ROME (Reuters) - Performing a stiff-armed fascist salute is not a crime in Italy unless it risks sparking violence or is aimed at reviving the fascist party, the Supreme Court has ruled in a verdict ...

Dozens of Italian fascists gathered Sunday to mark Benito Mussolini’s execution and proudly gave the recently unbanned fascist salute. The notorious gesture, which became associated with the Nazis but ...

People gather during a rally to commemorate the slaying in 1978 of two members of a neo-fascist youth group in an attack later claimed by extreme-left militants, in Rome, Sunday Jan. 7, 2024.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told her Brothers of Italy party on Tuesday that it should expunge from its ranks anyone who idolizes Italy’s fascist past. Her call came after an undercover media ...

Court’s ruling signifies that the act of performing the Roman salute is not considered a crime. The Supreme Court of Cassation in Rome ruled that a fascist salute is not considered illegal, unless it ...

Italian state broadcaster RAI is under heavy fire amid allegations that it censored a planned anti-fascist monologue by prominent writer Antonio Scurati, author of international bestseller “M: Son of ...

ROME (AP) — The Brothers of Italy party, which won the most votes in Italy’s national election, has its roots in the post-World War II neo-fascist Italian Social Movement. Keeping the movement's most ...

A stairway leads up to a mausoleum built in the early 1930s to honor Michele Bianchi, a fascist leader. The mausoleum is located in Bianchi's hometown of Belmonte Calabro in Calabria, Italy. (Cain ...