ROME, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Inside a modern government building facing the third‑century Aurelian walls in Rome, dozens of specialists have spent the past year monitoring criminal chatter on the dark web as part of Italy's push to shield the Winter Olympics from cyberattacks.

MILAN (AP) — Italy’s Ladin minority settled a millennium ago in the Dolomite mountain hamlet of Anpezo — now the two-time Olympic host city of Cortina d’Ampezzo. But members of this ancient ethnolinguistic group are disappointed that the Winter Games will not spotlight their culture.

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni calls Trump's NATO comments about Afghanistan "unacceptable," defending Italy's sacrifice of 53 soldiers killed in the conflict.

The Italian government has criticized the release on bail of the owner of the bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana where 40 people died in a fire at a New Year's party. The decision by a Swiss court to lift the detention order for Jacques Moretti is "an insult to the memory of the victims and an affront to their families,