Italy

 ROME -- A witness has told Italian investigators he saw Giulio Regeni, the Italian researcher murdered in Cairo, being arrested and taken aw

 ROME -- Pope Francis departed for Cuba on Friday morning on the first leg of his 12th international papal voyage, where he is set to make a stop off for a historic meeting with Russian Orthodox pa

 SALERNO -- Police in this southern region have seized two purification plants and are allegedly investigating 16 people, including two mayors, on the charges of sea pollution of the local Amalfi c

 ROME -- Italy politicians and local communities alike have paid tribute to the tens of thousands of Italians killed during an ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Yugoslav Partisans towards the end of

 MILAN -- At the BIT International Tourism Fair, taking place in Milan this week, Tunisia has desperately been trying to revive its flagging tourism trade and encourage Italians once again to make

 ROME -- In the wake of the murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni, the Egyptian tourism minister has cancelled a scheduled visit to Milan for the annual BIT international tourism trade fair at

 BRESCIA -- Across Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna eleven people were allegedly arrested on Wednesday, accused of sexual actions with and payment of underage teenagers.  It has been reported that among

 BOLZANO -- Money that seemed bound for a humanitarian organisation, given by thousands of people, who were for the most part elderly and resident abroad, to a trustworthy priest, only for it repor

 ROME -- A councillor of Italy's 'Lega Nord' [Northern League] party has pronounced that "if I had a homosexual child I would put him in a furnace and set fire to him." Giovanni De Paoli, the party

 ROME -- Two pilgrims who made the journey from Puglia to honour the remains of Saint Padre Pio, which are being displayed in Rome after being moved from their usual resting place in a town in Pugl

 ROME –  An open letter protesting against the murder of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni, thought to be at the hands of the Egyptian security services, has been signed by over 4,600 academics world

 ROME -- A Palermo court has sentenced six members of a human trafficking cartel to up to six years and four months for smuggling migrants into and out of Italy, in a landmark case for the issue,

 ROME -- The state-run Italian Railways company, Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), has just launched a new venture with Iranian Railways (RAI) to put new high-speed rail links in place between Teheran and

 ROME -- Norwegian Air, the third low-cost airline in Europe, focuses on Italy, choosing Rome Fiumicino airport as a new base of opera

 ROME -- In Monday's phone call between Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and British Prime Minister David Cameron, it has emerged, the British leader covered various dossiers and the theme of th

 ROME -- An anti-Mafia blitz on Tuesday morning has led to arrest warrants being issued for eight individuals linked to Rome's Camorra clan a

 ROME -- Italy is one of the top countries for foreign language learning, with 98 percent of adolescents studying at least two, however only 16 in 100 then know how to use them.  So why is this?

 ROME – Opposition politicians are up in arms over a "secret contract" between the Italian government and United Arab Emirates air com

 MILAN -- Giuseppe (Beppe) Sala, Milan’s mayoral candidate for the centre-left, as well as the CEO and Commissioner of the Italian Government for EXPO 2015 Milano, has just been voted into the prim

 ROME -- We are witnessing the slow agony of the dream of European integration, disintegrating without a single demonstration occurrin

 ROME -- Lazio’s football fans, from the notorious Curva Nord section of the stadium, have been banned from their home Olimpico stadium for at least the next two matches after hurling racist abuse