Over 40 people were arrested in Palermo after investigators discovered hard-up victims were having their arms or legs broken in exchange for a small part of the pay-out from insurers, police said on Monday. Those in on the fraud included false witnesses to the accidents, doctors providing...
Italian police seized more than 6 tons (6.6 US tons) of hashish from a sailboat off the coast of Sicily, customs authorities announced on Saturday. The drugs were loaded inside a 12-meter (39-foot) Spanish-flagged pleasure...
An exhibition of the 'Late Roman trade vessel' found in 1999 and recovered in 2008 off the shore of Marausa in northwest Sicily will be inaugurated on Saturday, April 13 at the Lilibeo Regional Archaeological Museum in...
Captured on 3 September 2018 by the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite, this image shows part of western Sicily in Italy and two of the main Aegadian Islands: Favignana and Levanzo. This false-colour image included the...
According to reports in the Italian press over the weekend, the regional government of Sicily has set aside more than €10 million from its territorial development fund to finance both the 2021 Grande Partenza and the first...
The homes, which range from 40 to 150 square metres, may only come with a €1 price tag, but they will need a lot of work. In January past year, the Sardinian town of Ollolai announced that it was selling 200 homes for...
Up to 117 migrants might have died when a rubber dinghy capsized in the Mediterranean off Libya, survivors said. Flavio Di Giacomo, of the International Organisation for Migration, said three survivors were plucked to...
It has all the elements of a Hollywood thriller. In the heart of Sicily a bride was left standing at the altar, the wedding celebrations were abandoned and then days later the groom disappeared. Now a body, thought to be...
Etna volcano in Sicily remained highly active at the moment despite no lava being erupted at the moment, according to VolcanoDiscovery’s latest updates. There has been an estimated €100 million in damages so far...
Before the mafia shot up his office in a remote village on the western coast of Sicily, Gaspare Giacalone, 48, had been a respected manager at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development in the City of London,...
Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday that the days of Italy's various mafia syndicates are numbered. "We are the ones who are stronger," League leader Salvini said in Sorbolo, near Parma, at a ceremony for...
Italian authorities arrested on early Tuesday morning one person and searched 25 homes looking for the alleged boss of a major Sicilian mafia clan who is hiding from them for more than two decades. Police searched the...
talian police have arrested 46 suspected mobsters in a largescale crackdown on the notorious Sicilian Mafia, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Tuesday. In addition, law enforcement was able to catch...
Authorities in Sicily have seized property worth one and a half billion euros from the heirs of a businessman who allegedly had links to the mafia. It's one of the biggest ever seizures of assets in Italy. Carmelo Patti,...
At least 12 people have been killed after storms lashed Sicily, causing torrential floods. Divers pulled out nine bodies from a home flooded by a rapidly swelling river in the countryside near Palermo. The sole survivor of the flood that ravaged...
