ROME (Reuters) -The numbers of Italians leaving their country and of foreigners moving in have soared to the highest in a decade, official data showed on Friday, fuelling national concerns about brain ...

Italians headed to the polls on Sunday and Monday to vote in a national referendum that could make it easier for immigrants to apply for Italian citizenship. The proposal aims to cut the required ...

* Worst episode of Italian racial unrest in years * Cars burned, road blocked, some 15 immigrants arrested * Southern town still tense, thousands protest (Recasts, changes dateline from ROME, adds ...

The immigrants, promptly stopped by Italian authorities, were sent back immediately to Libya without being able even to stay in the immigration centre of Lampedusa. Medicines sans Frontiers stated ...

Hundreds of African immigrants have been evacuated from a town in Southern Italy, after some of the worst racial violence in that country since World War II. The evacuations began yesterday, following ...

ROME -- One recent evening, the band at the Thousand and One Nights Restaurant played hand-held drums and stringed instruments on a platform ringed with Oriental rugs and pillows, and a singer warbled ...

VERONA, Italy (Reuters) - Wearing an Italian soccer cap and sipping an espresso, Moroccan Abbes Mohamed is certain that a centre-left victory in Italy's election on Sunday and Monday would improve ...

MILAN (AP) — The mayor of a small town in southern Italy that became a model for immigrant integration was placed under house arrest Tuesday for allegedly aiding illegal immigration, a move that ...