(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - Catholic charity Caritas said Tuesday that it has never had to help so many people in Italy as it is helping at the moment in its annual report on poverty. It said it provided assistance to 282,539 people last year, an increase of 1.7% with respect to 2024, according to data from 206 dioceses. The report said 52% of the people given assistance were from households with children under 18. It said it helped 24,000 people homeless people and many more who had serious trou...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - Former Sporting Lisbon and Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim is AC Milan's new coach after signing a contract with the seven-time European champions for the next two seasons, sources said on Tuesday. The Serie A giants will officially announce the news within hours, the sources said. The 41-year-old from Lisbon had been out of work since being fired by United in January. Amorim is replacing Massimiliano Allegri, who was sacked after a slump in form in the latter stag...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - All eight defendants charged with building-code violations regarding the Torre Milano skyscraper were acquitted on Tuesday in the first ruling on a series of criminal cases regarding urban-planning projects in Milan that have rocked the administration of Mayor Giuseppe Sala. "Obviously, we are satisfied," Sala told a news conference. "Naturally there's a great deal of bitterness too. "I said it well before the time, a few weeks ago, and I can only reiterate now that a ...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 16 GIU - The Italian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Carlo Baldocci, met with Reem AlSultan, CEO of the Misk Art Institute, one of the country’s leading educational institutions, based in Riyadh. The institute offers artist-in-residence programs, exhibitions, and training workshops open to the creative community. The meeting was constructive and focused on the excellent relations between Italy and Saudi Arabia and on opportunities to strengthen cultural and educational cooperation ...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 16 GIU - On the occasion of the G7 summit in Evian, the Italian Ambassador to France, Emanuela D’Alessandro, met with the Carabinieri and French gendarmes who are part of the Uofi. The newly formed unit, consisting of twenty French gendarmes—ten from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes gendarmerie region and an equal number from the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region— and twenty Carabinieri, ten from the Piedmont Regiment in Turin and ten from the Liguria Battalion in Genoa, was created to...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 16 GIU - The Italian Ambassador to Turkey, Giuseppe Manzo, met with the Mayor of Ankara, Mansur Yavaş. During their discussion, they highlighted how Ankara is a city with many traces of Italy, from the Roman era to the sculptors and architects who contributed to the construction of the capital. The ambassador and the mayor discussed economic and cultural projects that will further bring the peoples of Italy and Turkey closer together. Read article...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 16 GIU - "Scientific research and technological innovation constitute a universal language capable of uniting peoples and nations in a shared aspiration for knowledge and progress. From this perspective, scientific diplomacy represents an essential tool for strengthening bilateral relations and promoting shared growth based on the exchange of expertise and academic excellence.” This was stated by the Italian Ambassador to Armenia, Alessandro Ferranti, upon opening the Internati...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - There will be no American withdrawal from United States bases in Italy, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said after talks at the Pentagon with his US counterpart Pete Hegseth Monday. From his meeting with the US Secretary of Defense , Crosetto said he did not perceive any desire for a US withdrawal from Italian bases. "Indeed, from a bilateral and NATO perspective, cooperation with us is in some ways very important for the United States," the Italian defence minister st...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - General turned politician Roberto Vannacci's new far-right party National Future (FN) is polling at 5.3%, the same as the right-wing League party he recently quit shortly after being appointed its deputy leader, a new poll said Monday. FN, which officially launched at the weekend, has gained half a point in a week and is now level with the League (which lost 0.3%) at 5.3% in the Italian voting outlook surveyed by SWG for Tg La7. Pemier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing Broth...

(ANSA) - SKOPJE, 15 GIU - The Italian Ambassador to North Macedonia, Paolo Palminteri, conferred upon attorney Meri Mladenovska Gjorgjievska the honor of Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy, in recognition of her commitment to strengthening cooperation between Italy and North Macedonia in the institutional and economic sectors. The embassy announced this on Facebook. Upon receiving the prestigious award, attorney Mladenovska Gjorgjievska quoted a famous aphorism by Luigi Pirandello: “Lif...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 15 GIU - Italian Ambassador Carlo Formosa, together with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Tetyana Berezhna and the diplomatic corps, visited the Pechersk Lavra complex in Kyiv, the cave monastery struck last night by Russian airstrikes. The monastic citadel, founded in 1051, is among the oldest testimonies to Slavic Christianity; with its numerous cathedrals, structures, and catacombs, it constitutes a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has suffered extensive damage. ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Italy's military leadership in Europe has grown thanks to Premier Giorgia Meloni, United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Defence Minister Guido Crosetto at the Pentagon Monday. Hegseth said Italy and the rest of Europe must do more fro NATO 3.0. (ANSA). Read article...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - More must be done for NATO 3.0 by the United States' European allies including Italy, Us Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto in a bilateral meeting at the Pentagon Monday. To build NATO 3.0, European allies, including Italy, must do more," said Hegseth. (ANSA). Read article...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Male staff of Milan transport company ATM allegedly swapped upskirted images of women's crotch areas on a WhatsApp chat group, adding sexist comments, one of the alleged victims has said. The case was taken up by writer and activist Carlotta Vagnoli and a number of women influencers on Instagram. ATM has opened an internal probe. The alleged upskirting was carried out using the tram's cameras, the victim said. Milan prosecutors said they are moving towards opening a cr...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Premier Giorgia Meloni has taken issue with the Più Libri Più Liberi book fair for asking publishers wanting to take part to sign an anti-fascism declaration. "This is how the Left conceives freedom of thought: you are free, but only if you say what they allow you to say, if you think what they think, if you read what they consider appropriate," Meloni, the leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, said via X. "The cancellation of non-leftist ideas, disgu...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Premier Giorgia Meloni met her Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi in Rome on Monday, expressing satisfaction at their friendship and at the ties between the two nations, while welcoming the US-Iran deal to end the war in the Middle East and blasting Russia for its latest deadly attacks on Ukraine. "It is an honour and a pleasure for me to welcome the Japanese Prime Minister, my friend Sanae, to Rome," Meloni told a news conference before the two leaders fly to the G7 ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - An illegal 'ghost bank' run by the Chinese, Albanian and Italian mafia has been discovered in the Tuscan city of Prato, allegedly capable of moving between €80 and €100 million a year in phantom payments for drugs and goods between Italy and foreign countries. Three criminal organizations allegedly benefited from it: one for laundering drug money, one for international drug trafficking, and the third for illegal Chinese immigration. The bank used the untraceable Islami...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Male staff of Milan transport company ATM allegedly swapped upskirted images of a woman's crotch on a WhatsApp chat group, the alleged victim has said. The case was taken up by writer and activist Carlotta Vagnoli and a number of women influencers on Instagram. ATM has opened an internal probe. The alleged upskirting was carried out using the tram's cameras, the victim said. (ANSA). Read article...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Environment and Energy Security Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said Monday that he expects there to be a popular referendum by the end of the decade on the government's plan to bring nuclear energy back to Italy. "A new referendum on nuclear power? I take it for granted that there will be one in 2028 or 2029," Pichetto Fratin said on the sidelines of a conference in Turin. "It is a right guaranteed by our Constitution (for citizens to be able) to participate in deci...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Monday that Moscow is not interested in peace after the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a UNESCO world heritage site, caught fire amid the latest round of deadly Russian bombings on Ukraine overnight. "Attacks against a UNESCO site really are incredibly serious," Tajani said in Luxembourg, where he is taking part in a EU foreign affairs council. "They demonstrate that Russia does not want to sit at the peace table....

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - Catholic charity Caritas said Tuesday that it has never had to help so many people in Italy as it is helping at the moment in its annual report on poverty. It said it provided assistance to 282,539 people last year, an increase of 1.7% with respect to 2024, according to data from 206 dioceses. The report said 52% of the people given assistance were from households with children under 18. It said it helped 24,000 people homeless people and many more who had serious trou...

(ANSA) - LISBONA, 16 GIU - Following the webinar on cooperation opportunities between Italy and Portugal within the Blue Economy, organized last January by the Italian Embassy in Lisbon and Forum Oceano—the association coordinating the Portuguese government’s activities regarding the maritime economy—this time it is the Federazione del Mare, a cluster bringing together most of the organizations in the Italian maritime sector, to participate in the Oeiras Bluetech Ocean Forum 2026, currently t...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - Italy's annual inflation rate climbed to 3.2% in May from 2.7% in April, amid the energy-price shock linked to the Iran war, Istat said on Tuesday, confirming the preliminary estimate it gave at the end of last month. The national statistics agency added that its consumer-price index was up 0.4% in month-on-month terms. "The acceleration of inflation was mainly due to the dynamics of prices of non-regulated energy products (from +9.6% to +12.5%), of regulated energy pr...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested seven people suspected of forming an anarchist terrorist cell. Two of them are also charged with the February 14 attack on the Rome-Florence high-speed rail line, which caused damage that cost 455,000 euros to repair and was part of a series of acts of sabotage on Italy's rail network during the period of 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. An anarchist group claimed responsibility for that attack and another on the Rome-Naples rail ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - Europe must "re-find the capacity to grow" in order to be able to protect itself in a turbulent world, former European Central Bank President and former Italian premier Mario Draghi has said in the preface to a new book released on Tuesday. Draghi said regaining strong economic growth was not just a "question of social justice" but also necessary in order to be able to "defend our borders and our political independence, our freedom". The book, published by Rizzoli and ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - The Italian Antitrust Authority said Tuesday that it has opened an investigation into Apple for allegedly breaching the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) in relation to cloud services. It that, while Apple is obliged ensure that third-party providers are granted free and effective interoperability with the iOS and iPadOS operating systems under the act, it has evidence that third-party consumer-cloud providers may not be placed on an equal footing as Apple's iCloud. "This...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - ANSA has come top among Italy's news brands for the trust the public has in it for the ninth consecutive year in the annual Reuters Institute's Digital News Report. The 2026 report, which profiles the media situations in 48 countries, said 74% of Italians trust ANSA. That put Italy's top news agency ahead of the SkyTg24 news channel and financial daily Sole 24 Ore, both on 64%. The report added that the agency's website, ANSA.it, was joint second in Italy for weekly on...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - There will be no American withdrawal from United States bases in Italy, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said after talks at the Pentagon with his US counterpart Pete Hegseth Monday. From his meeting with the US Secretary of Defense , Crosetto said he did not perceive any desire for a US withdrawal from Italian bases. "Indeed, from a bilateral and NATO perspective, cooperation with us is in some ways very important for the United States," the Italian defence minister st...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Former Sporting Lisbon and Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim is the new coach of AC Milan following Massimiliano Allegri's exit, the Portuguese media said Monday saying that a deal had been reached with the 41-ywar-old from Lisbon. Amorim and Milan have reached an agreement, according to Portuguese newspaper A Bola. The Rossoneri and the coach, according to the Portuguese newspaper, have reached an agreement for a two-year contract with an option for a third year ...

(ANSA) - BRUXELLES, 15 GIU - In Amsterdam, along one of the routes connecting Europe to Africa and South America, an Italian story of global expansion is unfolding. Aboard the Great Lagos, part of the Grimaldi Group’s new, state-of-the-art G5 class, the Italian Ambassador to the Netherlands, Augusto Massari, celebrated a business model capable of combining growth, innovation, and sustainability. He was welcomed by the General Manager of Grimaldi Netherlands, Ivan Tessitore, along with the shi...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - The family of late singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla on Monday protested after far-right general-turned-politician Roberto Vannacci picked one of his greatest hits, 'Futura'', as the anthem of his new party National Future (FN). Dalla, who died in 2012 aged 68, was a closeted gay. Vannacci was suspended from the army after penning an anti-woke bestseller three years ago in which he said, among other things, that gays are not normal. Closing FN's two-day launch on Sunday, r...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Italy's military leadership in Europe has grown thanks to Premier Giorgia Meloni, United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Defence Minister Guido Crosetto at the Pentagon Monday. Hegseth said Italy and the rest of Europe must do more fro NATO 3.0. (ANSA). Read article...

(ANSA) - NAIROBI, 15 GIU - On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Italian Republic, the Italian Embassy in Dar es Salaam organized several concerts by the Salento-based group Officina Zoè, among the first to rediscover the tradition of the pizzica both nationally and internationally. Officina Zoè performed in Dar es Salaam at the reception for the national holiday, hosted by Ambassador Coppola at the residence and featuring a pizzica workshop led by dancer Sara Colonna, and subsequent...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Justice Minister Carlo Nordio has come under fire for referring to the fact that the criminal code still in use in Italy was drafted during the Fascist period in order to criticise a Rome book fair, Più Libri Più Liberi, for asking publishers wanting to take part to sign an anti-fascism declaration. "Perhaps the organizers don't know that the most important book for our justice system—namely, the Criminal Code—bears Mussolini's signature,' Nordio said. He argued that i...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Premier Giorgia Meloni has taken issue with the Più Libri Più Liberi book fair for asking publishers wanting to take part to sign an anti-fascism declaration. "This is how the Left conceives freedom of thought: you are free, but only if you say what they allow you to say, if you think what they think, if you read what they consider appropriate," Meloni, the leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, said via X. "The cancellation of non-leftist ideas, disgu...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 15 GIU - The Italian Embassy in France and the Académie des sciences have signed a Memorandum of Understanding establishing the annual “Penser et faire la science, ensemble” Science Days, a new initiative designed to consolidate scientific cooperation between Italy and France and to strengthen the dialogue between research, institutions, and society. “The signing of the Memorandum represents an important step in the implementation of the Quirinale Treaty, which identifies resea...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Femicide does not exist and the crime of murdering women motivated by possessiveness, jealousy or other hateful motives should not be considered different from killing men, far-right leader Roberto Vannacci said Sunday. Closing the two-day launch of his new National Future (FN) party, the former paratroop general, bestselling anti-woke author and remigration campaigner said Italy's 2025 law recognising femicide as a separate felony and setting stiffer penalties for it ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Femicide does not exist and the crime of murdering women motivated by possessiveness, jealousy or other hateful motives should not be considered different from killing men, far-right leader Roberto Vannacci said Sunday. Closing the two-day launch of his new National Future (FN) party, the former paratroop general, bestselling anti-woke author and remigration campaigner said Italy's 2025 law recognising femicide as a separate felony and setting stiffer penalties for it ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Environment and Energy Security Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said Monday that he expects there to be a popular referendum by the end of the decade on the government's plan to bring nuclear energy back to Italy. "A new referendum on nuclear power? I take it for granted that there will be one in 2028 or 2029," Pichetto Fratin said on the sidelines of a conference in Turin. "It is a right guaranteed by our Constitution (for citizens to be able) to participate in deci...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Monday that Moscow is not interested in peace after the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a UNESCO world heritage site, caught fire amid the latest round of deadly Russian bombings on Ukraine overnight. "Attacks against a UNESCO site really are incredibly serious," Tajani said in Luxembourg, where he is taking part in a EU foreign affairs council. "They demonstrate that Russia does not want to sit at the peace table....

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - Former Sporting Lisbon and Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim is AC Milan's new coach after signing a contract with the seven-time European champions for the next two seasons, sources said on Tuesday. The Serie A giants will officially announce the news within hours, the sources said. The 41-year-old from Lisbon had been out of work since being fired by United in January. Amorim is replacing Massimiliano Allegri, who was sacked after a slump in form in the latter stag...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - All eight defendants charged with building-code violations regarding the Torre Milano skyscraper were acquitted on Tuesday in the first ruling on a series of criminal cases regarding urban-planning projects in Milan that have rocked the administration of Mayor Giuseppe Sala. "Obviously, we are satisfied," Sala told a news conference. "Naturally there's a great deal of bitterness too. "I said it well before the time, a few weeks ago, and I can only reiterate now that a ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - Italy's annual inflation rate climbed to 3.2% in May from 2.7% in April, amid the energy-price shock linked to the Iran war, Istat said on Tuesday, confirming the preliminary estimate it gave at the end of last month. The national statistics agency added that its consumer-price index was up 0.4% in month-on-month terms. "The acceleration of inflation was mainly due to the dynamics of prices of non-regulated energy products (from +9.6% to +12.5%), of regulated energy pr...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested seven people suspected of forming an anarchist terrorist cell. Two of them are also charged with the February 14 attack on the Rome-Florence high-speed rail line, which caused damage that cost 455,000 euros to repair and was part of a series of acts of sabotage on Italy's rail network during the period of 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. An anarchist group claimed responsibility for that attack and another on the Rome-Naples rail ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - Europe must "re-find the capacity to grow" in order to be able to protect itself in a turbulent world, former European Central Bank President and former Italian premier Mario Draghi has said in the preface to a new book released on Tuesday. Draghi said regaining strong economic growth was not just a "question of social justice" but also necessary in order to be able to "defend our borders and our political independence, our freedom". The book, published by Rizzoli and ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - The Italian Antitrust Authority said Tuesday that it has opened an investigation into Apple for allegedly breaching the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) in relation to cloud services. It that, while Apple is obliged ensure that third-party providers are granted free and effective interoperability with the iOS and iPadOS operating systems under the act, it has evidence that third-party consumer-cloud providers may not be placed on an equal footing as Apple's iCloud. "This...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 16 - ANSA has come top among Italy's news brands for the trust the public has in it for the ninth consecutive year in the annual Reuters Institute's Digital News Report. The 2026 report, which profiles the media situations in 48 countries, said 74% of Italians trust ANSA. That put Italy's top news agency ahead of the SkyTg24 news channel and financial daily Sole 24 Ore, both on 64%. The report added that the agency's website, ANSA.it, was joint second in Italy for weekly on...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - General turned politician Roberto Vannacci's new far-right party National Future (FN) is polling at 5.3%, the same as the right-wing League party he recently quit shortly after being appointed its deputy leader, a new poll said Monday. FN, which officially launched at the weekend, has gained half a point in a week and is now level with the League (which lost 0.3%) at 5.3% in the Italian voting outlook surveyed by SWG for Tg La7. Pemier Giorgia Meloni's right-wing Broth...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Former Sporting Lisbon and Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim is the new coach of AC Milan following Massimiliano Allegri's exit, the Portuguese media said Monday saying that a deal had been reached with the 41-ywar-old from Lisbon. Amorim and Milan have reached an agreement, according to Portuguese newspaper A Bola. The Rossoneri and the coach, according to the Portuguese newspaper, have reached an agreement for a two-year contract with an option for a third year ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - The family of late singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla on Monday protested after far-right general-turned-politician Roberto Vannacci picked one of his greatest hits, 'Futura'', as the anthem of his new party National Future (FN). Dalla, who died in 2012 aged 68, was a closeted gay. Vannacci was suspended from the army after penning an anti-woke bestseller three years ago in which he said, among other things, that gays are not normal. Closing FN's two-day launch on Sunday, r...

The 75th edition of the Granada International Music and Dance Festival, one of Europe’s most prestigious cultural events, opened in the splendid setting of the Palacio de Carlos V in Granada, Andalusia. This special 75th-anniversary edition features Italy as a protagonist with a highly significant artistic presence throughout the Festival’s entire program. The official opening, attended by representatives of the Spanish Royal House and leading institutional authorities—from Queen Emerita Sofí...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - More must be done for NATO 3.0 by the United States' European allies including Italy, Us Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto in a bilateral meeting at the Pentagon Monday. To build NATO 3.0, European allies, including Italy, must do more," said Hegseth. Crosetto said: "Thanks to the United States for pushing Europe to shoulder the burden of defence." (ANSA). Read article...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Male staff of Milan transport company ATM allegedly swapped upskirted images of women's crotch areas on a WhatsApp chat group, adding sexist comments, one of the alleged victims has said. The case was taken up by writer and activist Carlotta Vagnoli and a number of women influencers on Instagram. ATM has opened an internal probe. The alleged upskirting was carried out using the tram's cameras, the victim said. Milan prosecutors said they are moving towards opening a cr...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Justice Minister Carlo Nordio has come under fire for referring to the fact that the criminal code still in use in Italy was drafted during the Fascist period in order to criticise a Rome book fair, Più Libri Più Liberi, for asking publishers wanting to take part to sign an anti-fascism declaration. "Perhaps the organizers don't know that the most important book for our justice system—namely, the Criminal Code—bears Mussolini's signature,' Nordio said. He argued that i...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Premier Giorgia Meloni met her Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi in Rome on Monday, expressing satisfaction at their friendship and at the ties between the two nations, while welcoming the US-Iran deal to end the war in the Middle East and blasting Russia for its latest deadly attacks on Ukraine. "It is an honour and a pleasure for me to welcome the Japanese Prime Minister, my friend Sanae, to Rome," Meloni told a news conference before the two leaders fly to the G7 ...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - An illegal 'ghost bank' run by the Chinese, Albanian and Italian mafia has been discovered in the Tuscan city of Prato, allegedly capable of moving between €80 and €100 million a year in phantom payments for drugs and goods between Italy and foreign countries. Three criminal organizations allegedly benefited from it: one for laundering drug money, one for international drug trafficking, and the third for illegal Chinese immigration. The bank used the untraceable Islami...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Male staff of Milan transport company ATM allegedly swapped upskirted images of a woman's crotch on a WhatsApp chat group, the alleged victim has said. The case was taken up by writer and activist Carlotta Vagnoli and a number of women influencers on Instagram. ATM has opened an internal probe. The alleged upskirting was carried out using the tram's cameras, the victim said. (ANSA). Read article...

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 15 - Italian exports increased by 8.8% in value and by 3.5% in volume in April with respect to the same month last year, but they decreased in value terms by 2.2% compared to March, Istat said on Monday. The national statistics agency said imports were up 5.5% year-on-year and down 0.6% month-on-month. It said that, compared to March 2026, exports fell both to EU countries (-2.1%) and to non-EU countries (-2.4%), while imports declined by 2.1% for the EU area but grew by 1....

(ANSA) - ROMA, 15 GIU - Italy won five medals—two gold and three bronze—at the Karate One Premier League, which concluded in Rabat. The Italian ambassador to Morocco, Pasquale Salzano, congratulated the Italian athletes. The final event of the most prestigious international karate circuit saw Italy’s Clio Ferracuti win gold in the women’s +68 kg Kumite, defeating England’s Rochelle Walters 11-2. Ferracuti had previously suffered six losses in Karate One Premier League finals, winning six silv...

(ANSA) - LUXEMBOURG, JUN 15 - Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Monday that Israel must stop bombing Beirut after the United States and Iran reached an agreement to end the war in the Middle East. "We must ensure that the fighting in Lebanon stops too, that Israel no longer bombs Beirut," Tajani said on the sidelines of an EU foreign affairs council in Luxembourg. In her statement welcoming the deal reached between Washington and Tehran, Premier Giorgia Meloni said that ...