ROME – Elly Schlein, former vice-president of the Emilia Romagna region, announced her candidature for the position of leader of the Democratic Party (PD) at a conference in the Casal Bertone area

 ROME – A Bosnian mother and father were arrested for allegedly enslaving their 14 year-old daughter, police said.

   Recently restored country house for sale, 95 sq M plus 1 hectare of land including fruit, nut trees, olive trees, near Manziana forest.

 ROME – Pope Francis was saddened to learn of the death of a German vagrant, Burkhard Scheffler, under the colonnade in St. Peter’s Square, the Vatican said Friday.

 ROME – Culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano has appointed journalist and writer Alessandro Giuili as the new president of the Maxxi national museum of 21^st century arts foundation.

 ROME – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will abolish the reddito di cittadinanza, or citizens’ income, by 2024 for those who are deemed fit to work, the government said on Tuesday.

ROME – Pope Francis expressed the importance of the football World Cup and sent his wishes to those attending the tournament, which is underway in Qatar. 

 ROME – A man in his thirties was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting two young women from the United States, police said.

 ROME – More than one hundred Afghan refugees were due to arrive in Fiumicino on Thursday via humanitarian corridors, church sources said.

  Christopher Matthews, who has died at age 79, was a Russian-born, bohemian godson of Graham Greene with a larger than

 ROME – The man arrested on charges of killing three prostitutes in Prati is Giandavide De Pau, a former chauffeur and bodyguard of mafia boss Michele Senese, police said.

 ROME – In an interview given to La Stampa on Friday morning, Pope Francis reiterated the importance of resolving the conflict in Ukraine and confirmed that the Vatican was willing to act as a medi

  ROME – Police were searching for a potential serial killer on Friday after three women, two Chinese and one Colombian, were stabbed to death in Prati.

ROME – Hundreds of people are under investigation and seven have been arrested for the importation and distribution of ‘date-rape drugs’ in Italy, Roman prosecutors said.

 ROME – Tensions continued to rise between Italy and France over the migrant crisis, with Italian President Sergio Mattarella intervening in an attempt to defuse the situation.

 ROME - An Italian comic participating in a television show appeared wearing a neo fascist t-shirt and was consequently suspended from the programme, RAI said on Monday.

 ROME – A Commonwealth Remembrance Day service was held in the Rome War Cemetery in Testaccio.

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis held an audience with His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan at the Vatican Palace to maintain warm relations and to discuss peace and stability in the middle East, the

 ROME – Police have broken up a branch of the Ndrangheta gang which controlled dozens of businesses in the capital, police said.

ROME – Injury trial for 53-year-old Roman kite surfer finally begins after an incident with a military helicopter in October 2018, local jurisdiction announced.

 ROME – Lazio beat Roma 1 – 0 at the Stadio Olimpico on Sunday to overtake their rivals in the Serie A standings. 

 ROME – As world leaders gather at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is calling on the international community to invest in building t

 ROME – Climate change protesters threw soup over a painting by Van Gogh and were decried by Italian Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, who called the act ‘ignoble.’

 ROME - From 2 to 30 November, the eternal city rediscovers its Nordic roots with November Nordic, a full-bodied programme of events, called 'Nordic Traces', that winds its way through the capital,