Italy thrown into political crisis as Renzi sinks government
Italy's former premier Matteo Renzi pulled his small party out of government, stripping the ruling coalition of its parliamentary majority and triggering political chaos, even...
Italy kicks off vaccinations against COVID-19 in Rome
Almost 10 months after the first Italian patient tested positive for the new coronavirus, Italy on Sunday vaccinated the first residents against COVID-19. Three health...
Pompeii: Ancient ‘fast food’ counter to open to the public
A "fast food" shop from the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in a volcanic eruption almost 2000 years ago, is to open...
Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii
Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks...
Vatican permits use of COVID-19 vaccines made using aborted fetal tissue
The Vatican told Roman Catholics on Monday that it was morally acceptable to use COVID-19 vaccines even if their production employed cell lines drawn from...
Vatican permits use of COVID-19 vaccines made using aborted fetal tissue
The Vatican told Roman Catholics on Monday that it was morally acceptable to use COVID-19 vaccines even if their production employed cell lines drawn from...
Pope snubs Vatican’s sci-fi Nativity scene, directs visitors to others
Pope Francis on Sunday appeared to add his own thumbs-down to widespread criticism of an unorthodox nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square, telling visitors to...
Italy has patient with new strain of virus found in Britain
Italy has detected a patient infected with the new strain of the coronavirus also found in Britain, the health ministry said on Sunday. The patient...
Italy’s COVID-19 death toll passes 60,000, with 564 new deaths
Italy reported 564 COVID-related deaths on Sunday, down from 662 a day earlier and taking the official toll since the outbreak began in February above...
Pope cancels traditional pre-Christmas ceremony due to COVID-19
Thousands of people usually line the streets near the area to see the pope and pray with him. The Vatican City is seen on August...
Pope installs new cardinals, including first African-American
Pope Francis on Saturday installed 13 new cardinals, including the first African-American to hold the high rank, further expanding the pontiff’s impact on the group...
Italy calls in warzone doctor to sort out Calabria COVID-19 health crisis
The Italian government on Monday called upon one of the country’s leading emergency healthcare experts, who usually operates in warzones, to help sort out a...
Coronavirus emerged in Italy earlier than thought, Italian study shows
The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy since September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows,...
After McCarrick report, pope vows to ‘uproot evil’ of clerical sexual abuse
Pope Francis, in his first public comment after the release of an explosive report on the Vatican’s mishandling of the case of ex-U.S. Cardinal Theodore...
Coronavirus forces storied Rome barber to hang up his scissors
In nearly seven decades in the barber business, Luigi Pinzo has seen Italy go through some bad times, from myriad recessions to political assassinations, but...
Italy locks down financial capital Milan and much of industrial north
Italy’s latest restrictions to try to rein in the coronavirus include a partial lockdown of its richest and most populous region Lombardy around the financial...
Italy unveils new COVID-19 restrictions as daily infections climb
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gave mayors the power to shut public squares from 9 p.m. to halt gatherings as he unveiled a further package...
COVID-19 case confirmed in pope’s Vatican residence
Three Vatican residents who tested positive recently have recovered, Saturday's statement added. Pope Francis arrives for the first weekly general audience to readmit the public...
‘Cardinal’s woman’ arrested in Italy after 500,000-euro payment
The payments to Cecilia Marogna came from Cardinal Angelo Becciu, whom Pope Francis abruptly removed from his role last month over suspected misuse of funds...
Italian woman in Vatican financial scandal investigation arrested
A 39-year-old Italian woman was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the Vatican’s latest financial scandal, police said. Cecilia Marogna had worked for Cardinal Angelo...
Four Vatican Swiss Guards test positive for COVID-19
Four members of the Vatican Swiss Guards, the elite and colourfully dressed corps that protects the pope, have tested positive for COVID-19, the Vatican said...
Italy prepares new restrictions to fight spike in coronavirus cases
Italy is preparing fresh nationwide restrictions, including on private parties, in response to a recent spike in new coronavirus cases, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said...
Seven bodies found in northern Italy, France after violent storms
Seven bodies were found in a region straddling the French-Italian border near Nice on Sunday after torrential rains swept houses and roads away, officials in...
Italy defies virus for vote as far-right plots seismic change
Former interior minister Matteo Salvini and Lega party leader is a part of a centre-right coalition fighting the regional elections AFP Italians head to the...
Referendum and regional votes test Italy’s coalition parties
Italy holds seven regional elections and a constitutional referendum on Sunday and Monday, with an alliance of rightist parties looking certain to make gains at...
Italy announces international search for new Pompeii head
Houses by the cobbled Via di Nola at the world-famous archaeological site of Pompeii . Filippo MONTEFORTE AFP/File The world-famous archaeological site of Pompeii could...
Italian MP nominates Netanyahu for Nobel Prize
The Young Likud group on Monday wrote to the 2005 Nobel economics laureate, Yisrael Aumann, who is known for his right-wing views, asking him to...
Migrants rescued by Danish tanker land in Italy after 40 days at sea
A group of migrants who had been blocked aboard a tanker in the Mediterranean for more than a month were allowed to land in Sicily...
Italian prosecutor set for ‘historic’ anti-mafia court battle
Italy's anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, who has spent three decades under police protection, talks of a war against the 'Ndrangheta TIZIANA FABI AFP/File After years...
Putin to set up inquiry into Navalny poisoning: Italy’s PM
FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, gestures during a news conference at a field hospital built by Italian military in Hadath, Lebanon September 8,...
Italy antitrust opens inquiry into Google, Apple, Dropbox on cloud computing
Italy’s antitrust authority said on Monday it had opened an inquiry into Google Inc, Apple Inc and Dropbox Inc over cloud computing services. “The proceedings...
Italian GP: Ferrari suffers worst qualifying performance since 1984
Bystander: Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel looks on during the qualifying MIGUEL MEDINA POOL/AFP Ferrari's worst fears were realised on Saturday when they failed to qualify at...
Italy’s former PM Berlusconi in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus
Silvio Berlusconi, 83, pictured in Ravenna, Italy, on January 24, 2020. © Flavio Lo Scalzo, REUTERS Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been diagnosed with the...
Italy’s former PM Berlusconi tests positive for coronavirus
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi vowed to carry on with political activities ahead of local elections in September after testing positive for COVID-19 on...
At least three migrants die as boat catches fire off Italy
Emergency services carry a body at the dock of Le Castella after a migrant boat caught fire during rescue operations off the coast of Crotone,...
Boat carrying nearly 370 migrants reaches Italy’s Lampedusa
Children and women rescued from the MV Louise Michel, a migrants search and rescue ship financed by British street artist Banksy, stand on the dock...
Italy sends help to Banksy’s overloaded migrant rescue boat
The Italian coastguard sent help on Saturday to a rescue boat funded by British street artist Banksy after the vessel issued urgent calls for assistance,...
Rome’s last ‘Cinema Paradiso’ of porn
Rome's last adult movie cinema, the Ambasciatori, reopened its doors after Italy began easing its lockdown restrictions Alberto PIZZOLI AFP It survived the advent of...
Osimhen ‘feared racism’ in Italy before joining Napoli
Osimhen scored 18 goals in all competitions for Lille JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER AFP/File New Napoli signing Victor Osimhen said Wednesday he had been sceptical before agreeing...
In Italy, legal migrants renew fight to be true citizens
Migration is a hot political topic in Italy, where the Black Lives Matter movement has given impetus to the battle by the country's second-generation legal...
Italy rules out new lockdown as coronavirus cases rise
FILE PHOTO: Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza speaks to reporters after European health ministers held a meeting to discuss Italy's coronavirus outbreak, in Rome, Italy,...
Italy tops 1,000 Covid-19 cases in 24 hours, highest since May
Tourists at the Trevi fountain in Rome on August 19, 2020. AFP - VINCENZO PINTO Italy's health ministry on Saturday reported 1,071 new coronavirus infections in...
Italy closes nightclubs as coronavirus cases rise among young
Italy is to shut discos and clubs and make it compulsory to wear a mask outdoors in some areas during the night-time in the first...
Discos in Italy sow discord as partygoers dance, dance, dance
The staff are all weating masks but it is harder to persuade the customers to observe the rules Andreas SOLARO AFP/File "Put your masks on!"...
Number of migrants landing in Italy more than doubles in past year
The number of migrants landing on Italy’s shores has more than doubled in the last year as an economic crisis in Tunisia fuels migration in...
Powerful Medici family behind Italy’s ‘plague-free’ wine windows
Small "wine windows" were created in 16th-century Florence for landowners and wealthy families to pass alcohol that they had produced directly to customers Tiziana FABI...
Italy resort lifts alert on melting glacier threat
In September and October last year, the Planpincieux glacier also threatened a partial collapse, after which extra surveillance measures were put in place Andrea BERNARDI...
Italian valley still in ‘red zone’ as Mont Blanc glacier threatens collapse
75 people have been evacuated from the valley below the glacier Andrea BERNARDI AFP An Italian alpine resort remained on high alert Friday over fears...
Forced evacuations as glacier the size of a football pitch threatens Italian valley
This image taken from a video shows an aerial view of part of the Planpincieux Glacier, which lies under a massif of Mont Blanc, located...
Italian valley evacuated as cathedral-sized glacier slips
A segment of the Planpincieux glacier is seen on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif after renewed warnings that a big portion of...