The leader of the Italy's right-leaning Lega party, Matteo Salvini, lashed out at the start of his trial for the alleged kidnapping of 147 migrants while he was interior minister. The migrants were on board a ship owned by Spanish NGO Open Arms to whom Salvini denied permission to disembark...
Italian police on Friday staged a massive operation, searching sites in many parts of Sicily, as part of the effort to find the hideout of fugitive Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro. The 'superboss' is still...
Over 50 mafiosi were arrested in a police swoop in Sicily on Friday, police said. Those arrested are alleged members of the Sanfilippo clan of Mazzarino near Caltanissetta,...
The Italian island region of Sicily will soon be placed under ‘yellow’ zone restrictions again, after the rate of coronavirus infections and hospitalisations...
A combination of administrative backlogs, a heatwave, and a spike in Covid-19 deaths have resulted in unburied, exploding coffins in Palermo, Sicily. Around 1,000 coffins...
Sicily has passed the critical COVID threshold for both ICU occupancy and general ward admissions, the AGENAS health agency said Wednesday. The ICU occupancy by COVID patients has risen 1% to the 10% threshold, it...
Mick Jagger, the frontman of British rock group The Rolling Stones, has reportedly bought a house in Sicily where he has been based since last October. The 78-year-old rockstar, who spent summer 2020 in a Tuscan villa, has travelled Sicily...
Italian police arrested two farmers in Sicily on Saturday on suspicion of lighting recent wildfires to create grazing land for their sheep, and said the two had been planning another large and dangerous blaze. Wildfires have...
Regional authorities in Sicily recorded a temperature reading of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday, amid an extreme heatwave dubbed "Lucifer". The blistering temperature was logged on Wednesday...
Mount Etna's southeastern crater has grown in height after six months of activity, Italy's vulcano monitoring agency said Tuesday, making Europe's tallest active volcano taller than ever. The famous volcano's youngest and...
A ship carrying 257 migrants docked in the Italian port of Trapani on Saturday almost a week after rescuing the people from international waters off Tunisia. Migrants onboard the vessel, mainly men from Morocco,...
Italian police on Friday made three arrests for illegal waste management in Sicily. The managers of three waste collection and disposal firms near Palermo - at Partinico, San Giuseppe Jato and San Cipirello - were placed...
Sicily has made COVID-19 testing mandatory for people arriving from Malta, region president Nello Musumeci decreed on Wednesday. According to the statement published by Regione Sicilia, anyone who arrives in Sicily from...
A special agreement between the Regional Government of Sicily Region and the Municipality of Trapani, in the Belice Valley, provides for the protection and enhancement of the ruins of the town of Poggioreale, which was...
The release from jail of Mafia boss Giovanni Brusca, one of Italy's most notorious mobsters, has caused dismay among relatives of the victims of Cosa Nostra, politicians and the public at large. "It is a punch in the...
