About 80 people are missing, feared drowned, after a boat carrying migrants capsizes in the Mediterranean. An Italian Coast Guard vessel recovered 2 bodies and brought 32 survivors to Lampedusa.

About 80 people are missing, feared drowned, after a boat carrying migrants capsizes in the Mediterranean. An Italian Coast Guard vessel recovered 2 bodies and brought 32 survivors to Lampedusa.

I see we have reached the "yelling at the padded wall of the cell while in a strait jacket" stage of diplomacy.

Every so often a government Minister will suggest Sicily becoming a "hub" for something. We've had "logistics hub", "energy hub", now "data centre hub". They do know there's barely enough water to go round as it is ... don't they?

Delta Airlines announce their daily flight from JFK to Catania will now operate all year round.

On 4th April 1945 Italian partisan and Red Cross nurse Cecilia Deganutti (codename 'Joan of Arc') is burnt alive in the crematorium at the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste [Thread] >> 1

On 4th April 1945 Italian partisan and Red Cross nurse Cecilia Deganutti (codename 'Joan of Arc') is burnt alive in the crematorium at the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste [Thread] >> 1

Renato Guttuso (Italian, 1911–1987) "La Vucciria", 1974. Oil on Canvas, 300 × 300 cm. Palazzo Steri in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

44 migrants have been saved by an NGO vessel and taken to Lampedusa after being stranded for 5 days on an abandoned oil rig in the Mediterranean.

Italian PM Meloni is in Saudi Arabia for talks and will then head to UAE and Qatar. The theme of the visit is energy security.

A court in Rome finds that all price increases applied by Netflix in Italy since 2017 are invalid and orders the company to return prices to 2017 levels and refund the difference in price to all current and former subscribers. Some could receive up to €500.

Once upon a time the US boasted it could do anything. Now, it can do nothing except fight wars (badly).

A court in Rome finds that all price increases applied by Netflix in Italy since 2017 are invalid and orders the company to return prices to 2017 levels and refund the difference in price to all current and former subscribers. Some could receive up to €500.

On 2nd April 1985, the Pizzolungo massacre, one of the most heinous examples of mafia indifference to innocent victims of their crimes, even if they are women and children [Thread] >> 1

I know little about football but maybe, given the current disastrous state of the national sport in Italy, it is time to swallow national pride and appoint the first ever non-Italian head coach.

An Italian Coast Guard vessel has carried out a rescue operation 85 miles from the island of Lampedusa. A boat carrying migrants was found with 19 bodies on board and 5 survivors in critical condition. The deaths were caused by hypothermia.

The height of entitlement? Parking your Bentley on the pavement blocking a disabled access ramp and the entrance to a children's playground.

Don't worry Italy, there's always rugby ... and baseball ... and cricket.

Today's refusal by Italy for US jets to use Sigonella Air Base in Sicily has brought back memories of events at the same base in 1985, when Carabinieri & US troops (led by Oliver North) faced off after US planes forced an Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro to land there.

Today's refusal by Italy for US jets to use Sigonella Air Base in Sicily has brought back memories of events at the same base in 1985, when Carabinieri & US troops (led by Oliver North) faced off after US planes forced an Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers of the Achille Lauro to land there.

The population of Messina is now 216k. When I arrived here in 1985 it was 260k. The dereliction of duty by successive governments with regard to the south is the greatest scandal of Italian politics.

The population of Messina is now 216k. When I arrived here in 1985 it was 260k. The dereliction of duty by successive governments with regard to the south is the greatest scandal of Italian politics.

Another Fratelli d'Italia politician under investigation in Sicily, a member of Parliament suspected of fraud & embezzlement of public funds for Agrigento Cultural Capital of Italy in 2025. This MP was only recently readmitted to the party after being expelled for social media posts praising Hitler.

Another Fratelli d'Italia politician under investigation in Sicily, a member of Parliament suspected of fraud & embezzlement of public funds for Agrigento Cultural Capital of Italy in 2025. This MP was only recently readmitted to the party after being expelled for social media posts praising Hitler.

This felt like a funeral for the Messina Strait bridge project. Even Salvini is just going through the motions at this point.

"Troppi errori dai miei." La colpa è sempre di qualcun altro.

Salvini organised a demonstration in Messina today in support of the Messina Strait bridge project. This was the turnout, practically none of whom were from Messina but bussed in. (Photo: Enrico Di Giacomo)

One lesson from Italian history: the lawyers and law professors who are still celebrated to this day are those who stood up to fascism, putting their reputation and career on the line; not the ones who hid behind supposed academic collegiality & so contributed to legitimise those supporting fascism

27th March 1992, at an event in Palermo, Tony Gentile snaps a photo of Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino sharing a joke, little realising it is to become one of the most iconic images in modern Italian history. Within four months both men had been brutally murdered by the mafia.

27th March 1992, at an event in Palermo, Tony Gentile snaps a photo of Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino sharing a joke, little realising it is to become one of the most iconic images in modern Italian history. Within four months both men had been brutally murdered by the mafia.

Sounds like a quick way to turn the US into a cashless society.

1934-Mussolini's face on Palazzo Braschi, housing Fascist Party HQ, as propaganda exhorting people to vote "Yes" for the list of 400 candidates prepared by the Grand Council of Fascism in that year's election on 25th March. Just 15,215 people found the courage to vote "No".

The voices in Trump's head are negotiating with one another.

The voices in Trump's head are negotiating with one another.

Meloni has responded to her defeat in the referendum by forcing out people in her government under investigation or on trial, three in total. There is talk of replicating this in the Sicilian Regional government, composed of the same parties. Problem here is there would be hardly anyone left.

1934-Mussolini's face on Palazzo Braschi, housing Fascist Party HQ, as propaganda exhorting people to vote "Yes" for the list of 400 candidates prepared by the Grand Council of Fascism in that year's election on 25th March. Just 15,215 people found the courage to vote "No".

On Saturday Salvini, Deputy PM and Minister of Transport and Infrastructure, will be attending a demonstration in Messina to support construction of the Messina Strait bridge. He will be demonstrating in support of building it rather than actually getting it built.

This gold is needed to decorate the new ballroom.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Is the box ticking?

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Take it easy everybody. Salvini has paid a campaign visit to Budapest. Orbán is officially toast. Nobody can overcome the Salvini jinx.

Reposting my thread on the tragic events that unfolded in Rome on 23-24 March 1944.

Italian Junior Minister of Justice Delmastro (FdI) forced to resign after revelation he started a restaurant business in Rome with daughter of a man convicted for mafia. Last year an FdI MP was expelled from the party after shooting a man in the buttock at a New Year's Eve party held by Delmastro.

Italian Junior Minister of Justice Delmastro (FdI) forced to resign after revelation he started a restaurant business in Rome with daughter of a man convicted for mafia. Last year an FdI MP was expelled from the party after shooting a man in the buttock at a New Year's Eve party held by Delmastro.

Meloni's defeat in the referendum: centre-right voters in the south stayed at home. Why? Because there was nothing in it for them.

Perhaps no surprise, after Meloni's constant attacks on the judiciary, that the land of Falcone and Borsellino should overwhelmingly reject her judicial reform project.

Americans: "Don't you dare touch the Second Amendment!" Italians: "Don't you dare touch Article 87 paragraph 10, Article 102 paragraph 1, Aricle 104, Article 105, Article 106 paragraph 3, Article 107 paragraph 1, and Article 110!"

Americans: "Don't you dare touch the Second Amendment!" Italians: "Don't you dare touch Article 87 paragraph 10, Article 102 paragraph 1, Aricle 104, Article 105, Article 106 paragraph 3, Article 107 paragraph 1, and Article 110!"

3.52 p.m. 23 March 1944. Rosario Bentivegna (photo) is standing next to a street cleaner's handcart in via Rasella, central Rome, nervously smoking a pipe. The handcart contains a powerful rudimentary bomb & he is about to set in motion a series of terrible events [Thread] >> 1