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Far-left anarchists attacked political offices over the weekend, demanding the release of convicted anarchist terrorist Alfredo Cospito. 

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has declared war on people smugglers pushing illegal migration, promising prison terms of up to 30 years.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he will ask his Italian counterpart to recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital, prompting immediate backing from Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.

Alessandro Cattaneo, a member of the Italian parliament for the centre-right Forza Italia, has warned parts of Milan are “out of control” following a mass stabbing by a Moroccan migrant.

Pope Francis has called out the human traffickers behind a recent shipwreck in southern Italy that resulted in the deaths of scores of migrants.

An Italian intelligence report released this week says migrant “taxi” ship NGOs help people-smugglers and cause more deaths at sea.

Italian prosecutors have revealed that smugglers charged as much as 8,000 euros each for a voyage that led to the deaths of dozens of people.

An NGO migrant “taxi” ship has been fined 10,000 euros and placed into administrative detention for 20 days for violating a security decree enacted by the government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

A vessel carrying over 100 migrants shipwrecked off the coast off the southern Italian region of Calabria Sunday morning leaving at least 43 dead and scores missing.

ROME (AP) – The Italian coast guard and firefighters have recovered more than 30 bodies after a wooden migrant boat broke apart in rough seas Sunday near the southern coast of Italy´s mainland, authorities reported.

A 23-year-old Egyptian migrant was arrested in eastern Italy after robbing a 12-year-old boy at gunpoint, stealing his jacket before fleeing the scene.

A march of “anti-fascist” protesters allegedly saw participants threaten PM Giorgia Meloni and praise a massacre of Italian civilians.

73 people are missing and presumed dead after people smugglers put them on an inflatable boat that sank off the coast of Libya. 

Six police officers were wounded as a result of clashes with far-left anarchist extremists over the weekend. 

Violence erupted outside a Milan asylum office in the early morning hours of Monday as around 600 migrants gathered, with riot police being forced to act to maintain order. The group of 600 migrants gathered along the Via Cagni ahead of

The government of Milan has announced it will be clearing an area long squatted by illegal African migrants – in order to transform the site into a new mosque and Islamic centre.

An Italian anarchist currently on hunger strike allegedly praised terrorist actions in prison letters to supporters as far-left extremists have carried out several violent attacks in support of him.

Turkey for a second day on Friday railed against a group of Western countries that temporarily shut their consulates in Istanbul.

The bodies of eight migrants and 42 survivors have been recovered in the central Mediterranean off the island of Lampedusa, ANSA reported.

Far-left anarchists are accused attacking police in Milan and Rome in revenge for an extremist engaged in a hunger strike. 

Populist Matteo Salvini’s League has clashed with other members of the right-wing ruling Italian government under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after trying to propose amendments to further restrict immigration into the country. The League came into conflict with Meloni’s Brothers

Italian PM Georgia Meloni held talks in Libya with officials from the country’s west-based government, signing an gas dea worthl $8 billion.

An Afghan migrant that has now been convicted of multiple murders is said to have asked out a number of “14-year-old girls” while posing as a child in Britain.

Graphic content warning: The mother of a brutally dismembered teen didn’t want the appeals court to forget what the drug dealer had done.

The pop star Madonna has launched an attention-grabbing photo montage in Vanity Fair Italia, posing variously as the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ and featuring dolls apparently representing dead babies.

A documentary comparing Italian PM Giorgia Meloni to Benito Mussolini has reportedly been broadcast in at least two schools. 

Italy has seen a total of 3,862 illegal arrivals in over two weeks so far this year, more than the same period in 2021 and 2022 combined. 

The worldwide food and fuel crises saw a spike in protests in countries across Europe in 2022, research by the American University has found.

A Milan prosecutor has dropped an investigation claiming that Matteo Salvini’s League engaged in corrupt dealings with Russia. 

In 2022, Germany attempted to send nearly 70,000 migrants back to other European Union countries where they first arrived under the Dublin Agreement, but was only successful in just over six per cent of the cases. Germany attempted to return 68,709

Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro is no longer on the run. He was arrested Monday in Sicily after 30 years evading law enforcement agencies.

ROME (AP) – Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after 30 years on the run, Italian paramilitary police said.

A 14-month-old baby was among three people led to their deaths by migrant smugglers after a boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Italian leftists are furious over Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni directing NGO migrant “taxi” ships to drop off migrants in cities run by leftist mayors.

NGOs operating migrant “taxi” ships have complained to the European Union about new Italian border controls, but the bloc has claimed it will not get involved.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has called on migrant taxi NGOs to stop their “ferry service” in the Mediterranean.