The Juventus manager, Max Allegri, has claimed that ‘only a madman’ would take their kids to a football stadium in Italy after their Turin derby defeat over the weekend was blighted by yet more crowd trouble. Before Torino’s 2-1 victory at the Stadio Olimpico – their first Serie A win over
A man opened fire in Milan’s courthouse on Thursday, killing a bankruptcy judge and reportedly hitting at least one other person, Italy’s ANSA news agency said. ANSA quoted the president of the appeals court, Giovanni Canzio, as identifying the slain judge as Fernando Ciampi. Sky TG24 reported that two people were killed, and that the […]
Italian navy and coast guard ships have picked up about 1,500 migrants at sea in just 24 hours. Authorities said Sunday they received distress calls from three migrant vessels in trouble in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast. On the way to the rescue site, they found two other foundering boatloads of migrants. […]
Police arrested three men on Wednesday for allegedly setting up a network in Italy to recruit Islamist fighters to be sent to Syria and Iraq, Italian authorities said. One was a 20-year-old Italian of Moroccan origin, who faces charges of encouraging terrorism via the Internet, a police statement said. The other two were Albanians accused […]
