Articles by ITALY
Italian cities are having to deal with a 24 hour strike of buses and trains, supported by all the main unions. The strikes have been called after fai…
(ANSA) - Italy stopped for two minutes at noon on Friday to silently commemorate the victims of last Thursday's London bombings and to demonstrate i…
(ANSA) - Raffaele Cutolo, who during the 1970s and early '80s organized The Naples Camorra into a major crime syndicate, has asked Italian President…
(ANSA) - Brussels - Italy will not suspend a European Union accord allowing people to travel freely between some nations, regardless of such steps by…
(ANSA) - Brescia - An Italian judge handed out the nation's first convictions for international terrorism on Wednesday, finding two Islamists guilty o…
(ANSA) - A stone bee, sculpted on a central Roman fountain by Italian baroque maestro Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is the latest victim of the city's statue…
(ANSA) - "Via da casa", roughly translated as "You're outta here", would appear to be the most popular threat Italian mothers use to try to impose dis…
(ANSA) - Cagliari, July 11 - A top-secret British plan to invade Sardinia in 1941 has come to light six decades after it was drawn up, a Sardinian dai…
(ANSA) - Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini reiterated on Monday that the withdrawal of 300 troops from Iraq in September was already scheduled and in…
(ANSA) - Cagliari, July 11 - A top-secret British plan to invade Sardinia in 1941 has come to light six decades after it was drawn up, a Sardinian dai…
(ANSA) - Catania, July 7 - Police in this Sicilian city have smashed a mafia ring accused of murder, extortion, laundering and corruption, judicial so…
(ANSA) - Mondovi, July 8 - In this northwest region better known for its excellent Barolo and Barbaresco wines, the residents here in this hillto…
by Mary Jane CryanVetralla, an hour north of Rome and the airports of Fiumicino and Ciampino, is a small town known for its olive oil, Etruscan s…
(ANSA) - Italy boosted anti-terror precautions in the wake of Thursday's London bombings as politicians of all stripes condemned the attacks and voic…
(ANSA) - The city of Rome will stage a rally here late Friday afternoon to demonstrate its support for London in the wake of the terrorist bomb attack…
(ANSA) - The Italian Senate has suspended proceedings to express solidarity with London, where several explosions occurred on Thursday morning. Ex…
(ANSA) - Rome, July 6 - The famed Tuscan T-bone steak called Fiorentina could soon be thumping back onto Italian tables after a five-year ban.After a…
(ANSA) - The sweetest feet soccer has ever seen will have a new vocation in September when Diego Maradona joins the cast of an Italian dance reality…
(ANSA) - Fiumicino - A new passport scanning device will soon reduce lines of departing and arriving passengers at Leonardo Da Vinci airport here, air…
(ANSA) - Italian Transport Minister Pietro Lunardi has admitted that he loves to drive fast and even breaks the motorway speed limit he himself impose…