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Italy set to miss EU debt reduction targets
The European Commission's formal draft budgets are due next week.
McDonald's not lovin' it as it sues Florence for €18m for blocking restaurant on historic plaza
The fast-food giant's plans for an outlet on the Piazza del Duomo were rejected by the Italian city.
In the earthquake-hit town of Norcia, people are left with nothing but themselves
More than a week after the strong earthquakes, tremors can be still felt every few minutes.
Florentine nobleman Prince Filippo Corsini killed in London bike crash
The 21-year-old prince was a member of one of Florence's oldest families.
Israeli Minister sparks row over divine retribution earthquake remarks
The deputy Foreign Minister blamed Italy's double earthquake on Wednesday on a UNESCO vote on the Temple Mount holy site.
Double earthquake destroys rural homes in Italy leaving hundreds without shelter
The first quake struck at 7.10pm with the second just over two hours later as tremors were felt in Rome 200km away.
Second powerful earthquake hits Italy hours after 5.4 magnitude tremor near Amatrice
Two quakes have hit Italy two months after Amatrice disaster left nearly 300 dead.
Italian PM blasts Europe for lack of solidarity as 700 more refugees arrive in Sicily
Matteo Renzi warned Italy cannot take so many arrivals - 153,450 so far in 2016 - for another year.
Barricades block arrival of women refugees in small Italian town of Gorino
Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said the protest 'does not make Italy proud'.
The death of a pregnant woman in Italy sparks new national discussion on abortion rights
All 12 doctors working in the obstetrics and gynecology department where the woman died object to abortions.
Castel Gandolfo: Take a look inside Pope Francis' summer residence
The Vatican announced that the villa will now be open to the public as a museum.
Key witnesses in Italy's bunga-bunga sex parties scandal face new trial
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is accused of bribing witnesses in a separate ongoing trial.
Home-made arsenal found at home of mafia and Isis sympathiser in Naples
Firework retailer Diego Oddati Menna arrested after praising terror groups on social media.
Sting estate faces probe after migrants found in 'slave-like' conditions on Italian vineyard
Sting said he is "saddened and distressed" by the news and blamed an independent company working on the land.
Meet the migrants who are helping Italians take on the Sicilian mob
Bangladeshi and African migrants say the the Cosa Nostra is more powerful than the government.
24-hour free wine fountain opens to public in Italy
You read that right.
Italian town forces migrants to ride separate buses in chilling echo of apartheid
Migrants barred, unless absolutely necessary, from taking 6:30 and 6:45 buses in the morning.
Top Italian mob boss Antonio Pelle arrested in secret room in his house in Calabria
Fugitive Pelle snared at home where police found a hideout between the bathroom and his son's bedroom.
Six bodies and women's shoes found in Sicily 'mafia graveyard' cave
Investigators believe cave could have been used by the Corleone mafia to dumb bodies in the 1950s.
Over 10,000 refugees and migrants rescued in 48 hours, trying to reach European shores
Smugglers took advantage of calm waters to launch vessels crowded with refugees who pay them in the hope of reaching Europe.
Child refugees forced to use separate toilets in 'apartheid-style system' at Italian school
Parents expressed concern over 'health issues' when the two orphaned boys started at the Catholic primary.
Beleaguered Deutsche Bank executives charged in Italy over rigging claims
Charges have been brought against 13 former and current executives at Deutsche and two other banks.
Hundreds of migrants feared dead as more bodies remain trapped in sunken boat's freezer
170 bodies recovered after a boat carrying 600 capsized 11 miles off the Egyptian coast.
Rome court orders client of underage prostitute to buy her 30 feminist books
Judge Paola Di Nicola said books could help girl understand the extent of the damage she suffered.
Children on migrant boats working as slaves to pay for passage
Tickets on death boats cost as much £3,000.
Squashed Emirates Airline gold member sues for suffering fat man 'spillover'
Giorgio Destro seeks £2,375 as a refund for the flight and compensation for damages.
Italian doctor who campaigned against domestic violence arrested over wife's death
Investigators allege Matteo Cagnoni beat his wife to death with piece of wood after she asked for a divorce.
Twitter users slam 'racist' Fertility Day via Bob Marley, Michael Jackson and crazy cat ladies
Campaign said 'black people bad' and 'white people good' within realms of fertility – but singer Marley fathered 13.
Italy sends troops to open field hospital in Libya for forces fighting Isis
Italian forces will offer key humanitarian assistance to the country as part of Operation Hippocrates.
US government to pay '$1.2m' to Italian family of drone strike victim held by al-Qaeda
Giovanni Lo Porto and Warren Weinstein were killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan in 2015.