Matteo Salvini

In Italy, a ruling coalition is finally being shaped after the 5-Star Movement approved a pact with their former political foes, the Democratic Party. In an online poll yesterday, nearly 80 percent of the 5-Star's grassroots members voted in favour of forming…

Italian authorities have impounded a charity rescue vessel and fined its crew €300,000 for entering the port in Lampedusa illegally. The Mare Jonio was seized on the southern Italian island and fined under a security decree drawn up by outgoing far-right int…

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian police on Monday seized a German migrant rescue ship that had been stranded at sea for a week with more than 100 migrants aboard, and will disembark the migrants soon, a police spokesman said. The ship’s captain had earlier set cou…

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian police on Monday seized a German migrant rescue ship that had been stranded at sea for a week with more than 100 migrants aboard, and will disembark the migrants soon, a police spokesman said. The ship's captain had earlier set cour…

Italian police on Monday seized a German migrant rescue ship that had been stranded at sea for a week, and will disembark more than 100 migrants soon, according to a police spokesman. The ship’s captain had earlier set course for the port of Pozzallo, on the…

Italy’s outgoing interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has banned another migrant-rescue ship from docking in the country, using the issue of immigration to pile pressure on his main two political rivals as they seek to form a new government. Salvini, who leads…

With the crumbling of Italy's coalition government and the scramble to form yet another, this latest crisis to grip Italy could be seen as just one more confusing chapter in a country where chaos has been the one political constant. At the height of the mid-…

The European Union has spent the summer battling with Brexit and grappling over economic growth. But one worry may be crossed off the concern list for now: Italy. A pact between the center-left Democratic Party (PD) and the populist Five Star Movement (M5S)…

"We have to be careful we've been evicted by the police 28 times," says Marlene Micheloni. The 64-year-old, part of the volunteer group Baobab Experience , explains how they have to collect the blankets distributed to the group of 40 or so refugees who sleep…

MADRID (AP) The Latest on migration into Europe (all times local): 5:35 p.m. Sixty-two Pakistani migrants have reached the southern Italian port of Gallipoli, in the Apulia region, after being found on a tiny island by the local coast guard. The coast guar…