ORGOSOLO – Graziano Mesina, 78, recently sentenced on charges of international drug trafficking for a 30 year jail term, has disappeared after the Court of Cassation rejected the appeal filed by hi

LAMPEDUSA –  Ocean Viking, the NGO vessel that has been scouring the Mediterranean to save migrants from Libya in distress, has rescued 180 people but has had to declare a state of emergancy as two

ROME – An additional five Egyptian intelligence agents have been added to the list of suspects for the torture and murder of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni, as another unfruitful meeting between n

SALERNO – Approximately 84 million tablets valuing over one billion euros have been seized by the Guardia di Finanza of Naples, according a press release. The drugs, commercially referred to as ‘Ca

ISOLE EOLIE – The Coast Guard of Lipari were alerted by biologists from a turtle recovery centre that a sperm whale about ten meters long was in difficulty in the waters of the Aeolian islands, wit

MONDRAGONE – A ‘red zone’ sealed off by police for four days after 49 people tested positive for coronavirus has led to a spike in tensions that risks ‘civil war’ between Bulgarian agricultural wor

ROME – Carlo Bonomi, President of the General Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria), expressed his disappointment with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s State General summit held

LAMEZIA – EasyJet airlines were forced to issue an apology over their ‘Inspire Me’ section of their website for potential holiday-makers, which describes Calabria as suffering from an absence of to

PORTO EMPEDOCLE – Between June 17 and June 18, 211 migrants were rescued by Sea Watch 3, and have since been quarantined on the Moby Zazà, a ferry hired by the Italian government as an anti-Covid p

SIENA – Alex Zanardi, the Italian paralympic champion and ex professional race car driver, has spent a third night in hospital in a medically induced coma after a devastating accident in Pienza for

NAPLES – A World Health Organisation (WHO) representative spoke out against the thousands of people on the street of the Campania capital during the coronavirus crisis, as they celebrated the Azzur

ROME – An Italian National Health Service (ISS) study has revealed that Sars-CoV-2 was present northern Italy as early as December, after two different laboratories analysed samples of water waste,

TRAPANI – A mafia pact between the bosses of the fugitive mafia godfather Matteo Messina Denaro, known as ‘Diabolik’, and affiliates residing in the United States, has been uncovered by Italian inv

ROME – With the expected loss of revenues of millions of euros, the ANSA Agency have gone on strike against mitigation plans from company management that would “undermine the agency's ability to op

ROME – The Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, has become embroiled in a brewing Italian corruption scandal, with allegations that he sent 3.5 million euros to finance the Italian political party

ROME – ‘AstraZeneca’, a science-led biopharmaceutical company based in the UK, has reached an agreement with Europe’s ‘Inclusive Vaccines Alliance’ (IVA) to supply up to 400 million doses of the Un

BENGHAZI – A Greek frigate called the ‘Spetsai’, under Italian command, tried to intercept a merchant ship bound for Libya, but a military vessel sent from Ankara intervened as tensions spiked in t

COSENZA – The Guardia di Finanza of Cosenza have arrested 52 people in connection with 14 seized farms where illegally employed foreign workers were subject to mistreatment, 12 of which were in the

ROME – The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, has said that assessments are being made on the agreed sale of two frigates, the ‘Spartaco Schergat’ and the ‘Emilio Bianchi’, to be s

VALLETTA – A private vessels stranded outside Maltese territorial waters devolved into chaos as migrants armed with knives from the kitchens threatened to detonate a gas cylinder and kidnap crew me

“If Hong Kong's role in connecting China to the rest of the world no longer exists, it will be the end of Hong Kong,” said Dalù, a journalist whose brave defiance of the CCP (Chinese Communist Part

BRINDISI – Enel, the Italian energy company operating in over 30 countries worldwide, have begun the process of decarbonisation with the announcement the closure of one of the four coal-fired group

VENICE – After a night of freak weather events, high waters returned to Venice on Friday having reached 116 cm, met only twice in the past 20 years, which flooded St Mark’s Square and created probl

ROME – Some 70,000 tourists were in the Italian capital on the first day without travel restrictions after the opening up of ‘Phase 3’, as visitors flocked to the eternal city from abroad on flight