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Europe is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave.
Italy faces another wave of intense heat over the coming days, driven by an anticyclone which has seen hot air currents from north Africa sweep in across the country...
Taxi drivers call off Rome protests.
Italy faces a two-day nationwide taxi strike on 20-21 July as cab drivers protest against the government's competition bill amid claims that deregulating the sector would lead to the...
M5S snub of key vote plunges Italian government into crisis.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella refused to accept the resignation of prime minister Mario Draghi on Thursday night after the populist MoVimento 5 Stelle (...
Tourists also fined for defacing archaeological remains in Roman Forum.
Rome police caught up with a 30-year-old Canadian tourist after she used a stone to carve the initials of her name into an external wall of the Col...
Break-up follows months of rumours.
Italian TV presenter Ilary Blasi announced the end of her 17-year marriage to AS Roma legend Francesco Totti in a statement on Monday night, Italian news agency ANSA reports.
"Afte...
Gualtieri "not intimidated" and will push ahead with plans for incinerator to tackle Rome's trash crisis.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri said "there was certainly the hand of man" behind the recent spate of fires in the I...
Tourist had strayed off visitor path and was not seriously injured.
A 23-year-old American tourist fell into the crater of Mount Vesuvius, the volcano looming over Naples, Italian media reports.
The incident occurred...
Måneskin resist doctors' calls to postpone Rome concert over covid fears.
Rome bar owners are protesting over "unfair" alcohol restrictions in the city centre on Saturday 9 July for the Måneskin concert at the Circus Ma...
Filming for Without Blood taking place in Rome from 6-9 July.
Rome is to close several streets in the city centre this week to allow for the filming of Angelina Jolie's new movie Without Blood.
Filming will take plac...
Happy ending for man who got married while on the verge of death in hospital bed.
An Italian man dying due to complications from a heart attack married his partner in the intensive care unit of a hospital in north Italy...
€36.5 million allocated to Italian regions worst hit by drought.
Italy has declared a state of emergency in five northern regions battling the worst drought in 70 years, the government announced on Monday night.
Emer...
Rome mourns last Roman Jew to survive the horrors of Auschwitz.
Donato Di Veroli, the last Roman Jew to survive the Holocaust, has died in the Italian capital aged 98, the city's Jewish community announced on Monday....
Fire in north Rome park fuelled by heatwave and strong gusts of wind.
A large wildfire broke out on Monday in Parco del Pineto, a regional park in the north of Rome, between Pineta Sacchetti and Monte Mario.
The blaz...
Willy Monteiro Duarte was beaten to death after coming to aid of friend.
Marco and Gabriele Bianchi have been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Willy Monteiro Duarte, a 21-year-old Cape Verdian-Italian beate...
16 still missing after chunk of glacier collapses from Marmolada peak.
At least six people have been killed after part of a mountain glacier collapsed in the Italian Alps on Sunday, leaving nine injured and 16 missing....
Villa Aurora goes under the hammer again after failing to sell twice at auction earlier this year.
An historic Rome villa with the world's only known ceiling painting by Caravaggio goes up for sale a third time, on 30 J...
Fire fuelled by strong winds during hottest June day on record.
Rome firefighters battled a vast wildfire on the north-west outskirts of the city on Monday afternoon amid the hottest temperatures ever recorded in the ca...
Italy bids farewell to leading business figure.
Leonardo Del Vecchio, the Italian founder of Luxottica and president of EssilorLuxottica, the world's largest producer and retailer of glasses and frames, has died in Ital...
Rome mayor asks residents not to waste water as several Italian regions hit by severe drought.
The Lazio region around Rome is set to declare a state of emergency as an ongoing drought raises the prospect of water ratio...
Animal rights activists slam "heinous" plan.
The Lazio region around Rome has approved measures to drastically reduce its numbers of wild boar in response to the risk of African swine fever (ASF) for pig farms.
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