Students from Columbus, Ohio, wait outside a barrier as U.S. Capitol Police watch over the East Plaza where congressional leaders will have a news conferences on the government shutdown at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Local staff at some American military bases in Italy have not been paid due to the US government shutdown and Rome is in talks with US authorities to resolve the issue, the Italian foreign ministry said on Saturday.

About 2,000 non-military Italian employees, mainly at Aviano Air Base and the Vicenza army base in northeast Italy, missed their October pay despite being employed under Italian work contracts, the ministry said.

Italian workers at US Navy bases in the country, however, were paid on time as the navy applies different rules to the ar

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