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The British man was arrested by armed Dutch police at the request of the Italian authorities, who believed him to be a fugitive Sicilian mobster. LONDON -- When the Dutch [...]

Claudio Durigon, a member of the right-wing League party and a deputy economy minister, had proposed to rename a park after Benito Mussolini's brother. ROME -- An Italian government official [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani A team of experts, with the help of local residents and authorities, is trying to revive an ancient olive tree in the hilltop village of Cuglieri that [...]

A team of experts, with the help of local residents and authorities, is trying to revive an ancient olive tree in the hilltop village of Cuglieri that was engulfed in [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani and Jack Ewing After performing poorly in a stress test, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, founded in 1472, could be swallowed by UniCredit. SIENA, Italy - Last [...]

After performing poorly in a stress test, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, founded in 1472, could be swallowed by UniCredit. SIENA, Italy -- Last month Banca Monte dei Paschi di [...]

A monitoring station on the island reported a temperature of 119.84 Fahrenheit, 48.8 degrees Celsius, on Wednesday. If verified, it would be the highest ever recorded in Europe. The Italian [...]

A 25-mile swath of vegetation, farms and villages is hit by one of the largest wildfires in decades, devastating the Italian tourist destination. About 1,000 residents and tourists have been [...]

Known for her energetic dancing and singing as well as for conducting serious interviews, she was beloved by Italians of all generations. Raffaella Carrà, one of Italy's best-known television personalities, [...]

In a landmark move, Italy's cabinet on Tuesday declared the lagoon a national monument and banned large cruise ships from entering starting Aug. 1. Italy announced on Tuesday that it [...]

A small soccer museum in Florence tells the story of the Italian national team, and the fans' hopes for the Euro 2021 final match. FLORENCE -- Italy's match against England [...]

Giovanni Brusca completed 25 years in prison for murder, including the killings of Giovanni Falcone, an anti-mafia crusader, and a 14-year-old boy he dissolved in acid. He later became an [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani Though hugely popular as a singer-songwriter in Italy, he never stopped experimenting. He composed for movies, opera and ballet, directed films and painted. Franco Battiato, one of [...]

The agents will be tried in absentia in Rome in the death of Giulio Regeni, who had been doing research in Egypt and is now a symbol for human rights [...]

Charges including manslaughter and negligence are being considered following the accident in northern Italy that killed 14 people on Sunday. STRESA, Italy -- The crash of a cable car near [...]

The cable car was traveling at a height of nearly 40 feet, going from the Lake Maggiore area in northern Italy to Mottarone Mountain, when it suddenly fell. A cable [...]

Though hugely popular as a singer-songwriter in Italy, he never stopped experimenting. He composed for movies, opera and ballet, directed films and painted. Franco Battiato, one of Italy's most prominent [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani and Emma Bubola Investigators in a small southern Italian city say they discovered a criminal network that expanded all the way to a cafe at the judicial [...]

Investigators in a small southern Italian city say they discovered a criminal network that expanded all the way to a cafe at the judicial building. The 31 counts against the [...]

It is common for paid women athletes in Italy to be forced to leave after they get pregnant. Now one of them has ignited a debate that was a long [...]

The killings sparked deep emotions and outrage in Italy, which has been under strain from both the pandemic and political turmoil. Italians on Tuesday mourned the death of Luca Attanasio, [...]

The attack, on a World Food Program convoy headed to a school in North Kivu Province, left the ambassador, Luca Attanasio, an Italian embassy official and a driver dead. For [...]

Byline: Emma Bubola and Gaia Pianigiani Advocacy groups and legislators say a practice of informal deportations violates Italian, European Union and international laws. At least one court in Rome agreed. [...]

Advocacy groups and legislators say a practice of informal deportations violates Italian, European Union and international laws. At least one court in Rome agreed. ROME -- To escape persecution in [...]

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's government is likely to collapse, leaving Italy in an uncertain political situation with Covid-19 infections still very high. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte of Italy will offer [...]

Prosecutors in the southern region of Calabria opened a trial of 325 defendants linked to the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate accused of murder, corruption, drug trafficking and other crimes. Italy opened [...]

The sharp drop in visitors since the start of the pandemic pressed this small community in the hills of Chianti to cling to the essentials: the pharmacy, the food store [...]

A report identified corroded cables as being to blame in the tragedy that took 43 lives in the northwestern city of Genoa in 2018. The 2018 collapse of a bridge [...]

Prosecutors brought formal indictments against four officials from the North African country over the abduction and murder of Giulio Regeni in 2016. Italy announced on Thursday that four officials with [...]

He admitted to stealing files and giving them to a journalist as a way to expose Vatican corruption and protect his boss, Benedict XVI. ROME -- Paolo Gabriele, who as [...]

In a new book, Pope Francis mentioned the crackdown on the Muslim minority group for the first time. Beijing rejected his characterization as ''groundless.'' A comment from Pope Francis in [...]

Byline: Peter S. Goodman and Gaia Pianigiani LONDON - Dr. Chiara Lepora had never imagined being deployed in her home country of Italy. As a physician for the international relief [...]

LONDON -- Dr. Chiara Lepora had never imagined being deployed in her home country of Italy. As a physician for the international relief agency Doctors Without Borders, she was accustomed [...]

The former C.E.O. and other top managers of the company tasked with overseeing the Morandi Bridge in Genoa were arrested on Wednesday in an investigation linked to its deadly 2018 [...]

The euthanizing of a boar and her six piglets on a playground near the Vatican has aroused fury in Rome, a city that has long complained about the often aggressive [...]

The 15-year-old from Ivory Coast died in a hospital after being evacuated from one of the cruise ships where Italian authorities are keeping migrants as part of efforts to limit [...]

The Uruguayan forward Luis Suárez, a star at the Spanish club Barcelona, was trying to get a passport to smooth a transfer to Juventus. But investigators say his language exam [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani and Emma Bubola Right-wing politicians say migrants threaten Italy by bringing Covid-19 with them, even as official data shows 'minimal' effect from new arrivals. POZZALLO, Italy - [...]

Right-wing politicians say migrants threaten Italy by bringing Covid-19 with them, even as official data shows ''minimal'' effect from new arrivals. POZZALLO, Italy -- As the summer vacation season draws [...]

Built in less than two years to replace the collapsed Morandi bridge, the new span is already a point of pride for Italy. But residents fear it will not be [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani A boat carrying 95 migrants on the Mediterranean floated adrift for more than 30 hours before the Maltese authorities finally brought them to shore under intense pressure. [...]

A boat carrying 95 migrants on the Mediterranean floated adrift for more than 30 hours before the Maltese authorities finally brought them to shore under intense pressure. The rubber dinghy [...]

After days of mounting political tension, the leading players in Italy's bickering coalition government tried to steer their way to calmer waters on Friday, pledging to meet and discuss their [...]

A court in Sicily has ordered the immediate release of an Eritrean man accused more than three years ago of managing an extensive people-smuggling network for those trying to cross [...]

SIENA, Italy -- The two remaining towers of a highway bridge in central Genoa that collapsed last year, killing 43 people, were demolished on Friday, clearing the city's skyline of [...]

ROME -- A rescue ship carrying 42 migrants floated in Italian waters off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa on Thursday, further inflaming tensions between humanitarian groups and Italy's populist government, [...]

France Aya Nakamura For fans of: Rihanna, Drake ''Women in the French music industry are compelled to make no waves,'' Aya Nakamura said in a recent interview. ''I show off.'' [...]

ROME -- Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Belgium, a liberal supporter of Pope Francis and a former Vatican adviser whose long pastoral career was damaged in a sex-abuse scandal after his [...]

ROME -- It was a demoralizing few days for women in Italian courts. A man who stabbed his wife to death was sentenced to a reduced term of 16 years [...]

ROME -- Around 300 children in Bologna, Italy, were not eligible to attend kindergarten this week because a temporary measure relaxing vaccination requirements expired and a previous, stricter law returned [...]