Val d’Aosta: Half of the northwestern Italian region of Val d’Aosta was without electricity amid heavy flooding caused by torrential rain Thursday. There was an interruption of electricity supply in 37 out of 74 municipalities in the region due to bad…
Turin: An elderly man drowned in Turin floods Thursday, trapped in his home by the rain-swollen water, local sources said. As extreme weather battered Piedmont, in the afternoon, the 92-year-old man was found lifeless inside his home in Monteu da Po, …
Rome: Pope Francis said on a Holy Thursday visit to a Rome prison that he would live Easter “as I can” as he recovers from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia. Answering journalists who asked him how he would live Easter, he replied “as I can”, while…
Rome: Claudio Campiti, a 57-year-old unemployed neo-Nazi sympathiser, was sentenced to life in prison for the fatal shooting of four women during a condominium meeting in the northeastern Roman Fidene district in December 2022. The verdict was deliver…
Tirana: A group of approximately 40 migrants held at an Italian holding and repatriation centre (CPR) in Gjader, Albania, have engaged in protests over recent days, leading to some damage to the facility, according to Viminale, the Italian interior mi…
Rome: Pope Francis will visit Rome’s Regina Coeli Prison on Thursday, Vatican sources said Wednesday. The pope, who on previous Holy Thursdays has washed prisoners’ feet in commemoration of the Last Supper, will give some inmates a copy of the Gospel….
Vatican City: Pope Francis on Wednesday gave his first public audience since spending 38 days in hospital in Rome fighting life-threatening pneumonia. The 88-year-old Argentine pontiff, who has been convalescing after his stay at the Policlinico Gemel…
Rome: The European Union expects President Sergio Mattarella to make a speedy recovery from his pacemaker operation and return to top form soon, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed on X Wednesday.
According to Ansa News Agen…