TEHRAN, May 15 - European Union budget rules are “starving the continent” and must be changed, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday, a day after he roiled financial markets by saying Italy should be ready to break the rules.
TEHRAN, May 10 - Italy is confirming that a Venezuelan of Italian origin who is a member of the country's opposition-controlled National Assembly has taken refuge in the residence of the Italian ambassador.
TEHRAN, May 07 - The European Commission cut its eurozone growth forecast for 2019 on Tuesday, with overspending by populist-run Italy again a concern.
TEHRAN, May 05 - Italian authorities are accusing a 22-year-old U.S. citizen of killing a 74-year-old Italian owner of a clothing store in Viterbo, a city near Rome.
TEHRAN, Apr 24 - Italy's government approved an economic growth plan in the early hours of Wednesday after a bad-tempered cabinet meeting that exposed divisions in the ruling coalition and fuelled speculation about a government collapse.
TEHRAN, Apr 18 - An investigation into corruption allegations against a junior minister from the far-right League prompted fresh conflict on Thursday within Italy's already troubled government.
TEHRAN, Apr 17 - A humanitarian aid flight left the southern Italian city of Brindisi carrying 40 tonnes of essential humanitarian aid for victims of flash floods in Iran.
TEHRAN, Apr 15 - Ali Akbar Velayati, an international adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, highlighted the common stances of Iran and Italy on global issues and said the two countries are strongly opposed to the interference of outsiders in the internal affairs of regional countries.
TEHRAN, Apr 03 - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday ruled out the idea that Economy Minister Giovanni Tria could step down due to tensions with the ruling coalition.
TEHRAN, Mar 24 - Italy signed a preliminary accord with China on Saturday that makes it the first country of the Group of Seven industrialized nation to join the Chinese Belt and Road infrastructure project.
TEHRAN, Mar 21 - Italian police on Wednesday rescued 51 children taken hostage by their school bus driver, who doused the vehicle in petrol and set it alight apparently in protest at migrant deaths in the Mediterranean.
TEHRAN, Mar 20 - An Italian politician who has spoken out against legally mandating vaccination has been hospitalized with chickenpox, leading to an outpouring of ‘I told you so’s on social media – no matter how much he protests he’s pro-vaccine.
TEHRAN, Mar 08 - Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is being investigated for alleged corruption in a case revolving round a stake his holding company Fininvest has in the asset manager Banca Mediolanum, a judicial source said on Friday.
TEHRAN, Mar 07 - Italy called on Thursday for a funding review of a high-speed rail link with France, a multi-billion-dollar project that threatens to tear apart Rome's ruling coalition.
TEHRAN, Mar 06 - Italy's populist government opened its new minimum income welfare program Wednesday, fulfilling a key campaign promise of the 5-Star Movement to help reduce poverty and spur employment in the eurozone's third-largest economy.
TEHRAN, Mar 06 - A Pakistani mountaineering official said another day of searching for a pair of European climbers who went missing on the world's ninth-highest mountain produced no results on Wednesday as the risk of avalanches made the mission increasingly dangerous.
TEHRAN, Mar 06 - Hundreds of migrants were evicted Wednesday from a make-shift migrant camp in southern Italy which has been the site of several deadly fires, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said.
TEHRAN, Mar 06 -Eighty-seven migrants in a wooden boat have been rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa and are due to arrive in Malta on Wednesday, officials said.
TEHRAN, Mar 06 -Italy’s ruling coalition is not at risk of falling apart over a controversial Italy-France high-speed rail link that is causing tensions within the populist coalition, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Wednesday.