01

Nov

Photo Story: All Saints’ Day in Rome

Locals visit the grave sites of their departed loved ones on the occasion of All Saints' Day at the Verano cemetery in Rome, Italy, 01 November 2019. All Saints' Day…

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01

Nov

Unemployment in Italy up to 9.9% in September

Italy’s ISTAT said that the country’s unemployment rose was 9.9% in September, up from 9.6% in August. The national statistics agency reported that the number of people looking for work…

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31

Oct

Marchisio’s family robbed by armed gang

Former Italy and Juventus midfielder Claudio Marchisio and his family were robbed late on Tuesday by an armed gang at their home in Vinovo, near Turin. A gang of four…

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31

Oct

Conad’s rescue plan for Auchan to require dismissal of 3,105 staff

The industrial plan presented by Italian supermarket group Conad for the ''rescue'' of Auchan calls for laying off 3,105 workers who will be offered ''different occupational solutions'. Some of these…

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31

Oct

Lufthansa ready to invest up to 200 million euros in Alitalia

German carrier Lufthansa is ready to invest up to 200 million euros in struggling Italian airline Alitalia, a source close to the matter said on Thursday. Confirming reports in two…

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31

Oct

Di Maio warns that halting Libyan agreement on migration would be harmful

  Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told the Lower House on Wednesday that it would be unwise for Italy to break off its agreement with Libya on handling asylum seekers…

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30

Oct

Photo Story: Italus, the oldest tree in Europe

A detail of Italus, the oldest tree in Europe, at the Pollino National Park, in Cerchiara di Calabria (Cosenza), Italy, 30 October 2019. Italus is a loricate pine and was…

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30

Oct

Migrants from Ocean Viking disembark in Pozzallo

Over 100 asylum seekers picked up in the Mediterranean by the NGO-run search-and-rescue ship Ocean Viking were able to disembark in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo on Wednesday. The interior…

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30

Oct

Ocean Viking gets go ahead to disembark at Pozzallo

The NGO-run search-and-rescue ship Ocean Viking will be allowed to disembark the 104 asylum seekers it rescued on October 18 in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo, the Italian interior ministry…

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29

Oct

Italy – Father accused of torturing and killing 2-yr-old son

Twenty-five-year-old Alija Hrusic, of Croatian origins and in jail for allegedly killing his son, has been accused of torturing the little boy with kicks and punches. The toddler's body was…

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29

Oct

Italian PM Conte distances himself from Vatican-backed fund links

Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte, sought to distance himself from revelations that a Vatican-backed fund, now at the centre of an investigation into suspicious financial transactions, was behind a consortium…

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28

Oct

UniCredit says 3 million clients hit by data breach

Italian banking giant UniCredit said Monday that around three million of its clients in Italy were affected by a data breach in 2015, while stressing that account details were not…

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28

Oct

Italian PM Conte linked to investment fund being investigated by Vatican

The Financial Times reports that a Vatican-backed investment fund at the centre of a financial corruption investigation was behind a group of investors that hired Giuseppe Conte — now Italy’s…

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28

Oct

Salvini wins landslide victory in Italian regional election

After half a century of left-wing rule, the central Italian region of Umbria voted for a regional government spearheaded by Matteo Salvini's far-right League. Donatella Tesei of the League, backed by…

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27

Oct

3.1 earthquake registered in Cassavo Nuovo, Friuli Venezia Giulia region in Italy

A 3.1 magnitude earthquake was registered in Friuli Venezia Giulia region in Italy. The earthquake's epicentre was registered in Cassavo Nuovo. The Italian Geophysics and Vulcanology centre reported that the…

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26

Oct

Mild earthquake registered in Catania

An earthquake of the magnitude of 3.4 was registered early Saturday morning in Sicily, Italy. The earthquakes epicentre was in Milo between Catania and Taormina. According to the Italian Istituto…

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25

Oct

Eni production rate hits record high as third-quarter profit slumps

Italian energy group Eni racked up its highest ever production rate in the third quarter and said more was to come as net profits fell sharply on lower oil and…

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25

Oct

Sicily on storms red alert

The Italian civil protection department put eastern Sicily on red alert on Friday due violent storms that caused some rail services to be suspended. Italy has been hit by a…

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25

Oct

Italian police bust ‘Mafia plastic recycling ring’

Italian authorities say they have smashed a Mafia-run plastic recycling ring that sent toxic material from the southern island of Sicily to China. The scam was uncovered during a four-year…

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25

Oct

Earthquake rattles Calabria region

An earthquake registering 4.4 early Friday struck in the Tyrrhenian Sea at a depth of 11km off the coast of Calabria. The tremors were felt in Cosenza, Vibo Valentia, Luzzi,…

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25

Oct

Trains, planes, Rome bus, metro to strike on Friday

Trains and planes across Italy will stop and Rome be hit by a bus, metro and trash collection strike on what has been dubbed 'Black Friday' , unions confirmed. Rome…

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24

Oct

Man killed in robbery in the streets of Rome

Carabinieri officers investigate a crime scene in Rome, Italy after a fatal roobery.. A 25-year-old man on the evening of Wednesday was shot after he reacted to a robbery in…

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24

Oct

Libyan and Italian Interior Ministers review cooperation in fighting illegal immigration

The Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha met Wednesday with the Italian counterpart, Luciana Lamorgese, in Rome and discussed illegal immigration issues, Libya's Anti Illegal Immigration Authority said on Facebook. The…

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24

Oct

Italian health authorities issue alert about e-cigarettes

The Italian Higher Health Institute (ISS) has issued a grade 2 alert about e-cigarettes to the health ministry and regional health councillors across Italy,. A grade two alert is the…

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23

Oct

Italian region of Piedmont declares state-of-emergency after violent storms

Two people are dead, and two others who were missing were later found alive after a wave of violent storms caused flooding many areas of northern Italy. The extreme weather…

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21

Oct

Photo Story: Storms wreak havoc in northern Italy

  Scenes from the aftermath of the severe weather in Milan, northern Italy. According to reports, large areas of Milan have been affected by floods as a wave of storms…

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21

Oct

Fire grips Turin’s Cavallerizza Reale

A big fire broke out on Monday at Turin's Cavallerizza Reale, a historic building in the centre of the northern city which has UNESCO World Heritage status thanks to its…

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21

Oct

Large areas of Milan flooded

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20

Oct

Unauthorised Prosecco-flavoured Pringles seized in Italy

Officials in Italy have seized 250 tubes of Prosecco flavoured Pringles crisps, after claims the company used the sparkling wine’s name without permission. Pringles produced the limited-edition range of crisps…

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17

Oct

Recovery of corpses from migrant shipwreck in Lampedusa

Photos showing divers of the Italian Coast Guard preparing to go down about 60 meters deep, six miles south of the coast of Lampedusa, to recover 13 corpses- 12 of…

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16

Oct

12 bodies found in shipwreck off Lampedusa

A handout video grab taken from underwater footage made by an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and released by the Italian Coast Guard (Guardia Costiera). The photo shows the wreckage of…

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16

Oct

Photo Story: 29 injured as bus crashes into tree in Rome

Local police and fire brigade on the spot where a bus crashed with a tree in Rome, Italy. The emergency services have taken 29 injured people to hospital after a…

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16

Oct

British brain-damaged girl who was flown to Italy for treatment is ‘settling in well’

A severely brain-damaged girl who the British health services believed should have her life support withdrawn is settling into her new home in a specialist children's hospital in Italy. Tafida…

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15

Oct

Italy’s Euro Zone membership is irreversible – Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini said on Monday that the euro was here to stay and he hoped that nobody in his far-right, eurosceptic party would ever again raise doubts over Italy's membership…

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13

Oct

Couple who survived the Morandi bridge collapse gets married

Just a little more than a year after the collapse of the Morandi bridge, Eugeniu Babin and Nataliya Yelina, survivors of the collapse of August 14, 2018,  got married in…

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12

Oct

Photo Story: Italian Air Force F-35s during NATO Air Policing

A series of photos of the Italian Air Force multirole combat aircraft F-35 during defence operation Air Policing led by NATO in Keflavik Air Base, Iceland. NATO Air Policing is…

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12

Oct

Fresco with two gladiators fighting discovered in Pompeii

A handout photo made available by the Italian Culture Ministry on 11 October 2019 shows two gladiators at the end of a fight, with one (L) winning and the other…

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11

Oct

The battle against cancer is harder than one could hope for but results are positive – Gianluca Vialli

Former Italian footballer Gianluca Vialli is in Italy together with the Italian National team which this weekend should get the mathematical qualification for Euro 2020. For a long time there…

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11

Oct

Photo Story: ECB President Mario Draghi honoured at Milan university

European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi delivers a speech after being awarded with an Honoris Causa Degree at the Universita Cattolica university in Milan, Italy, 11 October 2019.  …

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11

Oct

Highlights of the Exhibition of Bernardo Strozzi in Genoa

Highlights of some of the works of artby Bernardo Strozzi that are on display as part of the exhibition 'The Conquest of Color' at the Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino in Genoa,…

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11

Oct

Etna eruptions cause partial air-space closure

Fresh eruptions on the Etna caused big clouds of volcanic ash on Friday, prompting the authority in charge of Catania airport to close a section of Sicily's air space. As…

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10

Oct

Italian tax evaders to have assets seized like Mafia members

A measure in a draft of a fiscal decree set to be linked to the government's 2020 budget bill would enable the tax authorities to seize the assets of people…

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09

Oct

Over 200 Alitalia flights cancelled because of pilot, cabin crew strike

Alitalia pilots and cabin crew staged a 24-hour strike called by the Anpac, Anpav and Anp unions on Wednesday. See full list of cancelled flights here   The action forced…

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09

Oct

Search continuing in Lampedusa for victims of latest tragedy

Italian authorities are continuing the search for the bodies of the persons that were on-board a boat that capsized earlier this week off the coast of Lampedusa. According to survivors,…

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09

Oct

Italy says Malta migration accord is already operational

  Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said after an EU interior ministers meeting on migrants in Luxembourg Tuesday that "I can't give numbers" of the countries backing a recent swift redistribution…

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09

Oct

Italian Parliament votes to reduce number of MPs

The Lower house on Tuesday voted to cut Italy's parliamentarians from 945 to 600, by 553 votes to 14 with two abstentions. After its definitive approval, the bill has now…

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08

Oct

Giovanni Falcone’s killer request for house arrest refused

The supreme Court of Cassation on Monday rejected a petition by Giovanni Brusca, the Sicilian mafia boss who set off the explosive that killed anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone in 1992,…

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08

Oct

In Italy, working mother is told “You either accept the offer to leave, or they’ll make your life misery” after having second child

"You should accept the offer. If you go back to work they will force you die". Although using a friendly tone, worker Chiara could not see a friend in the…

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08

Oct

Italy risks losing EU funds, unless there is adequate funding for its ‘poorer south’ – EU Official

The European Commission has sent Italy a letter saying that Rome risks a cut in EU structural funds unless it maintains "an adequate level" of funding for its poorer south,…

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08

Oct

UPDATED: Tragedy off the coast of Lampedusa after boat full of migrants capsizes

Update: The Italian Coast Guard and Italian finance police rescued 22 survivors and recovered the bodies of 13 people, all women, after a boat carrying about 50 migrants overturned Sunday night…

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07

Oct

Italy in danger of entering recession

The CSC research unit of Italian industrial employers' confederation Confindustria said Monday that Italy is "still on the threshold of zero growth" and "risks falling into recession in the case…

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07

Oct

Photo Story: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ Photocall in Rome

US actress Angelina Jolie poses for the media during a photocall for 'Maleficent: Mistress of Evil' (Italian title: Maleficent: Signora del male) in Rome, Italy. The movie opens in Italian…

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07

Oct

Schools evacuated as earthquake rattles Catanzaro

Schools were evacuated in Catanzaro, Italy, as an earthquake on Monday morning rattled the region. The earthquake had an initial magnitude of 4 with the epicenter localized in Caraffa di…

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05

Oct

Italian 5Star Movement MPs launch attack on party leadership

Italy's anti-establishment 5Star Movement was rocked on Friday after almost a third of its lawmakers launched an attack on the party leadership, calling for an overhaul of the group's power…

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05

Oct

Renzi says he plans to sue Trump’s ex-campaign aide Papadopoulos

Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Friday said he plans to sue President Donald Trump’s ex-campaign aide George Papadopoulos over allegations that Renzi attempted to undermine Trump’s 2016 presidential…

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04

Oct

Two police officer shot dead in Trieste, Italy

Two police officers were shot dead in a firefight with two alleged robbers, a pair of brothers, at Trieste's central police station on Friday. The men, both said to be…

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04

Oct

Salvini leads protest against Rome Mayor Raggi

Lega party leader Matteo Salvini leads a protest against Rome mayor Virginia Raggi at Campidoglio in Rome, Italy. Right-wing party Lega organised a sit-in to protest against Rome Mayor Raggi…

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