(ANSA) - ROMA, 30 APR - Cassa Depositi e Prestiti expands its operations in finance for international development cooperation: Following the successful launch of financial cooperation between Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) and the Georgian leasing institution JSC TBC Leasing in 2024, CDP, one of Italy’s leading state-owned financial institutions, continues to contribute to the development of financial solutions, as well as the growth and economic sustainability of Georgian micro, small, and ...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 30 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Austria, Giovanni Pugliese, conferred the honor of Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy upon General Rudolf Striendinger, Chief of the Austrian Defense Staff. Among other roles in his career, Striedinger headed the National Commission for the Covid Crisis in 2021. In August 2023, the House of Austrian History, the Austrian Museum of Contemporary History, acquired several items from the Commission to document the pandemic period, including...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - The Italian legal team of the Global Sumud Flotilla said Thursday that 24 of the activists arrested when the Israeli authorities intercepted 22 of the boats involved in the mission to get aid to Gaza overnight are Italian. In total 57 Italians are taking part in the mission. "It is extremely serious that activists detained 150 nautical miles from Crete and 600 miles from the coast of Gaza are being taken to Israel," the legal team said. The opposition Democratic Party ...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 30 APR - On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, Italy’s Ambassador to Ukraine, Carlo Formosa, participated—on behalf of Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani—in the third ministerial meeting of the G7+ Ukraine Energy Coordination Group and in the International Chernobyl Conference. The ambassador also participated in commemorative events organized by Ukrainian authorities at the nuclear power plant and in the Exclusion Zone. In the presence of President Volodymyr Zelensky...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - The number of people in employment in Italy dropped by 30,000 in March compared to the same month in 2025 and by 12,000 with respect to February, according to provisional data released by Istat on Thursday. The national statistics agency said 24.124 million people were in work in Italy last month. It said the employment rate for March was 62.4%, stable with respect to February but 0.3 of percentage point lower than the equivalent month last year. Istat said the number ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Italy's annual inflation rate shot up to 2.8% in April 2026, compared to 1.7% in March, amid the energy-price shock linked to the Iran war, according to a preliminary estimate released by Istat on Thursday. The national statistics agency said its consumer price index was up 1.2% in month-on-month terms. "The acceleration of inflation was mainly due to the dynamics of prices of non-regulated energy products (from -2.0% to +9.9%), of regulated energy products (from -1.6%...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 30 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Canada, Alessandro Cattaneo, joined Canadian Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Heath MacDonald at the opening of the major food industry trade show Sial Canada 2026 in Montreal. The Italian delegation is the largest foreign delegation at the fair, with 27 companies from three regions: Campania, Calabria, and Sicily. Italian food products and wine are enjoying great success in Canada, where Italian investments are on the rise, creating jobs...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Italian Pro-Palestinian activists on Thursday called on the Italian government and the European Union to intervene after the new Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters close to Crete overnight while sailing towards Gaza to take aid there. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said 21 of the 58 boats taking part in the flotilla, which is bidding to break through the Gaza blockade and includes Italian vessels and activists, had been interc...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - The Italian Foreign Ministry said it has asked Israel to provide it with information after its forces intercepted the new Global Sumud Flotilla, which includes Italian pro-Palestrinian activists and boats, overnight as they sailing towards Gaza carrying aid. "Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has immediately requested the (foreign ministry's) Crisis Unit, the Italian Embassy in Tel Aviv, and the Italian Embassy in Athens to liaise with the Israeli and Greek authorities t...

(ANSA) - TISALEO, 29 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Ecuador, Giovanni Davoli, visited the Tisaleo campus of Uniandes University as part of the “Academy of Italian Haute Cuisine – Ecuador Edition,” an initiative dedicated to promoting Italian culinary traditions and cultural cooperation between the two countries. The event brought together renowned Italian chefs led by Vincenzo and Salvatore Butticè, who led workshops and training sessions for students, industry professionals, and cooking ent...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Andrea Sempio killed Chiara Poggi, a 26-year-old economics graduate stabbed to death at Garlasco near Pavia in August 2007, on his own, prosecutors in Pavia said Wednesday after summoning him to be questioned on May 6 after one of Italy's most sensational murder cases was reopened. It had previously been suggested that Sempio may have acted with others or with her ex boyfriend Alberto Stasi who is currently serving time for the murder. DNA compatible with that of Sempi...

(ANSA) - BUENOS AIRES, 29 APR - A mission to Argentina by the Dante Alighieri Society took place from April 22 to 29, 2026, led by Secretary General Alessandro Masi together with the Dante Alighieri Foundation for Italian Schools Abroad (Adasim), with the participation of General Director Emilio Luzi, Project Coordinator Leonardo Romei, and Dante Alighieri’s Coordinator for Latin America, Carlo Pirozzi. This is reported in a statement noting that the visit "represented an important opportunit...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Claudio Gentile, the legendary Italy defender who marked Maradona and Zico out of the games in Italy's glorious World Cup campaign in Spain in 1982, on Wednesday criticised the lax defending in Tuesday night's 5-4 Champions League semi-final first leg win by PSG over Bayern Munich, a goal feast that has been hailed as an ode to attacking football. The former Juve player said such lapses would not have been seen in his day, when Italian soccer was famed for its rock-sol...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - A Democratic Party (PF) MEP said Wednesday she had been sexually abused at the age of 16 by the then 70-year-old late Italian founder of the Youth Eucharistic Movement (MEG), Jesuit priest Sauro De Luca, who had allegedly preyed on over 20 girls from around 1968 to 1998. Annalisa Corrado, 52, said she had decided to tell her story for the sake of De Luca's alleged victims. "I have decided to share a painful part of my story, which dates back many years, but is terribly...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Italy will stand as civil plaintiff in the future trial of officials and owners in the New Year's Eve bar fire in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana that killed 41 people including six Italian teens, the office of Premier Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday. "The Presidency of the Council of Ministers, through the State Attorney General's Office, which in turn delegated a Swiss law firm, has filed the declaration of the Italian Republic as a civil party in the criminal pr...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - The Giro d'Italia's 'Grand Arrival' will be at the Circus Maximus for the first time this year as the world's second biggest stage race behind the Tour de France ends in Rome for the fourth year running next month, organisers said Wednesday. Newspaper and TV proprietor and Torino soccer club owner Urbano Cairo, chairman of the RCS media group which owns the La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper, Italy's biggest selling daily and the organiser of the event, said the arrival...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed satisfaction on Wednesday after the Senate unanimously approved a bill establishing a national day, May 3, to remember Italian journalists who have been killed while doing their jobs. She named a list of such journalists, including Peppino Impastato, who was killed by Cosa Nostra in 1978, RAI reporter Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Miran Hrovatin, who were murdered in Mogadishu in 1994 while they were working on a report into weapons and...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - A 35-year-old Neapolitan disk jockey was killed by Spanish police on Ibiza last July in a case of police brutality that recalls the notorious death of Stefano Cucchi, a 31-year-old Roman surveyor beaten to death in police custody in 2009, the DJ's family told Il Mattino newspaper Wednesday. The Guardia Civil officers punched and kicked Michele Noschese after immobilising him in his flat on the Spanish island after arresting him on drugs charges, the family lawyers told...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - The culture ministry has sent inspectors to the Venice Biennale to obtain information about its controversial decision to allow the Russian Pavilion to reopen for the 2026 exhibition, sources said on Wednesday. The Biennale has come under fierce criticism for the decision, with the European Commission saying it put two million euros EU funding for the event at risk, while Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli called on it to revoke the invitation to the Russians. L...

(ANSA) - IL CAIRO, 29 APR - The first Italian-Egyptian fashion design school, a project funded by the European Union, will be established in Egypt, in the city of 10th of Ramadan, an hour from Cairo. It will be called Desita and was presented by the Egyptian office of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation on the sidelines of the Aswan Women’s Film Festival. The initiative connects education, industry, and creativity in the fashion sectors and has sparked great interest among the publ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - President Sergio Mattarella lamented the scourge of labour-related deaths in Italy as his visited the Tuscan town of Pontedera on Thursday in view of the May Day national holiday for workers. "There is a plague that shows no sign of healing, with reports of workers losing their lives on the job continuing," he said. "Workplace safety remains a commitment on which there can be no compromises or concessions. "The toll is unacceptable". Workplace deaths are a major proble...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Thursday condemned Israel for seizing vessels involved in the Global Sumud Flotilla and detaining activists, including a number of Italians. "The Italian government condemns the seizure of the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels, which occurred last night in international waters off the coast of Greece, and calls on the Israeli government to immediately release all the Italians illegally detained, fully respect international law, and guarantee the p...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 30 APR - Over 100 Italian companies participated in the fifth installment of the series of online seminars promoted by the Italian Embassy in Kyiv, in collaboration with ICE Kyiv, dedicated to strengthening economic cooperation with Ukraine. The high turnout at the event, which focused on the design and furniture sectors, confirms the strong interest of the Italian manufacturing sector in the Ukrainian market and, in particular, in a sector that, despite the conflict, is showin...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Andrea Sempio on Thursday rejected investigators' assertion that he stabbed to death Chiara Poggi at Garlasco near Pavia in August 2007 because he hated the 26-year-old economics graduate after she rejected a sexual advance by him. Pavia prosecutors gave this as a motive for the murder in a summons for Sempio, 38, to appear before them for questioning on May 6. The Poggi case has long gripped the attention of the Italian public, especially since it was reopened last ye...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Italy's annual inflation rate shot up to 2.8% in April 2026, compared to 1.7% in March, amid the energy-price shock linked to the Iran war, according to a preliminary estimate released by Istat on Thursday. The national statistics agency said its consumer price index was up 1.2% in month-on-month terms. "The acceleration of inflation was mainly due to the dynamics of prices of non-regulated energy products (from -2.0% to +9.9%), of regulated energy products (from -1.6%...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Stellantis said Thursday that it got back in the black in the first quarter of this year, posting a net profit of 377 million euros compared to a loss of 387 million euros in the first three months of 2025. The Italian-French-American group, whose brands include Jeep, Peugeot, Fiat, Lancia, Maserati, Alfa Romeo and Chrysler, made a net loss of 22.3 billion euros in 2025, having made a huge write-down on its balance sheet as part of a reset after it overestimated the pa...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Italy's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2026 with respect to the previous three months and by 0.7 compared to the first quarter of 2025, according to preliminary estimates released by Istat on Thursday. "The quarter-on-quarter change of GDP was the result of an increase of value added in services and a decrease in agriculture, forestry and fishing and in industry," the national statistics agency said. "From the demand side, the GD...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Italian Pro-Palestinian activists on Thursday called on the Italian government and the European Union to intervene after the new Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters close to Crete overnight while sailing towards Gaza to take aid there. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said 21 of the 58 boats taking part in the flotilla, which is bidding to break through the Gaza blockade and includes Italian vessels and activists, had been interc...

(ANSA) - CITTÀ DEL MESSICO, 29 APR - The Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City hosted a meeting to promote Italian rice. Ambassador Alessandro Modiano opened the proceedings by stating that the grain “deeply represents Italy’s agri-food identity.” He then highlighted the record exports of 2025, UNESCO recognition for Italian cuisine, and promotional initiatives such as the Risò fair in Vercelli. Natalia Bobba, president of the National Rice Board, explained that the commercial strategy mu...

- ROMA, 29 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Warsaw, Luca Franchetti Pardo, spoke at the Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw at the opening of the conference titled “Alcide De Gasperi – The Father of Republican Italy and a United Europe.”“With his visionary insight,” the ambassador recalled, “De Gasperi laid the foundations for the consolidation of a fully democratic system, building upon the capital of freedom won through the Resistance. In a Europe rising from the rubble of war, he had the f...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Andrea Sempio killed Chiara Poggi, a 26-year-old economics graduate stabbed to death at Garlasco near Pavia in August 2007, on his own, prosecutors in Pavia said Wednesday after summoning him to be questioned on May 6 after one of Italy's most sensational murder cases was reopened. It had previously been suggested that Sempio may have acted with others or with her ex boyfriend Alberto Stasi who is currently serving time for the murder. DNA compatible with that of Sempi...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - World number one Jannik Sinner paid tribute to Spanish teen sensation Rafael Jodar after beating the world number 42 6-2 7-6 in the quarter-finals of the Madrid Masters 1000 Wednesday. "Jodar pushed me to the limit. It was a tough match against an extraordinary player who knows what to do. He's an incredible player. I tried to be ready for the first time. Next time I'll know what to expect." said four-time slam winner Sinner, who will now play the winner between Arthur...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Claudio Gentile, the legendary Italy defender who marked Maradona and Zico out of the games in Italy's glorious World Cup campaign in Spain in 1982, on Wednesday criticised the lax defending in Tuesday night's 5-4 Champions League semi-final first leg win by PSG over Bayern Munich, a goal feast that has been hailed as an ode to attacking football. The former Juve player said such lapses would not have been seen in his day, when Italian soccer was famed for its rock-sol...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Italy will stand as civil plaintiff in the future trial of officials and owners in the New Year's Eve bar fire in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana that killed 41 people including six Italian teens, the office of Premier Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday. "The Presidency of the Council of Ministers, through the State Attorney General's Office, which in turn delegated a Swiss law firm, has filed the declaration of the Italian Republic as a civil party in the criminal pr...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni's government is set to become the second longest serving Italian postwar executive on Saturday, coming in between two Silvio Berlusconi-led administrations, and barring shocks it will set a new record for modern-day longevity in a country long derided for its revolving-door executives on September 4. Italy's first woman premier is aiming to become the first modern leader to complete a full five-year term without reshuffles in September next year,...

(ANSA) - NAIROBI, 29 APR - As part of the International Jazz Festival, held annually in Addis Ababa, a jazz concert took place yesterday at Villa Italia, the residence of the Italian Ambassador to Ethiopia, Sem Fabrizi. During the concert, Italian and Ethiopian artists presented a successful repertoire of musical fusions performed using instruments from the Ethiopian tradition as well. The event, organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, is part of the fourth edition of ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed satisfaction on Wednesday after the Senate unanimously approved a bill establishing a national day, May 3, to remember Italian journalists who have been killed while doing their jobs. She named a list of such journalists, including Peppino Impastato, who was killed by Cosa Nostra in 1978, RAI reporter Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Miran Hrovatin, who were murdered in Mogadishu in 1994 while they were working on a report into weapons and...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 29 APR - The Italian Embassy in Ulaanbaatar organized, in collaboration with the National University of Mongolia, a dialogue on science, innovation, and international cooperation, featuring an online lecture by scientist Ersilia Vaudo (European Space Agency) titled “Space: an endless adventure.” Undraa Agvaanluvsan, Chair of the Italy-Mongolia Interparliamentary Friendship Group and a nuclear scientist, also spoke at the event, sharing her experience studying at the Center for ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Milan prosecutors are seeking to verify the authenticity of an Uruguayan adoption sentence at the centre of a successful plea for a presidential pardon by Silvio Berlusconi's former dental hygienist and ex People of Freedom (PdL) Lombardy regional councillor Nicole Minetti. The Milanese investigators are running checks and have involved Interpol in the case after President Sergio Mattarella wrote to the justice ministry asking for clarification following press reports ...

(ANSA) - NAPLES, APR 29 - The christening and delivery of the new 'Grande Tokyo' Pure Car & Truck Carrier (PCTC) took place in Shanghai a few days ago. She is the 10th ammonia-ready vessel, meaning she is designed for the future use of ammonia as an alternative fuel, of the Grimaldi Group's fleet. She is also the last of seven sister vessels ordered from the shipyards SWS (Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company Limited) and CSTC (China Shipbuilding Trading Company Limited), which are both p...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Thursday condemned Israel for seizing vessels involved in the Global Sumud Flotilla and detaining activists, including a number of Italians. "The Italian government condemns the seizure of the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels, which occurred last night in international waters off the coast of Greece, and calls on the Israeli government to immediately release all the Italians illegally detained, fully respect international law, and guarantee the p...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - The Italian legal team of the Global Sumud Flotilla said Thursday that 24 of the activists arrested when the Israeli authorities intercepted 22 of the boats involved in the mission to get aid to Gaza overnight are Italian. In total 57 Italians are taking part in the mission. "It is extremely serious that activists detained 150 nautical miles from Crete and 600 miles from the coast of Gaza are being taken to Israel," the legal team said. The opposition Democratic Party ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Andrea Sempio on Thursday rejected investigators' assertion that he stabbed to death Chiara Poggi at Garlasco near Pavia in August 2007 because he hated the 26-year-old economics graduate after she rejected a sexual advance by him. Pavia prosecutors gave this as a motive for the murder in a summons for Sempio, 38, to appear before them for questioning on May 6. The Poggi case has long gripped the attention of the Italian public, especially since it was reopened last ye...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - The number of people in employment in Italy dropped by 30,000 in March compared to the same month in 2025 and by 12,000 with respect to February, according to provisional data released by Istat on Thursday. The national statistics agency said 24.124 million people were in work in Italy last month. It said the employment rate for March was 62.4%, stable with respect to February but 0.3 of percentage point lower than the equivalent month last year. Istat said the number ...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 30 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Giuseppe Giacalone, met with the Minister of Sport and Arts, Anselem Nhamo Sanyatwe. The discussion focused on expanding cooperation between Italy and Zimbabwe in the cultural and sports sectors and on strengthening collaboration with the National Gallery in preparation for the annual conference of the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), which will be held for the first time on the African conti...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Stellantis said Thursday that it got back in the black in the first quarter of this year, posting a net profit of 377 million euros compared to a loss of 387 million euros in the first three months of 2025. The Italian-French-American group, whose brands include Jeep, Peugeot, Fiat, Lancia, Maserati, Alfa Romeo and Chrysler, made a net loss of 22.3 billion euros in 2025, having made a huge write-down on its balance sheet as part of a reset after it overestimated the pa...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - Italy's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2026 with respect to the previous three months and by 0.7 compared to the first quarter of 2025, according to preliminary estimates released by Istat on Thursday. "The quarter-on-quarter change of GDP was the result of an increase of value added in services and a decrease in agriculture, forestry and fishing and in industry," the national statistics agency said. "From the demand side, the GD...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 30 - The Italian Foreign Ministry said it has asked Israel to provide it with information after its forces intercepted the new Global Sumud Flotilla, which includes Italian pro-Palestrinian activists and boats, overnight as they sailing towards Gaza carrying aid. "Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has immediately requested the (foreign ministry's) Crisis Unit, the Italian Embassy in Tel Aviv, and the Italian Embassy in Athens to liaise with the Israeli and Greek authorities t...

(ANSA) - CITTÀ DEL MESSICO, 29 APR - On April 24, the Italian Ambassador to Mexico, Alessandro Modiano, took part in the launch ceremony for the seventh edition of the “Feria Aeroespacial México” (Famex), the leading aerospace exhibition in Mexico and one of the most important in Latin America, which will take place from April 20 to 24, 2027, at Military Air Base No. 1 in Santa Lucia (near Felipe Angeles International Airport - AIFA). The ceremony, organized by the Mexican Air Force as part o...

(ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 29 APR - The Three Seas Initiative Political Summit has concluded, during which Italy was welcomed yesterday as a new strategic partner of the platform that brings together EU countries from the Baltic to the Black Sea to the Adriatic. The event continued in Dubrovnik with the Business Forum, attended by 1,500 people from over 40 countries. Among the companies present were Italian firms, including Danieli Systec, Fincantieri, Turboden, and Sparkle. Sparkle, in particular, w...

(ANSA) - SKOPJE, 29 APR - Yesterday evening, the Italian Embassy in Skopje celebrated an important milestone for Italian gastronomy in North Macedonia. The Italian Ambassador, Paolo Palminteri, together with the leadership of the AVPN (Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana)—President Antonio Pace and General Director Stefano Auricchio—presented the renowned pizzeria “Matto Napoletano” with the coveted official certification that places it among the select group of affiliated pizzerias worldwid...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - World number one Jannik Sinner paid tribute to Spanish teen sensation Rafael Jodar after beating the world number 42 6-2 7-6 in the quarter-finals of the Madrid Masters 1000 Wednesday. "Jodar pushed me to the limit. It was a tough match against an extraordinary player who knows what to do. He's an incredible player. I tried to be ready for the first time. Next time I'll know what to expect." said four-time slam winner Sinner, who will now play the winner between Arthur...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - A Democratic Party (PF) MEP said Wednesday she had been sexually abused at the age of 16 by the then 70-year-old late Italian founder of the Youth Eucharistic Movement (MEG), Jesuit priest Sauro De Luca, who had allegedly preyed on over 20 girls from around 1968 to 1998. Annalisa Corrado, 52, said she had decided to tell her story for the sake of De Luca's alleged victims. "I have decided to share a painful part of my story, which dates back many years, but is terribly...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Premier Giorgia Meloni's government is set to become the second longest serving Italian postwar executive on Saturday, coming in between two Silvio Berlusconi-led administrations, and barring shocks it will set a new record for modern-day longevity in a country long derided for its revolving-door executives on September 4. Italy's first woman premier is aiming to become the first modern leader to complete a full five-year term without reshuffles in September next year,...

(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, 29 APR - On Tuesday, the Italian Embassy in Washington hosted the second “Italy-U.S. Dialogue on Trusted Technologies for Democracies,” organized in collaboration with Purdue University’s Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy and the Serics Foundation. The event featured a day of discussions on global challenges such as digital security, bringing together senior officials from both sides, as well as representatives from industry and academia. In his opening remarks, Ambassad...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - The Giro d'Italia's 'Grand Arrival' will be at the Circus Maximus for the first time this year as the world's second biggest stage race behind the Tour de France ends in Rome for the fourth year running next month, organisers said Wednesday. Newspaper and TV proprietor and Torino soccer club owner Urbano Cairo, chairman of the RCS media group which owns the La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper, Italy's biggest selling daily and the organiser of the event, said the arrival...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - A 35-year-old Neapolitan disk jockey was killed by Spanish police on Ibiza last July in a case of police brutality that recalls the notorious death of Stefano Cucchi, a 31-year-old Roman surveyor beaten to death in police custody in 2009, the DJ's family told Il Mattino newspaper Wednesday. The Guardia Civil officers punched and kicked Michele Noschese after immobilising him in his flat on the Spanish island after arresting him on drugs charges, the family lawyers told...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - The culture ministry has sent inspectors to the Venice Biennale to obtain information about its controversial decision to allow the Russian Pavilion to reopen for the 2026 exhibition, sources said on Wednesday. The Biennale has come under fierce criticism for the decision, with the European Commission saying it put two million euros EU funding for the event at risk, while Italian Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli called on it to revoke the invitation to the Russians. L...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - Milan prosecutors are seeking to verify the authenticity of an Uruguayan adoption sentence at the centre of a successful plea for a presidential pardon by Silvio Berlusconi's former dental hygienist and ex People of Freedom (PdL) Lombardy regional councillor Nicole Minetti. The Milanese investigators are running checks and have involved Interpol in the case after President Sergio Mattarella wrote to the justice ministry asking for clarification following press reports ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 29 - The European Commission said Wednesday that it has given the green light to the ninth instalment of Italy's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), a tranche worth 12.8 billion euros. "With this tranche, the total funds disbursed to Italy reach approximately €166 billion, equal to 85% of the total resources allocated under the Plan," European Commission Vice President for Cohesion and Reforms Raffaele Fitto said via social media. The NRRP seeks to make the Italia...