Matteo Salvini

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy’s outgoing Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has signed a decree banning a rescue ship carrying about 100 migrants picked up off the Libyan coast from entering Italian waters. The move follows a similar ban on another rescue ship on T…

ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella is expected to give outgoing Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte a mandate to form a new government backed by a coalition of the 5-Star Movement and the Democratic Party (PD), after he meets with party chiefs on …

MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish warship collected 15 rescued migrants from an Italian port on Tuesday, having sailed halfway across the Mediterranean to fetch the small group in a high-profile maneuver that sharply contrasted with Italy’s refusal to accept them.…

ROME/BERLIN (Reuters) - Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has signed a decree to ban a migrant rescue ship operated by the German charity Mission Lifeline from accessing Italian waters, sources at the ministry said on Tuesday. A succession of charity…

On Tuesday, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini banned a German humanitarian ship carrying migrants rescued off Libya from entering Italian territorial waters. The boat took aboard 100 people from a a rubber lifeboat sinking roughly 50 kilometers (30 miles) off …

When he withdrew his support and declared the coalition dead this month, Mr Salvinis hope was that the country would go to new elections, which would likely have crowned him prime minister as the head of a hard-Right coalition with the Brothers of Italy party…

Matteo Salvini (left) of the Lega party and Giuseppe Conte (right) of the Five Star Movement. The latter reads his resignation statement. Both parties had promised more funds for universities before Salvini pulled his party out of the governing coalition.Cred…

Matteo Salvini (left) of the Lega party and Giuseppe Conte (right) of the Five Star Movement. The latter reads his resignation statement. Both parties had promised more funds for universities before Salvini pulled his party out of the governing coalition.Cred…

ROME (AP) Italy's economy minister tried to reassure financial markets and citizens as the nation's political leaders struggled Sunday to form a new government hoping to avoid early elections that could bring nationalist Matteo Salvini and his hard-right forc…

A ship carrying more than 350 migrants was allowed to port and disembark at Malta Friday after a two-week international impasse, that latest in a series of standoffs this summer as European nations close up their borders. The Ocean Viking, a Norwegian-flagge…