Why Would Anyone Want to Kill Pietro Ichino?

27 January 2012, 12:53 pm

The law professor’s ideas for fixing Italy’s economy have won him political influence—and police protection... Read More »

Detectives to testify on Silvio ‘sex parties’

27 January 2012, 7:24 am

Rome - Police detectives were on Friday expected to provide a court in Milan with more evidence on alleged sex parties hosted by Silvio Berlusconi. Italy's former prime minister is facing charges of having paid an underage prostitute for sex.... Read More »

Earthquake hits northern Italy, no damage reported

25 January 2012, 1:19 am

ROME (AP) - Officials say an earthquake has shaken a wide area of northern Italy from Verona to Genoa on the western coast but that no injuries or damage were reported. Related Stories Sri Lanka media rights activist demands probe into killings UK police arrest 97 for London Olympics fraud Afghan ar... Read More »

Italy extends rating agencies probe to Fitch

24 January 2012, 9:53 am

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian police seized documents at Fitch's Milan offices on Tuesday as the rating agency was drawn into an investigation of alleged market manipulation already involving its two bigger rivals Standard & Poor's and Moody's . The investigation follows a raft of sovereign ... Read More »

Italy tax police visit Fitch Milan offices

24 January 2012, 5:11 am

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian tax police visited the offices of ratings agency Fitch in Milan on Tuesday to carry out checks ordered by prosecutors investigating rival agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's, a senior prosecutor told Reuters. "Men from the financial police are at Fitch in Milan,"... Read More »

12th body found in Italy shipwreck: police

21 January 2012, 7:55 am

GIGLIO ISLAND: Divers Saturday found a woman's body in the wrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia, raising the death toll to 12, a police official said.... Read More »

Italian leaders to visit Libya

18 January 2012, 6:44 pm

ROME, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Italy plans to help the transitional government in Libya train its national police, Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi said Wednesday.... Read More »

Italian police seize $83M in mob assets

17 January 2012, 12:02 pm

NAPLES, Italy, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Italian police say they seized more than $83 million worth of assets Tuesday from the Camorra's violent Casalesi clan.... Read More »

Explosions damage Italy tax agency: Naples police

16 January 2012, 5:40 pm

NAPLES (Reuters) - Three explosive devices blew up outside the Naples offices of Equitalia, a state agency that collects overdue taxes and fines, breaking windows but injuring no one on Monday night, a police official told Reuters. Police said no group had claimed responsibility for the attack on th... Read More »

Rome's Chinese immigrants demand security

12 January 2012, 4:15 am

ROME, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The slaying of a bar owner and his infant daughter in Rome illustrates increasing security risks for Chinese immigrants living in Italy, advocates say.... Read More »