An earthquake with a force of 4.2 has shaken the region around the Italian resort of Rimini. There are currently no reports of damage or deaths and injuries, according to civil protection.
Because of an accident with a refugee boat off the coast of Sardinia, at least two people drowned and eight others are missing. This was reported by the Italian Coast Guard on Saturday.
Italy does not differ from its budget plans submitted earlier in Brussels. The Italian government wants to spend a lot more money than according to the agreements and explicitly seeks the confrontation.
The demolition of the remains of the collapsed bridge in Genoa must begin on 15 December. If everything goes according to plan, the western part will be the first to be demolished, according to the mayor of the Italian port city, Marco Bucci, in a TV interview.
The Italian government has made EUR 153.5 million available for emergency aid for areas affected by the severe weather. Rome also announced that it will invest 900 million euros in the prevention of natural disasters in the next three years.
Saiful Malook, the Pakistani lawyer of Asia Bibi, the Christian whose life in Pakistan is at risk because she would have insulted the Prophet Mohammed, would have arrived in the Netherlands this weekend. Italian media reports this weekend that Malook would have traveled through Rome to the Netherlands.
The American businessman Mario Segale died at the age of 85. In the eighties he rented a building to gamemaker Nintendo. The Japanese had a rent arrears, but managed to persuade Segale not to deport them. As a thank you, the company decided to name the protagonist from his next game to him.
The accidental, sinister discovery of human bones beneath the floor of the Vatican embassy in Rome provides possible after 35 years of clarification about the mysterious disappearance of two Italian girls in 1983. The Vatican news agency came forward with the discovery of the find. Research is now being done on the bones in order to learn more about the identity of the deceased person. Who knows, maybe it's about Emanuela Orlandi. The girl was 15 years old when she went to music school in 1983 and then disappeared without a trace.
The death toll due to the severe weather that Italy has been tormenting for three days has risen to eleven on Tuesday. Someone is also missing. A large part of Venice came under water. On videos you can see how tourists waded through the water of the flooded St. Mark's Square and how a restaurant, despite a low water of at least twenty centimeters, still served pizzas.
The severe weather that plagues Italy has killed five people on Monday. That happened at various places in the country. Two young people died south of Rome because a tree fell on their car. The same happened to someone in nearby Terracina and a walker in Naples. A woman was mortally wounded by flying debris.
Mountains of waste, potholes, chaos in public transport: the Romans are fed up and on Saturday thousands of people have taken to the streets to demonstrate against the decline of the city. Under the motto Roma dice basta (Rome says enough) they went to the city hall on the Piazza del Campidoglio where the mayor of Virginia Raggi sits.
If things go wrong in Italy, the Italians themselves are the worst, says former Euro Group Chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
If there are no delayed lawsuits, the Italian cinema will be treated to a special documentary next month, which could embarrass many politicians.
Russia will focus its nuclear missiles on European countries that will accommodate the same American weapons in the future. The Russian president said this in a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Conte.
Due to the collapse of an escalator, several people were seriously injured in Rome. That reports the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero.
Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.
The hassle around the Italian budget brings the country into major problems. Credit rating agency Moody's has lowered the rating for Italy to Baa3. One more step down, and the country has a 'mess status'.
The two leaders of the Italian coalition government are talking about plans in the controversial budget of the country. But Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte stressed on Thursday in Brussels that there is no break in the government team. Conte has become a government leader as a neutral figure and not a member of a party.
Ten days after the collision between two cargo ships in the Mediterranean near Corsica, oil run away washed ashore on southern French beaches. The smeerboel ended up in Saint-Tropez and two neighboring municipalities. That is what the Prefect of Toulon said on Tuesday. It is an area of 16 kilometers long.
The horse with carriage has been part of the streets of Rome since Roman times. For centuries the horse was by far the most used means of transport, but even now tourists are still comfortably leaning back around the Roman city center.
The Italian cabinet has approved its own budget for 2019 on Monday, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said. The document is now being sent to Brussels where the European Commission will look into it. Conte told reporters that the budget 'keeps our promises while keeping the public accounts in order.'
The French police suspect the Italians of secretly secretly dumping clandestine immigrants across the border in Italy. There is even evidence. The Italian special police unit DIGOS has signaled a bus of the French gendarmerie and even photographed it in Italian territory, while it supposedly left African immigrants out of the bus.
Pope Francis declares Sunday morning the Salvadoran archbishop Óscar Arnulfo Romero, who was murdered in 1980, holy. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to attend the ceremony at St. Peter's Square in Rome.
Around the cargo ships that collide on Sunday in the Mediterranean Sea is an oil slick of hundreds of square meters. The oil has leaked from one of the ships, according to ARD.
The Italian economy remains 'in an unacceptable way' and at least seventeen million Italians have therefore come into great difficulties. This is what the Treasury Secretary Giovanni Tria said on Tuesday in the margins of a session with the Parliament's Finance Committee.
The Italian interest rate has risen sharply on Monday to the highest level since February 2014. Investors are worried after the European Commission, after consultation, sharply criticized the latest budget plans that allow the deficit to rise against agreements.
A man who shot six African migrants in northern Italian Macerata was sentenced to 12 years in prison there. The court ruled that the 29-year-old Luca Traini acted out of racist motives, reports Italian media.
The arrest of Domenico Lucano, mayor of the southern Italian town of Riace, was yesterday taken as a bomb in Italy. Lucano is the figurehead of the Italians who are pro immigration, the hero of those who have nothing to do with the strict policy against clandestine immigration of the minister Matteo Salvini (Interior).
A solution was found for the 58 migrants aboard the ship Aquarius, which was sailing off the coast of Libya. They are brought to Malta and distributed over four countries in the EU. That's what sources around the Maltese government have stated on Tuesday.
Panama has withdrawn the registration of the Aquarius, the ship with which MSF and SOS Méditerranée rescue refugees on the Mediterranean. This means that the ship can no longer sail under the Panamanian flag, according to a MSF spokeswoman.
