Italy's Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano (R) delivers a press conference with Ghassan Salame, Special Representative to the Secretary General of the United Nations for Libya. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AItaly's minister of foreign affairs, Angelino Alfano, met today with the head of the United Nation's

A Spanish vessel with three Libyan migrants aboard was kept in inte ational waters on Tuesday after Italy and Malta refused to let it to dock. The three aboard the ship Golfo Azzurro, chartered by Spain's Proactivaxa0Open Arms NGO and rescuedxa0Sunday, were in limbo, illustrating policy confusionxa0...

Mario Balotelli has again been caught speeding in his Ferrari, police told AFP Tuesday as media reports claimed the striker had been caught doing 170-200kmh (105-125mph) in a race with a friend's Lamborghini. The former Manchester City and Liverpool striker, now at French club Nice,xa0was stopped by...

A sign marks the entrance to Arte Continua gallery in Havana, on May 25, 2017. 'Arte Continua' is the first private gallery of contemporary art based in Cuba. Photo: Adalberto Roque/AFPThe first ever inte ational contemporary art space in Cuba has been opened by Italians. For decades, Cubans have b

Temperatures are set to continue above 40 Celsius in parts of Puglia and Sicily in southe Italy until Friday, when the temperatures are expected to drop by about 10 degrees Celsius, according to Repubblica. The Ministry of Public Health has declared a "red alert" for 17 Italian cities, including:

An Italian ministry has ruled that tiramisu is from Friuli and not Veneto, setting off a less than sweet war of words between the neighbouring regions. It all started when gastronomy authors Clara and Gigi Padovani published 'History, curious facts & interpretations of the most beloved Italian s

Accusations of homophobia have resurfaced in southe Italy after a teenage couple were told they could not hug in public at a beach resort in Caserta last Friday. A 17-year-old and an 18-year-old man were "intimidated" by the life guard at the Lido Arcobaleno beach resort in Caserta, in the Campani

British glamour model Chloe Ayling. Photo: Facebook.A hunt for possible accomplices to the terrifying abduction of a British model in Italy was underway Sunday after the alleged mastermind told police he planned to auction her off as a sex slave on the dark web. Italian police have confirmed they ar

Fifteen volunteer firemen in Sicily became arsonists so that they could extinguish more fires and collect more money from the state. Police in Ragusa have charged a group of 15 volunteer firemen with defrauding the state. Members of the group allegedly started fires so that they could then put them

Three people died in freak accidents Sunday as violent storms raged in northe Italy at the end of a prolonged heatwave, police said. A 41-year-old Belgian man was among the dead after a tree fell on his tentxa0at a Rainbow Gathering counter-cultural summer camp in the Tramontina valleyxa0in the nort...

A banner reading 'Stop Human Trafficking' attached to the side of the C-Star. Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis / AFPA ship carrying far-right campaigners who aim to tu migrant boats back to Africa followed an NGO rescue vessel with an AFP reporter on board on Saturday in waters off Libya. The activists'

Horseback police in front of Milan Central Station. File photo: Miguel Medina/AFPA British model was drugged and abducted for a week in Italy last month by a British-based Pole who allegedly tried to auction her off as a sex slave on the dark web, Italian police said Saturday. The unidentified 20-ye

One woman died after her car was swept away by an avalanche of water and mud as a heatwave broke into storms in the Italian Alps, police said Saturday. The incident occurred ove ight near the top ski resort of Cortina d'Ampezzo in the Dolomites range in the northeast of the country. The car was rec

Swaths of southe Europe sweltered Saturday in a heatwave that has claimed several lives, cost billions in crop damage and is, scientists wa ed, a foretaste of worse to follow in coming decades. At least five deaths in Italy and Romania have been attributed to the extreme conditions since the heat

Italy's annual wine harvest, the biggest in the world, is off to its earliest start in a decade as the country swelters in a heatwave following months of drought. Winemakers have also had to contend with spring frosts and hailstorms this year and the country's agri-food agency Coldiretti is anticipa

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A heatwave that has left Italy sweltering in record temperatures sparked wildfires on Thursday which claimed the life of one elderly woman and forced the closure of a major highway. The 79-year-old woman was found dead in a field next to her home in Sant'Omero in the central region of Abruzzo, havin

A man hired to work as a waiter at a hotel in Emilia-Romagna had the job offer retracted after his employer told him: “We can’t put coloured guys in the dining area”. Paolo Grottanelli, 29, was hired for the summer role at the hotel in the seaside town of Cervia based on the experience outlined in h

Italian bank UniCredit, in the midst of a massive overhaul, said on Thursday that its net profit rose modestly in the second quarter, beating expectations. While analysts had expected profits to decline to €676 million in the April-June period, instead they rose by 3.3 percent from the second quarte

The bomb was planted outside a bookshop in Florence. File photo: VitorMarigo/ Deposit PhotosItalian police said they had arrested on Thursday five anarchists suspected of planting a bomb outside a far-right bookshop in Florence on January 1st that badly injured an explosives expert. The five have be