Daniel Verdú

Italy’s deputy PM is promoting alliances that would unite the entire spectrum of the political right in Brussels to evict the left in the 2024 EU elections

The country, whose government has declared a state of emergency to tackle the influx, has become the main illegal gateway into Europe in the first quarter of 2023

Italian historian Carlo Vecce claims the Renaissance master was born to Caterina, a young woman from the Caucasus, who was trafficked to Florence as a child

After a three-decade drought since the Argentine soccer star’s glory days in Naples, the still-superstitious city is finally poised to capture another ‘scudetto’

Antonio Piccirillo – scion of a capo in Italy’s Camorra criminal organization – is encouraging other young people in his situation to stay away from a life of crime

The tragedy on the Sicilian island in 2013 marked a turning point in Italy’s political discourse, but a decade later nothing has changed and 26,000 people have died in the Mediterranean

Rescue services continue to search for the bodies of immigrants killed in a tragedy that has claimed at least 63 lives, although the number is expected to increase

A combination of unusual atmospheric phenomena, coupled with a severe drought in northern Italy, has left the flood-prone tourist favorite high and dry

‘Il Cavaliere’ has received another favorable court ruling in connection with his ‘bunga bunga’ sex parties, but he is facing a political storm over his views on the Ukraine war

The highly politicized musical event has outdone itself this year with controversies over Zelenskiy, attacks against the Italian government and a defense of the Iranian protests. Could the end be near?

The head of the Roman Catholic Church lashed out against the partisan use that clerical conservatives have made of the former pontiff’s death, particularly Georg Gänswein, the longtime secretary to Joseph Ratzinger

The pontiff is on a six-day trip that will also take him to South Sudan, two of the most dangerous countries on the continent and among the few places where Catholicism remains robust

The Cosa Nostra capo managed to evade authorities thanks to a wide protection network involving high-level officials, businesspeople, doctors and lawyers

The most-wanted fugitive in Italy led a normal life in a town adjoining the municipality where he was born, but residents claim they had no idea who he was

EL PAÍS traveled to his hideout in Campobello di Mazara, where residents say he was often seen at the local bar and pizza restaurant

The mobster, who had been on the run for 30 years, was arrested just six miles from the Sicilian town where he was born and raised

A Netflix documentary and memoirs by a former papal secretary have pushed Pope Francis to review details of the disappearance of an employee’s daughter, missing for 39 years

‘The great gossipmonger is the devil,’ said Pope Francis before meeting in private with Georg Gänswein, who is set to release a book revealing secrets of the pope he served for so long

Italy’s rich culinary history is gaining new admirers thanks to a group of women, most in their 80s, who make traditional pasta dishes on YouTube. Carrying on a centuries-old custom of using simple ingredients and implements to prepare ‘sfoglie’ from scratch, the ‘Pasta Grannies’ are popularizing a time-honored practice, sharing regional recipes, and enjoying a moment of international acclaim

The assassination of the head of Inter Milan’s radical fan group was the third in five years and further evidence of organized crime’s infiltration into Italian soccer

The outcome of Sunday’s vote will be watched nervously by European leaders, who are expecting frosty relations with the Brothers of Italy chief

Francis beatifies the pontiff who died 33 days after being elected and who inspired conspiracy theories and movies

The tragedy, which took place on the mountain of Marmolada, the highest in the Dolomites, has killed at least six people and injured another eight

Pope Francis’ recent release of Nazi-era documents from the Vatican archive and a new book are spurring renewed debate on the controversial silence of a pontiff who negotiated with the Third Reich and failed to condemn the Holocaust

Spain’s diplomatic headquarters before the Holy See, in the heart of Rome, celebrates 400 years in which it has exerted extraordinary influence