ROME — Italy’s government fears merger deals by some of the country’s biggest financial groups will sap its ability to summon patriotic investment in a crisis.

The Giro d'Italia will once again finish in Rome this year after the Grand Tour begins for the first time in Albania and then leads the peloton through a punishing 21 stages.

On a trip that already took him to South Korea, Japan and France, Blinken headed to a Renaissance-era villa in Rome for a working dinner on Syria. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, speaking to reporters as the talks opened, said Western powers were ...

The 2025 and 108th Giro d'Italia will start in Albania May 9 and end in Rome three weeks later on June 1, after taking a brief detour on the 14th stage into superstar and holder Tadej Pogacar's Slovenia,