play the Dutch team Feyenoord in the quarter-final return leg of the Europa League.

 ROME – Democratic party leader, Elly Schlein, has branded ethnic substitution remarks made by Italy’s Agricultural Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, who is also the brother-in-law of Prime Minister

 FLORENCE -- The court of Florence acquitted the four defendents accused of manslaughter after a Spanish tourist died in the Santa Croce Basilica in 2017, the court announced Tuesday. 

ROME – Last night bear J14 was captured because she is responsible for the death of the 26-year-old Andrea Papi who was attacked by the animal when running on the Mount Peller paths. 

 WARSAW - Italian President Sergio Mattarella was welcomed at the Presidential Palace in the Polish capital by Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata on his state visit.