ANCONA - A huge blaze has devastated the port of Ancona in Italy’s central Marche region, destroying warehouses and sending noxious plumes of smoke throughout the city, local sources said on Wedne

 SASSARI – Prison escapee Giuseppe Mastini, better known as Johnny “Lo Zingaro” (the gypsy), has been recaptured in Sardinia, police sources said on Tuesday.

 MILAN – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been released from hospital following a bout of Covid-19, Italian media reported.

 HELSINKI – In light of the new update of the list of countries based on the national incidence rate of the virus, from 19 September 2020 Finland will reintroduce restrictive measures also for Ital

 ROME – Schools may have reopened Monday for the first time since being forced to close in March due to the coronavirus lockdown but there’s a cloud hanging over canteen services.

 ROME -- The Italian Interior Minister, Luciana Lamorgese, will in coming days make a visit to Algiers for talks with her Algerian counterpart, Kamel Beldjoud, and other senior officials including

 MILAN – A former bank director has told a Milan court the anomalous “movements” by League party-linked accountants on the records of Taaac!, a Milan-based company that provides film production ser

 MILAN – The Nigerian government is seeking more than $ 1 billion in damages from Eni and Royal Dutch Shell in one of the oil industry’s biggest corruption cases, Italian media reports.

 ROME – Twenty refugees awarded Italian university scholarships have landed in Italy as part of the University Corridors for Refugees project, The UN Refugee Agency said in a statement on

 PISTICCI – Italian police have made four arrests in the alleged gang rape of two underage English tourists in southern Italy, local sources said on Friday.

 VATICAN CITY – Vatican watchers mused over Pope Francis' policy on combatting coronavirus after he was photographed briefly wearing a mask when he was driven to the second weekly general audience

 ROME – The school year will begin regularly on Sept.

 ROME – The Community of Sant’Egidio is urging EU countries to take in refugees that have been left homeless after fires destroyed Europe’s largest migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

 ROME – Sicilian mafia boss Giuseppe Fanara, who is serving a life sentence, has bitten and swallowed the finger of a prison guard during an altercation, Il Messaggero reports.

 PALERMO - Sicilian police have arrested a gang of human traffickers that facilitate illegal immigration from Africa, police said Tuesday.

 The Outsider, by the London Tablet’s Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb, is a sustained defence of Pope Francis.

 APULIA – “We are very proud of what you are doing and we continue to thank you and your Member States for granting such a professional contribution to our Operation”. With these words Adm

 MILAN – The eldest daughter of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has tested positive for Covid-19, sources close to the family said on Monday.

 NAPLES – Governor of Campania Vincenzo De Luca is under investigation for alleged abuse of office and fraud after ‘favouring’ and promoting four traffic policemen to his staff, judicial sources sa

ROME – Italian Health Minister, Roberto Speranza, has announced that rapid tests will be part of the plan to aid the return of schools during the Coronavirus pandemic.

ROME – An Algerian delegation, including two ministers, arrived in Rome in August to discuss and draw up a short-term business agenda between the two countries.

ROME – Silvio Berlusconi, 84, who has led four different Italian governments as Prime Minister, has been taken to hospital in Milan for potential “bilateral pneumonia”, according to his staff.

BOLOGNA – Six people are being investigated, including an ex-candidate of political party League, for engaging in sex with underage prostitutes for the exchange of drugs, report judicial sources.