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The body of a man allegedly shot and killed by people smugglers was found on a trafficker’s boat by a migrant taxi NGO.

Police in Italy and Belgium have arrested five alleged people-smugglers who are accused of using private jets to help ferry illegal aliens from Turkey to Europe for as much as €10,000 (£8,770/$9,983) per passenger.

Italy has seen over a thousand migrants arrive on Sicily Lampedusa in a day, once again overwhelming migrant reception centres.

Two Syrian children, aged just one and two years old, were found dead after dying of thirst aboard a people smuggler boat.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly has her sights set on becoming the U.S. Ambassador to Italy after enjoying its beaches over the summer.

Italian media have returned to the practice of daily reporting on coronavirus cases in what many fear may be a lead-up to renewed mask mandates and obligatory vaccinations.

With illegal boat migrant landings happening in numbers equal to previous crisis peaks this month, it is estimated that as many as 100,000 could enter Italy by the end of 2022.

This year’s Venice Film Festival in Italy, which kicks off Wednesday, features two movies in the official competition that have transgender protagonists — including a 12-year-old girl who believes she is a boy.

ROME — The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, has defended his statement on Italian television that Italy’s 1978 law legalizing abortion is a “pillar of society.”

The Italian island of Lampedusa saw a record-breaking number of migrant boats land this weekend, with 50 landings taking place within the space of just 24 hours.

Italian social conservative firebrand Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brother of Italy (FdI), has promised to cut taxes as her party remains the most popular ahead of next month’s national elections.

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life called Italy’s notorious Law 194 legalizing abortion “a pillar of society” this weekend, and that no one is looking to overturn it.

An Italian pollster says trends indicate that the left-wing parties will not be able to bridge the gap with the centre-right coalition, which is polling around 20 points ahead.

Italian infectious disease expert Matteo Bassetti has called on young homosexual men to take the vaccine for the monkeypox virus, arguing that the number of people infected with the disease could rapidly grow.

The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Italy is growing, with new figures showing over 50,000 illegals have entered the country so far this year as numbers have continued at a high rate so far in August.

An African migrant was arrested by Italian police on Sunday after being caught on film raping a Ukrainian woman in broad daylight. 

A 44-year-old quadriplegic man has been given the green light by a regional Italian health authority to become the second person offered assisted suicide in the country.

A trade union official was attacked, robbed and kidnapped by a group of migrants in a makeshift camp in the Apulia region of Italy.

The Italian Interior Ministry figures show that illegal migrant arrivals are up more than 40 per cent so far this year.

The number of illegal boat migrants who have crossed into Britain via the English Channel is now twice the figure for the same time last year.

The Italian Interior Ministry has released new statistics showing that, since the start of 2022, over 45,000 migrants have illegally entered the country as new boat landings continue on Italian shores.

An Italian member of parliament from populist Matteo Salvini’s League party was hospitalised this week after a migrant threw missiles at moving vehicles along a major Italian motorway.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Italy cannot expel a migrant from its reception system, even if the migrant in question has been accused of violence.

A 34-year-old Afghan migrant accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls at an Italian beach has been released by a judge just a day after his arrest.

Plans for an alleged bank heist in Rome were thwarted this week when the tunnel being dug to the bank vault collapsed, leaving one of the would-be thieves buried for hours, Italian media report.

EPizza SpA, the franchise operator for Domino’s Pizza in Italy, filed for bankruptcy in April and closed all of its stores after just seven years in the country, according to a report by Milano Today.

Germany has agreed to take as many as 3,500 migrants from Italy in the first use of a European Union migrant redistribution scheme.

A poll of polls indicates the right-wing coalition of Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini may win as many as 60 per cent of seats next month.

Populist leader Matteo Salvini opened the way for firebrand Giorgia Meloni to become Italy’s next Prime Minister if the vote goes her way.

A Tunisian migrant who confessed to stabbing a barber to death was arrested at least ten times before but was never deported.

Italian populist Matteo Salvini called for a 15 per cent flat income tax as his centre-right coalition continues to dominate in the polls.

Italian populist League leader Matteo Salvini has called for the country’s next Interior Minister to be a member of his party, citing the successes he had tackling illegal immigration when he had the job.

Populist Matteo Salvini has claimed that just 15 per cent of the illegal immigrants who came to Italy in 2021 were granted refugee status.

July saw more illegals arrive on Italian territory than all of 2019, as landing continue in areas like the overwhelmed island of Lampedusa.  

A man who beat a Nigerian street vendor to death in broad daylight is said to suffer from mental disabilities, according to his family. 

Inflation within the Eurozone has hit yet another record high as the currency bloc struggles to deal with the ongoing gas crisis.