‘It’s a proper jungle’: Rome’s rat and snake infestation blamed on waste problems
Pest control expert says warmer winters help creatures such as oriental hornets, snakes and rats thrive in the city A Rome zoologist says the Italian...
Category : Italy
Neighbours turn on each other in Portofino air-con crackdown
Some residents of wealthy Italian village reportedly passing on photos to police who are hunting illegal units It is baking hot in Portofino, but the...
Venice cuts size of tourist parties to 25 to reduce impact on city
Tourists face fines of €25-500 if they fail to comply with measures, which also ban the use of loudspeakers Venice will limit the size of...
Ancient Roman Appian Way becomes Italy’s 60th Unesco world heritage site
Highway that consolidated Roman empire joins modernist Romanian sculptures as latest sites added to list Italy’s Via Appia Antica, or Appian Way, the earliest and...
Tourists evacuated from Italian camping village as wildfire spreads
About 1,000 holidaymakers forced to leave Baia di Campi, near Vieste on Gargano peninsula in southern Italy About 1,000 tourists have been evacuated from a...
Two die and 13 injured in walkway collapse at Naples ‘Gomorrah’ housing complex
Remaining 800 residents evacuated from last block still standing at Le Vele di Scampia, setting for hit TV series Two people have died and 13...
European heatwave forecast to hit peak as health warnings issued
Tourists and residents swelter in heat as temperatures rise to 44C in Spain, with forest fires in Greece and Croatia A fierce heatwave is continuing...
Earthquake at same time as eruption could have caused Pompeii deaths – study
Research argues tremors occurred as Vesuvius erupted in AD79, causing buildings to collapse on to people Victims who perished in Pompeii after the devastating AD79...
UK ready to build ‘closer, more mature’ trade links with EU
New business secretary set to tell international counterparts at G7 meeting ‘Britain is back on world stage’ Britain is taking its first steps towards forging...
Disinformation networks ‘flooded’ X before EU elections, report says
Analysis by Dutch researchers shows coordinated activity in France, Germany and Italy in run-up to ballot Coordinated networks of accounts spreading disinformation “flooded” social media...
