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On March 28, 1997, an Italian corvette sunk the Albanian migrant boat 'Katër i Radës' in the Adriatic, taking lives of at least 92 Albanians. Rome never accepted blame, reflecting the 'asymmetrical dynamic' that still governs the lives of so many in Europe today.

A four-member delegation from the Vatican will meet with Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece on Friday, ahead of a ceremony to mark the return of three marble fragments from the Parthenon to the Acropolis Museum.

As the number of migrants arriving in Rijeka, Croatia, near the Slovenian and Italian borders, rises to some 200 a day, Italy has called for a three-way Italian-Slovenian-Croatian meeting in Rome to discuss ways to tighten border controls.

An Israeli-backed Cypriot fund's deal to buy a Lukoil-owned refinery in Italy is hanging in the balance ahead of a Cabinet meeting in Rome possibly this week, when veto powers would be weighed against energy hub aspirations that could replace Russian gas and put the final nail in the coffin of a proposed EastMed pipeline.

Italy's far-right government has given the green light to a Holocaust museum in Rome, where nearly 2,000 Jews were rounded up during World War II and sent to concentration camps.

Tourists in Rome checking out the Pantheon, Italy's most-visited cultural site, will soon be charged a 5-euro ($5.28) entrance fee under an agreement signed on March 16 by Italian culture and church officials.

The monument to John Paul II outside the Gemelli hospital, Rome, Italy, 05 July 2021. EPA-EFE/MASSIMO PERCOSSI A legend beyond criticism?

ROME - Serbian Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Goran Vesic met with Italian Deputy PM and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini in Rome on Tuesday.

After the meeting, Vesic said that, in the period to come, the two countries would work together on abolishing transit permits.

Three fragments of the Athens Parthenon, hosted for centuries in the Vatican collections and museums, will be returned to Greece after the Greek Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, signed the donation protocol in Rome on March Tuesday.

One of the light aircraft crashed on the ground at the Guidonia air base, and the other on a parked car on the street.
There were no other injuries, according to Italian media.
Police and emergency services were dispatched to the scene of the accident.
According to initial information, two old military planes were involved in the accident.