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 police clashed with squatters in central Rome on Tuesday during a housing rights demonstration, with protesters saying evictions should be put on hold during Pope Francis's "Year of Mercy". https://www.thelocal.it/20160105/italy-squatters-plea-for-stop-to-evictions Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:37:52 +0100 italy-squatters-plea-for-stop-to-evictions Slovenian police detained a 24-year-old Italian suspected of having sent envelopes containing poison to a Czech minister in November, private Pop TV reported on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150113/italian-held-over-poison-sent-to-czech-ministers Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:17:00 +0100 italian-held-over-poison-sent-to-czech-ministers Renovators who restored pop legend Sting's Tuscan villa and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence were allegedly linked to an organized crime syndicate, Italian media reports said on Thursday, citing a police investigation. https://www.thelocal.it/20140116/mafia-linked-firms-worked-on-stings-italian-villa-reports Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:28:00 +0100 mafia-linked-firms-worked-on-stings-italian-villa-reports Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Tuesday celebrated his 86th birthday as the first former pope in over 700 years at his temporary home of Castel Gandolfo - the papal summer residence near Rome. https://www.thelocal.it/20130416/benedict-xvi-marks-86th-birthday-in-castel-gandolfo Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:50:00 +0200 benedict-xvi-marks-86th-birthday-in-castel-gandolfo