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Two off-piste skiers were killed and another was in serious condition on Sunday after an avalanche struck a slope near the ski resort of Courmayeur, Italy's alpine rescue said.

From air travel strikes to Lent celebrations, here's what to expect in Italy this week.

Italy's southern Calabria region has asked that a new national state of emergency be called after days of heavy rains pounding the area caused flooding and mudslides, authorities said Saturday.

Ten years after the referendum that led to Brexit, Britain and the European Union must close ranks in an increasingly unstable world, their leaders said on Saturday.

It's not just on Valentine's Day that competitors at Italy's Winter Olympics have been embracing the free condoms on offer at the athletes' accommodation.

Mayor of Brendola in Vicenza says he has received complaints from residents who live near industrial zonesAn Italian town is seeking a crew of sniffers to identify bad smells in its quest to improve air quality.Bruno Beltrame, the mayor of Brendola, a small town in the northern province of Vicenza, said he began the recruitment campaign for six “odour […]

Apartment hunting in Florence means wading through countless suspicious listings, but editor Clare Speak finds that the scammers at least follow some predictable patterns.

European leaders, worried about threats from a nuclear-armed Russia and doubts about the future of US security commitments, are increasingly debating whether to bolster nuclear arsenals on the continent.

Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wroteAt a time when geopolitical certainties of old are crumbling away, it has become the go-to quote to make sense of the current moment in all its seeming senselessness. “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the […]

Comments by readers of The Local Italy—whether opinions, advice, or tales of life in the country—offer vital insights. We've picked out some recent contributions on topics spanning the issues foreigners face, this time looking at the growing unease over US political influence in Italy.

It is carnival time in Rome, which traditionally means piazzas filled with excitable children in costumes, gorging on fried treats – but record rains are ruining the party.

Like many things in Italy, having the right help - and knowing where to find it - can make all the difference in this notoriously difficult task.

State broadcaster accused of censorship over opening titles that use altered version of Vitruvian Man, with organs removedItaly’s state broadcaster, Rai, has been accused of censorship after using an image of Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man with the genitals missing in the opening credits for its Winter Olympics coverage.The image of the 500-year-old […]

Twelve members of Italy's fringe group CasaPound have been jailed for seeking to revive the Fascist Party, which ruled from 1922 to 1943 under dictator Benito Mussolini.

Amid the remains of a sumptuous villa near Pompeii, the hard-hatted conservationist scraped away centuries-old ash to reveal a vibrant red fresco.

The Games could have showcased Milan’s abundant culture and architecture. Instead it has filled the city with gaudy pavilions and gentrificationOn a bad day, Milan can feel less like a city than an open-air shopping mall. Since winning the bid to host the Winter Olympics in 2019, the urban landscape has been flattened into construction dust and swamped in […]

Ursula von der Leyen promises action plan to boost and protect sectors including defence, AI and clean techEU leaders agreed to move ahead with a “Buy European” policy to protect “strategic sectors” of European industry, at a summit on how to secure the continent’s future in a more volatile global economy.At a moated castle in the east Belgian […]

Legislation is latest step in crackdown by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government on irregular migrationItaly’s prime minister says her government will deploy every tool at its disposal to “guarantee the security of our borders” after approving a bill authorising naval blockades to stop boats from arriving in Italy during periods of “exceptional […]

Opposition parties condemn security laws as ‘violation of the constitutional right to demonstrate’As leader of the Milan unit of Cub, a grassroots workers’ union, Mattia Scolari joined thousands who marched on Saturday in the northern Italian city against the Winter Olympics. “Wages never grow, young people are fleeing abroad for work and there is […]

Director of state broadcaster Rai Sport welcomed viewers to wrong stadium and mistook Italian actor for Mariah CareySports journalists at the Italian state broadcaster are staging protests in response to blunders made by the sports director throughout his commentary on the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics.Paolo Petrecca, who was […]

Getting stung by unexpected roaming fees is one of the fastest ways to take the air out of your Italy trip – but with a little advance planning, you can keep your internet access without racking up hefty charges.

People in Niscemi struggle to comprehend loss of homes and businesses and feel disaster could have been avoidedFor days, the 25,000 residents of the Sicilian town of Niscemi have been living on the edge of a 25-metre abyss. On 25 January, after torrential rain brought by Cyclone Harry, a devastating landslide ripped away an entire slope of the town, […]

A group of about 100 protesters shot flares, firecrackers and smoke bombs at police after breaking away from the main body of a demonstration in the host city of Milan. Police in riot gear responded with water cannon to try to disperse the group, some of whom wore hoods and scarves to cover their faces. More than 5,000 people had taken to the streets to […]

Small town club’s Serie B adventure captivated football and inspired a famous book. That spirit remains and is being passed to their successorsThe WhatsApp group flickers into life at about 6am every day. It is the manager who goes first because, when you are 79, old habits die hard. “Good morning,” Osvaldo Jaconi hails his former players and staff […]

Tests on both versions of Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata were unable to detect brushstrokes of 15th-century masterAn analysis of two paintings in museums in the US and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck has raised a profound question: what if neither were by Van Eyck?Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, the name […]

Which Italian TV channels will show the 2026 Rugby Six Nations Championship, taking place February 5th to March 14th?

Those in northern Italy have the option of watching some events live, but if you prefer to watch on TV or stream the Games from your couch, here's where to find coverage of the Milano-Cortina Olympics and Paralympics.

Large majorities in six nations express antipathy to Trump’s US and support European self-assertionWestern Europeans prize Europe’s autonomy and values over transatlantic ties and will not give them up to placate Donald Trump, according to a poll suggesting opinions of the US have plunged to their lowest since YouGov began tracking them a decade ago.The […]

Donald Trump’s former adviser told Epstein in 2019 that he was ‘focused on raising money for Le Pen and Salvini’ before European electionsDozens of messages contained in the latest tranche of Epstein files lay bare the attempts by Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon to tap Jeffrey Epstein for support and funding to bolster European […]

Former truck driver, now 80, allegedly one of many ‘sniper tourists’ who paid Bosnian Serb soldiers to be allowed to fire on cityAn elderly Italian man is under investigation as part of an investigation by prosecutors in Milan into individuals who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so they could kill citizens during […]