ROME – Alessandra Todde of the 5 Star Movement was elected as president of Sardinia, after the island held a regional election on Sunday.

 ROME – A 37-year-old was shot and killed in the Sperone neighbourhood of Palermo, while another man remains in a critical conditions, police said.

 ROME — A Calabrian parish priest who has criticized the 'Ndrangheta in his sermons survived an attempt to poison him by diluting his sacramental wine with bleach, the Corriere della Sera reported.

 ROME – Italy’s organised tourism businesses have lost 300 million euros in revenue in the last year and a half, due to the inability to obtain or renew passports quickly, the president of Confcomm

 ROME – Giorgia Meloni visited Kiev, Ukraine, on Saturday where she met with Ukrainian president Zelensky on behalf of the G7 and the EU.

 ROME -- A café in Venafro, Molise, has launched an initiative where customers can buy a coffee for 50 cents, as long as they bring their own cup.

 ROME — Investigators were wrong in assuming that the 17-year-old daughter of the Sicilian bricklayer who killed his wife and sons last week was a chance survivor of her father’s rampage.

 ROME – Johnny Depp visited the National Cinema Museum in Turin, welcomed by the museum’s top management.

 ROME – Napoli faced Barcelona at the Stadio Maradona on Wednesday night in the first leg of the Champion League’s Round of 16.

 ROME - A few days before his official inauguration on March 1st, the newly elected President of the Finnish Republic, Alexander Stubb, flew to Florence to finalize the closure of his relationship

 ROME – A sinkhole in Naples swallowed two cars, a tree and two people in the early hours of Wednesday morning, police sources said.

 ROME – Princess Ira von Furtsenburg, Italian socialite, actress and model, died on Sunday aged 83, her family announced.

 ROME – The Court of Cassation ruled that Tripoli is not a safe port, meaning that handing migrants back to the Libyan coastguards is a crime.

 ROME – A social media row between the mayor and bishop of Nola, Sicily, has divided the town after an image of Giordano Bruno, philosopher and heretic, was projected onto the side of Nola’s cathed

 GENEVA/NEW YORK/ROME – A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a compr

 ROME — Pancrazio Caranno, 42, had whittled a shard of his prison cell’s ceramic toilet bowl into a knife, then stowed the weapon in his rectum.

 ROME – Italians have expressed outrage after Il Sole 24 Ore reported Italians paid 1.535 billion euros in traffic fines in 2023.

 ROME – Jannik Sinner claimed another victory on Sunday after he won the ATP 500 in Rotterdam.

 Sinner beat Australian Alex de Minaur in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4. 

 ROME - Italian President Sergio Mattarella has denounced the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in northern Russia as "bringing back memories of the darkest times in history." 

 ROME - Eni, Italy’s leading energy company, announced profits of 8.2 billion euros on Friday, i

 ROME – Julian Assange was made an honorary citizen of Rome after the City Council voted on the matter on Thursday.

 ROME – Police in Ferrara have carried out 24 searches in relation to 24 men between the ages of 20 and 30 who are accused of racism, violence and praising Nazism, the Ferrara State police said.

 ROME -- The father of a murdered Italian ambassador spoke out against the WFP "blackmailing" Italy after a preliminary court upheld diplomatic immunity for two World Food Programme employees alleg

 ROME ­— Italy’s only baby to be born with half a heart is now 36 years old — and the mother of newborn twins, La Repubblica reported. 

 ROME — A 54-year-old bricklayer killed his wife and two sons, 16 and five, “to free them from demons,” Carabinieri said he told them on Sunday.