TURIN, Italy: Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has doubled support for his far-right party in just seven months by cultivating a savvy social...
ROME: The figures jumping from a small boat into the clear shallow waters and running ashore on an Italian beach look like troops practicing a D-Day-style...
TUNIS/ROME: An armed group is stopping migrant boats from setting off across the Mediterranean from a city west of Tripoli that has been a springboard for...
ROME: He is an 80-year-old convicted criminal whose last government ended with Italy on the brink of bankruptcy, and he may well be kingmaker at the next...
ROME: Angelo Trovato is in charge of Italy’s asylum-request system, and it shows. In Trovato’s office near Rome’s Trevi Fountain, bulky columns of paperwork...
PESCARA DEL TRONTO, Italy: Hopes of finding more survivors from Italy’s powerful earthquake faded Friday, with the death toll rising to 278 and the rescue...
ROME: More than 2,000 migrants were rescued from boats in the Mediterranean on Friday, Italy's coastguard said, as numbers soared for the third year running...
ROME: Decriminalizing cannabis sales would strike a blow against Daesh (ISIS) militants and Italian mobsters who, according to ongoing investigations, are...
ROME: To traders at the famous Royal FloraHolland flower market near Amsterdam, Vincenzo Crupi was just another businessman helping to make the Netherlands...
ROME: Hopes faded of finding survivors Thursday from the sinking of a boat in which an estimated 200 migrants were feared drowned, as rescue ships were called...
ROME: Police in Sicily arrested 11 suspected mobsters they believe were helping Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro evade capture and spread his orders...
ROME: Italian police have seized more than 4 tons of cocaine worth 1 billion euros ($1.13 billion) on the street and arrested dozens of people suspected of...
ROME: Around 6,800 migrants were rescued from overcrowded boats crossing to Europe over the weekend, including a mother who gave birth to a baby girl on an...
CALTAGIRONE, Italy: Sixteen-year-old orphan Ishmael Bangura fled Sierra Leone in July when the Ebola virus killed eight members of his household.On his way to...
ROME: Italian and merchant ships have rescued almost 1,000 migrants from three overcrowded skiffs near the coast of Libya and found one dead body, Italy's...
PALERMO, Italy: Italian police targeting historic mafia families arrested 95 people on Monday for extortion, drug trafficking and money laundering, and in the...
NAPLES: Italian police arrested a former member of Silvio Berlusconi's government, accusing him of colluding with the mafia to quash competition against his...
ROME: Pope Francis, in an annual ceremony held to remember the hundreds of innocent people murdered by the Italian mafia, made a solemn plea for mobsters to...
ROME: Italian centre-left leader Matteo Renzi unveiled his cabinet on Friday after formally accepting the mandate to form a government he said would remain in...
ROME: The removal and destruction of the most dangerous agents in Syria's chemical arsenal will likely be delayed until the end of June because of...
ROME: Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said his children feel persecuted just as Jewish families did in Nazi Germany because he is being...
ROME: Italy's navy rescued about 300 migrants in the waters between Sicily and Libya on Tuesday as the government deployed ships, helicopters and unmanned...
ROME: A migrant boat carrying 137 people reached Italy from North Africa on Monday as the Italian government prepared to launch new naval and air patrols to...
LAMPEDUSA, Italy: Choppy seas prevented divers on Friday from recovering more bodies of migrants who died in a shipwreck off Sicily that has killed an...
ROME: A mafia clan in southern Italy staged hundreds of fake car crashes every year to get millions of euros in insurance payouts to buy drugs and weapons,...