Italians started voting on Sunday in a referendum on constitutional reform, with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promising to resign if he loses the ballot, AP reported.
Polls opened at 7 a.m. (0600 GMT) and are set to close at 11 p.m. (2200 GMT). Some (...)
A comprehensive solution to the euro zone debt crisis is beyond the region's reach, rating agency Fitch said, warning that six of its economies including Italy and Spain could be hit with credit downgrades in the near future, according to (...)
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti was scheduled on
Thursday to meet US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in Milan,
during a European tour to pressure EU leaders to resolve their debt
crisis, dpa reported.
Monti and Geithner were to begin (...)
Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti held a highly unusual separate news conference for foreign reporters on Monday to explain his economic programme, according to Reuters.
Monti, the respected head of a technocrat "Save Italy" government, impressed (...)
Italian police have seized a truck full of AK-47s, explosives and hundreds of rounds of ammunition as it crossed from the Slovenian border into northern Italy, AP reported.
Italy's financial police said Saturday the 32-year-old Slovenian driver was (...)
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti met party leaders on Saturday to drum up support for new measures aimed at shoring up public finances, helping growth and calming the debt crisis in the euro zone's third largest economy, according to (...)
Italian Premier Mario Monti's rescue plan is angering unions and causing doubts among some politicians over whether they can completely back the harsh measures meant to avoid financial disaster, according to AP.
Silvio Berlusconi, whose resignation (...)
Officials said that an Italian cargo ship and 21-member crew are now free, seven months after pirates seized the vessel in the waters off Somalia, according to AP.
President Giorgio Napolitano hailed the release of the Rosalia D'Amato, along with (...)
AlHijjah 29, 1432, Nov 25, 2011, SPA -- The crew of an Italian-owned cargo ship, hijacked off the coast of Oman in April, has been freed, authorities said on Friday.
According to Reuters, the MV Rosalia D'Amato was on its way to Iran from Brazil (...)
AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA -- Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi of Italy made today a telephone call to the Prime Minister Salam Fayyad of Palestine.
During the telephone conversation, Italian Foreign Minister stressed the necessity for (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- Italy's lower chamber of parliament has begun deliberations ahead of a confidence vote for the government formed by Premier Mario Monti aimed at saving Italy from its debt crisis, AP reported.
Monti is to (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- Saudi Ambassador to Italy Saleh bin Mohammed Al-Ghamdi met here last night two officials at Italian Foreign Ministry.
During the two meetings, the bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- Italy's new technocratic government led by Prime Minister Mario Monti on Friday won the last of two mandatory parliament confidence votes when it received the endorsement of the lower house Chamber of (...)
AlHijjah 21, 1432, Nov 17, 2011, SPA -- Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti's newly appointed government on Thursday won the first of two mandatory confidence votes when it received the endorsement of the upper-house Senate.
The government won by (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA - Italian Prime Minister-Designate Mario Monti arrived Wednesday at President Giorgio Napolitano's residence for a meeting
in which he is expected to announce his willingness to form a government and propose a (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA -- Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and the other 16 members of his cabinet were sworn in on Wednesday at a ceremony in Rome before President Giorgio Napolitano, dpa reported.
The new government now has to be (...)
AlHijjah 19, 1432, Nov 15, 2011, SPA -- Prime Minister-designate Mario Monti met the president on Tuesday after ending talks with Italy's parties, political sources said, in a possible indication he is close to forming a new government, according to (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned on Saturday.
Berlusconi tendered his resignation to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, who accepted the request, the president's office said in a (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA -- Italy's president raced to appoint an emergency government on Sunday to face a crisis endangering the whole euro zone after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned to the jeers of thousands of protesters, (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA -- Italy's president appointed former European Commissioner Mario Monti on Sunday to head a new government charged with implementing urgent reforms to end a crisis that has endangered the whole euro zone.
"The (...)
AlHijjah 15, 1432, Nov 11, 2011, SPA -- Saudi Ambassador to Italy Saleh bin Mohammed Al-Ghamdi met here today with the Italian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stefania Craxi.
During the meeting, they reviewed means of enhancing relations (...)
AlHijjah 13, 1432, Nov 9, 2011, SPA -- Two French climbers, who had been missing for a week in the Alps, were found dead Wednesday, dpa quoted Italy's Ansa news agency as reporting.
Olivier Sourzac, a mountain guide, and Charlotte Demetz, an (...)
AlHijjah 13, 1432, Nov 9, 2011, SPA -- Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said on Wednesday that a new government would be formed soon or elections called following the adoption of a new financial law and the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio (...)
AlHijjah 10, 1432, Nov 6, 2011, SPA -- Premier Silvio Berlusconi insisted Sunday he still commands enough support in Parliament to enact urgently needed measures to save Italy from financial disaster despite defections from his shaky coalition, AP (...)
AlHijjah 7, 1432, Nov 3, 2011, SPA -- Prince Khalid bin Saud bin Khalid, Assistant Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, met here today with Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Enzo Scotty.
During the meeting, cooperation relations between (...)
