General George S. Patton, one of the most revered, skilled and yet controversial figures in American military lore, reached the coastal city of Messina and secured the liberation of Sicily on this day ...

Were you to swim the strait between the toe of Italy and the horn of Sicily you would come out of the water at Messina, which you could see from far off as it rises upward from the beaches, with ...

Assets were being seized in Andorra, the Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Monaco, Spain and Switzerland, as well as Italy, police said. View on euronews ...

For more than two millennia, Italy has dreamed of building a permanent bridge across the Strait of Messina. Now, after ...

He lamented that it takes hours to go by train between Sicily’s major cities – Palermo, Catania, Messina – and that the island, like the rest of southern Italy, needs to make high-speed trains a top ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the heart of the down-at-heel city of Messina stands the Caronte & Tourist Ferry terminal, where cars, ...

There is a popular saying in Italian – similar to how Anglophones use “when hell freezes over” – that translates as “I’ll do it when the bridge to Messina is finished.” The dream of a bridge ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the bosses of the Cosa Nostra Mafia in Sicily and Italy’s most wanted man, has been arrested by police while being treated in a private health clinic in Palermo, ...

Incredible plan for world's longest suspension bridge gets thumbs-up The Italian government has given the green light to an incredibly ambitious plan to connect Sicily and mainland Italy with the ...

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