Italy

Italy’s Supreme Court definitively acquitted Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini over his blocking of an open borders NGO migrant boat that attempted to dump illegals into the country in 2019.

On Wednesday, the U.N.’s cultural agency gave foodies another reason to celebrate their pizza, pasta and tiramisu by listing Italian cooking as part of the world’s “intangible” cultural heritage.

New legislation passed by Italy’s lower house of parliament pushing back against “gender ideology and the woke bubble” is generating a meltdown on the left, the Guardian reported on Thursday.

The most senior military officer in NATO has spoken of the utility of “pre-emptive strike” as a “defensive action”.

A 56-year-old man in Italy is accused of impersonating his deceased mother to collect money from her pension in a case that is straight out of the movies.

Venice has imposed a 48-hour ban on Swedish professional protester Greta Thunberg for dumping a green dye into the Italian city’s Grand Canal.

The Trump administration officially classified four European Antifa cells as terrorist organisations this week, marking the first international designations after the White House named the America-based branch of the far-left network as a domestic terror group in September.

One person has died and another was seriously injured by the collapse of considerable parts of the 13th century Torre dei Conti.

Five German mountaineers died after being hit by an avalanche in South Tyrol, in northern Italy, rescuers said on Sunday.

Italian tax police said they are seizing assets worth $1.5 billion from a Luxembourg-based holding company’s shares in spirits maker Campari Group as part of a fraud investigation.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in Italy for meetings with his counterpart Giorgia Meloni and leaders at the Vatican, told reporters on Monday that he would travel to the White House soon to discuss sanctions on Russia, which he argued disproportionately hurt Hungarians.

An illegal alien in the sanctuary state of Oregon has been sentenced for stealing over $2.4 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for more than a year, federal prosecutors revealed Friday. 

A bus driver was killed while helping bring home fans from a second-division basketball game in Italy in an act of violence that Premier Giorgia Meloni denounced Monday as “unacceptable and insane.”

Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli was seen singing at the White House on Friday while visiting with President Donald Trump.

Charles III to travel to Vatican for state visit, where he will pray with Pope Leo , the first time such a thing has happened in centuries.

Italy´s top court has rejected the extradition of a Ukrainian man arrested on suspicion of setting off explosions on gas pipelines.

President Donald Trump joked around with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, describing her as a “beautiful, young woman,” adding that it is the “end of your political career” in the United States if you use that word when referring to a woman.

A man has sparked outrage after climbing onto an altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, dropping his trousers and urinating in front of stunned onlookers. 

President Donald Trump kicked off Thursday’s cabinet meeting by signing proclamations to observe Leif Erickson Day and Columbus Day. 

Italy will work to fight “Islamic separatism” and “counter-societies where Sharia law” reigns with a proposed new law.

Members of a pro-Palestine protest in Rome reportedly defaced a statue honouring the late Pope John Paul II with graffiti that described him as a “fascist”.

Police investigating death threat against Prime Minister daubed onto a rail station during an hours-long occupation by anti-Israel activists.

Acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, died Tuesday in France, the AFP news agency reported. She was 87.

The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs committee has voted to uphold the immunity for Italian MEP Ilaria Salis, who faces attempted murder charges in Hungary over an alleged Antifa hammer attack in Budapest.

Far-left Antifa radicals and anti-Israel demonstrators erupted into violence in Milan on Monday after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni refused to follow fellow European nations in recognising Palestine as a state.

The global impact of slain Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was put on full display on Sunday as tributes poured in from across Europe to honour his legacy as a champion of freedom of speech.

Russian pilots ignored signals from Italian jets responding from NATO’s Baltic Air Policing Mission when they violated Estonian airspace, a senior Estonian military official said Saturday.

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is vowing to conduct Charlie Kirk-style campus events in Italy, proclaiming the Turning Point USA founder’s assassination “a watershed moment,” adding, “What’s happening has affected me like never before. Never, in thirty years.”

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni lambasted those on the political left who celebrated or minimised the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and said that the left in Italy must be held accountable for its role in fomenting hatred against their political opponents.

One of the inscriptions on an ammunition casing of alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson is a clear reference to the song “Bella Ciao,” which is idolized within Antifa circles. 

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reacted to the horrific assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, calling it “a profound wound for democracy and for those who believe in freedom.”

NATO airspace violated by “huge number of Russian drones” overnight, the Prime Minister of Poland said, as he triggered NATO’s Article Four.

Hundreds of ordinary admirers and VIPs paid their last respects Saturday to Giorgio Armani, remembered by Milan’s mayor as a “man of extraordinary elegance” who left an indelible mark on the city and the global fashion world.

A Ukrainian citizen suspected to be one of the coordinators of the undersea explosions in 2022 has been arrested, German prosecutors said.

Macron says he is “pushing for Geneva” for the next Ukraine talks, but Russian President Putin seems to be less keen.

Zelensky can immediately end the Russian invasion “if he wants to” by accepting the terms being offered to him, President Trump said.