Italy Politics News

The so-called abortion bill at the center of a six-year tug of war between Italian pro-life and anti-abortion advocates hit another roadblock on Thursday when a Senate health commission delayed its approval and asked the health ministry for a second...

Care should be taken to ensure disused churches are not turned to immoral purposes, a Vatican 'minister' warned Thursday. The head of the Vatican's culture department, Archbishop Gianfranco Ravisi, cited a basilica in Hungary sold off some years ago. ''It...

Veronica Lario filed for divorce in May, angered by a reported liaison with an 18-year-old aspiring model. Her lawyer has not confirmed the report but Italy's Corriere della Sera has said money has already changed hands. According to the paper,...

Born in a squatter camp in Orlando East and raised by a single mother; working in a factory while completing secondary school by correspondence; arrested and banned by the apartheid government: South Africa's ambassador to Italy is an example of...

They’ve now reportedly been taken directly back to Africa by the Libyan boats, without the intervention of Italian authorities. This is, to our knowledge, a first.”  Previously, migrants picked up in Maltese waters would be taken back to Libyan waters...

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, his estranged wife Veronica Lario, transsexual prostitutes and Pope Benedict XVI are among figurines featured in a mock nativity scene in the southern city of Naples...A figurine of Patrizia D'Addario, the prostitute who claims to...

Italian authorities say police arrested two Pakistanis Saturday, suspected of helping fund and providing logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India that killed 166 people. Italian authorities say police arrested two Pakistanis Saturday, suspected of helping fund...