(ANSA) - ROMA, 14 APR - The Consul General of Italy in Mumbai, Walter Ferrara, inaugurated the new headquarters of the Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce & Industry today, cutting the ribbon alongside Chamber President Alessandro Giuliani, Vice President Jayakrishnan Nambiar, and Secretary General Claudio Maffioletti. The office, located within the Prestige Turf Tower, marks a significant step in the Chamber’s mission, which has been committed since its inception to deepening economic relations...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - United States President Donald Trump said in a phoencall to Italy's biggest daily Corriere della Sera Tuesday that he was "shocked" by Premier Giorgia Meloni and wrongly thought that she had the courage needed to help the US in its war with Iran. "Giorgia Meloni doesn't want to help us in the war, I'm shocked", Trump told Corriere. "Do people like the fact that your president isn't doing anything to get the oil?" asked Trump. "Does she like it? I can't imagine. I'm sho...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - US President Donald Trump on Tuesday hit back after Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni condemned his attack on Pope Leo XIV as "unacceptable". "She is the one who is unacceptable, because she doesn't care if Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if it had the chance," Trump told daily newspaper il Corriere della Sera by telephone. (see related). (ANSA). Read article...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday revised its forecast for Italian growth this year to 0.5%. Uncertainties related to the war in the Middle East are not sparing Italy: the IMF has lowered its growth forecast to 0.5% in 2026 and 2027, with declines of 0.2% for each year, based on the latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) assessments revised from those of January. For Germany, the estimates are +0.8% and +1.2%, with cuts of 0.3% for each year. France's GDP is at +...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Italy will continue to see unstable weather until Wednesday with rain, high winds and some storms, a top forecaster said Tuesday, with daytime temperatures however still above average for the time of year. "There will be rain, wind, and some thunderstorms until tomorrow, with daytime temperatures even exceeding 25-26 degrees Celsius," said Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist for iLMeteo.it, who pointed out that Italy is experiencing a flow of Sirocco winds bringing not only ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday said she didn't know how many leaders had spoken like her about United States President Donald Trump when she called his attack on Pope Leo XIV over his criticism of the Iran war "unacceptable" on Monday night. Meloni said this was proof that those who speak of her alleged "subservience" to the US leader are wrong. "It seemed to me that the post published at 8:30 in the morning (in which she supported Leo, ed.) was a clear signal, but ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday that God, torn by wars, is not on the side of bullies in what was seen as further criticism of United States President Donald Trump and his war alongside Israel against Iran. Pope Leo once again attacked the world's bullies who decide wars. After Monday's retort to Trump, in which he said he was not afraid of a president who called him weak and terrible on foreign policy and who owed his election to Trump, Leo reiterated that "God's heart is t...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Rome prosecutors are investigating the alleged torture that activists involved in the Global Sumud Flotilla were subjected to after the Israeli authorities intercepted the boats engaged in the mission to take aid to Gaza in October, sources said on Tuesday. The investigators were already probing alleged kidnapping, robbery and criminal damage with danger of causing a shipwreck after 36 Italians who took part in the flotilla filed complaints Investigators, who are proce...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday expressed caution in relation to a call by Claudio Descalzi, the CEO of Italian energy giant Eni, for Europe to rethink its decision to ban all gas imports from Russian by the end of 2027. "Descalzi is a professional in the sector, I understand his point and I continue to hope that, when the problem arises, we will have succeeded in achieving peace in Ukraine," Meloni told reporters at the Vinitaly wine fair in Verona. "But we must be ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday that her government "has decided to suspend the automatic renewal of the defence agreement with Israel in consideration of the current situation". The premier was speaking to reporters during a visit to the Vinitaly wine fair in Verona. (ANSA). Read article...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Rome prosecutors conducting the Italian probe into the New Year's Eve bar fire at the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana that killed 41 people, including six Italian teens, have put the owners of the establishment, Jaques and Jessica Moretti, under investigation, sources said Tuesday. The married couple, who own Le Constellation, are accused of crimes including culpable disaster, multiple culpable homicide and grievous bodily harm, the sources said. In February sources ...

(ANSA) - CITTÀ DEL CAPO, 14 APR - On the sidelines of a series of conferences in South Africa, historian Alessandro Barbero warned against the “absolute language of destruction” in politics. “When a leader says he wants to ‘wipe out an entire civilization,’ we have already heard these words in history. The last person to say them was Adolf Hitler,” he stated, referring to the rhetoric between the two main contenders in the ongoing war in the Middle East, the U.S. and Iran. Barbero was invited...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - United States Vice President JD Vance, a Roman Catholic, said Monday that the Vatican should stay out of politics amid a furore over President Donald Trump's attack on Pope Leo following the American pontiff's criticism of the United States and Israel's war against Iran. "I certainly think that in some cases, it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality," Vance told Fox News, "and let the President United States stick to dictating American public po...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 14 APR - The Embassy in Canberra, the Consulate General, and the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney celebrated the third Made in Italy Day with the “Mille Miglia Timeless Speed” event, held in conjunction with Auto Italia—the largest gathering of Italian vehicles in the Southern Hemisphere—which was attended by approximately 400 owners of Italian classic and sports cars from across Australia. The event, aimed at highlighting the technological and design excellence of the Ital...

(ANSA) - IL CAIRO, 13 APR - A masterclass on luxury will be held on April 16 at the Hyatt Hotel in Jeddah, organized by the Italian Consulate in the Saudi coastal city and the Istituto Marangoni. “Decoding Luxury: From Elite Rarity to Everyday Prestige” is the title of the seminar, which will also include a Q&A session. Read article...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday said United States President Donald Trump's attack on Pope Leo XIV was unacceptable. Trump criticised Leo as "weak" following the American pontiff's criticism of the United States and Israel's war against Iran. "I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon," Trump said via his Truth Social platform. "Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy". Trump added that, in his opinion, Leo was only el...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - The Israeli foreign ministry on Monday summoned Italian Ambassador Luca Ferrari to protest after Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Tel Aviv's bombing of civilians in Lebanon was unacceptable, informed sources said. (ANSA). Read article...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - Centre-right Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar said Monday he was ready to talk with Premier Giorgia Meloni stressing that even though she had a good personal rapport with his defeated opponent Viktor Orban, ousted after 16 years in power, it did not mean they could not have an equally good relationship with the right-wing Italian premier. "I haven't spoken to Giorgia Meloni yet, but I'll be more than happy to do so. I'll also talk to (Foreign Minister) Anton...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 13 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Oslo, Stefano Nicoletti, received at the embassy a joint delegation from the student associations UNSA Norway and the United Nations Youth Association of Italy (UNYA Italy), which is part of the Student Movement for International Organization, which in turn represents the youth and university section of the Italian Society for International Organization. "The meeting," explains the embassy, "provided a useful and interactive opportunity to dis...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - One person was killed as gale-force winds flailed Italy on Monday. The victim was 38-year-old worker Roberto Di Ponzio, who died instantly after being struck by a lamppost, toppled by strong winds, while he was using a crane to perform maintenance on a lighting system near a cemetery in Taranto. Elsewhere, strong sirocco winds halted hydrofoil services from Naples to the islands of Ischia and Procida, flights were diverted because of high winds from Bari to Brindisi an...

(ANSA) - MAPUTO, 14 APR - The cooperation agreement between the Italian Embassy in Mozambique, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), and Televisão de Moçambique (TVM) has been renewed, with the involvement of Rai to strengthen the audiovisual sector. The agreement was signed in the presence of the Italian Ambassador to Maputo, Gabriele Annis, and representatives of the institutions involved, confirming their joint commitment to promoting television content on social, economic...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Pope Leo XIV doesn't understand what's happening in Iran, United States President Donald Trump told Corriere della Sera over the phone Tuesday. Responding to the American pontiff's reiterated criticism of the US-Israeli war on Iran, Trump said the pope "has no idea what's happening in Iran." Trump said he believes Leo doesn't understand that Iran poses a nuclear threat. "He doesn't understand," he said, "and he shouldn't be talking about war, because he has no idea wha...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - United States President Donald Trump said in a phoencall to Italy's biggest daily Corriere della Sera Tuesday that he was "shocked" by Premier Giorgia Meloni and wrongly thought that she had the courage needed to help the US in its war with Iran. "Giorgia Meloni doesn't want to help us in the war, I'm shocked", Trump told Corriere. "Do people like the fact that your president isn't doing anything to get the oil?" asked Trump. "Does she like it? I can't imagine. I'm sho...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - The memorandum with Israel whose automatic renewal Premier Giorgia Meloni has announced has now been suspended given the current situation in the Middle East ranges from arms exports to military training. Cooperation in the military and defense sectors is at the heart of the Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and Israel, of whose autonomic renewal the Italian government has announced the suspension, which would have taken effect Monday. The treaty, composed of 1...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Italy will continue to see unstable weather until Wednesday with rain, high winds and some storms, a top forecaster said Tuesday, with daytime temperatures however still above average for the time of year. "There will be rain, wind, and some thunderstorms until tomorrow, with daytime temperatures even exceeding 25-26 degrees Celsius," said Lorenzo Tedici, meteorologist for iLMeteo.it, who pointed out that Italy is experiencing a flow of Sirocco winds bringing not only ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday said she didn't know how many leaders had spoken like her about United States President Donald Trump when she called his attack on Pope Leo XIV over his criticism of the Iran war "unacceptable" on Monday night. Meloni said this was proof that those who speak of her alleged "subservience" to the US leader are wrong. "It seemed to me that the post published at 8:30 in the morning (in which she supported Leo, ed.) was a clear signal, but ...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 14 APR - The future of the Italian video game industry was the focus of an event organized by the Italian Embassy in London, in collaboration with the ICE Agency and the Italian Interactive Digital Entertainment Association (Iidea). It was highlighted that the value of the Italian video game market reached nearly 2.4 billion euros in 2024, a 3% increase compared to 2023. There are approximately 14 million gamers in Italy (+8%), accounting for 33% of the national population. Est...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Rome prosecutors are investigating the alleged torture that activists involved in the Global Sumud Flotilla were subjected to after the Israeli authorities intercepted the boats engaged in the mission to take aid to Gaza in October, sources said on Tuesday. The investigators were already probing alleged kidnapping, robbery and criminal damage with danger of causing a shipwreck after 36 Italians who took part in the flotilla filed complaints Investigators, who are proce...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday reiterated her condemnation of US President Donald Trump's attack on Pope Leo XIV following the American pontiff's criticism of the United States and Israel's war against Iran. On Monday Meloni said the attack, in which Trump said Leo was weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy, was "unacceptable". When asked if Trump should apologize as she visited the Vinitaly wine fair in Verona, Meloni stated: "what I said is what I think - t...

(ANSAmed) - GEVENA, 14 APR - لخص بيان صحفي صادر عن المفوضية السامية للأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين، التصريحات التي أدلت بها ماري هيلين فيرنيه ممثلة المفوضية في السودان، في 10 نيسان/ أبريل الجاري، بمقر الأمم المتحدة في جنيف. جنيف/ مع دخول الأزمة في السودان عامها الرابع، لا يزال القتال مستعراً في أجزاء واسعة من البلاد، مما يتسبب في نزوح جديد، ويطيل أمد المأساة اليومية لملايين الأشخاص، دون وجود نهاية واضحة في الأفق. ومنذ اندلاع الحرب في نيسان/ أبريل 2023، اضطر نحو 14 مليون شخص إلى الفرار، حيث ظل 9...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - The Iran war is making Italian businesses more pessimistic about the economic outlook, according to a results of a study conducted by the Bank of Italy and published on Tuesday. The central bank said there had been "a marked deterioration in companies' assessments of the evolution of the macroeconomic scenario" with respect to its previous survey of business sentiment. "Assessments of the general economic situation have worsened across all sectors, as have the outlooks...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - A technical problem on the Rome-Naples high-speed rail line was causing huge disruption on Tuesday, with some services cancelled and others delayed by up to three hours. Trenitalia said the disruption regarded inter-city services as well as high-speed ones. (ANSA). Read article...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Deputy Premier and Transport and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday that Italy could opt to ignore the limits imposed by the Growth and Stability Pact if the European Union does not suspect them due to the effects of the Iran war. "The EU calls on us to be rigorous, but the situation is delicate," Salvini, the leader of the right-wing League party, told RTL radio. "Either Brussels realizes this or we'll sound the alarm. "If we can all waive the Stabili...

(ANSA) - MADRID, 13 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Spain, Giuseppe Buccino Grimaldi, attended the inauguration of “Italy Week,” which will promote premium Italian agri-food products at Carrefour stores across Spain. The opening event at Carrefour Alcobendas (Madrid), organized with the support of the Italian Embassy and the Italian Trade Agency (ITA), was attended by representatives from government and the business community, including the mayor of Alcobendas, Rocío Alcántara, and the execut...

(ANSA) - MAPUTO, 13 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Mozambique, Gabriele Annis, presented the Mozita 2026 program in Maputo, the second edition of the promotional event that in 2025 celebrated fifty years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
 The program calls for an expansion of initiatives compared to the first edition, with new cities involved and a focus on artistic training, photography, fashion, and entrepreneurial development. Among the new features, the project “Un ponte...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - Primaries to establish who should be the leader of the centre left to fight Premier Giorgia Meloni in the next general election should be open to all Italian citizens and not just card-carrying centre-left voters, 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Giuseppe Conte said Monday. The mechanism whereby the leader of the party that gets the most votes becomes the coalition leader and premier candidate should not be valid for the centre left as it is for the cenhtre right, the two-...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - The Israeli foreign ministry on Monday summoned Italian Ambassador Luca Ferrari to protest after Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Tel Aviv's bombing of civilians in Lebanon was unacceptable, informed sources said. (ANSA). Read article...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - A 47-year-old Italian man was killed in front of his 11-tyear-old son and his partner in Massa in Tuscany Saturday by a gang of youths angered by his call for them to stop throwing lass bottles at a shop. The man, Giacomo Bongiorni, was allegedly kicked and punched until he fell and struck his head on the pavement, causing a cardiac arrest, by two Romanian men aged 19 and 23 and three minors, police said. The two men have been remanded in custody on suspicion of homici...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - Two people were killed as gale-force winds flailed Italy on Monday. A 38-year-old worker, Roberto Di Ponzio, died after being struck by a lamppost, toppled by strong winds, while he was using a crane to perform maintenance on a lighting system near a cemetery in Taranto. A 16-year-old girl was killed by a tree felled by high winds at Bisceglie north of Bari. Elsewhere, strong sirocco winds halted hydrofoil services from Naples to the islands of Ischia and Procida, flig...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - Italian politicians of all colours rallied around Pope Leo XIV on Monday after Donald Trump blasted the American pontiff as "weak on crime" and "terrible for foreign policy" following his criticism of the United States and Israel's war against Iran. Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini was among the first to criticise Trump's attack on the pope. "If anyone is working hard for peace and conflict resolution, it's Pope Leo," Salvini, the leader of the righ...

(ANSA) - ROMA, 14 APR - On the occasion of Made in Italy Day 2026, the Italian Embassy in Singapore organized a seminar dedicated to biorobotics and its most advanced applications in the medical, pharmaceutical, and rehabilitation sectors. At the opening of the event, Italian Ambassador Dante Brandi emphasized the strategic role of international scientific cooperation in the current context of technological transformation, highlighting how the challenges posed by artificial intelligence and a...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Pope Leo XIV doesn't understand what's happening in Iran, United States President Donald Trump told Corriere della Sera over the phone Tuesday. Responding to the American pontiff's reiterated criticism of the US-Israeli war on Iran, Trump said the pope "has no idea what's happening in Iran." Trump said he believes Leo doesn't understand that Iran poses a nuclear threat. "He doesn't understand," he said, "and he shouldn't be talking about war, because he has no idea wha...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday revised its forecast for Italian growth this year to 0.5%. Uncertainties related to the war in the Middle East are not sparing Italy: the IMF has lowered its growth forecast to 0.5% in 2026 and 2027, with declines of 0.2% for each year, based on the latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) assessments revised from those of January. For Germany, the estimates are +0.8% and +1.2%, with cuts of 0.3% for each year. France's GDP is at +...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - The memorandum with Israel whose automatic renewal Premier Giorgia Meloni has announced has now been suspended given the current situation in the Middle East ranges from arms exports to military training. Cooperation in the military and defense sectors is at the heart of the Memorandum of Understanding between Italy and Israel, of whose autonomic renewal the Italian government has announced the suspension, which would have taken effect Monday. The treaty, composed of 1...

(ANSA) - TEL AVIV, APR 14 - Italy's decision to suspend a defence memorandum with Israel will not affect the latter's security, the Israeli foreign ministry said on Tuesday. "We do not have a security agreement with Italy," the Israeli Foreign Ministry's spokesperson said in response to a question from ANSA. "We have a memorandum of understanding from many years ago that never had any concrete substance," the spokesperson said, adding that the suspension "will not harm Israel's security". (se...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Pope Leo XIV said Tuesday that God, torn by wars, is not on the side of bullies in what was seen as further criticism of United States President Donald Trump and his war alongside Israel against Iran. Pope Leo once again attacked the world's bullies who decide wars. After Monday's retort to Trump, in which he said he was not afraid of a president who called him weak and terrible on foreign policy and who owed his election to Trump, Leo reiterated that "God's heart is t...

(ANSA) - LISBONA, 14 APR - The Sunflowers European Tour—the long bicycle journey that, starting from Lisbon on June 2, 2025, traversed over 6,000 km through Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, and Greece—has now become a film and a book, whose promotional tour begins again in Lisbon. The documentary film “Utopia Europa” (directed by Renato Chiocca) and the narrative book “La Signora di Virpazar,” written by the expedition’s producer ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday expressed caution in relation to a call by Claudio Descalzi, the CEO of Italian energy giant Eni, for Europe to rethink its decision to ban all gas imports from Russian by the end of 2027. "Descalzi is a professional in the sector, I understand his point and I continue to hope that, when the problem arises, we will have succeeded in achieving peace in Ukraine," Meloni told reporters at the Vinitaly wine fair in Verona. "But we must be ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday reiterated her condemnation of US President Donald Trump's attack on Pope Leo XIV following the American pontiff's criticism of the United States and Israel's war against Iran. On Monday Meloni said the attack, in which Trump said Leo was weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy, was "unacceptable". When asked if Trump should apologize as she visited the Vinitaly wine fair in Verona, Meloni stated: "what I said is what I think - t...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Rome prosecutors conducting the Italian probe into the New Year's Eve bar fire at the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana that killed 41 people, including six Italian teens, have put the owners of the establishment, Jaques and Jessica Moretti, under investigation, sources said Tuesday. The married couple, who own Le Constellation, are accused of crimes including culpable disaster, multiple culpable homicide and grievous bodily harm, the sources said. In February sources ...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - The Iran war is making Italian businesses more pessimistic about the economic outlook, according to a results of a study conducted by the Bank of Italy and published on Tuesday. The central bank said there had been "a marked deterioration in companies' assessments of the evolution of the macroeconomic scenario" with respect to its previous survey of business sentiment. "Assessments of the general economic situation have worsened across all sectors, as have the outlooks...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - United States Vice President JD Vance, a Roman Catholic, said Monday that the Vatican should stay out of politics amid a furore over President Donald Trump's attack on Pope Leo following the American pontiff's criticism of the United States and Israel's war against Iran. "I certainly think that in some cases, it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality," Vance told Fox News, "and let the President United States stick to dictating American public po...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 14 - Deputy Premier and Transport and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini said Tuesday that Italy could opt to ignore the limits imposed by the Growth and Stability Pact if the European Union does not suspect them due to the effects of the Iran war. "The EU calls on us to be rigorous, but the situation is delicate," Salvini, the leader of the right-wing League party, told RTL radio. "Either Brussels realizes this or we'll sound the alarm. "If we can all waive the Stabili...

(ANSA) - ZAGABRIA, 13 APR - The Italian Ambassador to Croatia, Paolo Trichilo, traveled to the Zadar region, with stops in Zadar and on the island of Pag, accompanied by Consular Correspondent Adriana Grubelić. In Zadar, the Ambassador spoke at the “TouRisk” conference as part of the panel titled “Trust, safety, and reputation: how diplomatic missions shape destination images.” The initiative, organized by the Croatian Center for Creativity and Innovation with the support of the Croatian Mini...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday said United States President Donald Trump's attack on Pope Leo XIV was unacceptable. Trump criticised Leo as "weak" following the American pontiff's criticism of the United States and Israel's war against Iran. "I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon," Trump said via his Truth Social platform. "Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy". Trump added that, in his opinion, Leo was only el...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - Primaries to establish who should be the leader of the centre left to fight Premier Giorgia Meloni in the next general election should be open to all Italian citizens and not just card-carrying centre-left voters, 5-Star Movement (M5S) leader Giuseppe Conte said Monday. The mechanism whereby the leader of the party that gets the most votes becomes the coalition leader and premier candidate should not be valid for the centre left as it is for the cenhtre right, the two-...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - Centre-right Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar said Monday he was ready to talk with Premier Giorgia Meloni stressing that even though she had a good personal rapport with his defeated opponent Viktor Orban, ousted after 16 years in power, it did not mean they could not have an equally good relationship with the right-wing Italian premier. "I haven't spoken to Giorgia Meloni yet, but I'll be more than happy to do so. I'll also talk to (Foreign Minister) Anton...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - A 47-year-old Italian man was killed in front of his 11-tyear-old son and his partner in Massa in Tuscany Saturday by a gang of youths angered by his call for them to stop throwing lass bottles at a shop. The man, Giacomo Bongiorni, was allegedly kicked and punched until he fell and struck his head on the pavement, causing a cardiac arrest, by two Romanian men aged 19 and 23 and three minors, police said. The two men have been remanded in custody on suspicion of homici...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - Two people were killed as gale-force winds flailed Italy on Monday. A 38-year-old worker, Roberto Di Ponzio, died after being struck by a lamppost, toppled by strong winds, while he was using a crane to perform maintenance on a lighting system near a cemetery in Taranto. A 16-year-old girl was killed by a tree felled by high winds at Bisceglie north of Bari. Elsewhere, strong sirocco winds halted hydrofoil services from Naples to the islands of Ischia and Procida, flig...

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 13 - Italian politicians of all colours rallied around Pope Leo XIV on Monday after Donald Trump blasted the American pontiff as "weak on crime" and "terrible for foreign policy" following his criticism of the United States and Israel's war against Iran. Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini was among the first to criticise Trump's attack on the pope. "If anyone is working hard for peace and conflict resolution, it's Pope Leo," Salvini, the leader of the righ...