FLORENCE – The Uffizi Gallery will mark 700 years since the death of Dante with a work of art by Giuseppe Penone to be officially opened on ‘Dantedì’ (Dante day) on March 25.

  BARI - Athmane Touami, a 36 year old Algerian thought to be a member of Islamic State, has been issued with a detention order on suspicion of providing fake documents to the gunmen in t

  RUTSHURU - Williams Mulahya Hassan Hussein, the magistrate investigating the death of Italian Ambassador to the Congo Luca Attanasio, was h

  ROME - The prosecutor Maria Sabina Calabretta has requested life sentences for the two U.S. teenagers charged with the killing of Carabiniere Mario Cerciello Rega.

  ROME - After another packed weekend of Serie A action, Roma climb above Atalanta to fourth after a 1-0 win over Genoa, and Lazio’s 3-1 defeat to Juventus saw them slip further behind the top six.

  ROME - The Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, presented in a video press conference on Saturday the main initiatives for the celebrations of the seven hun

  NAPLES - We have arrived at another turning point! 2021 is an election year for the big and important city of Naples.

  ROME - Italy’s Democratic Party (PD) has been left in turmoil after the sudden announcement that the Secretary, Nicola Zingaretti has resigned.

  FLORENCE - Several high ranking members of staff at the University of Florence are being investigated for crimes of fraud, abuse of office and criminal association, with the Guardia di Finanza on

  ROME - The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese, has appointed Lamberto Giannini as the new Chief of Police - Director Gen

  ROME - Italy has blocked the shipment of 250,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine to Australia, according to diplomatic sources, making use of the new rules introduced by the EU to b

  ROME - ISTAT, the national institute of statistics, has reported a massive jump in poverty in Italy in 2020, with around one million more people landing in absolute poverty, according to Il Fatto

  ROME - Pressure has mounted on former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to cut his ties with Saudi Arabia following ANSA’s interview with the fiancee of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist as

  ROME - In the latest QS World University Rankings the Sapienza University of Rome was judged the best in the world for Classics and Ancient History, beating both Oxford and Cambridge, with the Sc

  ROME – As part of a project organized by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), 24 Italian universities on Wednesday opened the application call for refugees living in Ethiopia to complete a master’s deg

  ROME – The new commissioner for Italy’s fight against Covid-19, Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, has begun tenure with the aim to turn all the current drive through testing centres into vaccination cen

  NORFOLK, VIRGINIA — With her departure on the morning

  TURIN – While Juventus managed a comfortable 3-0 victory at home to Spezia on Tuesday night, their neighbours Torino failed to show up in Rome for their match against Lazio.

  RAGUSA - Four men are being investigated by Sicilian prosecutors for allegedly bring 27 migrants to shore in exchange for a sum of money, judicial sources said Tuesday.

  ROME - After the sacking on Domenico Arcuri as Commissioner for the fight against Covid-19, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has announced Francesco Paolo Figliuolo as the new man in charge of

  ROME - Almost 80 years after he saved the life of a child, the family of an British soldier are trying to find the Italian girl from the story he so often told, reported Il Fatto Quotidiano on Tu

  ROME - The latest Prime Ministerial coronavirus decree in Italy was marked by huge variation between the situation and resulting regulations of the different regions, and even within the regions

  ROME - At a digital webinar for the second edition of “Women, Leadership & Sport”, Melanie Duparc, Secretary General of the World Union of the Olympic Cities, spoke of the need to be “scienti

  POMPEII - An almost entirely intact erotic parade chariot has been discovered in the excavations of Civita Giuliana, just to the north of the famous Roman town.