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ROME -- Italy's ambassador to Pakistan on Saturday announced the deaths of two climbers, one British and one Italian, who had been missing for weeks while climbing Nanga Parbat in [...]

GENOA, Italy -- Long before the Morandi Bridge collapsed in Genoa, Italy, last year, killing 43 people, an economics professor named Marco Ponti took aim at the private company that [...]

Richard Gardner, who in the late 1970s served as the American ambassador to Italy in a period of political violence there and concern in Washington about the Italian Communist Party's [...]

Richard Gardner, who in the late 1970s served as the American ambassador to Italy in a period of political violence there and concern in Washington about the Italian Communist Party's [...]

ROME -- More than 100 African migrants who set off in a rickety, inflatable dingy have died in a wreck off the Libyan coast, humanitarian workers said on Saturday, in [...]

ROME -- Pope Francis defended ''modern multilateral diplomacy'' and international institutions against ''the resurgence of nationalistic tendencies'' in an address at the Vatican on Monday.Francis did not cite specific countries [...]

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 [...]

CAIRO -- Italian prosecutors said Tuesday that five Egyptian security officials are suspects in the killing of an Italian student in Cairo nearly three years ago.The announcement signaled a major [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI ROME -- Gilberto Benetton, who drove the expansion of the family clothing business known for its colorful sweaters and provocative advertisements into investments in agriculture, real estate, [...]

ROME -- Gilberto Benetton, who drove the expansion of the family clothing business known for its colorful sweaters and provocative advertisements into investments in agriculture, real estate, highways and other [...]

ROME -- The authorities in Italy on Wednesday were investigating why a subway escalator in Rome suddenly sped up during rush hour and raced to the bottom, dumping riders in [...]

ROME -- Pope Francis received an invitation on Thursday to visit North Korea, a message relayed to him in a private audience at the Vatican with President Moon Jae-in of [...]

Byline: JAMES GLANZ, GAIA PIANIGIANI, JEREMY WHITE and KARTHIK PATANJALI GENOA -- An off-duty firefighter, Davide Capello, had just driven out of a tunnel and onto the main bridge over [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI GENOA, Italy -- All day Wednesday outside the austere building that houses Genoa's morgue, parents, children, friends and colleagues of possible victims of a collapsed bridge entered, [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI, ELISABETTA POVOLEDO and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA GENOA, Italy -- When Deborah Ilardi woke up on Tuesday, her first thought was about celebrating her 29th birthday. She couldn't have [...]

GENOA, Italy -- When Deborah Ilardi woke up on Tuesday, her first thought was about celebrating her 29th birthday. She couldn't have imagined that she'd end the day worrying about [...]

GENOA, Italy -- As deaths from the bridge failure in Genoa rose on Wednesday to 39, it became clear that while the collapse was catastrophic, it was not exactly a [...]

GENOA, Italy -- All day Wednesday outside the austere building that houses Genoa's morgue, parents, children, friends and colleagues of possible victims of a collapsed bridge entered, dreading what they [...]

GENOA, Italy -- A bridge in the heart of Genoa collapsed on Tuesday, killing 26 people as dozens of vehicles and tons of concrete and steel plunged onto city streets [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI ROME -- Married for 16 years, Antonietta Gargiulo had tried desperately to keep her abusive husband, a police officer, at a distance. She detailed his violence to [...]

ROME -- Married for 16 years, Antonietta Gargiulo had tried desperately to keep her abusive husband, a police officer, at a distance. She detailed his violence to family, friends, her [...]

ROME -- Hundreds of migrant farmworkers walked off tomato fields in southern Italy on Wednesday to protest their working conditions after two road accidents killed 16 African laborers in 48 [...]

ROME -- For the second time in three days, Pope Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of a powerful prelate -- this time, an Australian archbishop -- in a sexual [...]

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, a champion of interfaith dialogue as a top Vatican diplomat and the man who announced Pope Francis's election to the world, died on July 5 in Hartford. [...]

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, a champion of interfaith dialogue as a top Vatican diplomat and the man who announced Pope Francis's election to the world, died on July 5 in Hartford. [...]

ROME -- Italian parents will no longer have to provide state-run schools with a doctor's note to show that their children have been vaccinated, the country's new populist government announced [...]

ROME -- On Monday, it was Malta's turn to get tough on immigration in Europe. Prosecutors brought legal charges against a nongovernmental organization active in the rescue of migrants in [...]

Byline: ELISABETTA POVOLEDO and GAIA PIANIGIANI ROME -- He has compared the European Union to the Titanic, accused the left of supporting immigration to supply slave labor, and insulted migrants [...]

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 -- Italy's new populist government, following through on its campaign promise to crack down on immigration, refused to let a rescue boat with more than 600 migrants dock on [...]

CAIRO -- An Italian prosecutor flew to Rome from Cairo this week bearing precious cargo: a thumb drive containing surveillance video from the Cairo metro system that could hold the [...]

ROME -- Italy's political convulsions have raised new fears about the future of the euro, the single currency of the European Union that was introduced 16 years ago. The possibility, [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI and ELISABETTA POVOLEDO ROME -- Italy's political convulsions have raised new fears about the future of the euro, the single currency of the European Union that was [...]

FLORENCE, Italy -- Four years ago, a Florentine restorer happened upon a painting fragment peeking out of an envelope stored in a depository at the city's famed museum, the Uffizi [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI FLORENCE, Italy -- Four years ago, a Florentine restorer happened upon a painting fragment peeking out of an envelope stored in a depository at the city's famed [...]

ROME -- For many of his days over the past four years, Paolo Borrometi has lived in isolation, though he is barely ever alone. He has not walked through a [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI ROME -- For many of his days over the past four years, Paolo Borrometi has lived in isolation, though he is barely ever alone. He has not [...]

ROME -- Running late for a news conference on Tuesday morning, I decided not to wait for the No. 63 bus that I usually take to work in the center [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI ROME -- Running late for a news conference on Tuesday morning, I decided not to wait for the No. 63 bus that I usually take to work [...]

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 [...]

ROME -- After a heated campaign, Italians voted on Sunday for a new Parliament in an election that was being closely watched by European leaders for its potential impact on [...]

ROME -- Like many working mothers in Italy, Francesca Roncetti constructed her life around a frantic, daily juggle that became more frenzied after her second child was born. On weekdays, [...]

CASTELLINA IN CHIANTI, Italy -- The three-story school building hasn't changed much. The blackboards still hang against the ochre-colored classroom wall. Even the morning ritual is familiar: Two students walk [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI CASTELLINA IN CHIANTI, Italy -- The three-story school building hasn't changed much. The blackboards still hang against the ochre-colored classroom wall. Even the morning ritual is familiar: [...]

ROME -- When the Egyptian Museum in the northern Italian city of Turin began offering two-for-one admissions for Arabic speakers last month, the offer seemed innocuous enough. After all, the [...]

ROME -- Police officers in Italy swooped down on a Chinese mafia organization on Thursday, arresting 33 people on suspicion of running a criminal enterprise that dominated the transport of [...]

SIENA, Italy -- The colorful tickets bearing images of an elephant and giraffes behind the Colosseum along with the two iconic tigers of an Italian circus promised an afternoon's respite [...]

ROME -- The countdown to Europe's next pivotal election began on Thursday, when Italy's president dissolved the Parliament and effectively opened the campaign for the first national elections in five [...]

SANT'AGATA BOLOGNESE, Italy -- It is named after the primitive wild cattle from which today's beasts of the field are descended, but what the new Urus sport utility vehicle represents [...]