A British conductor has apologised for likening singers at one of Italy's leading opera houses to warring Mafia families.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra principal conductor was speaking about his debut at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

Italian police have arrested 181 people in a crackdown on the Sicilian mafia. Authorities launched a series of raids early on Tuesday, detaining suspected members of the mafia for alleged crimes ...

For example, encrypted mobile phones are being smuggled into prisons to allow jailed mafia members to continue their ... Writing on X later on Tuesday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ...

Crime bosses from Cosa Nostra, the Italian island’s notorious mafia ... prominent anti-mafia judges in the 1990s. The alleged mafia members were arrested despite using encrypted mobile phones ...

More than 1,200 police officers carried out a series of dawn raids targeting the Cosa Nostra mafia in and around Sicily's ...

Italian police have launched a series of raids targeting Mafia clans operating in and around ... police are still trying to hunt down members of the chat who go by nicknames such as Robert de ...

Italian police have arrested 181 people in a crackdown on the Sicilian mafia. Authorities launched a series of raids early on Tuesday, detaining suspected members of the mafia for alleged crimes ...