(ANSA) - ROME, 26 OTT - Italy registered significant improvements in its well-being indicators last year but the risk of poverty remains much higher than the EU average, Istat said on Monday in its annual Equitable and Sustainable Well-being (BES) report.

MILAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Matteo Salvini shrugged off declining poll ratings on Sunday to be reelected leader of his far-right League party, part of Italy's ruling coalition, having vowed to press the government to stop financial support for Ukraine.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has announced new security measures in response to violent protests in Milan after weekend riots caused significant damage to the city’s central shopping district.

I was able to visit Desenzano del Garda, a town near Lake Garda, the largest lake in Italy, once again.The first time I came here was when I was in my 20s, during a one-year language study abroad program in the UK,

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s buzzy Elizabeth Holmes doc "You Can See Everything" is set to launch into Italy from the Torino Film Festival with the directors expected in tow. After world premiering in the U.

Thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets in France for anti-government protests, while rallies over the war in Gaza and rising living costs spread across Italy, leading to clashes with police.

From Bari, the capital of Puglia, I arrived in Monopoli in no time by train. ( I wrote about the train ride in the first installment )The population of Monopoli is just under 50,000. It is a small port town facing the Adriatic Sea.

Protests by young people in northern cities ended in riots as farmers and truckers in the south, angered by high gas prices, stopped commercial traffic.