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 Italian competition regulators said on Friday they have opened a probe into French luxury group LVMH and its Sephora and Benefit subsidiaries for promoting skin care products to minors. https://www.thelocal.it/20260327/italy-investigates-sephora-over-pushing-cosmetic-sales-to-minors Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:36:53 +0100 italy-investigates-sephora-over-pushing-cosmetic-sales-to-minors The court said challenges to the new limits on gaining Italian citizenship through ancestry were "partially unfounded" following a hearing on Wednesday, with a final ruling yet to come. https://www.thelocal.it/20260313/italys-constitutional-court-hears-challenge-to-citizenship-crackdown Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:41:16 +0100 italys-constitutional-court-hears-challenge-to-citizenship-crackdown Italy will hold a referendum on whether to separate the career paths of judges and prosecutors, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's cabinet announced on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20260113/italy-to-hold-referendum-on-justice-reform Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:46:42 +0100 italy-to-hold-referendum-on-justice-reform Dozens of mafiosi from Italy's three main organised crime groups were sentenced on Monday for teaming up to traffic drugs and commit financial crimes in the country's richest region. https://www.thelocal.it/20260113/italy-sentences-dozens-of-mobsters-from-three-mafias-in-maxi-trial Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:13:34 +0100 italy-sentences-dozens-of-mobsters-from-three-mafias-in-maxi-trial Italian lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously backed a bill making femicide - the gender-based killing of women or girls- a separate crime to homicide, punishable by life imprisonment. https://www.thelocal.it/20251126/italy-makes-femicide-a-crime-punishable-by-life-in-prison Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:37:45 +0100 italy-makes-femicide-a-crime-punishable-by-life-in-prison Italian prosecutors asked a court on Tuesday to sentence fashion influencer Chiara Ferragni to one year and eight months in prison if found guilty of alleged fraud over charity endorsement deals. https://www.thelocal.it/20251125/italian-influencer-chiara-ferragni-confident-ahead-of-fraud-trial Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:22:33 +0100 italian-influencer-chiara-ferragni-confident-ahead-of-fraud-trial A trial pitting Italian energy giant Eni against environmental groups hoping to force the state-controlled company to slash its emissions and admit its contribution to climate change opened in Rome on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20240216/climate-change-trial-opens-against-italian-energy-giant-eni Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:00:01 +0100 climate-change-trial-opens-against-italian-energy-giant-eni An Italian court on Thursday handed a suspended fine of 1,000 euros to journalist Roberto Saviano after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sued him for criticising her stance on migrants. https://www.thelocal.it/20231013/warning-to-italys-journalists-as-court-fines-reporter-for-defaming-meloni Fri, 13 Oct 2023 11:26:53 +0200 warning-to-italys-journalists-as-court-fines-reporter-for-defaming-meloni An Italian court on Wednesday acquitted billionaire former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi of bribing witnesses to lie about his notorious "bunga bunga" parties, bringing closure to a years-long sex scandal. https://www.thelocal.it/20230215/berlusconi-acquitted-in-bunga-bunga-bribery-trial Wed, 15 Feb 2023 14:20:54 +0100 berlusconi-acquitted-in-bunga-bunga-bribery-trial An Italian court ruled on Wednesday that some of the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake were partly to blame for their own deaths and compensation for their relatives should be reduced, media reports said. https://www.thelocal.it/20221013/anger-in-italy-as-judge-blames-laquila-quake-victims-for-own-deaths Thu, 13 Oct 2022 11:44:38 +0200 anger-in-italy-as-judge-blames-laquila-quake-victims-for-own-deaths On June 12th, Italian citizens will cast their ballots in a referendum proposing reforms to Italy's justice system - but exactly what issues are they voting on? https://www.thelocal.it/20220610/at-are-italians-voting-on-in-sundays-justice-reform-referendum Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:00:52 +0200 at-are-italians-voting-on-in-sundays-justice-reform-referendum Europe's top rights court on Thursday criticised an Italian court for "playing down gender-based violence" after its ruling on a gang rape case referred to the alleged victim's sexuality, behaviour, and the colour of her underwear. https://www.thelocal.it/20210527/italian-court-fined-for-perpetuating-sexist-stereoypes-in-rape-case-ruling Thu, 27 May 2021 15:49:32 +0200 italian-court-fined-for-perpetuating-sexist-stereoypes-in-rape-case-ruling Lawyers are sounding the alarm over the continued exclusion of the press from criminal hearings in Italy, despite the near-total lifting of other coronavirus lockdown rules. https://www.thelocal.it/20200625/italys-lawyers-slam-dangerous-media-blackout-at-trials Thu, 25 Jun 2020 11:32:58 +0200 italys-lawyers-slam-dangerous-media-blackout-at-trials The fate of an alleged people-trafficking kingpin who insists he is a victim of mistaken identity hangs in the balance Friday, with a verdict expected in a trial against him in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20190712/carpenter-or-trafficking-kingpin-verdict-looms-in-italys-mistaken-identity-trial Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:41:46 +0200 carpenter-or-trafficking-kingpin-verdict-looms-in-italys-mistaken-identity-trial Acquitted former convict Amanda Knox is back in Italy for the first time since being released from prison to speak on a panel about wrongful conviction. https://www.thelocal.it/20190614/amanda-knox-back-in-italy-as-an-advocate-for-the-wrongfully-convicted Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:09:54 +0200 amanda-knox-back-in-italy-as-an-advocate-for-the-wrongfully-convicted Amanda Knox is back in Italy for the first time since being released from prison in 2011, following her acquittal over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. https://www.thelocal.it/20190613/amanda-knox-returns-to-italy-for-the-first-time-since-leaving-prison Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:50:03 +0200 amanda-knox-returns-to-italy-for-the-first-time-since-leaving-prison Amanda Knox has announced she will return to Italy next month for the first time since being cleared in 2015 of killing her former flatmate Meredith Kercher. https://www.thelocal.it/20190508/amanda-knox-to-return-to-italy-next-month Wed, 08 May 2019 13:34:59 +0200 amanda-knox-to-return-to-italy-next-month Italian convicts will be able to video chat with relatives via Skype up to six times a month, the justice ministry said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190130/italian-prisoners-to-get-skype-privileges Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:00:52 +0100 italian-prisoners-to-get-skype-privileges Europe's top rights court on Thursday ordered Italy to pay thousands of euros in damages to Amanda Knox, the American student acquitted in 2015 of the gruesome killing of her British housemate after spending years behind bars. https://www.thelocal.it/20190124/italy-police-amanda-knox-human-rights-court-echr Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:31:26 +0100 italy-police-amanda-knox-human-rights-court-echr Thousands of Italians are flocking to illegal free public screenings of a new film about a young man's 2009 death in custody, a potent symbol of police violence and a merciless penal system. https://www.thelocal.it/20180919/sulla-mia-pelle-on-my-skin-italy-police-brutality-film-stefano-cucchi-netflix Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:08:47 +0200 sulla-mia-pelle-on-my-skin-italy-police-brutality-film-stefano-cucchi-netflix