Browsing: Italy

‘We are losing the real meaning of pizza!’

A mobster from the Neapolitan criminal clan known as the Camorra is amongst the criminals on the run.

Italian cardinal Angelo Becciu was found guilty of financial crimes.

A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system.

“This is the first cardinal to be prosecuted in a Vatican criminal court”, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Rome, Italy, Seema Gupta.” Cardinal Angelo Becciu is the most senior Vatican official to face such charges; “the 75-year-old cardinal was a former advisor to Pope Francis, so he was somebody who would meet with the pope and he was seen as a papal contender”. 

The 36-year-old Ryanair steward was on her way home from the airport when she was struck crossing a road.

New finds in central Italy suggest ordinary Roman towns were still ‘thriving’ in the 3rd century – when the Empire’s power was crumbling.

Among the dozens of people evacuated were three newborns, the mayor of the town said after the blaze.

The 74-year-old had missed an email asking for further proof of living in the UK as it went to her junk folder.

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The Leaning Tower of Pisa’s counterpart is at risk.

‘Enemy or friend it doesn’t matter, he must be honoured.’

He headbutted a wall in Italy when he ran out of pills.

Il ministro delle Imprese e del Made in Italy Adolfo Urso, nell’ambito della missione ufficiale nella Penisola Arabica, ha avuto a Doha un incontro bilaterale…

La Commissione Ue in sede di valutazione della proposta di revisione del Pnrr ha approvato una modifica del target finale degli asili nido e delle…

La Borsa di Tokyo avvia la prima seduta della settimana in leggero rialzo, sostenuta della debolezza dello yen, e in attesa delle nuove indicazioni macroeconomiche…

“Stupro strumento guerra del patriarcato, lo fanno Hamas e altri” 

“Allora diro’ che si e’ fatto qualcosa per le donne” 

“Lotta di cambiamento culturale che riguarda gli uomini” 

Yesterday’s display shows that the 10,925ft mountain in Sicily has no intention of surrendering its crown as Europe’s most active volcano.

Pope Francis has cancelled his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s square due to illness

Italy is one of the main countries of arrival in Europe for thousands of minors crossing the Mediterranean on their own. Since the beginning of her mandate as prime minister, far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has prioritised the fight against illegal immigration. This fall, the Italian executive approved a decree targeting unaccompanied minor migrants. The text toughens their living conditions and imposes stricter measures on verifying their age. Our correspondents report from Palermo, on the island of Sicily.

Historical records suggest the Roman emperor Elagabalus asked to be referred to as a ‘Lady’.

The ’ndrangheta family were running drugs and arms worldwide, the tribunal heard.

An Italian tribunal on Monday convicted 207 people and sentenced them to a combined 2,100 years in prison on charges related to their membership in Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate, one of the world’s most powerful, extensive and wealthy drug-trafficking groups. The mafia group, which is tied to some 150 Calabrian families, has a near monopoly on the European cocaine trade, bringing in €50 billion annually according to some estimates, FRANCE 24’s Seema Gupta said.