I’ve been on and off with alcohol for the past three years, mainly for health reasons, and partially because I’m not as young as I used to be. But I still say yes to most party invitations and love nothing more than shooting the shit at my neighborhood bar. That means I’ve tried a lot…
Former Prime Minister Enrico Letta, speaks during ICAM in April 2025. Europa Press News | Europa Press | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called ‘Liberation Day’ trade tariffs are “madness, pure madness”, according to former Italian Prime Minister and Dean of the IE School of Politics Enrico Letta, who called the reciprocal levies “incomprehensible.”…
An Italian fugitive accused of having coordinated the shipment of large cocaine cargoes from Latin America to Europe has been arrested in Colombia. Colombia’s national police chief described Emanuele Gregorini, who is also known as “Dollarino”, as “the head of the Italian mafia Latin America”. He said Gregorini had been tracked down to an apartment…
Italian police have launched a series of raids targeting Mafia clans operating in and around the Sicilian capital Palermo. More than 1,200 officers were involved in the operation, which the military Carabinieri force said was aimed at “dismantling” the area’s Mafia. The raids, the biggest for several years, were seen as a bid by Italian…
DAG Sella captured K2, the world’s second-tallest mountain, over a century ago Vittorio Sella was a pioneering Italian photographer whose work at the turn of the 20th Century shaped both mountain photography and mountaineering history. His rare images of the Himalayas remain some of the most iconic ever captured. A new ongoing show in the…
Chora Media/Reuters Cecilia Sala (L) was welcomed home to Rome by Italy’s prime minister who took personal charge of her case An Italian journalist has returned to Rome after spending weeks in an Iranian jail. Cecilia Sala, 29, was arrested on 19 December, three days after an Iranian engineer was detained by Italian authorities in…
Comune di Belcastro/Facebook Belcastro, in southern Italy, is home to around 1,200 people A small Italian village has banned its residents from becoming seriously ill. People living in Belcastro “are … ordered to avoid contracting any illness that may require emergency medical assistance,” a decree from local Mayor Antonio Torchia states. Belcastro sits in the…
Reuters Rosita Missoni founded the brand with her late husband Ottavio in 1953 Rosita Missoni, co-founder of the eponymous Italian knitwear label Missoni, has died aged 93. The news was confirmed by the president of Italy’s Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, who praised the brand’s iconic “multicoloured textures”. He described her death as “a great loss…
Iranian authorities have confirmed for the first time that Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was arrested in the country on the grounds of “violation of the Islamic Republic’s laws”. It comes as a US state department spokesperson told Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica that Ms Sala’s case could be linked to the recent arrest of an…
Police in Italy say they have busted a major European criminal network forging and selling artworks by some of the biggest names in modern art. More than 2,100 forged artworks were recovered, including works attributed to Banksy, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso. Thirty-eight people were arrested over the forgeries, which carried a potential sale value…
