Sources: AFP via France 24
Italian police arrest around 150 people across Sicily in the biggest anti-Mafia raid since 1984. 2025-02-11
Italian police seize sailing yacht "A" at the Port of Trieste after its owner, Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko, was sanctioned by the European Union. 2022-03-12
Two people are killed and another is missing as floods triggered by a powerful storm is affecting Catania, Sicily, Italy. Roads have been completely submerged in parts of the region. 2021-10-26
The Italian Health ministry signs a decree which moves Sicily into the "yellow zone" and will reimpose some restrictions such as the mask mandate both outdoors and indoors and restrict restaurant diners to groups of four beginning on August 30 following an increase of COVID-19 cases. 2021-08-27
A new lockdown is announced for four Italian regions: Lombardy, Piedmont, Aosta Valley, and Calabria. In two other regions, Apulia and Sicily, stricter measures will be imposed. The measures will start on November 6. 2020-11-4
A judge in Ragusa, Sicily, Italy, orders the release of a Proactiva Open Arms migrant search and rescue ship detained in Pozzallo since arriving there on March 18 carrying over 200 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea. Catania prosecutors requested the Spanish ship's detention alleging involvement in illegal immigration after Proactiva refused to hand the migrants over to Libya. 2018-04-16
A judge in Catania, Italy, upholds the seizure of a Proactiva Open Arms ship that brought migrants to Sicily after refusing to hand them over to the Libyan Coast Guard. 2018-03-28
Acting on requests from neighboring Italy, Swiss authorities arrest 15 people sought as suspected members of the 'Ndrangheta organized crime syndicate, a Mafia-type organization centered in Calabria, Italy. 2016-03-8
Former US mafia leader Joey Merlino of the Scarfo crime family is released from prison in Indiana and is sent to a halfway house in Florida. 2011-03-15
Italian police arrest fugitive Camorra crime boss Antonio Iovine. 2010-11-17