Qatar will play three European friendlies this year, the first against Albania, ahead of crucial 2018 World Cup qualifiers, coach Jose Daniel Carreno announced Saturday.
Italian police on Tuesday arrested an Afghan suspected of plotting attacks in Italy, Britain and France after finding incriminating evidence on his mobile phone.
Italy is to introduce the fingerprinting of migrants crossing the Mediterranean as soon as they are picked up by rescue boats, officials say.
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Italy insisted Friday it was not facing an "invasion" after a spike in migrant boat crossings from Libya exacerbated fears the country is on the verge of becoming the main entry point for people trying to reach Europe.
The EU's foreign policy chief will lead a delegation of commissioners to Tehran on Saturday for the EU executive's highest-level talks in more than a decade, seeking to capitalise on last year's historic nuclear deal with Iran.
Italy's foreign minister flew into Tripoli for talks with the head of the unity government Fayez Seraj - the first senior Western official to meet the new Libyan administration since it moved to the capital.
The Italian coastguard Monday rescued 1,850 migrants in eight operations in the Strait of Sicily, as a wave of boats departing from the Libyan coast intensifies.
A retired Italian priest held hostage for six months by suspected militants left a Philippine hospital Saturday a day after his ordeal ended, looking frail though officials said he was in good health.
Italy on Friday recalled its ambassador to Egypt for consultations in protest over the lack of progress in a probe into the fate of murdered Cambridge student Giulio Regeni.
Italy's floating city Venice is preparing to bring in a plan to ease congestion for locals on its "vaporetto" water buses by creating priority queues for residents in a move likely to vex holidaymakers.
Italy on Wednesday launched a legal battle at an international tribunal to bring home an Italian marine, barred from leaving India after the 2012 killing of two Indian fishermen who Rome says were mistaken for pirates.
