A former Palermo Flying Squad officer was placed under house arrest on Friday on suspicion of obstructing the investigation into the 1980 Mafia assassination of Piersanti Mattarella, then governor of Sicily and brother of Italy’s current president, Sergio Mattarella.
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A 68-year-old construction company owner died on Friday morning after falling more than seven metres at a building site in San Vitaliano, near Naples. It is the latest workplace accident resulting in a string of fatalities.
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Contractor Webuild began recruiting staff on Friday for the construction of the Messina Strait Bridge, set to be the world’s longest suspension bridge, linking Sicily to mainland Italy.
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The Rome trial in absentia of four Egyptian security officials accused of torturing and killing Italian student Giulio Regeni has been suspended.
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A 20-year-old Rieti basketball fan has confessed to throwing the stone that killed a bus driver on Sunday. Kevin Pellecchia was arrested with two other far-right sympathisers after police intercepted his phone at headquarters. He reportedly admitted throwing the rock that struck driver Raffaele Marianella.
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King Charles III and Pope Leo XIV made history on Thursday by praying together in the Sistine Chapel. It was the first time a British monarch has joined a pontiff in public prayer since England broke from the Catholic Church nearly 500 years ago.
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Premier Giorgia Meloni told the Senate on Wednesday that her government’s stability had strengthened Italy both economically and internationally as she reported to parliament ahead of this week’s European Council meeting in Brussels.
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Ancona’s Court of Appeal overturns a controversial acquittal in a rape case that caused national outrage over victim-blaming in Italy’s justice system. The case involved a 17-year-old girl and a 25-year-old man, who was accused of sexually assaulting her in 2019 near Macerata, in the Marche region.
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Italy has recorded yet another historic low in its demographic figures. The national statistics agency Istat reports that the number of babies born in 2024 dropped to 369,944, reflecting a 2.6 % decline compared with the previous year.
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Some 180 Napoli fans were arrested overnight in Eindhoven ahead of the Champions League clash with PSV Eindhoven and were expelled from the Dutch city, according to supporters and official sources.
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