embed1 Drone video from New Year`s Day shows lava spilling and cracking from a new fissure in Mount Etna...

Former Italian fencer Sandro Cuomo, actor Jackie Chan, Italian swimmer Immacolata Cerasuolo and the torchbearer Maria Marinella Biacca hold the torch of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics flame...

Mariah Carey in 2019.John Shearer / Getty Images file Mariah Carey is going to add some American pop-star pedigree to the opening ceremony for the upcoming Milan Cortina Winter Olympics...

Thousands marched through the streets of the Italian capital in a show of solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla after it was intercepted by the Israeli navy while attempting to break the siege of Gaza...

Firefighters work near a coach after it crashed off an overpass in Mestre, Italy, Oct...

Ursula von der Leyen (L) and Giorgia Meloni on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa on September, 17...

A member of parliament casts a vote to elect Italy’s new president, at the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Italy, January 27, 2022...

File photo of anti-vaccination protests in The Netherlands (Photo by AFP) Protests against COVID-19 vaccine requirements have gathered momentum across western Europe with large demonstrations taking place in France, Denmark, Germany, and Austria, among other countries...

Journalists from the Italian state broadcaster RAI held a day of strike, ten years after their last collective industrial action...

Children wearing Christmas hats look on as they arrive aboard the rescue vessel Sea-Eye 4 in the port of Pozzallo, southern Sicily, December 24, 2021...

Greek divers have discovered the wreckage of an Italian submarine 80 years after it was sunk by the Allied Forces in the Aegean Sea during World War Two...

Italy’s local media have reported that the country is welcoming Afghan refugees to the country who have been granted refugee status...

Italy has given safe haven to Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan Girl whose 1985 photo in National Geographic became a symbol of her country’s wars, Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s office said on Thursday...

Sailboats used by smugglers to transport migrants are beached on Le Cannelle beach in Isola Capo Rizzuto, Calabria region, Southern Italy - Copyright AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino Smugglers attempting to bring in refugees across the Mediterannean are now using luxury sailboats to sneak past authorities on the lesser-known Calabrian route...

Italy’s team celebrate their victory at the end of the UEFA EURO 2020 Group A football match between Turkey and Italy at the Olympic Stadium in Rome on June 11, 2021...

To the Volleyball Nations League, where Iran have powered past the hosts, Italy, 3 sets to 1...

On Saturday, thousands of people flooded Piazza dell’Esquilino, a square in the heart of the Italian capital, to voice their support for Palestinians facing relentless lethal bombing campaigns by the Israeli military over the past days...

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gestures as he replies to questions ahead of a confidence vote at the Senate, at Palazzo Madama in Rome, Italy, on January 19, 2021...

US State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Nathan Sales (Photo by AFP) France has rejected allegations by a senior US State Department official that the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has stored chemicals that can be used to make explosives in the European country, emphasizing that there is no evidence to substantiate such claims...

A view of an empty street on the second day of an unprecedented lockdown across all of the country, imposed to slow the outbreak of coronavirus, in Milan, Italy, on March 11, 2020...

Italian Senator Gianluigi Paragone speaks to media outside the Italian Senate in this still image taken from video, in Rome, March 24, 2018...

People attend a united rally of the League party, the Brothers of Italy (FdI) party and the Forza Italia (FI) party for a protest against the government on July 4, 2020...

Italy’s largest retailers association Confcommercio released the outcome of a study about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the country’s economy...

Pierre Kompany, the mayor of the Brussels’ municipality of Ganshoren (File photo) Belgium is due a reckoning with its colonial past, and things left unsaid must now be discussed, argues the Congolese-born 72-year-old who became the country’s first black mayor...

Neo-fascist groups, extremists and ultras from Italy’s football clubs gather for a demonstration over the government’s handling of the coronavirus emergency, on June 6, 2020...

This photo, provided by the Italian news agency Ansa on May 30, 2020, shows former General Antonio Pappalardo (C), the founder of the protest movement Orange Gilets, speaking during a demonstration in Milan, Italy...

A view shows the Juventus’ so-called J medical medical center at the Juventus stadium in Turin on May 5, 2020, during the country’s lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus...

A car of the Carabinieri police patrols past the Colosseum monument in central Rome on May 4, 2020 as Italy starts to ease its lockdown...

Ratings agency Fitch has cut Italy’s credit rating from BBB to BBB- , just one notch above its junk rating, citing the disastrous effect of the Covid-19 crisis on the country’s economy...

A man wears a personalized mask from FC Juventus as Italy’s lockdown measures continue to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Venice, Italy, April 22, 2020...

This photo taken on April 21, 2020 and handout on April 22, 2020 by the Palazzo Chigi press office shows Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte addressing Parliament in Rome during the country’s lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, caused by the novel coronavirus...

A priest walks amid benches with pictures of members of the congregation, after livestreaming an Easter Sunday Mass, as Italy celebrates Easter under lockdown due to the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the small southern town of San Giorgio Ionico, Italy, on April 12, 2020...

Two cyclists working for the food delivery service Glovo ride their bike across a deserted Piazza Duomo in Milan, Italy, on March 31, 2020...

A member of the Military Emergencies Unit (UME) sprays a crucifix as they carry out a general disinfection at the Sant Antoni care facility in Barcelona on March 27, 2020...

A Serbian military personal wearing a protective mask walks amongst beds set up inside a hall at the Belgrade Fair to accommodate people suffering from mild symptoms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on March 24, 2020...

An emergency contingent of Cuban doctors and nurses arrive at Italy’s Malpensa airport after travelling from Cuba to help Italy battle the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), near Milan, Italy, March 22, 2020...

A man wearing a face mask (R) stands by the coffin of his mother as a priest (3ddL) reads prayers and undertakers stand by during a funeral service in the closed cemetery of Seriate, near Bergamo, Lombardy, on March 20, 2020...

A woman wearing a mask walks pasts the Eiffel Tower closed after the French government banned all gatherings of over 100 people to limit the spread of virus COVID-19...

Customers order drinks at a deserted café terrace on Piazza Vittorio in Turin, Italy, on March 9, 2020, as Italy battles the world’s second-worst viral outbreak after China...

Facemask-clad people are seen at the railway station in Hefei, China’s eastern Anhui province on March 10, 2020...

Visitors stand by an entrance of the Colosseum monument in Rome after it was closed over the outbreak of Coronavirus (Photo by AFP) Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has put the whole country on lockdown in a bid to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has so far infected over 9,000 and killed over 450 in the European country...

The European Union has pledged €230 million to help fight the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, as member state Italy grapples with a rise in cases across the country...

In 2018 aircraft subsidies paid by the EU to aerospace giant Airbus were ruled illegal by the World Trade Organization, ending this way a 15-year legal battle...

Tens of thousands of Italians have rallied in the northern city of Bologna to protest a far-right surge and, more specifically, the populism of far-right leader Matteo Salvini ahead of a crucial regional vote that could shake up the country’s entire political stage...

The Sardines grassroots movement protesting against the populism of far-right Italian leader Matteo Salvini staged a mass rally in the northern city of Bologna on Sunday (January 19) ahead of a regional vote that could shake up national politics...

Six Germans were killed and 11 others injured when a speeding car ploughed into them in northern Italy on Sunday, Italian media reported...

Max Civili The 2020 budget bill which the Italian Chamber of Deputies is likely to approve on Monday includes the introduction of a web tax that is to affect US internet giants operating in the country...

Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has told parliament on Monday a contested reform of the euro zone’s bailout fund was in Italy’s national interest, but that it should only be adopted as a package alongside other measures...

The European Union has moved closer to the formal opening of disciplinary proceedings against Italy for consistently breaching the 28-member bloc’s political and economic debt rules, and failure to meet its debt reduction targets...

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Tuesday his government is determined to avoid triggering an EU procedure for excessive debt levels...