ROME -- The Italian authorities ordered a 20-day detention of the civil rescue ship Ocean Viking and imposed a 3,300 Euro fine. The ship was detained under the Jan. 2, 2023 Decree No.

 ROME--In a unique dawn raid, police in the Sicilian port of Syracuse apprehended 19 people on charges of organising a complex smuggling operation at the Cavadonna Prison, where they adeptly slippe

  ROME -- Diplomats, officials, military personnel, veterans, local associations and members of the public gathered last Friday at the Rome Commonwealth War Cemetery in the historic Testaccio quart

 MILAN – Finance police have seized a record more than 779 million euros from Airbnb on orders of an investigating judge following a request by state prosecutors

 CHIETI – Police in Britain arrested a retired management consultant, Michael Whitbread, 74, after his English partner, Michele Faiers Dawn, was found stabbed to death in the bedroom at their cotta

 TRIESTE – Italian police have arrested a Montenegrin racing yacht skipper; Milos Radonjic, who is wanted on a U.S.

 ROME – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced in a dramatic tweet Friday her relationship with longstanding partner Andrea Giambruno, whose flamboyant b

 ROME – Students protesting the increasingly sky-high costs of rents in the Eternal City have pitched tents in front of the Montecitorio Parliament building to dr

 MESTRE  – The driver of a tourist bus that careened off a bridge near Venice last month, in a bizarre accident in which 20 foreign tourists died, had no heart pr

 MESSINA, Sicily – The rector of Messina University, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, has announced his resignation over an expenses scandal that erupted when the university’

  MESTRE -- A pregnant newly-wed Croatian young woman from the Dalmatian coast who was on her honeymoon with her husband fulfilling a dream to visit Venice was na

 ROME – A professor at the Bocconi University sueing Italian Insider’s chief editor and Fatto Quotidiano newspaper for alleged defamation in articles about his alleged links to Calabrian crime gang

 MESTRE -- Dozens of Ukrainian, French, Croatian and German tourists were killed or injured Tuesday when a private coach ferrying them from Venice to a nearby campsite plunged off a bridge onto a r

 ROME - Between June and August of this year, at least 990 people, including children, have died or gone missing while attempting to cross the central Mediterranean, three times the number from the

 POZZUOLI – An earthquake tremor measured at 4.2 on the Richter scale rocked this southern seaside town for several seconds and awoke thousands of residents in th

 ROME -- A year ago Italy's right-wing coalition won the elections, all

 ROME – World leaders paid tribute Saturday to former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, who died on Friday at age 98.

ROME - Controversy has erupted after a devastating plane crash in Turin left a five-year-old girl dead and the rest of her family in hospital, police reported on Saturday.