ROME - Thanks to the a trade agreement between Italy and Qatar, Italian products are promoted in large-scale retail supermarkets.

  ROME - On Wednesday, 627 new deaths from Covid-19 were reported, the highest since January, a number which has led many to question why Italy still has such a high death toll compared to other Eu

  ROME - The tourism industry is a fundamental voice of the Italian economy and the sector most affected by the pandemic, worth, according to Minister Garavaglia, at least 15% of GDP and, in perspe

  ROME - Italian Justice Minister Marta Cartabia has opened a file on the inquest of the Trapani prosecution into the links between NGOs and people traffickers after several accusations that law en

  PALERMO - The Cosa Nostra boss Giuseppe Calvaruso has been arrested in Palermo airport, after returning from Brazil to celebrate Easter with his family in Sicily.

  TRIPOLI - The half day spent by the Prime Minister Mario Draghi in Libya had many indicative moments and served to clarify objectives and obstacles.

  ROME - Police and protesters were injured after demonstrations against the Covid restrictions outside Palazzo Montecitorio, the seat of the Chamber of Deputies, turned violent, with hundreds tryi

  ROME - "Health is a fundamental right for everyone," said the Community of Sant'Egidio, the lay Christian charitable organisation, in anticipation of World Health Day, April 7.

  ROME - Italy's already struggling vaccination campaign has produced yet more disappointing results after it was reported that over the Easter weekend, an average of less than 150,000 doses were d

  ROME - After the latest round of Aserie A fixtures over the Easter weekend, the first for two weeks due to the international break, Atalanta's victory over Udinese saw them take third spot from J

  ROME - After the recent mission of the three foreign ministers of Italy, France and Germany to Tripoli and the reaffirmed unity of the EU on the Libyan dossier,

  CITY OF SAN MARINO - One of the newly elected Captains Regent of San Marino has already caused scandal after being found by police, along with many other members of the Grand and General Council,

  ROME - The European Media and Information Fund will mobilise financial resources in support of media literacy and fact-checking initiatives, as well as research projects on online disinformation.

  MONZA - A 17th century painting by the French artist Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) has been recovered in an art dealers in Padua almost 70 years after it was taken from its Jewish owners in Poitier

  ROME - It has been announced that an additional £1 million of funding has been pledged to charities and voluntary organisations across Europe supporting vulnerable UK Nationals applying for resid

  ROME - Admiral Fabio Agostini, Operation Commander of EUNAVFOR MED IRINI, has attended the ceremony of the takeover of the new Force Commander, Rear Admiral Stefano Frumento of the Italian Navy,

  ROME - The arrest of an Italian Naval officer for selling state secrets to Russia, revealed on Wednesday to be the frigate captain

  TRAPANI - The director of Sicily’s regional health authorities and two other health officials are under criminal investigation, and Sicily’s Alderman for Health has resigned after it was revealed

  SIENA - The incredible discoveries in 2020 of the remains of a Roman sanctuary at San Casciano Dei Bagni are being published in an authorative work on the excavations of the site.

  ROME - Three men have been arrested for the 2016 kidnapping of Alessandro Sandrini and Sergio Zanotti in Turkey, a kidnapping which Sandrini is accused of helping to fake, before his captors sold

  ROME - An officer of the Italian Navy has been arrested by Carabinieri ROS investigators in flagrante for passing state secrets to a Russian officer working at the Russian Embassy in Rome, offici

  ROME - With the Easter weekend in Italy set to be a full lockdown, the government have announced the use of 70,000 law enforcement officers to enforce the restrictions throughout the country.

  LISBON - The ‘Ndrangheta boss Francesco Pelle, one of the most wanted men in Italy, was on Monday arrested in a hospital in Portugal where he was recovering from Covid-19.

  ROME – Representatives from the United Kingdom agree that we need to take urgent action against climate change to avoid drastic impacts on health, as climate ch

  SAKHIR - Italia Viva leader Matteo Renzi has caused yet more controversy after being spotted at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, while Italy is still in lockdown.