Several Italian cities with bans fighting the dense smog that hangs. Rome allowed cars with odd-numbered license plates Monday part of the day is not the way on Tuesday the cars with even number plates partially excluded. Milan allowed between 10:00 and 16:00 no cars on the road.
The Italian coastguard rescued Friday 99 boat refugees from the Mediterranean. The group was on an inflatable boat on the Sicilian coast. Has announced that the Coast Guard.
Rome is plagued by millions of starlings that have chosen the Eternal City to rest some pleasure. As long as they are beautiful formations in the sky over the Italian capital plow, there is nothing wrong. Only when they take part in large numbers in the trees drop their needs, raining complaints by the Romans.
The Italian city of Milan takes drastic action because of air pollution. From Monday to Wednesday between 10:00 and 16:00 a driving ban for private vehicles. Only public transport is allowed.
Mother Teresa will be next September canonized by the Pope. For a canonization needed two miracles and the second by the Catholic sister performed miracle was recognized. This informs the official newspaper of Italian Catholic bishops, Avvenire, the Vatican recognizes the canonization.
The Italian Minister of Justice Thursday received a threatening letter. 'We come to Rome and cut your head off. Allah is great,' it said. The envelope also contained two bullets for a Kalashnikov. The letter to Minister Andrea Orlando was signed by 'Isis'.
A 31-year-old Turkish Dutchman in Rotterdam by police in Rome arrested because he made a movie of the Colosseum with a drone. He had to direct the drone downing and was then taken to the police where he was fined and a police report. The man, who was with four friends, said he had made the recordings for a wedding. For the Italian police had with this statement not affected the case.
Italy sends 450 soldiers to the front line with terrorist Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. Their mission is to protect workers who have to carry out repairs to a dam in Mosul, the largest in the country, said the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi Wednesday.
European leaders want to end this week to extend sanctions against Russia for six months. Moscow would still not have done enough to get adhered to the agreements of Minsk, which means that the separatists in Ukraine should return to their loft.
The Italian police have about 3,500 fake charters with blessings from Pope Francis seized. The documents were sold to pilgrims in Rome, authorities said Monday.
Chances are that next year during the European Football Championship using goal-line technology. The Executive Committee assumes that next month a decision. During the UEFA meeting on Friday in Paris was the subject already extensively discussed.
The famous St. Peter's Basilica in Rome looks dangerously beautiful. Visitors marvel at huge projections on the basilica including a lion, tiger and wolf. It is a temporary art project to celebrate the beginning of the Holy Year in Italy.
Pope Francis has called Tuesday opened the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica. This is a special Holy Year of the Roman Catholic Church began that lasts until November 20, 2016.
The authorities in Rome have strict security measures announced for the opening of the so-called Holy Year, which begins Tuesday. The airspace above the Italian capital is closed and there is a ban promulgated on making films that contain weapons, even if they are false.
Italy is organizing in January a meeting in Rome with several countries for the fight against the Islamic State. That the Italian Foreign Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, said Monday.
Despite the winter season, the number of boat people in the sea area between Libya and Italy again increased sharply. Since last Thursday, according to the Italian coastguard rescued more than 4900 people from the sea, the majority of dinghies.
Despite the winter season, the number of boat people in the sea area between Libya and Italy again increased sharply. Since last Thursday, according to the Italian coastguard rescued more than 4900 people from the sea, the majority of dinghies.
Italy does not participate in military action in Syria, as long as a clear strategy is lacking. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi made clear Sunday.,null, We can not afford a second Libya, '' he said. In that North African country, after all, a big chaos broke out after Western countries in 2011 by bombing the downfall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi hastened.
A Dutch- Turkish truck driver was arrested in the Italian port of Trieste because he almost tried to smuggle more than eight hundred guns. The man was traveling from Turkey to Belgium, reported the Italian newspaper Il Giornale.
A truck with Dutch license plates, who has been arrested by Italian police in the Italian border town of Trieste, found crammed loaded with war material. The driver was a Turk who wanted to go to Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium.
Two Italian journalists continued Tuesday before a court of the Vatican to answer for revealing books they wrote about the Holy See. Gianluigi Nuzzi and Emiliano Fittipaldi relied on insider information about corruption and mismanagement worth tens of millions of euros in the Vatican.
The Italian police foiled a plot by the Mafia to the Italian Interior Minister, Angelino Alfano, to murder. It has a source around the examination stated. The police officially confirmed only that a few arrests in the Corleone mafia stronghold was preventing a murder but called the name of the minister not.
Rome and Milan have their security measures in the city considerably tightened after a warning from the US FBI investigation that terrorists have, inter alia, on St. Peter (Vatican City), the Duomo and La Scala Opera in Milan. The Italian news agency ANSA reported Thursday that the FBI colleagues in Italy has given Arab names of five suspects. The US Embassy calls compatriots in Italy to be vigilant.
The security in the Italian capital Rome has in recent days stepped up considerably. Following the attacks in Paris on Friday, the government deployed some seven hundred extra soldiers. They monitor among other entrances and exits of subway stations and ensure tighter controls on visitors to the Vatican.
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The Italian police are looking for a possible suspect in the bombings in Paris. A 32-year-old Frenchman was in a black Seat on the move, the Italian news agency ANSA reported Monday. Police in the northern city of Turin has all units mobilized to identify the suspect in his car. Which would have come across the border at Ventimiglia.
The Italian government has measures against terrorism following the attacks in Paris tightened considerably. Include the number of police officers on the street that takes control, has increased significantly.
Fewer and fewer Italians get a marriage certificate. The number of marriages has been in six years with a quarter shrunk from over 246 000 in 2008 to over 189,000 in 2014. The decline thus faster than in other European countries.
A 40-year-old Orthodox Jew, from Israel, is Thursday night in Milan stabbed nine times. There would have been three attackers.
Seventeen people have been arrested in several European countries during an anti-terror operation. According to the Italian police arrested suspected of "international terrorism".
