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Pool owner denies racist motives.
Video footage showing a family of Nigerian origin being refused entry to a swimming pool in a town in northern Italy has gone viral on social media, sparking accusations of racism.
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Investigation opens into cause of blaze.
A vast wildfire on the remote Italian island of Pantelleria was brought under control on Thursday morning by firefighters who battled the blaze throughout the night.
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Benito Mussolini's granddaughter rules herself out as election candidate.
Rachele Mussolini, the granddaughter of Italy's fascist dictator, said on Wednesday that she would not be a parliamentary candidate in the countr...
Number of femicides in Italy up by more than 15 per cent over last 12 months.
125 women were killed in Italy over the past year, between 1 August 2021 and 31 July 2022, according to data released by the Italian interior...
Rescued animals get stay of execution until Thursday.
Rome health authorities have postponed until 18 August the culling of 140 healthy pigs and wild boar on a farm sanctuary following a court order over the weekend....
Man accused of burning down landmark book stall in Rome.
Rome police have arrested a 51-year-old homeless man believed to be responsible for deliberately starting a spate of fires in the Italian capital this summer, the...
Cinema icon to re-enter Italian politics.
Gina Lollobrigida, the veteran Italian actress from Hollywood's golden age, is to run in Italy's general election next month.
The screen legend, who recently turned 95, will...
Angela was a much-loved and respected figure in Italy.
Piero Angela, the celebrated Italian television host, science journalist and writer, died on Saturday aged 93.
The news was announced on Twitter by his son Alber...
Man buried alive after tunnel collapses near Vatican.
A police investigation is underway in Rome after a man became trapped in a tunnel about six metres under a street near the Vatican on Thursday morning.
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Fiorentini played key role in organising the Via Rasella attack against occupying German troops.
Mario Fiorentini, a legendary figure in the Italian Resistance movement during the second world war, died in Rome on Monda...
Four Italian regions to offer vaccinations against monkeypox.
Italy's vaccination campaign against monkeypox got underway on Monday with the first vaccines administered at Rome's Spallanzani hospital for infectious dise...
Rome included in 'bollino rosso' heatwave warning.
Italy's health ministry has issued a maximum 'red alert' warning for three cities on Friday 5 August due to an intense heatwave, the latest to sweep the country this su...
Violent incident comes days after Nigerian street seller was beaten to death in Italian town.
Police in the Italy's southern Calabria region have launched an investigation after a Nigerian woman was physically assaulted...
Activists say the horse was "hot and tired", driver claims the animal "slipped".
A carriage horse collapsed in front of tourists at Rome's Trevi Fountain on Saturday night, amid claims by two American activists that the...
Brutal murder took place in broad daylight in Civitanova Marche.
A 39-year-old Nigerian man was beaten to death on the street in Civitanova Marche, a seaside town in Italy's central Marche region, on Friday 29 July....
Italian taxi drivers do business with Uber in an unlikely new alliance.
Uber has integrated its ride-hailing app with Italy's leading taxi dispatch service itTaxi as part of a new deal available in more than 90 Italian...
Tweet from BBC correspondent in Rome prompts city to take action against "truly shameful" taxi situation.
Rome authorities have pledged to take action against rogue taxi drivers ripping off tourists arriving into the ci...
Foreign correspondents in Italy highlight problems with taxis at Rome airports.
Taxi drivers have been in the news in Italy recently due to protests against the government's competition bill over claims that it would le...
Tourists make the news in Italy again.
A British tourist was fined €500 for dipping his feet into a landmark fountain in Rome's Piazza di Spagna on Saturday afternoon, according to Italian news reports.
The tourist,...
No damage caused to Renaissance painting.
Climate protesters glued themselves to Botticelli's celebrated Primavera painting at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence on Friday morning in front of shocked tourists, Italian media...
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