Italy

Markets

Italy's UniCredit selling 13 billion euros of new shares

Italy's biggest bank UniCredit is selling 13 billion euros of new shares to rebuild its capital reserves following writedowns on bad loans.

07/02/2017

Italy

Italy-Libya sign agreement to curb flow of migrants to Europe

Italy’s prime minister has signed a memorandum of understanding with Libya to curb the flow of migrants to Europe.

02/02/2017

Italy

Italian police arrest three people for arms smuggling to Libya, Iran

Three Italians have been arrested on suspicion of running an arms trafficking ring.

31/01/2017

Italy

Former Italian rail bosses convicted over 2009 disaster

Mauro Moretti and Michele Mario Elia were convicted over the derailment and explosion of a freight train carrying liquid petroleum gas through the Tuscan town of Viareggio in 2009.

31/01/2017

Italy

1000 refugees plucked from the Mediterranean

An Italian coast guard ship, the Spanish humanitarian group Proactiva Open Arms and a Caribbean-registered supply vessel went to the aid of six rubber dinghies and three wooden vessels.

28/01/2017

Italy

Italy: 'FBI join police' in 'Ndrangheta crackdown

More than 30 people have been arrested in a probe into the business interests of the ‘Ndrangheta, the organised crime group based in the southern Calabria region of…

26/01/2017

Italy

Italy avalanche: rescue operation over as final bodies retrieved

The search and rescue operation at the avalanche-hit Hotel Rigopiano is over.

26/01/2017

World

This should make you a more confident airline passenger

When it comes to air transport, an emergency can quickly turn into a crisis situation. Be it severe weather, a security threat or a cyber attack. How does the industry prepare for a crisis?

25/01/2017

Italy

Italy: Calls for immediate election after court ruling

Italy’s Constitutional Court has modified a contested electoral law, in a move that could pave the way for early elections this year.

25/01/2017

Italy

Italy: Avalanche death toll rises as quake-hit Italians protest

More bodies have been found in the buried ruins of a hotel in central Italy, razed by an avalanche a week ago today.

25/01/2017

Italy

Italy: 5-star Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi in 'abuse of office' probe

Rome’s first female mayor is under investigation over the appointment of the brother of her former right-hand man, who is currently in custody suspected of…

25/01/2017

Sport

Italy triumphs in Kronplatz Giant Slalom

Federica Brignone wins the Women's Giant Slalom in Kronplatz

24/01/2017

Italy

Italian court to review voting law

Italy’s Constitutional Court plays a regular part in Italian politics but the country’s new electoral law, or Italicum as its known, may give it a reduced role in…

24/01/2017

Italy

Italy holds first funerals for avalanche dead

The first funerals for victims killed in the hotel Rigopiano in central Italy, which was destroyed by an avalanche last week, have been held.

24/01/2017

Italy

Six killed in Italy after rescue helicopter crashes

Six people have been killed in central Italy after a rescue helicopter crashed.

24/01/2017

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Bad weather in Italy

The region of Calabria, in southern Italy, has been hit by bad weather.

24/01/2017

Italy

Italy avalanche hotel: Death toll rises as desperate search continues

More bodies have been found in the buried ruins of a mountain hotel in central Italy as questions multiply over the official response to last week’s blizzards and deadly…

24/01/2017

Italy

Body of seventh victim found in Italy hotel avalanche

The body of a seventh victim has been found amid the ruins of a mountain hotel in central Italy following last week’s avalanche.

23/01/2017

Italy

3 puppies found in Hotel Rigopiano- giving hope to rescue workers

The mood of rescue workers at the Hotel Rigopiano has been sombre over the weekend.

23/01/2017

Italy

Race against time: rescuers work to save those trapped after Italian avalanche

Rescue workers in Italy are in a race against time to find further survivors following last week's avalanche.

23/01/2017

Italy

Italy avalanche: rescue crews battle worsening weather to find survivors

Despite worsening weather conditions, rescue teams in central Italy say they haven’t given up hope of finding more survivors from a hotel which was completely buried by an…

22/01/2017

Italy

Families of Hungarian bus crash victims arrive in Italy

Sixteen people, mostly students, were killed when the bus they were travelling in crashed while returning to Budapest from a ski trip in France

22/01/2017

Italy

Bus tragedy heroes rescued 12 teens but couldn't save their own children

In the wake of the Hungarian bus tragedy in northern Italy, a story of heroism overshadowed by terrible sadness has emerged

22/01/2017

Italy

Hungary declares national day of mourning for Italy bus crash victims

Relatives arrived in Verona after a bus carrying Hungarian students crashed in northern Italy, killing sixteen people, most of them teenagers.

22/01/2017

Italy

At least 16 dead after coach carrying students crashes in Italy

It is reported the students were teenagers from Hungary and had been travelling back to Budapest from France

21/01/2017

Italy

Tributes at Budapest high school for bus crash victims

The group of students, parents and teachers were on their way back from a ski trip in the French Alps

21/01/2017