ROME – New data released by Italy’s statistics agency’s (Istat) 2021 Demographic Dynamics Report showed a small increase in the birth rate in the last two months of last year, while the

 ROME – The Italian government is coming under pressure to ease skyrocketing petrol and diesel prices by reducing or suspending VAT on fuel, some of which reportedly has been applied to a

 ROME – The president of the Italian Friends of Russia Association Lorenzo Valloreja filed a complaint to authorities as a precautionary measure following the latest in a number of threat

 CAGLIARI – More than 400 lorry drivers were estimated to take part in demonstrations across Sardinia Monday against steep rises in fuel prices, said Ansa news agency.

 TRIESTE – One of the most expensive yachts ever built, owned by Russian oligarch Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, was confiscated Friday by Italian police as part of Western sanctions, auth

 CESENA – A bus carrying Ukrainian citizens fleeing from war overturned while travelling at 101 k.m. per hour, just before 6:45 a.m.

 ROME – Wine exports from Italy fetched a record value of 7.1 billion euros in 2021, an increase of over 12 percent in one year, according to a report from the Qualivita Foundation using

 ROME – Two student singers from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, one Russian and one Ukrainian, performed together at the Pantheon Wednesday evening as part of a concert calling for an en

 MILAN – Street artworks depicting Vladimir Putin with a gun to his head was removed a short time after it was put there, said the artist and activist aleXsandro Palombo on social media.

 MOSCOW – Following the addition of Italy to Russia’s list of ‘hostile countries,’ the country’s Ministry of Culture has asked Italian institutions to send back all the material they have

 ROME – A Criminalpol analysis conducted on Women’s Day showed a decline in femicides since 2018, but an increase in so-called ‘spy crimes’ including stalking, mistreatment and sexual violence, as

 FLORENCE – On the anniversary of birth of Michelangelo, the replica statue of David in Piazza della Signoria in Florence was covered with a black cloth as a sign of mourning and pain for the war i

 MILAN – The exhibition 'Grand Tour: Sogno d’Italia da Venezia a Pompei,' is open until March 27 in the Intesa Sanpaolo museum of the Lombardy capital.

 PRZEMYSL, Poland – Matteo Salvini travelled to this Polish border city to help Ukrainian refugees fleeing war, but was refused a warm welcome by Mayor Wojciech Bakun, despite having a si

 ROME – Public transport faced disruption Tuesday after unions called strikes in multiple Italian cities to protest against the exploitation of female labour, the privatisation of healthc

MACERATA – The symphonic concert with Valery Gergiev at the head of the Mariinsky Orchestra has been axed from the city's Opera Festival due to the war in Ukraine, as told by Ansa news agency.

 ROME – The Italian police have seized some 140 million euros worth of Russian assets in the peninsula, including a 27-million-dollar yacht and a luxurious Tuscan villa belonging to Russi

 ROME – African travel expert Michelina Sanquest has been named as a Goodwill ambassador for tourism from Italy to Zambia, the Zambian Embassy in the Eternal City announced.

 NAPLES -– A number of young men are waiting for documents to leave Italy and fight for Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian 'International Legion,' the ANSA news agency reported in an interview with t

 ROME -- For over three thousand years the rich volcanic soil of the Alban hills in the Roman countryside has  provided an ideal terrain for the production of wine.

 KIEV – The Italian Ambassador to Ukraine Pier Francesco Zazo rescued about 20 minors, including six infants, during the ongoing transfer of the Italian Italian embassy from Kiev to Lviv,

 ROME – The director of the Officers' Club of the Armed Forces in Italy’s capital has been removed from his position after the establishment held an evening of burlesque entertainment not