ROME, April 29 (UPI) -- Police in Italy Wednesday arrested a senior member of the crime syndicate Camorra and alleged leader of the Casalesi clan, officials said.

ROME, April 15 (UPI) -- The governor of the quake-stricken Italian province of Abruzzo put the cost of rebuilding Wednesday at $15 billion, with more needed for economic recovery.

MADRID, March 18 (UPI) -- Migrant workers in Europe are finding the welcome they got when economies were booming has worn thin, with some countries inviting them to leave, officials say.

LYONS, France, March 3 (UPI) -- One in five victims of human trafficking are children, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni told a group of international police officials Tuesday.

ROME, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Italy and Nigeria Tuesday agreed to carry out a joint policing effort to combat human trafficking and illegal immigration, government officials said.

ROME, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- An Italian Cabinet minister has called for rapists to be chemically castrated, local media reported.

ROME, Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The Rome prosecutors' office opened a formal probe Tuesday into a strike a day earlier by some Alitalia employees, which led to the cancellation of 150 flights.

PARIS, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Italy says it wants other European nations to help with the burden of processing requests from incoming asylum-seekers.

ROME, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Italian officials are trying to boost the number of soldiers in major cities as part of an ongoing campaign to increase security around the country.