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The cost of flights to and from Italy has risen around by around 20 percent in the first three months of 2024 compared to the same period the year before. What's behind the hikes? , ...ادامه مطلب

Several airlines have announced new routes in and out of Italy in 2024, with the political and economic capitals of Rome and Milan among the cities seeing the biggest increases. , ...ادامه مطلب

A Rome-bound aircraft departed on Saturday from Libya's capital, restarting flights to Italy after a nearly decade-long suspension due to an EU ban, authorities in Tripoli said. , ...ادامه مطلب

Italy's competition watchdog said on Wednesday it had opened an investigation into Ryanair over allegations the Irish airline was abusing its dominant market position, as the govement walked back plans to limit airfares. , ...ادامه مطلب

AS Roma players celebrate after making the Champions League final 16. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Serie A side Roma were given the green light on Tuesday by Italian authorities to build their own stadium which they hope to occupy by the 2020/21 season. The news came on the same night that Roma qualified for the Champions League last 16 top of their group ahead of Chelsea. The club's American president James Pallotta officially launched the project in March 2014 but there were numerous setbacks before the four main goveing bodies involved finally approved plans to build the Stadio della Roma. "I'm delighted because I know what this decision could mean for Rome i, ...ادامه مطلب

Italy's competition watchdog on Monday initiated non-compliance proceedings against Ryanair that could see the airline fined up to €5 million ($6 million) over its recent waves of cancellations. The procedure was launched after Ryanair ignored an order to update its website and standard emails to ensure Italian customers were made fully aware of their rights to re-booking, re-routing and compensation in the case of flights being cancelled, the Antitrust regulator said in a statement. The company challenged the order, which required the changes to be made within ten days, but its appeal was rejected by a tribunal last month. Ryanair has cancelled more than 20,000 f, ...ادامه مطلب

Barrels on a beach in northe Alaska. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images North America/AFP Italian energy giant Eni will start exploring for oil off Alaska after the United States authorized it to start drilling, despite environmental conces. The US Interior Department’s safety and environment watchdog on Tuesday approved an application by Eni’s American subsidiary to drill wells under the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska. It is the first time the US has issued a permit to drill in its Arctic waters since 2015. President Donald Trump has indicated that he will reverse a ban on offshore drilling in protected parts of the Artic Ocean that his predecessor, Barack Obama, introd, ...ادامه مطلب

An aeroplane interior. File photo: TT The British Chancellor on Wednesday raised the possibility that a 'no deal' Brexit scenario could ground flights between the UK and other European countries. Chancellor Philip Hammond said the British govement was preparing for all eventualities, and that included a 'no deal' scenario in which event, he said, it was "theoretically conceivable" that , ...ادامه مطلب

"Inside Caravaggio" opens on Friday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP He is known as the master of shade, and now 21st Century technology is shedding new light on the creative process behind Caravaggio's groundbreaking painting. "Inside Caravaggio", an exhibition that opens on Friday at Milan's Palazzo Reale, unites 20 of the Renaissance giant's most important works with, ...ادامه مطلب

File photo of an Italian Eurofighter jet plane. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP A 36-year-old Italian Air Force pilot died on Sunday when his plane crashed into the sea during an air show. The Italian govement has opened an inquiry to determine the cause of the accident, which happened when pilot Gabriele Orlandi carried out a loop manoeuvre. He was taking part in an airshow in Terracina,, ...ادامه مطلب

Residents in the Italian region of Abruzzo were left shocked when a bear ran through a town's cobbled streets. The town of San Sebastiano dei Marsi in Abruzzo, central Italy, received an uninvited and larger-than-usual guest at its recent patron saint festivities: A bear.  The Abruzzo National Park posted a video of Amarena, as the female bear is known to local residents, running through the town as onlookers leapt out of the way.  The bear popped into town on August 20, when residents and tourists alike in San Sebastiano dei Marsi were celebrating the town's namesake, St Sebastian, patron sai, ...ادامه مطلب

A tourist bus carrying mainly French and British nationals foreign collided with the top of an underpass at a railway crossing yesterday in Rome, the Italian capital. At least 18 people were injured on the bus which was carrying many children. At least one child is in a critical condition, reports R, ...ادامه مطلب

Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti. File photo: Mahmud Turkia/AFPThe murder of a crime boss in Puglia has highlighted the lawless nature of the Gargano region in Puglia. Italy's interior minister, Marco Minniti, visiting Puglia day after four men were shot on a highway by an unknown assassin, p, ...ادامه مطلب

An ongoing feud between rival crime families has surfaced again in Puglia as four men, including two innocent bystanders, were gunned down yesterday in the middle of the day near a railway station. Killers gunned down a mobster Wednesday and shot dead two farmers who stumbled across the crime in the, ...ادامه مطلب

An ongoing feud between rival crime families has surfaced again in Puglia as four men, including two innocent bystanders, were gunned down yesterday in the middle of the day near a railway station. Killers gunned down a mobster Wednesday and shot dead two farmers who stumbled across the crime in the, ...ادامه مطلب