But the wafer-thin victory suggests it will be tough for Italy’s prime minister to pass legislation or enact his center-right agenda, prolonging the sense of political paralysis gripping the nation.

Italian police captured an alleged boss of the ‘Ndrangheta, along with more than 300 other suspects, in the biggest operation against the dangerous criminal organization in 15 years.

Italian police have broken up a major mafia clan, arresting 74 people and seizing businesses, land, race horses and a London-based online betting company, officials said Tuesday. Local politicians and businessmen in the southern Italian city of Bari...

Drugs tests are to be offered to all Italian MPs and senators from tomorrow in a bid to prove their parliament is not an ‘opium smoking den’. The testing of Italy’s serving politicians is not obligatory and has been promoted by Carlo...

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday he will go on TV and appear in courtrooms to prove that corruption and tax fraud charges in two trials against him are false. The proceedings in Milan are to resume after a top Italian court overturned a...

housands of Italians marched on Saturday in an anti-mafia protest and called on all citizens to take a public stand against Italy’s powerful crime syndicates.Crying openly and shouting “Basta!” (Enough!), politicians and anti-mafia...

The United States gave Afghan police 70,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 51,000 pistols and 3,500 vehicles last year, part of $2.5 billion in spending to upgrade the force. Despite that influx of firepower, Taliban militants targeted police in dozens of...