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Anniversary occurs amid controversy over Priebke funeral
A series of commemorative events take place in Rome on 16 October, 70 years after more than 1,000 of the city's Jews were deported to the Nazi extermination cam...
New outbreak of "cash trapping" in Rome
Police in Rome have arrested a gang for stealing money on over 30 occasions from bank machines around the capital, using a system known as "cash trapping."
The six criminals...
Priebke's final testament reveals no remorse for his Nazi past
The controversy continues over the funeral arrangements for Erich Priebke, the former SS officer who died in Rome aged 100 on 11 October.
The Vicariate...
Cultural marathon takes place across Italy
The second edition of the FAI Marathon takes place across Italy on Sunday 13 October. Similar to Britain’s National Trust, the Fondo Ambiente Italia (FAI) works to pres...
Nazi war criminal was 100 years old
The former SS officer Erich Priebke, one of the world’s last surviving Nazi criminals, has died in Rome on 11 October, just over two months after reaching his 100th birthday....
Probe involves contract for Rome buses
The former mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno is under investigation as part of an enquiry into the alleged bribery of city and regional officials in return for the granting of bus co...
Bottled water in Italy is big business but there is nothing wrong with Rome’s tap water
While sitting down at a local trattoria in the charming Trastevere neighbourhood on a hot summer day, I ordered a bottle of local F...
Central government to assist Rome in managing its finances
Italy's finance ministry has played down the enthusiasm of Rome mayor Ignazio Marino who said on 4 October that central government would intervene to help the...
City promises four new trees for every tree felled
The contentious tree-felling operation to make way for metro C works in the S. Giovanni area has been stalled until 8 October while the city "verifies" Roma Metropoli...
Action postponed until national general strike
A strike by suburban bus company Roma Tpl, originally scheduled for Monday 7 October, has been postponed until Friday 18 October, from 08.30-12.30.
The strike by the s...
Peter McGovern presents his credentials at Rome ceremony
The new Canadian ambassador to Italy Peter McGovern presented his credentials to the Italian president Giorgio Napolitano at the Quirinal Palace in Rome on 2 Oc...
Vatican Museum shelter is designed to protect queueing tourists from the elements
The Vatican is to install a shelter along its walls leading from the corner of Via Leone IV to the entrance of the Vatican Museums, to...
This article by James Walston was written before the tragedy at Lampedusa where a boat with about 500 immigrants, most from Eritrea and Somalia, caught fire and sank. Over 111 bodies have been brought ashore, there are 1...
Italy’s prime minister has proclaimed 4 October as a national day of mourning and Cécile Kyenge, minister for integration, has said that all schools will respect a minute’s silence to mark the tragedy...
Rome commuters unable to get out of locked stations
Commuters on the Rome-Viterbo light rail service were locked in a number of train stations during the capital's 24-hour public transport strike on 1 October.
The...
Study reveals Rome students pay high rents usually without rental contracts
Only 35 per cent of students renting in the city and province of Rome have legally-binding rental contracts with their landlords, according t...
A look at what constitutes medical liability in Italy.
Italy operates on a civil law system, which is based on Roman law. Civil law as a legal system is often compared with common law, which is used in most countries...
93 immigrants are reported dead in another tragic boat incident in Sicilian waters, the second in a week. The latest deaths occurred in a fire on a boat off the island of Lampedusa on 3 October.
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IOR account closures part of ongoing Vatican reform
The Vatican Bank has closed the bank accounts of four foreign embassies accredited to the Holy See, because of suspiciously large cash withdrawls and deposits...
Alternative Falcognana site opposed by locals
The Malagrotta rubbish dump west of Rome closed permanently on 1 October after serving as the capital's refuse facility for the last 30 years.
The site chosen to replac...
The incident is the fourth recent landing alert at Rome’s airport
Italy's air navigation safety agency has ordered an investigation after an Alitalia airplane flying from Madrid made an emergency landing at Rome...
Three geysers erupt in the Fiumicino area
Experts from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology have been taking sample tests on gas escaping from a newly-formed geyser in the sea just off the port of Fiu...
Two popes to be canonised on same day
Pope John Paul II will be proclaimed a saint on 27 April next year, Divine Mercy Sunday, along with Pope John XXIII who was responsible for calling the reforming Second Vatican Co...
The annual European-wide initiative includes a free Museum Night in Rome A nationwide programme of events takes place in Italy during the last weekend of September to mark European Heritage Days, while in Rome there is...
Rome's Tridente area gets restyling for festive season
Piazza di Spagna is to become fully pedestrianised by Christmas, according to a report in Rome's daily newspaper Il Messaggero.
The project will involve numero...
Commuters approaching Rome's central train station on the metro line A from 25 September will hear "next stop Termini-Vodafone", following a major rebranding deal between Rome public transport company ATAC and the Italia...
The loudest reactions to the increased Spanish investment in Telco, the largest shareholder in Italy’s Telecom, have been negative. The unions are worried about the possible loss of jobs; politicians, especially th...
Commuters in Rome face yet another public transport strike on Tuesday 1 October.
The 24-hour strike has been called by trade union SUL, on behalf of employees of Rome public tranpsort ATAC, and affects local and...
Tree-felling protest continues in Rome
The protest over tree felling in the S. Giovanni area of Rome stepped up a gear on 23 September when local residents and environmentalists chained themselves to trees in the gree...
Amanda Knox has told British television’s ITV that she will not return to Italy to attend her retrial for the murder of Meredith Kercher.
However in an interview from Seattle for ITV’s Daybreak programme s...
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