He wanted to come to Europe to play football. He was twenty years old, with a ball in his mind and his eyes, and war behind him. But instead, Alaa Faraj Abdelkarim Hamad became, in the eyes of Italian justice, a "smuggler." And he spent...
Western Sicily is winning over Europe. More than sixty buyers, tour operators, and journalists took part in the meetings organized by the Western Sicily Tourism District on...
An extensive criminal network involved in clandestine excavations, forgery, and the illegal trafficking of archaeological artifacts—also with international connections—has been dismantled in Operation...
A legal and accounting obstacle, deemed “unlawful” by the judiciary, is weighing on the Messina Strait Bridge project. In the reasoning published today, the Italian...
Sicily continues to grow — yes — but it is a slow growth.The latest Bank of Italy report on the Sicilian economy is a mid‑year update, produced in collaboration with...
Arrest of former Sicilian governor Cuffaro requested
Palermo prosecutors on Tuesday requested that former Sicilian Governor Salvatore Cuffaro be put under house arrested along with 17 other people for allegedly involvement in...
A new memorial artwork by artist Massimiliano Errera has been unveiled in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, Trapani, to commemorate the Pizzolungo massacre.After years of neglect, the armored Fiat 132 used by Judge Carlo Palermo and...
Italy’s Court of Auditors on Wednesday rejected the government’s plan to build a long-debated bridge from mainland Italy to Sicily, dealing a body blow to one of Rome’s most ambitious infrastructure projects.The ruling temporarily...
“Help us find her.”Piera Maggio, the mother of little Denise Pipitone, who disappeared in 2004 from Mazara del Vallo, has not given up hope of seeing her daughter again. A few days before what would have been...
They had allegedly bet on their games in the NBA, the world's most important basketball league, and organised illegal online poker games. This is the judicial scandal brought to light by the FBI. Almost forty (at the moment,...
The new Ro-PAX ferry that Fincantieri is building for the Sicilian Region was launched today at the shipyards in Palermo. Delivery is expected in the summer of 2026. The launch...
Elle était née à Tunis, mais c’est à la Sicile qu’elle devait ses origines – sa mère, Yolanda Greco, était originaire...
Mafia murder of journalist Siani marked on 40th Anniv.
Italy on Tuesday paid tribute to Giancarlo Siani, a brilliant 26-year-old crime reporter for Naples-based daily newspaper Il Mattino on the 40th anniversary of his murder by the...
Once again, the development of tourism in the province of Trapani is entangled with war scenarios and military strategies. Birgi Airport, a key asset for the region’s economy, is also a military base. And it is precisely...
In the span of just a few hours, two inmates took their own lives at Rebibbia prison in Rome. A woman was found hanged, followed shortly after by a man who died in the same way. These tragedies unfold in the silence of the...
