https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The Italian Senate has stripped League party leader Matteo Salvini of his parliamentary immunity, opening the way for a potentially career-derailing trial over alleged abuse of power and illegally detaining migrant while he was a government minister. https://www.thelocal.it/20200213/italys-senate-has-voted-to-send-salvini-to-trial-what-happens-now Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:56:19 +0100 italys-senate-has-voted-to-send-salvini-to-trial-what-happens-now An Italian court on Friday sentenced a Ukrainian former national guard commander to 24 years in prison for the murder of a photographer and his translator in the early days of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. https://www.thelocal.it/20190713/italian-court-gives-ukraine-soldier-24-years-for-journalist-deaths Sat, 13 Jul 2019 10:18:32 +0200 italian-court-gives-ukraine-soldier-24-years-for-journalist-deaths An Italian court acquitted a man found with 58 grams of cannabis in his possession because, as a Rastafarian, he was using the ‘sacred herb’ to meditate. https://www.thelocal.it/20171101/its-ok-for-rastafarians-to-smoke-weed-to-meditate-italian-court Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:22:15 +0100 its-ok-for-rastafarians-to-smoke-weed-to-meditate-italian-court A Rome court has upheld Uber's bid to temporarily suspend a ban on its services in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20170414/court-upholds-uber-bid-to-get-ban-suspended Fri, 14 Apr 2017 18:08:25 +0200 court-upholds-uber-bid-to-get-ban-suspended Top managers at the financial rating agencies Standard and Poor's and Fitch were acquitted on Thursday of market manipulation charges brought after they cut Italy's credit ratings in 2011 and 2012. https://www.thelocal.it/20170330/rating-agencies-cleared-in-italian-manipulation-trial Thu, 30 Mar 2017 17:02:29 +0200 rating-agencies-cleared-in-italian-manipulation-trial For the first time in Italy, two gay partners have been legally recognized as fathers of two surrogate children. https://www.thelocal.it/20170228/gay-couple-officially-dads-of-surrogate-child-after-landmark-ruling Tue, 28 Feb 2017 16:57:38 +0100 gay-couple-officially-dads-of-surrogate-child-after-landmark-ruling An Italian court has ruled that a 13-year-old boy be removed from his mother's custody due to an alleged "personality disorder" linked to having "almost exclusively female role models". https://www.thelocal.it/20170110/teen-removed-from-mothers-custody-for-being-too-effeminate Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:54:06 +0100 teen-removed-from-mothers-custody-for-being-too-effeminate A Senegalese man was on Thursday sentenced to 30 years in prison for the murder of Ashley Olsen, an American found naked and strangled in her flat in Florence, Italy in January. https://www.thelocal.it/20161222/italy-court-gives-american-womans-killer-30-years Thu, 22 Dec 2016 17:43:07 +0100 italy-court-gives-american-womans-killer-30-years A woman thought to be the first Italian to join Isis in Syria was sentenced to nine years in prison in absentia on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20161219/italys-first-female-jihadist-sentenced-to-nine-years Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:25:56 +0100 italys-first-female-jihadist-sentenced-to-nine-years Divorce can be complex whatever the circumstances, but the key question for one Italian couple was: what about the dogs? https://www.thelocal.it/20161117/italy-court-rules-in-favour-of-joint-custody-and-maintenance-payments-for-a-dog Thu, 17 Nov 2016 14:13:43 +0100 italy-court-rules-in-favour-of-joint-custody-and-maintenance-payments-for-a-dog Italian rules which mean children of married couples are automatically given only their father's surname are unlawful, the country's constitutional court has ruled. https://www.thelocal.it/20161110/landmark-case-means-italian-mums-can-give-children-their-surname Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:26:40 +0100 landmark-case-means-italian-mums-can-give-children-their-surname A 29-year-old Italian man has received a huge payout from Italy's National Lottery after he complained that despite buying 255 scratchcards, he had never got lucky. https://www.thelocal.it/20161006/scratchcard-company-reimburses-unlucky-italian-who-never-won Thu, 06 Oct 2016 16:44:40 +0200 scratchcard-company-reimburses-unlucky-italian-who-never-won Italy’s top court has ruled that spending too much time on social media could cost you your job. https://www.thelocal.it/20160623/squandering-time-on-facebook-in-italy-could-get-you-sacked Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:58:46 +0200 squandering-time-on-facebook-in-italy-could-get-you-sacked Italy's top court has cleared a photographer of defamation and racial hatred charges after he called the inhabitants of the Veneto region "a population of drunks". https://www.thelocal.it/20160610/its-okay-to-call-venetians-a-population-of-drunks-italian-court Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:54:34 +0200 its-okay-to-call-venetians-a-population-of-drunks-italian-court The EU's top court ruled on Thursday the European Commission can order member states to cut down thousands of olive trees infected by deadly bacteria after Italian authorities halted the felling in December. https://www.thelocal.it/20160609/eu-can-now-order-italy-to-cut-down-thousands-of-sick-olive-trees Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:02:30 +0200 eu-can-now-order-italy-to-cut-down-thousands-of-sick-olive-trees An appeals court in Milan has ruled that a company discriminated against an Italian woman of Egyptian origin when it refused to hire her because she wouldn’t take off her Islamic headscarf. https://www.thelocal.it/20160506/italian-firm-was-wrong-to-refuse-to-hire-hijab-wearing Fri, 06 May 2016 11:29:47 +0200 italian-firm-was-wrong-to-refuse-to-hire-hijab-wearing Italy's highest court has acquitted a homeless man of stealing cheese and sausages, ruling that the theft of small amounts of food by the hungry poor is not a crime. https://www.thelocal.it/20160503/if-italys-poor-and-hungry-steal-food-its-not-a-crime-top-court Tue, 03 May 2016 14:23:48 +0200 if-italys-poor-and-hungry-steal-food-its-not-a-crime-top-court A 50-year-old Italian woman has lost an 11-year legal battle to get €50,000 in moral damages from her husband, who she claims never satisfied her sexually. https://www.thelocal.it/20160412/italian-woman-sought-50000-over-ex-husbands-low-sex-drive Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:22:57 +0200 italian-woman-sought-50000-over-ex-husbands-low-sex-drive A Rome family court has approved a lesbian couple's request to simultaneously adopt each other's daughters in a legal first in Italy, gay groups said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160302/italy-tribunal-approves-lesbian-couples-adoption-of-each-others-children Wed, 02 Mar 2016 09:07:13 +0100 italy-tribunal-approves-lesbian-couples-adoption-of-each-others-children Italy’s Court of Cassation has ruled that playing music too loudly in your car is a crime. https://www.thelocal.it/20160229/playing-loud-music-in-your-car-is-a-crime-italys-top-court Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:32:25 +0100 playing-loud-music-in-your-car-is-a-crime-italys-top-court