Matteo Salvini

Until August, Five Star had governed Italy for more than a year with the nationalist League party, led by Matteo Salvini, who is still the countrys most popular politician, and who has a skeptical view of climate change. One cold spring day in Milan, Mr. Sal…

Rome (AFP) - ArcelorMittal, the world's biggest steelmaker, said Monday it is pulling out of a deal to buy struggling Italian firm Ilva after Rome decided not to grant it immunity from prosecution over a heavily polluting plant that was a central part of the …

ROME (Reuters) - ArcelorMittal (MT.AS) said on Monday it was withdrawing from a deal to buy struggling Italian steelmaker Ilva after Rome reneged on a promise to give it immunity from prosecution over its heavily polluting plant. The decision represents a b…

By Giuseppe Fonte and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - ArcelorMittal said on Monday it was withdrawing from a deal to buy struggling Italian steelmaker Ilva after Rome reneged on a promise to give it immunity from prosecution over its heavily p…

After ten days stranded at seas with 88 migrants onboard, German rescue ship Alan Kurdi has been allowed to disembark in Italy following a deal among EU nations, the country's Interior Ministry said on Friday. "Germany and France will take in 60 migrants, Po…

Italy’s new Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has said that there is no migrant “invasion,” countering statements by her anti-immigration predecessor Matteo Salvini. Lamorgese told the Repubblica newspaper in an interview published on Friday that this year…

ROME (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church and Rome’s Jewish community expressed dismay on Thursday after rightist parties refused to back the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate hate, racism and anti-Semitism. The idea of the committee wa…

London, United Kingdom - Margarethe Kraus was just a teenager in 1943 when she was deported from her home in Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz. While imprisoned in the concentration camp, she endured extreme maltreatment and was subject to medical experiments. …

Italy's government has said it will allow 104 people to disembark from a charity ship that rescued them in the Mediterranean Sea after it spent 11 days at sea waiting for authorisation. The people on board the Ocean Viking were authorised to dock in the Sici…

In late August, Italy’s anti-migrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was ousted after his ruling coalition collapsed, bringing a symbolic end to a government whose signature policy was closing Italy’s ports to ships carrying rescued migrants. But two months …