With great interest from the Italians, a strong Dutch-tinted tulip park (Tulipark) was opened in Rome yesterday. The initiative originated last year. Because of the success it will not be...
School students from all over the world have skipped school to demand that governments take more action against climate change. Worldwide more than 2000 protests were scheduled in…
Football fans in the Italian capital Rome have chalked the slogan 'Anne Frank fan of Roma' on a wall near the Circus Maximus. There was also a swastika with signed and a signing with the...
A storm has killed three people in Italy. In the Lazio region, due to the strong wind, a wall collapsed, two people died. In and around Rome there were trees on cars \u0026 # x27; s. According to...
The Ciampino airport in Rome was closed for safety reasons, after fire had broken out at a terminal around 8:00 am. Security workers have evacuated passengers, reports...
In Rome, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to make a fist against the Lega-Five Star Movement government. Until this protest was called up by left-wing organizations.
Justice in the Italian city of Arezzo has ordered that a viaduct of the major motorway 3B running from Ravenna to the south must be closed immediately. The viaduct threatens to fail,...
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The North Korean ambassador in Italy applied for asylum in Rome in an unnamed Western country. The family of 48-year-old top graduate Jo Song Gil is in the meantime under...
Pope Francis celebrated the midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome on Christmas Eve with thousands of devotees. In his sermon he asked the faithful for the simplicity of the child of...
A waste installation that flew into Rome last night caused a gigantic cloud of smoke above the city. The waste facility is located on Via Salaria, not far from the center of Rome.
The euro area finance ministers (Eurogroup) support the European Commission in its approach to Italy. This is stated in a statement that the Eurogroup will release on Monday, insiders say. Ministers call on the Italian government to take the necessary steps to bring its draft budget for 2019 in line with the European rules, otherwise a criminal procedure is justified.
Susanne Ruseler from Utrecht works hard at a Christmas manger of sand for the pope in Rome.
The Italian government has for the time being retained its main budgetary targets for 2019. To this end, it was decided to wait for a full cost analysis of the most important expenditure items for next year. The coalition leaders announced this on Monday.
Italy mourns. 'The last great master is dead,' headlined the newspapers. Bernardo Bertolucci, known worldwide as the director of the films The Last Emperor and Novecento, died in Rome after a long illness.
In his hometown of Bussum, the typographer Gerard Unger died on Friday. His brother-in-law reported this to the ANP. Unger is best known for its design of the blue ANWB signage signs along and above the roads. Also the signposts in the Amsterdam metro and the tourist signposts in Rome are out of his hand.
Human remains recently found in a Vatican building in Rome are probably not two teenage girls who disappeared in Rome in 1983. That would be apparent from the first research results.
Italy may be prepared to adjust its controversial budget proposal. That said Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini in an interview in La Stampa newspaper.
The Catholic Church in Spain has publicly admitted that priests and other clergy were sexually abusing minors. 'The Church publicly recognizes abuses of different kinds and is determined to eradicate them,' said Ricardo Blázquez, President of the Spanish Bishops' Conference, at the opening of the 112th plenary session of bishops in Madrid.
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.
An initial investigation of the bones found under the Vatican Embassy in Rome suggests that they are from a woman. That reports the BBC.
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 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.
Due to the collapse of an escalator, several people were seriously injured in Rome. That reports the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero.
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.
