All news on the topic: Italy

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EU and U.S.-made sniper rifles and ammunition are reaching Russia despite sanctions, intensifying the war in Ukraine
Russian snipers continue to receive thousands of Western-made rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition, despite years of extensive international sanctions.
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All is fair in steel and war: Italian equipment used for military armor production continues to be supplied to Russia
Russian metallurgists, who supply their materials to manufacturers of weapons and armored vehicles, are critically dependent on foreign equipment.
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11-year-old girl rescued off Italian coast after three days clinging to tire tubes
Girl from Sierra Leone is only person rescued after shipwreck that is feared to have killed more than 40 people
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British woman killed in Italy crash as police find overturned car in canal
A British woman, aged 44, has sadly died after crashing her car in Italy - police spotted her car in a canal but by the time they retrieved her body it was too late
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Italian nun arrested for connections to powerful mafia network
The nun is alleged to have been the conduit between the gang and its associates in prison
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Italy leads police operation to dismantle major illegal streaming network
A global police operation has shut down one of the largest illegal streaming services, used by millions worldwide.
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Real estate deal with royal raises questions about drug trafficker Raffaele Imperiale’s business in Dubai
Imperiale, who lived freely in Dubai for years despite being wanted for drug trafficking in Italy and Spain, was a shareholder in a real estate company that built luxury villas in the Emirati city-state.
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"Tell me what you need": Wiretaps capture alleged Toronto mafia boss talking to property developers
Court files indicate that Angelo Figliomeni, alleged boss of the Toronto wing of Italy’s ‘Ndrangheta mafia, was in contact with multiple Toronto-area real estate developers. Police have linked Figliomeni to a sprawling property empire.
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Italy’s Camorra is expanding its operations into Colombia’s cocaine capital
Two high-ranking members of Italy’s Camorra mafia were arrested in Medellín, Colombia, in a multinational operation against cocaine trafficking.
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Milan prosecutors allege that hacked information from state security databases was sold to wealthy clients
Italian probe reveals “gigantic and alarming market of confidential data,” prosecutors say.
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Interpol campaign to identify remains of women in Europe expands to 46 cases
Police forces in France, Italy and Spain join cold-case initiative after launch last year of Operation Identify Me
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A Ryanair plane caught fire, forcing nearly 200 passengers to evacuate using emergency slides
The Ryanair plane - flight FR8826 - caught fire as it was about to leave Brindisi Airport in Italy and the inflatable slide was deployed to help the passengers evacuate following the emergency
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Cinema in mafia boss’s Sicilian hometown refuses to screen film about his life
Venue owner says Sicilian Letters, about the Cosa Nostra leader Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘doesn’t interest me’
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The safes on tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht, Bayesian, may contain data related to intelligence services
Divers searching British tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht off Sicily have found safes holding potentially sensitive intelligence data, sources have claimed.
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Italy’s PM leads tributes following the death of ‘football icon’ and World Cup hero Salvatore Schillaci
Italy’s Prime Minster has led tributes to Salvatore Schillaci after the ‘football icon’ and World Cup hero died at the age of 59.
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Italian police seize £40,000,000 worth of fake retro consoles
Over £40 million worth of counterfeit retro consoles have been seized by police in Italy, featuring games like Street Fighter and Super Mario Bros.
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Starmer to explore Albania migration deal after meeting Italian PM and appointing new border security chief
The deal Giorgia Meloni has struck with Albania will see Tirana accept asylum seekers on Italy’s behalf while their claims are processed.
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Italian antimafia priest attacked in Rome
Don Antonio Coluccia was leading anti-crime march when he was reportedly assaulted with planks, bottles and sticks
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Bayesian yacht passengers’ cause of death revealed as more details of horror sinking come to light
US lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda were among seven people who died when the Bayesian superyacht sank in a sudden, violent storm off Sicily on August 19
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Manslaughter charges under consideration as final body is recovered from Sicily yacht
Coastguard confirms body of Hannah Lynch, 18, found after four-day search, bringing number of dead to seven
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French customs officers thwart €1.3m sale of fake Leonardo da Vinci painting
Spanish police make arrest after being notified that export licence had expired and work was found to be a copy
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Montenegrin ’Pirate of the Unknown’ arraigned in the US for cocaine trafficking
A Montenegrin dubbed the ‘Pirate of the Unknown’ is set to be arraigned Monday in U.S. federal court for allegedly trafficking several tons of Latin American cocaine all over the world onboard container vessels.
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Female tourist criticized after ’simulating sex’ with cherished statue in Florence
The tourist has been slammed for being "disrespectful" after she was seen climbing up to Giambologna’s Bacchus in the Borgo San Jacopo area of Florence in Italy
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Chameleon complex: Europe’s far right is mimicking the fight for stability and justice — and it’s working
Last week in France, the far-right National Rally won the first round of parliamentary elections, taking 33% of the vote.
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At least 10 people have died, and dozens are missing following two shipwrecks in the Mediterranean
Rescuers near Italy report 10 bodies found on wooden boat and 50 missing in a separate incident off Calabria