Maurizio Landini, the general secretary of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), on Tuesday urged the Italian Labor Ministry to take urgent measures to ensure safe working conditions in the abnormal heat that has engulfed the Apennines

A weather station on the eastern outskirts of Rome recorded 41.7 degrees Celsius (107.06 degrees Fahrenheit) on Tuesday, which marks the hottest day on record in the Italian capital

The Italian Health Ministry published on Monday a circular letter to all the regions of the country regarding emergency measures to be taken due to the heat wave that Italy has been experiencing lately

Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock on Wednesday described the arrest of Italian mafia leader Matteo Messina Denaro as "a great success" and thanked Italy's authorities for cooperation in tracking down one of the world's most dangerous criminals

The Italian military police, the Carabinieri, said on Monday that they had arrested one of the country's most dangerous criminals, the leader of the notorious Cosa Nostra mafia group, after almost 30 years of attempts

The trial of almost 100 members of the Sicilian mafia, the notorious Cosa Nostra, accused of large-scale EU agricultural subsidies fraud, began on Tuesday in the court in Messina, Italian media reported

Italian law enforcement agencies arrested 59 people suspected of mafia activities during an operation directed against a group in the Sicilian province of Messina, the Carabinieri Corps said in a statement on Friday