Italy’s largest trade union federation, CGIL, has announced a national general strike for December 12 to protest the government’s 2026 budget, which it says fails to raise wages or support workers.

Cesare Lombroso, the Italian professor often called the “father of criminology”, was born on this day in 1835 in Verona.

The Procura di Palermo has formally requested that former Sicilian governor Salvatore Cuffaro and 17 other individuals be placed under house arrest in a sweeping corruption investigation into rigged public contracts.

Five Italian nationals are among the nine people who died in Nepal’s Himalayas after a severe bout of extreme weather, according to an AFP-report cited by the Italian foreign ministry.

A 66-year-old Romanian worker, Octay Stroici, died overnight in Rome after being trapped for 11 hours under the rubble of a section of the medieval tower Torre dei Conti. There was a partial tower collapse during renovation work on Monday.