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 A fugitive Italian mobster who had been living in Mexico under a false identity was behind bars Saturday after being tracked down on Facebook, police said. https://www.thelocal.it/20170311/facebook-search-traps-italian-mobster-in-mexico Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:54:34 +0100 facebook-search-traps-italian-mobster-in-mexico Italy has upped its pressure on Egypt over slain student Giulio Regeni, warning it would not accept a "fabricated" account of the Italian's torture and murder from Egyptian prosecutors and police due in Rome on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160406/egypt-team-to-fly-to-italy-with-results-of-student-murder-probe Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:22:07 +0200 egypt-team-to-fly-to-italy-with-results-of-student-murder-probe Egypt's state prosecutor ordered on Wednesday the formation of an investigating team to probe the brutal murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni, after Rome cast doubt on Cairo's explanation of his death. https://www.thelocal.it/20160331/egypt-forms-team-to-keep-probing-italians-murder Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:21:43 +0200 egypt-forms-team-to-keep-probing-italians-murder The mother of murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni, tortured to death in Egypt in January, told Italy's parliament on Tuesday she had only recognized 'the tip of her son's nose' when identifying his body. https://www.thelocal.it/20160329/murdered-italian-students-mum-says-his-body-was-unrecognizable Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:17:59 +0200 murdered-italian-students-mum-says-his-body-was-unrecognizable Egyptian police said on Thursday they had identified people linked to the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni, after killing four members of a criminal gang and finding the victim's passport at one of their apartments. https://www.thelocal.it/20160325/egypt-police-kill-gang-members-linked-to-italian-student-murder Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:32:24 +0100 egypt-police-kill-gang-members-linked-to-italian-student-murder Italy's chief prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone on Monday offered Rome's assistance in the Egyptian investigation into the murder of an Italian graduate student after his abduction in Cairo. https://www.thelocal.it/20160315/italy-offers-to-help-egypt-probe-giulio-regeni-murder Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:09:13 +0100 italy-offers-to-help-egypt-probe-giulio-regeni-murder Egypt's interior ministry said on Wednesday it was still investigating the brutal killing of an Italian graduate student in Cairo, and suggested he may have fallen victim to criminals. https://www.thelocal.it/20160224/egypt-says-still-probing-italian-student-death Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:58:56 +0100 egypt-says-still-probing-italian-student-death The body of an Italian student murdered in Cairo had signs of electrocution, according to media reports. https://www.thelocal.it/20160215/giulio-regenis-body-showed-signs-of-electrocution Mon, 15 Feb 2016 09:26:39 +0100 giulio-regenis-body-showed-signs-of-electrocution As Italy prepared to bury Giulio Regeni on Friday, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi warned Egypt its friendship was on the line over the probe into the student's unexplained death in Cairo. https://www.thelocal.it/20160212/italy-egypt-friendship-on-line-as-slain-student-is-buried Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:41:07 +0100 italy-egypt-friendship-on-line-as-slain-student-is-buried Egypt's Interior Minister on Monday rejected charges of security forces involvement in the case of Italian Giulio Regeni, who was found dead bearing signs of torture after disappearing in Cairo last month. https://www.thelocal.it/20160209/egypt-rejects-charge-against-police-in-italian-students-death Tue, 09 Feb 2016 09:21:00 +0100 egypt-rejects-charge-against-police-in-italian-students-death Italy on Thursday angrily demanded that Egypt authorise a joint investigation into the violent death of Giulio Regeni, a Cambridge University PhD student who mysteriously disappeared in Cairo last month. https://www.thelocal.it/20160204/italian-student-missing-in-cairo-probably-dead-rome Thu, 04 Feb 2016 09:14:52 +0100 italian-student-missing-in-cairo-probably-dead-rome Italy has urged Egypt to track down an Italian student who "mysteriously disappeared" in Cairo in January, the foreign ministry said on Sunday in a statement. https://www.thelocal.it/20160201/italy-urges-egypt-to-track-down-missing-student Mon, 01 Feb 2016 09:22:52 +0100 italy-urges-egypt-to-track-down-missing-student