Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said Sunday he will brief the Lower House this week on what he called "disconcerting" incidents of possible deliberate sabotage to rail lines amid a long wave of disruption that has led the opposition to call for his head.

It is common sense to ban the Islamic veil in public spaces in Italy, League leader Matteo Salvini said after the right-wing party filed a bill banning the veil and setting jail terms of up to two years for husbands who force their wives or daughters to wear it.

League leader, Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini has decided not to attend Donald Trump's inauguration Monday but the right-wing party will be represented by its European Parliament delegation chief Paolo Borchia who will be in Washington along with other representatives of the Patriots for Europe group,

Members of the centre-left opposition on Saturday criticized Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini over huge train chaos at Milan's Central Station that affected rail connections across Italy.

Italy's Salvini Faces Calls to Quit Over Late-Running Trains By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Italy's deputy premier and transport minister Matteo Salvini faced calls for his resignation on Wednesday following a spate of major delays to hit the nation's ...

Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday that the stare of Italy's railways was down to previous governments after coming under fire over a recent wave of delays, cancellations and disruption for passengers.

The League party led by Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini on Thursday held a meeting of the federal council at the end of which it issued a note saying Salvini, Veneto Governor Luca Zaia,

The transport ministry on Saturday afternoon issued a note saying "decades of disinterest, lack of investments, ideological NOs" had caused the railway' network's "grave infrastructural deficiencies" that explained Milan's train chaos.

Senators of the League party led by Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini on Saturday told the Upper House's transport commission that he was fixing Italy following years of blocked investments after huge train chaos in Milan caused by technical issues had nationwide repercussions.

Italy’s national railroad has filed a formal complaint alleging that power outages up and down the peninsula that have caused days of train delays were “highly suspicious.”

Italy's transport ministry on Saturday voiced extreme concern over a bike chain found on a rail line in Veneto Thursday amid rail company Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) suspicions that some recent faults that caused major disruption may have been the result of deliberate sabotage.

A criminal probe has been opened after a bike train was found on a rail line in Veneto Thursday after a complaint by Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) rail company that deliberate sabotage may have been behind a long spate of faults leading to major disruption and spurring calls for Transport Minister Matteo Salvini to resign.