Italy authorised the arrival of two charity ships carrying more than 100 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, under the terms of an agreement with other EU countries, the interior ministry said late on Tuesday.
Despite pressure from the UK and campaigners the EU's chief Brexit negotiator has again snubbed the idea that the rights of Brits in the EU and Europeans in the UK could be safe-guarded to avoid the upheaval of a no-deal Brexit.
Skip the Amalfi Coast and explore its wilder cousin, the unspoiled stretch of southern Campania where researchers first clocked on to the health benefits of traditional Mediterranean living.
Italy's Senate voted on Wednesday to block the trial of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for allegedly illegally confining migrants rescued at sea by an Italian coastguard ship last year.
He was forced into exile in 1946 after Italy abolished the monarchy and died in 1983, but the ghost of King Umberto II is said to linger in the Piedmont city of Asti.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles chief Sergio
Marchionne is raising pressure on much larger rival General Motors for merger
talks, saying in a Detroit interview the logic of the deal is "irrefutable."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Florence on Friday she wanted Greece to "remain part of our story", ahead of elections
this weekend which could sweep the anti-austerity Syriza party to power and determine whether the country stays in the eurozone.
The imprisonment and trials of Amanda Knox, found guilty of murdering her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, still discourages fellow American students from studying in the country, a new survey has found.
