Italy
Italy targets Booking.com over alleged tax evasion
Netherlands-based Booking.com, one of the global giants of hotel reservations on the web, has 'failed to apply the tax on brokering of rentals of private homes...
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Italian cable car crash suspects released from jail
Service manager Gabriele Tadini was put under house arrest, while technical director Enrico Perocchio and the head of the cable car operating company, Luigi Nerini, were released.
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Italy cable car accident kills 8
The accident, which occurred around 300 metres from the summit, may have been caused by a broken cable at the top of the system, the Ansa news agency said.
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Djokovic sweeps into Italian Open quarter-finals in front of Roman crowd
The five-time Rome champion won through 6-2, 6-1 in 1hr 10min against the 48th-ranked Spaniard with the venue filled to 25 per cent of capacity.
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Italy fines Google 100 mn euros for abuse of market position
The authority said Google, whose Android operating system and Google Play app store dominate the Italian market, had abused its market position by blocking an Enel X app for users of electric vehicles.
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Thousand migrants land on Italy's Lampedusa
The arrivals sparked calls from far-right politicians for urgent action, amid fresh tensions between Italian authorities and the rescue boats who operate in the central Mediterranean.
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Italy misses vaccine targets due to supply problems
The government had said in a document published March 13 that it counted on procuring 15.7 million vaccine doses by the end of the first quarter of 2021.
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Irish, Dutch halt AstraZeneca jabs as Italy gets set for curbs
Vaccinations are a key tool to end the worst of a pandemic that has killed more than 2.6 million people since it emerged in China in late 2019.
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Italian region suspends AstraZeneca jabs after death
The woman, who age has not been disclosed, died Sunday at Biella, a town north of Turin.
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With new Covid wave, most of Italy heads back into lockdown
One year after it became the first European country to face a major outbreak, Italy is once again struggling with the rapid spread of Covid-19, this time fuelled by new, more contagious variants.
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Facing new COVID-19 wave, Italy heads back into lockdown
A majority of regions - including those around Rome and Milan - will reportedly be classified as high-risk red zones from Monday, with all residents told to stay home except for work, health or other essential reasons.
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Italy mayor accused of vaccine queue-jumping resigns
Nicolosi, mayor of Corleone, a small town near Palermo, said he was quitting "even if I insist that I made the right choice in getting vaccines for me and city councillors."
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Italy seeks UN probe into DRC envoy's killing
The envoy, Luca Attanasio, 43, died on Monday after a World Food Programme (WFP) convoy was ambushed in a dangerous part of the eastern DRC near the border with Rwanda.
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Italy confirms death of its ambassador to DR Congo
'It is with deep sadness that the Foreign Ministry confirms the death, today in Goma, of the Italian ambassador,' the ministry said, adding that an Italian policeman also died.
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Mario Draghi sworn in as Italy's new PM
The appointment of the 73-year-old known as 'Super Mario' capped weeks of political instability for the country still in the grips of the health crisis that has killed more than 93,000 people.
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Italy police make major mafia drugs bust
The group, which has managed to infiltrate public life throughout Calabria, is involved not only in international drug trafficking but extortion, money laundering, and contract-rigging.
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Italy PM quits to seek new govt as pandemic rages
The uneasy coalition that has led Italy since September 2019 was fatally weakened earlier this month by the withdrawal of former premier Matteo Renzi's small but crucial Italia Viva party.
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Carbon monoxide leak kills five at Italy care home
"Unfortunately there are five dead, then there are also five other residents in a serious condition and two care workers, a total of seven people in hospital," police told AFP.
