Matteo Salvini

Italian police arrested on Saturday the German captain of a migrant-rescue ship at the centre of a standoff with the Italian government after she docked at the port of Lampedusa. The Dutch-flagged Sea-Watch 3, operated by German charity Sea-Watch, has been a…

The young German captain of a migrant-rescue ship stranded off Italy dismissed threats of arrest and personal criticism from the country's far right interior minister on Friday, saying her main priority was the safety of 40 rescued Africans. After two weeks …

MILAN (AP) The 31-year-old German captain with tied-back dreadlocks and a steady voice has enraged Italy’s interior minister as she defies Sicily port authorities in defense of dozens of migrants rescued at sea off lawless Libya. Matteo Salvini has derided C…

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal’s parliament has protested an Italian decision to charge a Portuguese student with aiding illegal immigration, a move condemned by officials, who argue he was saving lives of migrants stranded in the Mediterranean. Three years ag…

(CNN)The remains of Genoa's Morandi Bridge were blown up in a controlled explosion on Friday, nearly a year after the structure collapsed in a disaster that killed 43 people. Demolition experts brought down the two remaining towers of the highway bridge in d…

GENOA, Italy (Reuters) - Six seconds of controlled explosions wiped out the remains of a collapsed bridge in the northern Italian city of Genoa on Friday, paving the way for a new structure to replace the ageing viaduct that gave way last year, killing 43 peo…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The towers to be demolished with explosives, which can be seen in this photo as red markings Demolition experts are set to blow up what remains of the Morandi bridge in the Italian city of Genoa nearly a year after …

Media captionThe Sea-Watch 3 has been prevented from docking in Italy Pressure has mounted on Italy after the UN and the European Commission called on Rome to end to its stand-off with a migrant rescue boat. The Sea-Watch 3 reached the Italian island of Lam…

GOVERNMENTS IN FISCAL distress sometimes find creative ways to pay the bills. Revolutionary France sold bonds secured against land confiscated from the Catholic church; America used paper bills to fund its war of independence. In 2001 Argentina issued IOUs, a…

The captain of the Sea-Watch 3 charity rescue vessel threatened Tuesday to enter Italian waters illegally to bring 42 migrants to shore after they spent 13 days in limbo at sea. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has banned the Dutch-flagged vessel from approa…