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CASAMICCIOLA TERME, Italy -- A bulldozer paused and everything went silent in the night as a firefighter, spotting a pink sweater in a generator's light, reached into the mud-caked debris. [...]

Casentino cloth has been finished for centuries by workers in a remote Tuscan valley. Today they are threatened by eviction. SOCI, Italy -- For centuries, this remote and verdant valley [...]

Pope Francis approved a miracle attributed to the last Italian pope, bringing him a step closer to becoming a saint. The Vatican announced on Wednesday that Pope John Paul I, [...]

The euthanizing of a boar and her six piglets on a playground near the Vatican has aroused fury in Rome, a city that has long complained about the often aggressive [...]

ROME -- The construction of a new bridge to replace the viaduct that collapsed in Genoa last summer, killing 43 people, will be overseen by a native son of the [...]

ROME -- Italy's highest court has ordered that a centerpiece of the Getty Villa's art collection, a prized bronze sculpture more than 2,000 years old, should be returned to Italy [...]

ROME -- He has compared the European Union to the Titanic, accused the left of supporting immigration to supply slave labor, and insulted migrants using any number of disparaging epithets. [...]

ROME -- Pope Francis has paved the way for the canonization of Pope Paul VI, who led the Roman Catholic Church through turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, and the [...]

PISTOIA, Italy -- As Europe's era of easy money slowly draws to a close, the talk in Frankfurt and London is of bond yields, exchange rates and core inflation. In [...]

ROME -- Italy's foreign minister, Paolo Gentiloni, accepted a presidential mandate on Sunday to try to form a new government, hoping to lead Italy out of a political crisis that [...]

SAN GIOVANNI D'ASSO, Italy -- Two small towns in southeastern Tuscany, one famous for red wine, the other for truffles and organic grain, are considering a municipal marriage of convenience [...]

ROME -- When Her Majesty calls, the commoners hasten? Not necessarily. Especially if the commoners in question are the proud representatives of the Palio, the famed horse race in Tuscany, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDROME -- Catholics should not try to convert Jews, but should work together with them to fight anti-Semitism, the Vatican said on Thursday in a far-reaching document meant to [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI MONTALCINO, Italy -- Its gentle sloping hills, olive groves, cypresses and sunflower fields have made Tuscany a muse to writers and artists for centuries. But the region [...]

ROME -- Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Italy's third-largest bank, plans to offer investors as much as 5 billion euros, or $6.9 billion, in new stock as it fights to [...]

ROME -- The Italian government signaled on Monday that it had no interest in nationalizing Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the country's oldest bank, after shareholders over the weekend overruled [...]

SIENA, Italy -- Shareholders in Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world's oldest bank, derailed a plan by management to raise urgently needed new cash, leaving the bank's future in [...]

Byline: TED LOOS and GAIA PIANIGIANI It was a typically elaborate, provocative move by the Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli in a career full of them: He had contracted to buy [...]

It was a typically elaborate, provocative move by the Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli in a career full of them: He had contracted to buy the ruins of an old deconsecrated [...]

GIGLIO, Italy -- After a costly, painstaking and potentially perilous operation to raise the battered hull of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, engineers said early Tuesday that they had succeeded [...]

SIENA, Italy -- Ending a five-century tradition of local control and patronage, shareholders of the troubled bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena voted on Thursday to lift ownership restrictions and [...]

SIENA, Italy -- The long, tortured saga of Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the scandal-plagued Italian lender that is the world's oldest bank, may be coming to an end, but [...]

BY GAIA PIANIGIANI ROME-- The advisers chosen by President Giorgio Napolitano to help solve Italy's weeks long political stalemate presented their findings on Friday, listing the political and economic changes [...]

ROME -- Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy said Thursday that Italy was working hard to avoid having to take the European Central Bank up on its offer to buy [...]

ROME -- One of the most expensive and challenging salvage operations ever planned, the removal of the luxury liner Costa Concordia from granite rocks off the Tuscan coast, where it [...]

ROME -- Prime Minister Mario Monti on Wednesday pushed back Italy's balanced budget target by a year, amid a deepening recession that economists say has been worsened by new austerity [...]

ROME -- Rough seas and strong winds forced salvage crews to suspend preparations to drain the fuel from a half-sunken luxury liner off the Tuscan coast on Saturday, and officials [...]

Rescue divers discovered the bodies of two women in the submerged Internet cafe lounge of the Costa Concordia shipwreck on Monday, raising the official death toll to 15, as salvage [...]

The Vatican issued a rare statement on Friday warning people not to be fooled by agencies and Web sites selling tickets for the beatification of Pope John Paul II. It [...]

ROME -- Tunisia on Monday rejected Italy's offer to send its armed forces to help stop what one Italian official called an ''unprecedented biblical exodus.'' The official TAP news agency [...]

ROME -- Tens of thousands of students took to the streets on Wednesday to protest planned changes in the university system but stayed away from the historic center here, much [...]