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Greece crisis

Premier Matteo Renzi said that Italy's structural reforms had placed the country "out of the firing line" of the Greek debt crisis fallout. Photo: Thiery Charler/AFP

Italy 'out of firing line' of Greek crisis fallout: PM

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Tuesday that structural reforms already undertaken by Rome had placed the country "out of the firing line" of the Greek debt crisis fallout. READ

Gervinho's deal with the UAE club was reportedly worth €13 million. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP

Roma ace loses UAE deal over chopper demand

Requests by Gervinho for a helicopter and a private beach as part of the deal that would take him from Roma to Al-Jazira were described as 'obscene' by the Emirati club, according to reports on Tuesday. READ

AS Roma unveil ambitious new stadium »

Horses run around the makeshift racetrack. Fabio Muzzi / AFP

Animal activists call for Palio ban after horse dies

Animal rights groups have called for Italy's most famous horse race, the Palio di Siena, to be banned after the death of a horse during a warm-up heat. READ

Migrant crisis

Migrant arrivals in Italy so far this year have hit more than 69,000. Photo: Alfonso Di Vincenzo/AFP

Italy starts to recover 800 bodies from shipwreck

The Italian navy on Monday said it had begun efforts to recover the bodies of some 800 migrants killed in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean in April, as authorities rescued another 4,400 people making the dangerous sea journey to Europe. READ

Migrant crisis

A migrant sleeps in Ventimiglia on the French-Italian border. Photo: Jean-Christophe Magnenet/AFP

French court approves border controls with Italy

France's top administrative court said on Monday that border controls on migrants at the Italian frontier were legal and did not violate the Schengen agreement that created Europe's passport-free zone. READ

Serie A

IItaly international midfielder Andrea Bertolacci joined AC Milan on Monday. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini|AFP

Bertolacci completes AC Milan move

Italy international midfielder Andrea Bertolacci said he can't wait to be part of AC Milan's "important project" after officially joining the fallen Serie A giants from Roma on Monday. READ

Catania club president Antonino Pulvirenti. Photo: MArcello Paternostro

Catania chief admits match-fixing: prosecutor

A match-fixing scandal in Italy that has rocked Catania took a new twist on Monday when the Serie B club's president admitted to buying the results of five league games in a bid to "save the club". READ

The tourist's coffee had been drugged with benziodiazepines, a class of psychoactive drugs sometimes used as a sedative. Photo: Michelle Tribe

Thief drugs tourist's coffee with sedative

A Japanese tourist and his wife were robbed in central Naples after a man offered him a coffee spiked with a sedative, Italian media has reported. READ

Greece crisis

Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan (R) and Greece's Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP

Italy does not fear Greek contagion: Padoan

Italy’s finance minister on Monday played down the threat of Italy being hit by the fallout from market instability linked to the Greek crisis. READ

A tourist cools off in Rome. Photo: Filippo Monteforte / AFP

Hot wind from Africa set to engulf Italy

With the arrival of summer, the mercury is rising across Italy. Not content to have already seen a heatwave in June, now weather forecasters are predicting a record July. READ

Features

A street scene in Palermo. Photo: Monte Cruz photo

Most liveable cities: five neglected Italian gems

The prestigious culture magazine, Monocle, has published its most liveable cities list for 2015 - with not one Italian city among the top 40. So how did they get it so wrong? READ

Video

Italian comedian Andrea De Marco in his satirical video, 'Ndrangheta Today. Screengrab: YouTube

WATCH: Brilliant video lays bare mafia power

A scathing new video is winning plaudits for showing the global power of the Calabrian mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta - a group that makes more money than McDonald's and Deutsche Bank combined. READ

The Local List

Photo: Gualtiero

Six bizarre health tips Italian grans swear by

Italians have come up with some truly weird and wonderful remedies for common health complaints but do they help, or are they just a bunch of old wives' tales? READ

Families disembark from the Italian military ship "Chimera" on June 30th, 2014 in Pozzallo, Sicily. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFP

Turning away migrants 'heartless': Sicily mayor

Italy’s wealthy northern regions have been labelled “heartless and selfish” for turning away refugees, by the mayor of a Sicily port that has seen tens of thousands land there. READ

Well-spent cash?

European taxpayers' money financed an Elton John concert - and lots of less useful things. Photo: Andrew H. Walker/AFP

Five insane ways EU money was blown in Italy

More European tax money is lost to fraud in Italy than in almost any other EU country. From Elton to energy - we look at where it goes. READ

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Migrant crisis

Migrants pray near the sea in the city of Ventimiglia on the French-Italian border on June 24th. Photo: Valery Hache/AFP

Italy migrant arrivals near record 68k in six months

Italian authorities were on Monday dealing with the arrival of another 2,900 migrants at southern ports after 21 boats were rescued in the space of 24 hours from waters off Libya. READ

Rome's airport plunged into chaos in early May following a fire at terminal three. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP

Chaos deepens at Rome's blaze-hit airport

Long-haul travellers departing from Rome’s Fiumicino airport described scenes of chaos on Sunday as one of the terminals, which was hit by a fire in May, remains partially closed. READ

Italian food fraud

Accept no imitations: authentic Parma Ham. Photo: BMK

Italy's food police bust Polish ham scam

An illegal underground laboratory where cured meat from Poland was boned and re-labeled as Italian has been raided by police in Villaricca, near Naples. READ

The father claimed that his pension of €600 per month was not enough to cover his living costs. Photo: Images money/Flickr

Italian dad sues sons for refusing to lend him €80

A broke Italian father in Treviso, northern Italy, is suing his two sons for refusing to lend him €80, Italian media has reported. READ

Greece crisis

People march in central Athens for a 'NO' at referendum and for Greece's exit from the eurozone on Sunday. Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP

Italian stocks plunge as borrowing costs soar

UPDATED: Milan's stock exchange opened sharply lower on Monday as investors grew increasingly spooked by the Greek crisis. READ

Greece crisis

People line up to withdraw cash from an ATM outside a Piraeus Bank branch on the island of Crete, Greece. Photo: Stefanos Rapanis/Reuters

Europe's tourists urged to take cash to Greece

UPDATED: European nations on Sunday told their nationals to carry cash with them when vacationing in Greece as the country hurtles towards a banking crisis. READ

Nibali celebrates his 2014 Tour de France triumph. Photo: Jerome Prevost/AFP

Italian champion ready for Tour de France

Embattled Tour de France champion Vincenzo Nibali has revealed an Achilles tendon injury curtailed his winter schedule but said he is ready to face his yellow jersey rivals when the race begins next week.READ

Italian marines, Massimiliano Latorre (R) and Salvatore Giron in 2012. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto / AFP

Italy seeks arbitration over India marines

Italy said on Friday it had initiated international arbitration proceedings in the case of two of its marines facing trial in India for the 2012 killing of two fishermen. READ

People lay flowers at the site of the shooting attack on the beach on the outskirts of Sousse in Tunisia. Kenzo Tribouillard / AFP

Italy raises terror alert after attacks

Italy raised its terror alert level on Friday night after deadly attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait. READ

Migrant crisis

A migrant holds a placard reading "we are not going back" Photo: Jean-Christophe Magnenet / AFP

EU deal on migrants 'disappointing' says UN

The European Union's stance on a surge in asylum seekers seeking to enter the bloc was attacked as derisory by a top UN official. READ

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EU Commissioner 'to ban roaming fees by 2017'

European Digital Economy Commissioner Günther Oettinger has said he wants to abolish roaming fees for mobile phone users within the EU by 2017. READ

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. Photo: AFP

Greek minister slams Swiss over tax evasion

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has taken a swipe at Switzerland for providing only limited information about wealthy tax evaders from cash-strapped Greece who are believed to have stashed billions of euros in Swiss banks. READ

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Germans say US doesn't respect freedom: poll

Germans are more negative about the United States than the rest of Europe, but still largely support Americans' efforts to fight Isis, according to a new poll. READ

The "Hottentot Carousel" at Djurs Sommerland. Photo: Everyday Racism Project DK

Danish theme park rejects racism charge

A 20-year-old attraction in Djurs Sommerland suddenly became a hot topic this week after a group accused it of being racist and many others rushed to defend it. READ

Electron microscope image of the bacterium that causes diphtheria. Photo: Sanofi Pasteur / Flickr

Unvaccinated boy dies from diptheria in Spain

A six-year-old boy from Catalonia, whose parents chose not to have him vaccinated, has died, almost a month after he became the first child to contract diphtheria in Spain in almost 30 years. READ

France looks set to see more empty airports next month. Photo: AFP

French air traffic controllers call for strike

Air traffic controllers announced on Tuesday that they will hold a two-day strike early next month to protest their wages. READ

Video

A screen grab from RFSU's video. Photo: Screen grab

Is this the worst summer job ever?

A nineteen-year-old in Norway has been hired by a sexual health charity to play a giant penis who surprises passers-by by spraying them with golden confetti. READ

Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

'Russia rehearsed invasion of Sweden'

Claims that thousands of Russian soldiers took part in a huge military exercise which simulated a takeover of the Swedish island of Gotland earlier this year have caused jitters in Sweden. READ

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