- 6d ago
Giorgia Meloni sets Italian post-war longevity record with 1,413 days in power
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni surpassed Silvio Berlusconi to lead the longest continuous administration in post-war Italy, marking 1,413 days in office on Friday.
- Aug 26
Italian police intercept French van carrying three Akeron missiles at Bari port
Guardia di Finanza officers in Bari arrested a 46-year-old French driver after finding three operational Akeron anti-tank missiles disguised with blue tape inside a ferry-transported van.
- Aug 17
Charity ship rescues 50 migrants off Libya as seven die during sea crossing
The NGO vessel Life Support rescued 50 survivors from Somalia and Egypt in international waters off Libya on Monday, recovering seven bodies while two people remain in critical condition.
- Aug 13
Jovanotti's Barletta concert cancelled after asbestos found at venue, 33,000 tickets sold
The Jovanotti concert set for August 17 in Barletta was cancelled after Arpa Puglia found asbestos at the former paper mill site, affecting 33,000 ticket holders.
- Aug 4
Worker plucks €1m lottery ticket from six tonnes of waste after Bitonto player bins it by mistake
The player dumped the ticket at a shop in Bitonto after a terminal said the prize could not be paid out. A relative noticed the numbers had won, launching a scramble to intercept a bin lorry before its cargo was compacted.
- Jul 29
308 Italian coastal municipalities hit by 1,073 extreme weather events since 2010, storm surges up 550% in five years
Legambiente's 2026 Beach Report, compiled with the Città Clima Observatory, finds that 48% of Italy's coastal municipalities have been struck by extreme weather since 2010. Storm surges alone rose 550% between 2022 and 2026, while over 40 million square metres of beach have been lost to erosion in the past 50 years.
- Jul 25
Student beaten by two adults and ten minors in Bari park after trying to use public restroom
A 26-year-old philosophy student, Giuditta, was kicked by a group of two adults and about ten children aged 8 to 14 in Parco Rossani, Bari. The city says it will join the prosecution as a civil party.
- Jul 11
Seven arrested in Bari over paramilitary armored-car robbery gang; former mayor also investigated
Carabinieri arrested seven men from Cerignola on July 10 as part of a probe into a criminal organisation that used assault rifles, explosives, and stolen vehicles to attack cash-in-transit vans. A former mayor is among 16 people under investigation.
- Jul 7
Bari football club faces bankruptcy probe; De Laurentiis family indicted for fraud
Italian prosecutors have indicted Aurelio and Luigi De Laurentiis for false accounting and fraudulent bankruptcy over the financial collapse of SSC Bari, with searches carried out at the club's offices and those of Napoli and Filmauro.
- Jun 20
La Scala dance student, 15, killed in scooter crash; two other children die on Italy's roads the same day
Davis Aloschi, a 15-year-old student of the Teatro alla Scala ballet school in Milan, died after a scooter collision in Siracusa. On the same day, a four-year-old girl and another 15-year-old boy lost their lives in separate accidents near Bari and Salerno.
- Jun 12
Naples heart surgeons banned for 12 and 7 months after two-year-old dies from transplant of dry-ice-damaged organ
A Naples judge has suspended cardiac surgeon Guido Oppido and his deputy Emma Bergonzoni for 12 and seven months, accusing them of falsifying the clinical record of a two-year-old boy who died after receiving a heart that had been frozen by dry ice during transport.
