A 30-year-old Polish man has been breeding and kidnapping a British model model in Milan, threatening to auction the woman over the internet. That caused the Italian police to know Saturday after the detainee Lukasz Herba was arrested and heard.
While the heatwave 'Lucifer' continues to rage through southern Europe, northern Italy is plagued by storm and storm.
The Argentinian Pope Franciscus has summoned a Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, in a remarkably politically-charged message, on Friday to resign from his 'constitutional assembly'.
The Italian authorities seized the Iuventa, the ship of the German aid organization 'Jugend Rettet' (JR) on Wednesday. The prosecutor of Trapani in Sicily decided to do so because JR is guilty of promoting illegal immigration. The crew would have taken on board migrants several times, escorted by Libyan smugglers and not in danger.
The mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, called on the government to conduct effective action on Friday to prevent water being ransacked in the Italian capital. 'It is unacceptable that Rome should do without water,' said Raggi, according to ANSA press office.
Italy imposes a vaccination requirement of children and teenagers under the age of seventeen. The reason for this decision of the parliament on Friday is a measles epidemic that broke out early this year.
The internationally recognized Libyan government in Tripoli has asked Italy for assistance in combating human trafficking in Libyan territorial waters, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Wednesday.
The European Union has given Italy more help in managing refugee flows on Tuesday. In a letter to Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, promised 100 million euros in addition to the 800 million that was already laid down.
Rome has been burdened for some days under water scarcity. The need is so high that the Vatican has dried a hundred fountains. Nobody can remember that happened earlier.
A French diplomatic initiative aimed at solving the long-term crisis in Libya raised the fury of Italy. That looks like another example of newly elected President Emmanuel Macron to pick up his nose for Rome.
The Italian municipality of Sesto San Giovanni quarrel with Milan's great neighbor about costs incurred for preserving the body of the shot dead striker of Berlin, Anis Amri. Milan wants the smaller municipality to do so because the terrorist was living in Sesto San Giovanni.
An earthquake has hunted the convulsions on Saturday the inhabitants of the area around the Italian Amatrice. Last year of August, a large part of the city destroyed 299 people. This time there were no damage or injury.
An Italian court sentenced the heads of a mafia-like gang from Rome on Thursday to long imprisonment. Massimo Carminati, a former terrorist with right-wing sympathies and the nickname 'One Eye', has to enter the cell for twenty years. His companion Salvatore Buzzi got nineteen years.
Through a whirlwind, 10 bathers on the beach at Ostia, near Rome, were injured on Sunday. Parasols and sunbeds were sucked in more than three hundred meters. According to an eyewitness, it was an 'apocalyptic scene.'
Over the past few days, around 7000 migrants from the Mediterranean Sea have been saved. Already on Friday, the shipwreck Diciotti shipwrecked nearly 1500 rescued refugees to the port of Catania in Sicily, reported ANSA press agency.
A Vatican tribunal has two former top officials of a children's hospital owned by the Vatican, accused of suspicion of money unloading. An amount of 422,000 euros in total would have disappeared. The money would be used in 2013 and 2014 to renovate the apartment of a powerful cardinal.
A dispute between Austria and Italy about possible checks at their common border is based on a 'misunderstanding.' This said the Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern Wednesday, assuring Rome that his army has not used any tanks at a major border crossing.
A children's hospital in the Vatican wants to take care of the terminally ill baby Charlie Gard. The boy suffers from a rare disease, so he can not move, hear and cry.
Italy called on Austria the ambassador to Austria on Tuesday. The step follows the announcement by Austria of border controls between the two countries, according to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Since the beginning of this year, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than 100,000 migrants have reached Europe by sea. Most of the refugees joined the Italian coasts, totaling 85,183. That was more than in the same period a year earlier (71,279), according to the Geneva-based organization on Tuesday.
Australian Cardinal George Pell is officially suspected of sexual abuse. The police in Australia announced Thursday that he was being prosecuted and that several charges were against him.
Italy threatens to no longer let ships of emergency aid agencies rescue refugees in the Mediterranean. The country wants other European countries to do more to shelter refugees, so Wednesday was heard from Italian government circles.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appears to be very charmed by Melania Trump, the wife of the American president. The billionaire praises Friday's 'beauty, style and charm' of the first lady during an interview.
Continuing heat leads to ever-increasing water shortages in Italy. In two provinces, the situation is so depressing that the government in Rome has proclaimed the state of emergency on Friday. Italian health is also at risk of high temperatures. For example, the cities of Bologna, Turin and Florence have been redone code for this weekend.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima met during the state visit to the Vatican Pope Franciscus and spoke to him longer than planned. The royal couple even got more time than US President Donald Trump.
King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima resigned from the Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Wednesday evening at Palazzo Colonna in Rome. That happened after a concert and reception that the royal couple offered their Italian host as a gratitude for hospitality during the state visit started on Tuesday. With the farewell, this visit is formally completed, even though there is another follow-up in Milan on Thursday and Friday.
Italy is indispensable for 'stability, strength and resilience of Europe.' That was what King Willem-Alexander said on Tuesday during his first day his state visit to Italy.
There has been a sloop of 126 refugees in the Mediterranean. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) fears that the boat has been skipped and the occupants are drowned.
In the sizzling heat of Rome, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima have begun their four-day state visit to Italy on Tuesday. Upon arrival, the royal couple on the highest hill of the city was welcomed by President Matarella. In his residence, the Palazzo del Quirinale, the heads of state had an interview.
Angela Merkel commemorated her old CDU mentor Helmut Kohl in a speech in Rome, where the German Chancellor has an interview with Pope Franciscus on Saturday. 'The Germans were very lucky with Kohl,' said Merkel. She also praises him as a big European.
