ALBA, Italy (Reuters) - The $44 billion palm oil industry, under pressure in Europe after authorities listed the edible oil as a cancer risk, has found a vocal ally in the food sector: the maker of Nutella.
Italian confectionery firm...
ROME (Reuters) - Newly appointed Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni unveiled his government on Monday, keeping almost all the outgoing ministers in place in a sign of continuity aimed at reassuring financial markets.
However, a small centre-right party that had...
Italy was officially a member of the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary. Despite this, in the years before the war, Italy had enhanced its diplomatic efforts towards the United Kingdom and France.
This was because the Italian government had...
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is due to hand in his resignation on Friday, a parliamentary source said on Wednesday, after a pummelling loss in a national referendum on his flagship reform at the weekend.
The 41-year-old...
Renzi, the Italian prime minister, quits after losing the constitutional referendum.
"No" vote won. Renzi: "I lost". "No" is clearly ahead in exit polls of constitutional referendum. According to the fourth exit poll, the Yes is at 40-42% and No...
ROME (Reuters) - With his political career on the line, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi launched a final day of campaigning on Friday ahead of a Dec. 4 referendum, saying Italy would be the strongest nation in Europe if he...
ROME (Reuters) - If the government loses a Dec. 4 referendum on constitutional reform it will be harder for Italy's struggling banks to recapitalise, Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said on Thursday.
Padoan told state television RAI that Italy's banking...
Italian fire fighters rescued a cat named Pietro on Friday (September 9) more than two weeks after the earthquake, which killed nearly 300 people.
Fire brigades officers had accompanied the cat's owners to retrieve their belongings from their destroyed...
Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, and director Antoine Fuqua present the highly anticipated film "The Magnificent Seven" at the Venice Film Festival.
Following its World Premiere and Opening Night berth at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, Fuqua's action...
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian navy rescued nearly 500 boat migrants off the coast of Libya on Monday and recovered the bodies of six people who fell out of a leaking rubber vessel.
Squads on two patrol boats and two...
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The world owes a debt to Italy for a great many things.
The peninsula is responsible for so many of the things that make this...
