CROTONE - - A poster, published by the Petilia Policastro local government, expressing sympathy for one of the killers of a Mafia rebel, has sparked indignation, according to Italian news

 VENICE - - A boat crashed into a briccola at the Redentore Festival and a man who was thrown into the water has died, police report.

 CATANIA - - The fire at Vincenzo Bellini airport in the Sicilian town late in the evening on Sunday took hours to put out, Catania firefighters said. 

 BRUSSELS - The European Commission decided Friday to refer Italy to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to end longstanding discrimination of foreign lecturers working in Italia

 ROME -- The European Mediterranean Excellence Awards, one of the most international prestigious awards contributing to peace, friendship and culture in the Euro-Mediterranean region, wil

 NAPLES - - Naples' Oriental University has awarded Prof.

 NAPLES - - The art piece "The Venus of Rags" ("La Venere degli Stracci") by Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto was destroyed in a fire on Wednesday morning in this southern city and

 Brussels – Five leading Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have submitted a complaint to the European Commission (EC) about Italian Law 15/2023 and the practice by Italian authorities of assign

 CAGLIARI - - An elderly man has been hospitalised with cholera in Cagliari, Sardinia.

 MILAN - - A police officer, Antonio S., who went sick for as many as 540 days during a four year period has been ordered to pay over 46,000 euros in compensation by the Regional Public P

 ROME - - The figure of the super-rich who have moved to Italy to benefit from a lower, flat-rate tax is now 2,142, according to a recent report by the Italian Court of Auditors. 

 ROME - - The leader of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, has called out Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for the government’s recent attack on the magistrates and other scandalous events.

 ROME - - The Venetian city has just launched a campaign to entice doctors as its desperate search for medics continues.

 ROME - - The hot weather is expected to hit peaks of forty degrees with weather warnings in nine cities.

 NERVI - - A morning of travel chaos has ensued on Monday after a bus travelling from La Spezia to Genoa caught fire on the A12 Genoa-Rosignano motorway.

 ROME - - 19-year-old Leonardo Apache La Russa, the third son of Senate President Ignazio La Russa, is under investigation for an alleged sexual assault after a 22-year-old woman filed a

 ROME - - Italy has been unable to prevent Sinochem, a Chinese-owned state company, from exploiting tyre manufacturing company Pirelli for Beijing's own purposes. 

 COSTA DEGLI DEI - - The Guardia di Finanza, an Italian militarised police forced, seized 11.5 million euros worth of assets on Thursday morning on the Costa degli Dei in Calabria.

 ROME - - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has left, in his will, 100 million euros to his 33 year old girlfriend Marta Fascina.

 ROME - - The Palazzo Chigi, the office of Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni, has unleashed an seismic attack on investigating magistrates for probing two allegedly corrupt ministers.

 MILAN - - Six people have died and 81 were injured in a fire in a care home in Milan in the early hours on Friday morning.

 MESSINA - - Two earthquake tremors were felt at 6:07am in Messina, in the Cesarò area of Sicily.