Sicily's international airport in Catania, a top Italian tourist destination, remained closed on Wednesday due to ongoing ash emissions from Mount Etna.

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For hundreds of people recently kicked out of a social centre in Rome, extreme heat is proving an added strain on top of a dispute highlighting the Italian capital's housing crisis.

Four regions under storm alerts as heatwave drags on, Italy gears up to watch partial solar eclipse, and more news on Wednesday.

With border checks now in place both ways for people travelling between Italy and Spain, who exactly are they being applied to and what happens next?

The scramble for protective glasses has reached fever pitch across Europe ahead of Wednesday's rare total solar eclipse, as pharmacies, opticians and other shops struggle to keep them in stock.

Dozens of Gaza students who won scholarships to universities in Italy are still waiting to be evacuated due to bureaucratic red tape, leaving qualified students in a deadly conflict zone, AFP has found.

Wednesday marks a rare solar eclipse that will be visible – weather permitting – from Italy. But the protective glasses needed to safely watch the eclipse are selling out fast.

A new study reveals that it costs more this year to enjoy a beach day at a private lido - but you can make big savings by choosing a more affordable location.

You might find this fiery word useful to describe the weather this upcoming Ferragosto weekend.

The latest heatwave scorching Italy is set to continue into the weekend, forecasters say, before easing off towards the start of next week.

Italian police said Monday they had arrested a businessman who had ties to the former premier Silvio Berlusconi for ordering a bomb attack targeting prominent television journalist Sigfrido Ranucci last year.

With scorching temperatures breaking records across Europe this summer, The Local has put together tried and tested tips for surviving heatwaves from southern Europe, where locals have had decades of practice coping with the heat. ...

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Firefighters are still monitoring the Tignale area on Monday after dry conditions and high winds drove a blaze that burned 50 hectares of forest.

Western Europe experienced its hottest June-July on record as climate change fuels an historic summer of heat, drought and wildfires across the region, the EU's global warming monitor said Monday.

Spain on Saturday started border checks on travellers arriving from Italy, responding to similar measures Rome imposed following a massive migrant rush into the Spanish north African enclave of Ceuta.

The EU's tech chief called on Meta and TikTok to "act decisively" to stem disinformation at times of crisis, saying the European Commission held talks with both platforms Friday following last week's Ceuta migrant surge.

European energy operators are braced for this week's solar eclipse to cause a temporary dip in power generation and have taken steps to keep electricity flowing to businesses and consumers, an industry body said Friday.