Italian media reporting that longtime Matteo Salvini aide, Gianluca Savoini, was questioned by prosecutors today about the Metropol meeting - and declined to answer questions
1 year agoFire at Lido of Cea, Sardinia
Police says Fabio Del Bergiolo (ForzaNuova member) has been arrested after been tapped; he was trying to sell the missile for €470'000 to a "foreign government official".
VIDEO: Italian police seize a massive haul of weapons from a Neo-Nazi group in Torino, including a French Matra Super R530F air to air missile.
1 year agoItaly's police operation on far-right militants in the north; an impressive amount of weapons has been seized, even an air-to-air missile. A ForzaNuova member has been arrested. Police is investigating on a network of people who fought in Ukraine, Donbass.
1 year agoThe EU navigation satellites have been down for days
1 year agoGalileo GNSS service is degraded on all satellites until further notice. "They are working on it. Teams from industry and the Agencies are working 247 to restore the Galileo services as soon as possible"
1 year agoThe court in Italy sentenced Ukrainian National Guard Vitali Markiv to 24 years in prison for the death of Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian interpreter, Andrei Mironov in 2014
1 year agoBig fire seen in Rome metropolitan area
1 year agoMilan's public prosecutor has opened an investigation into Lega and Russia after BuzzFeed News published a tape between Russian businessman and Salvini aide
1 year ago[email protected] has published a secret audio recording of a Moscow meeting between 3 Russian operatives and a close aide to Italian Deputy Pm Matteo Salvini (leader of right party Lega) negotiating a plan to pump money from a Russian oil deal into Salvini's party.
Italian @fattoquotidiano (pro-FiveStars Mov.) says Italy's MoD has rejected the US demand for a military deployment in Syria. According to the article Rome was asked to move 150 soldiers and 10 warplanes.
If Italy doesn't want to raise the VAT it will have to do something else. Or forecast is Italy's budget deficit will be 3.5%, which is unacceptable, said @pierremoscovici
1 year agoRussian President Vladimir Putin in Rome with Italy's PM Giuseppe Conte.
Italian Minister of Interior Matteo Salvini accused the Libyan National Army (LNA) on Wednesday of conducting airstrikes on a migrant detention centre in the Tajoura neighborhood of Tripoli.
Putin has arrived in Italy on an official visit
1 year ago1 tourist killed in Stromboli volcano eruption in southern Italy (Video: Camera captures the moment the volcano erupts, @AlexEtna)
1 year agoCamera captures the moment the Stromboli volcano in southern Italy erupts, killing 1 tourist (the explosion happens at 1:05)
EU Parliament elects Italian socialist Sassoli as president
Italian court frees Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete from house arrest.
1 year agoFire at Italian Syn Zania tanker in Izmir port, one dead, 15 wounded
Italy should release migrant rescue captain: German minister
1 year agoItaly's Police in Brescia with former ISIS foreign fighter Samir Bougana who has been arrested in Syria, where he was being detained by the SDF.
1 year agoVIDEO: The two remaining towers of the Morandi motorway bridge in the Italian city of Genoa that collapsed nearly a year go killing 43 people have been demolished
Yesterday SeaWatch3 tried to take the 42 vulnerable people to Italy, but was refused
1 year agoUS Acting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper tells Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: "I'm no stranger to @NATO," having served in Italy as a young officer, and with Allies in various positions throughout his career. "I understand the unique value of the Alliance," he says.
At Group 5+5 meetings, Libya, Italy's foreign ministers discuss ending Tripoli offensive
1 year agoPlanes are being diverted from Catania's airport
1 year agoItaly's Deputy PM and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini with the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Officials in Pakistan say an avalanche has struck 4 Italian climbers, 3 Pakistanis in the country's mountainous north.
