Southern Italy: news archives in English

Meloni pledges €150 million for Niscemi

May 22, 2026May 22, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

The premier returns to the landslide-hit Sicilian town of Niscemi four months on, as investigators examine authorisations granted over decades on an unstable hillside.

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4.4-magnitude tremor shakes Naples

May 21, 2026May 21, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Thursday’s tremor is among the strongest recorded during the ongoing bradyseismic crisis at the Phlegrean Fields. Ground uplift has now reached 140 centimetres since 2005 and a new study warns of a critical transition within a decade.

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Man confesses to killing two women on consecutive days

May 19, 2026May 19, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Mario Landolfi, a 48-year-old unemployed cocaine user from the Naples area, was arrested on Monday after admitting to killing two women by throwing them to their deaths in an abandoned construction site in Pollena Trocchia.

Police arrest three in Foggia mafia crackdown

Dawn raids target Foggia mafia

May 11, 2026May 11, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Police have arrested three suspected murderers and issued 18 further precautionary measures in a coordinated operation targeting extortion rackets run by the Foggia mafia and its affiliated Gargano clans.

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Italy’s Parliament passes Messina Bridge decree

May 9, 2026May 9, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

The Chamber of Deputies has approved the decree resetting the legal framework for the Strait of Messina Bridge. However, buried in the legislation is a funding delay with the bulk of investment pushed to 2030–2034. Therefore, the bridge itself is no closer to becoming reality.

Angri in Salerno where a woman castrated her husband

Man castrated by partner in Angri

May 3, 2026May 3, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

A 41-year-old Bangladeshi man is in hospital in serious condition after being drugged and castrated by his partner in Angri.

AI reconstruction of Pompeii man's final moments in 79AD. image credit: Pompeii Archaeological Park

AI reconstructs final moments of Pompeii victim

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

For the first time, the Pompeii Archaeological Park has used artificial intelligence (AI) to give a human face to one of history’s most documented catastrophes. It brings a fleeing man’s last hours to life through a collaboration between cutting-edge technology and rigorous archaeological science.

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Ten wolves poisoned in Abruzzo national park

April 18, 2026April 18, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Conservation groups condemn a suspected deliberate poisoning campaign in the Parco Nazionale d’Abruzzo, Lazio e Molise. They warn that the killings reflect a growing climate of hostility towards wolves fuelled by weakening legal protections.

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Bank robbers escape through tunnel in Naples

April 17, 2026April 17, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

A high-stakes bank robbery in the heart of Naples ended without physical injury yesterday afternoon. The armed bank robbers held 25 people hostage before making a calculated escape through the city’s underground network.

Biscegli where the latest femicide took place. Por Geppi Simone - Trabajo propio, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37574910

Woman thrown from balcony in Italy’s latest femicide

April 16, 2026April 16, 2026Deborah CaterLeave a Comment

Patrizia Lamanuzzi, 54, died in Bisceglie near Bari on Wednesday after allegedly being thrown from a balcony by her husband, who then took his own life. She is the latest femicide victim in a grim pattern of gender-based violence that continues to claim lives across Italy.