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Rome mayor says fire may have been caused by illegal camp.
Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation into the cause of a large wildfire that broke out on the slopes of Monte Mario, a nature reserve in a northern sub...
Rome urges tourists to download fountain app.
The Italian health ministry has issued a maximum 'red alert' for Rome on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as an intense heatwave sweeps the country.
In addition to Rome, th...
Rome included in 'bollino rosso' warning.
Italy has issued a maximum 'red alert' for 17 cities on Friday 19 July as an intense heatwave sweeps the country, with temperatures in the south set to top 40°C this weekend....
Fiat marks milestone with new Grande Panda.
Italian automobile manufacturer Fiat celebrates its 125th anniversary in Turin on Thursday with the launch of the new Grande Panda car, inspired by the iconic 1980s model....
Rome included in 'bollino rosso' heatwave warning.
Italy's health ministry has issued a red alert heatwave warning for seven Italian cities on Thursday 11 July, with high temperatures set to last for 10 days.
The cit...
Rome triples the number of bins on city streets.
Rome has started the process of installing 18,000 new rubbish bins, tripling the total number on streets around the capital, in time for the Vatican's Jubilee Year 2025....
Activists stage protest at Rome landmark.
Rome's Spanish Steps were sealed off on Wednesday following a protest by feminist activists who threw red paint over the 18th-century landmark in the city's historic centre....
Last of Churchill's Few meets daughter of Italian girl who risked her life to save him.
The last surviving RAF fighter pilot from the Battle of Britain has met the daughter of an Italian girl who saved his life in north...
For four decades the Orlandi family has sought answers to one of Italy's greatest mysteries.
Italy marks 41 years since the 15-year-old schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi disappeared while returning to her family home in Vatic...
Knox fails to clear her name in slander retrial.
Amanda Knox has lost her bid to overturn a slander conviction in relation to the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher after an appeals court in Florence upheld...
Knox seeks to clear her name in slander retrial linked to Meredith Kercher murder.
American Amanda Knox returned to a courtroom in Italy on Wednesday in an effort to overturn a slander conviction in relation to the murd...
Rome marks national holiday with military parade.
Italy celebrates Festa della Repubblica, Italy's Republic Day, with a national public holiday on Sunday 2 June 2024.
This year marks the 78th edition of the annual ev...
Italy celebrates Republic Day with military parade in Rome.
Italy marks Festa della Repubblica, a national public holiday in celebration of the Italian republic, with a series of major events in Rome on Sunday 2 June....
Schools remain closed in Campi Flegrei area.
The Italian government is set to allocate more than €500 million to make buildings safe in the Campi Flegrei area near Naples where a flurry of seismic activity in recent day...
Capaci bombing took place on this day 32 years ago.
Italy marks the 32nd anniversary of the murder of the anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone who was assassinated by the Corleonesi mafia in a bombing in Sicily on 23 May 1...
Campi Flegrei schools closed on Tuesday amid seismic storm.
The Campi Flegrei or Phlegraean Fields, a highly seismic area in Italy's southern Campania region near Naples, was shaken by a 4.4 magnitude earthquake on Mond...
Tragic incident occurred near Ponte Sisto.
A 29-year-old Swedish tourist died after falling off the high embankment walls along Rome's river Tiber early on Wednesday morning, according to local media.
The incident oc...
Viterbo gets ready for "Bomba Day" after discovery of massive bomb buried for 80 years.
Around 36,000 people will be evacuated from their homes in the central Italian town of Viterbo on Tuesday while army experts defuse...
Workers' Day falls on a Wednesday in 2024.
Italy celebrates Labour Day - known as the Festa dei Lavoratori or Festa del Lavoro - with a national public holiday every year on 1 May.
This year the Primo Maggio holiday...
Jubilee 2025 works underway at usual concert venue.
Italy's annual May Day concert leaves behind its traditional venue outside Rome's Basilica of S. Giovanni in Laterano and moves to the Circus Maximus this year.
The...
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