Four members of same family killed by carbon-monoxide poisoning
Four members of the same family died of carbon-monoxide poisoning on Wednesday in their home in the province of Lucca town of Rughi. The victims were a 48-year-old man, a 43-year-old woman and the couple’s two children, a 22-year-old man…
Storms continue to pound southern Italy after causing havoc, huge damage
A wave of storms that has been battering southern Italy for days, causing havoc and massive damage, continued unabated on Wednesday, with Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria hit especially hard by ‘Cyclone Harry’. “It looks like a war bulletin,” said Danilo…
Important to keep up pressure on ‘bogged down’ Russia says Meloni
Premier Giorgia Meloni said it is important to keep up the pressure on Moscow in order to reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine as she reported to the Lower House on Wednesday before this week’s EU summit….
Italy leads opposition to single fund for the CAP
Not even Ursula von der Leyen’s personal olive branch was enough to calm those who see the upcoming EU multiannual budget as a threat to the Common Agricultural Policy. In Brussels a group of at least seven EU countries, led…
Church deplores anti-Semitism, fights it says pope
Pope Leo XIV reiterated the Catholic Church’s commitment to fighting anti-Semitism on Wednesday as he referred to the 60th anniversary of ‘Nostra aetate’, the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on Interreligious Dialogue, during his weekly general audience in Saint Peter’s Square….
UN is under attack and must be defended says Mattarella
The United Nations is under attack and needs to be defended, Italian President Sergio Mattarella said in an interview with ‘La Voce di New York’, an Italian English Digital Daily in the US. “The 80th anniversary of the UN is…
Jewish couple attacked by gang in Venice
Apair of Jewish tourists, an American man and his Israeli wife, were attacked by a dozen-strong group of North African men in Venice on the night of between Sunday and Monday, local newspapers reported on Thursday.The attack began shortly after…
Collision btwn regional and freight trains, 2 minor injuries
Тwo people were slightly hurt after a regional commuter train hit a freight train in northern Italy Wednesday.Traffic was suspended for several hours on the Brenner-Trento line, between Mezzocorona and Trento, due to the collision between several freight cars and…
Pray for God to grant peace to all says pope
Pope Leo XIV in his Wednesday general audience urged the faithful to pray that God grant peace to all.In his greeting to a group of Polish pilgrims, Leo recalled Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe, the Polish priest who offered his life…
Left trying to use the courts to beat us says Meloni
Premier Giorgia Meloni accused part of the opposition of trying to use judicial means to fight her government on Thursday after the Green-Left Alliance (AVS) said it will report the executive to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged complicity…
Recognize Palestine if it recognizes Israel – Tajani
Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Friday that Italy is not yet ready to recognize the state of Palestine after French President Emmanuel Macron announced that Paris would do so, “Italy is in favour of the two-peoples-two-states solution,…
Defuse tariffs or risk recession says ABI president
Banks would also suffer Patuelli tells annual assembly Protectionism and tariffs must be defused or they will cause a new global recession, the president of the Italian Banking Association (ABI), Antonio Patuelli said in his address to its annual assembly…
