An Italian man reads job offers outside a recruitment agency in the city of Milan. Southern Italy has lost 600,000 jobs over the past six years and the area has lost some 43.7 billion euros of its gross domestic product (GDP) during the economic crisis, a report shows. The data was released on Friday by the country’s industrial employers’ association Confindustria. The association also said that... 

At least three dozen people have been injured in the riots between migrant workers and residents of the Italian town of Rosarno Pope Benedict XVI has denounced the riots that have torn southern Italy over the last few days, and called for residents in the Calabrian town of Rosarno to recognise that migrant workers have equal rights. ‘Let there never be violence in the name of God,’ he said,...