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The government called on Thursday for peaceful protests in Vicenza at the weekend amid fears that a planned demo against the expansion of a US militar…
Italy's fuel station operators on Wednesday confirmed a pump shutdown from February 27 to March 3 to protest the government's plans to deregulate the…
Serie A club Catania has had its ground banned for the remainder of the season because of a riot in which a policeman was killed on February 2.The ban…
Italy's largest bank confirmed on Wednesday that it will continue to back a bid by AirOne airlines for national carrier Alitalia in order to "do somet…
Italy will be proclaimed 'Country of the Year' at the BioFach international organic farming trade fair which opens Thursday in this Germany city. "Thi…
Italian Parmesan producers have expressed "surprise" at Berlin's determination to allow cheap imitations of the cheese to be sold in Germany, an Itali…
A row between Italy and Croatia over WWII atrocities spilled over to the European Union on Wednesday and prompted another outburst by Croatian Preside…
The Italian fashion world has been rapped for hypocrisy after failing to find space for a show of plus-size clothes in this month's Milan fashion week…
The sperm whale has made a stunning return to the Mediterranean after finding sanctuary off Sicily, Italian marine biologists have discovered after a…
Italy's GDP in 2006, when corrected for the number of working days, jumped 2% over the previous year, its strongest gain since 2000 when GDP leapt 3%,…
Environment Minister Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio has told southern Italy to pull up its socks on recycling, after its poor performance caused Italy to mis…
Italian Premier Romano Prodi voiced indignation on Tuesday after Croatian President Stjepan Mesic accused his Italian counterpart Giorgio Napolitano o…
A Muslim cleric who was allegedly kidnapped in Milan four years ago and taken to Egypt by a team of CIA operatives, with the suspected complicity of t…
Italian police on Monday arrested 15 suspected terrorists believed to have links with the Red Brigades at the end of an investigation which began two…
Outgoing Alitalia chairman Giancarlo Cimoli did not receive a severance bonus or 'golden handshake' for his early departure from the helm of the natio…
Italian authorities vowed Monday to maintain their tough stance on hooliganism after the weekend's resumption of soccer action showed the problem is s…
Pope Benedict XVI on Monday denounced laws giving legal recognition to gay and unmarried couples, saying such legislation dramatically subverted the…
The European Court of Justice will rule next week on a case against Germany for violating European Union regulations protecting the authenticity of qu…
Ferrari's Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa will receive this year's Lorenzo Bandini Trophy, which was created in 1992 in memory of the late Italian drive…
The Italian Navy on Friday intercepted a 10-meter trawler some three miles south of the island of Lampedusa crowded with 321 illegal immigrants aboard…