#Italy

Italian police said on Friday they had seized a painting on display by the 17th century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens after a fraud investigation into its owners. The masterpiece, ...

Suicides in Italian jails have jumped to a 10-year high, the national ombudsman for prisoners said on Friday, noting that three years of the COVID-19 pandemic had made inmates’ lives ...

A charity-run rescue boat carrying 33 migrants was allowed to dock and disembark on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa early Friday, while two more NGO vessels with more than 500 people ...

At least three people, including a young girl, were killed on the southern Italian holiday island of Ischia after a landslide caused by torrential rain devastated a small town, the ...

EU interior ministers sought to ease resurgent tensions over illegal migration at an emergency meeting on Friday, after the fate of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean triggered harsh words between ...

A year-long study of the drainage system under the Colosseum has unearthed fragments of the bones of bears and big cats that were probably used to fight or as prey ...

Italy’s only Black lawmaker suspended himself from his left-wing party on Thursday after his family was accused of mismanaging funds and exploiting staff at two associations meant to help ...

Italy’s new prime minister Giorgia Meloni needs urgently to rein in a bloated pension system that absorbs most social spending and looks increasingly unsustainable in the face of surging ...

Cyprus, Italy, Greece and Malta on Saturday jointly criticised EU member states for not sharing the responsibility of hosting migrants, saying the four countries collectively are “bearing the heaviest burden ...

Italian doctors and nurses suspended from work because they are not vaccinated against Covid-19 will soon be reinstated, new Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said on Friday. The move is motivated ...

The only way to facilitate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is helping Kyiv to defend itself militarily, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told parliament on Wednesday. “Peace can ...

President Nicos Anastasiades on Saturday congratulated the new prime minister of Italy, saying he looks forward to working together within the European family. “Congratulations to Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s new ...

Giorgia Meloni was on Friday named as Italy’s first woman prime minister and chose her cabinet team, setting her seal on the country’s most right-wing government since World ...

Italy will be able to get through the winter with existing gas storage and flow levels unless there are “catastrophic events”, the country’s energy minister said on Sunday. “We ...

Nationalist leader Giorgia Meloni, set to become Italy’s next prime minister, has pledged her full support for Kyiv after receiving congratulations from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for her election ...

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said the European Union would closely follow the respect for certain human rights and values such as women’s access to abortion, as she responded ...

Giorgia Meloni looks set to become Italy’s first woman prime minister at the head of its most right-wing government since World War Two after leading a conservative alliance to ...

There’s an election in Italy on Sunday, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s ‘blackshirts’ marched on Rome and brought the first fascist dictator to power. Giorgia Meloni, the ...

By Luigi Scazzieri Italy’s election on September 25th is likely to result in a right-wing coalition government made up of Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, Matteo Salvini’s ...

Italy’s leaders held their final rallies on Friday ahead of a parliamentary election at the weekend that is expected to be won by a rightist alliance, putting Rome on ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin was “pushed” into invading Ukraine and wanted to put “decent people” in charge of Kyiv, former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has said, drawing fierce criticism just ...

At least eight people have been killed by torrential overnight rains and floods in the central Italian region of Marche, authorities said on Friday, as rescuers continued to search for ...

Hacking group BlackCat was behind a recent attack on Italy’s state-owned energy services firm GSE, stole a massive amount of data and threatened to publish if their demands were ...

Italian oil company Eni’s computer networks were hacked in recent days but the consequences appear to be minor so far, the company said on Wednesday. “The internal protection systems ...