08/29/2021 10:09 PM

Borrell: «Afghanistan was a catastrophe. Europe must share responsibility»

EU High Representative Josep Borrell suggests giving neighboring countries financial support to keep Afghan refugees: «The US is not willing to fight for other people’s wars anymore. We need a EU permanent “Initial Entry Force” to act quickly in an emergency»

12/04/2019 10:20 AM

Vatican invested in Lapo Elkann and Elton John film

Investments in Malta involving capital held by the Vatican’s Secretariat of State – in real estate, mineral water and websites – have led to investigations by Holy See prosecutors. At the heart of the operations is the Centurion investment fund, based in Valletta

11/27/2019 07:48 AM

Judges acquit Salvini: “NGOs should go to their own country”

The Court of Ministers on the migrant case: the “first-contact country” is that whose flag the ship flies

11/25/2019 11:19 AM

Giovanni Evangelisti and his medal for rigged long jump

Thirty-two years after being unfairly awarded a medal at the Athletics World Championships, the former long-jumper recalls: “I was one of the few athletes who was clean; the use of illegal substances was covered up”. His new passions are painting and sculpture

11/22/2019 06:29 AM

Liliana Segre “ready to head anti-hate commission”

The senator said she was tired but had no intention of giving up. She talked to us about the insults, her police escort, and how her life has changed at the age of 89

11/19/2019 04:52 AM

Ceramics company set to move to Armenia bought out by staff

Workers made redundant by company in Città di Castello due to relocation use severance pay to buy the machinery and rent the premises. After winning back their old customers, business is booming

11/07/2019 05:43 AM

Escort for Liliana Segre following insults and threats

Carabinieri to provide escort for senator, who receives an average of 200 hate messages a day on social media platforms

10/30/2019 07:38 AM

Task forces, seizures and arrests to fight drugs in Rogoredo

Buyers down from a thousand a day to about thirty. The drug selling marketplace of the Rogoredo woods, the largest in northern Italy, with rock-bottom prices, has, at least temporarily, been emptied, thanks to constant surveillance

10/29/2019 10:43 AM

Council approves Milan’s new stadium, with 16 conditions

Milan’s city council decides that new stadium is matter of public interest. The mayor: “Now negotiations can begin.” Inter and AC Milan: “We’ll assess the council’s conditions; the Sesto alternative is still an option”

10/17/2019 08:55 AM

Injured party becomes main suspect in Schwazer doping case

The order of Bolzano magistrates on doping case “of the century” overturns roles in the proceedings, and asks for 50 athletes to act as guinea pigs

10/09/2019 07:12 AM

Nursery school in Scampia surrounded by illegal dump

The principal had refused entry to a child with coloured braids, since they “were not decent”

10/02/2019 08:21 AM

Luca Parmitano first Italian to command International Space Station

He takes over from the Russian Alexei Ovchinin, marking the beginning of Expedition 61: Parmitano will be engaged in numerous experiments and will personally work on repairing the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS)

10/01/2019 06:56 AM

US duties on oil, wine and pasta put exports at risk

09/27/2019 05:21 AM

Planpincieux glacier: “It’s like life in the trenches”

The hotelier Ludovico Colombati and his family live in a mountain refuge on the edge of Planpincieux, about 1000 metres below the glacier. “We’ve put deckchairs in the garden for the technicians who come to carry out surveys; it’s the closest point to the glacier”

08/12/2019 10:01 AM

Renzi considers split from PD in bid to form new government

Bettini meanwhile seeks to broker new long-term coalition.

08/08/2019 07:07 AM

Father defends son over Carabiniere death: “He’s no murderer”

The father of Gabriel Christian Natale Hjorth, one of the two American youths arrested for the murder of Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome on the night between 25 and 26 July: “He didn’t know the man was a carabiniere, he’s desperate”

07/01/2019 07:15 AM

Thousands seduced by longevity “guru” Panzironi

Panzironi festival in Rome attracts coachloads of fans from all over Italy

06/25/2019 09:03 AM

2026 Winter Olympics: how Italy was awarded the Games

Three different teams in action simultaneously: representatives from politics and sport, captains of industry, and athletes (in general, but above all the women).

06/19/2019 08:48 AM

Berlusconi family reaps dividends of €100 million

06/18/2019 08:26 AM

Young man stabbed to death for splashing water

Argument at drinking fountain during village festival. Victim was 25-year-old deliveryman, who was stabbed several times and bled to death. A 47-year-old worker with a wife and children confessed to the crime and was arrested a few hours later by carabinieri