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Byline: Jason Horowitz and Gaia Pianigiani The area around Bolzano has a thick network of family support provided by the government. That means a steady birthrate in a country facing [...]

The area around Bolzano has a thick network of family support provided by the government. That means a steady birthrate in a country facing a demographic plunge. In a municipal [...]

The arrangement, widely criticized by human rights groups, is part of the Italian government's efforts to send the message that many undocumented migrants will not be allowed directly into the [...]

Instead, the pontiff's words were handed out in written form. He seemed to be in good spirits, though his health has become an increasing concern. Pope Francis on Friday chose [...]

The outcome on Monday marked a blow to the criminal syndicate 'Ndrangheta and some of its top-ranking mobsters with ties to international drug syndicates. Hundreds of defendants were sentenced to [...]

The prime minister heralded a deal with Italy's Adriatic neighbor as a model for Europe. Politicians question if it is legal, ethical or practical. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy [...]

Storm Ciaran swept into Italy with torrential rains overnight, continuing its deadly push across Western Europe. At least six people have died in Tuscany, Italy, amid widespread flooding, local officials [...]

City officials in Bologna have closed a city-center square as they study what to do about the Garisenda Tower. A solution could take years. The Garisenda Tower in Bologna is [...]

More than 20 people were killed and several were in intensive care after a bus crashed through a guardrail and onto an empty street below. The day after a bus [...]

Byline: Elisabetta Povoledo and Gaia Pianigiani A high-ranking member of the Cosa Nostra, he was arrested in January after decades on the run. He was found through medical records related [...]

A high-ranking member of the Cosa Nostra, he was arrested in January after decades on the run. He was found through medical records related to his cancer treatment. Matteo Messina [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani The prime minister is facing increased pressure from her right-wing coalition partners as the number of migrants trying to enter the country via Lampedusa soars. On Italy's [...]

The prime minister is facing increased pressure from her right-wing coalition partners as the number of migrants trying to enter the country via Lampedusa soars. On Italy's southernmost island, Lampedusa, [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani A summer of horrific crimes, including the gang rapes of two young girls, has put a new focus on the country's attitudes toward women and the amplifying [...]

A summer of horrific crimes, including the gang rapes of two young girls, has put a new focus on the country's attitudes toward women and the amplifying role of social [...]

''Never forget the legacy,'' Francis said in a video speech on Friday to young Catholics in St. Petersburg. ''You are the heirs of Great Russia: Great Russia of saints, rulers, [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani Scorching temperatures have threatened the health of the elderly and pushed them inside, while governments are trying to take extraordinary steps to protect them. As a light, [...]

Scorching temperatures have threatened the health of the elderly and pushed them inside, while governments are trying to take extraordinary steps to protect them. As a light, hot breeze blew [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani European governments have been slow to put in place broader mitigation strategies for extreme heat, allowing deaths to increase. This year may be no different. Tourists sheltered [...]

European governments have been slow to put in place broader mitigation strategies for extreme heat, allowing deaths to increase. This year may be no different. Tourists sheltered under umbrellas as [...]

A day after Silvio Berlusconi's death, some Italians said goodbye, others said good riddance, and many debated whether the billionaire and former prime minister did more good or bad for [...]

Flooding upended tens of thousands of lives this week in Emilia-Romagna, a region that has also experienced drought in recent years. When the floods hit in the northern Italian town [...]

At least 14 people died and thousands were left homeless after some areas received half their annual rainfall in 36 hours in a region that had only recently finished rebuilding [...]

The assembly includes bishops from all over the world and takes years to prepare for. For the first time, an upcoming synod will allow women and laypeople to vote. The [...]

The package is the first major take on immigration by the hard-right government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and would limit integration and create more detention facilities. Italy's Senate on [...]

Francis was released from the hospital only last Saturday after a bout with bronchitis. Pope Francis won't attend the traditional Good Friday ''Way of the Cross'' procession because of cold [...]

The 86-year-old pontiff spent three days undergoing treatment for bronchitis at a hospital in Rome. Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Saturday morning after a three-day hospital stay during [...]

Francis, who has been coping with a variety of health issues, was taken to the hospital on Wednesday. He is being treated with antibiotics for bronchitis, according to the Vatican. [...]

As bodies continue washing up in a poverty-stricken part of Calabria, some local residents wonder whether a hard-line government understands what drives migration. In the weeks since Vincenzo Luciano pulled [...]

Praised by critics as the inventor of contemporary Italian television, he also used his position to take on the Sicilian Mafia, which tried to kill him. ROME -- Maurizio Costanzo, [...]

At least 63 people died in a shipwreck off Italy's coast, reviving memories of a crash in 2013 that killed hundreds and the work that did not get done in [...]

High waves and strong winds dashed a wooden boat against rocks on the coast of Calabria, in southern Italy, killing at least 59 migrants. A wooden boat carrying 130 to [...]

Byline: Jason Horowitz and Gaia Pianigiani Matteo Messina Denaro, who was sentenced in absentia for the 1992 murders of two prosecutors and other crimes, was apprehended at a Sicilian hospital. [...]

Matteo Messina Denaro, who was sentenced in absentia for the 1992 murders of two prosecutors and other crimes, was apprehended at a Sicilian hospital. ROME -- Even by mafia standards, [...]

About 200,000 came to see the pope emeritus, who died on Saturday at age 95, as he lay in state for three days ahead of his funeral on Thursday. About [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani 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 [...]

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. [...]

At least one person was killed and an estimated 10 others were missing on the island of Ischia, a popular tourist destination off the coast of Naples. At least one [...]

The new right-wing government allowed passengers on three vessels to disembark, but it stood firm on a fourth, a move that France denounced as ''unacceptable.'' A charity-run rescue vessel carrying [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani PIOMBINO, Italy - When Italy, in a major strategic shift, decided to break its dependence on cheap Russian gas in response to Vladimir V. Putin's invasion of [...]

Giorgia Meloni, leader of the hard-right Brothers of Italy, looked set to become prime minister after her party garnered more votes than any other. After a historic national election in [...]

Some fear that the hard-right politician, whose party is expected to be the big winner in the election on Sunday, will continue policies that have kept women back. ROME -- [...]

The elections could produce the first government led by a woman and by a hard-right party with post-Fascist roots. ROME -- Italians vote on Sunday for the first time in [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani 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 [...]

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 [...]

A woman accused Cardinal Marc Ouellet, a member of Pope Francis' inner circle, of inappropriately touching and kissing her. OTTAWA -- A woman in Quebec has accused a prominent Canadian [...]

The three women will serve five-year terms in the Vatican office that vets candidates, enhancing the role of women in the church's operations. Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed women for [...]

Byline: Michael Forsythe, Gaia Pianigiani and Julian E. Barnes On Feb. 24, as Russian troops poured into Ukraine on Day 1 of the invasion, an employee of a yacht management [...]

On Feb. 24, as Russian troops poured into Ukraine on Day 1 of the invasion, an employee of a yacht management company sent an email to the captain of the [...]

Byline: Gaia Pianigiani and Michael Forsythe The Italian police are in a race to finish investigating a $700 million vessel thought to be the Russian president's - before it's out [...]