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August 9, 2020 at 8:09 am

Italy’s pioneering comic actor, Franca Valeri, dies at 100

ROME (AP) — Franca Valeri, an elegant, ironic and versatile actor who pioneered female comic roles in Italy's post-war years and helped the nation laugh...

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August 1, 2020 at 6:47 am

Italian island runs out of room to quarantine new migrants

ROME (AP) — About 250 Tunisian migrants in several small boats have reached a tiny Italian island that has run out of room to quarantine...

FILE – In this Sunday, April 12, 2020, Italian singer Andrea Bocelli performs outside the Duomo cathedral, in Milan, Italy. Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who had COVID-19, says the pandemic lockdown in his country made him feel â€œhumiliated and offendedâ€ for depriving him of freedom. Bocelli spoke at a panel held on Monday in a Senate conference room, where he was introduced by right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini, who has railed against the government’s stringent measures aimed at reining in the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File) MIL102 MIL102

July 28, 2020 at 5:25 am

Andrea Bocelli, who had COVID, says lockdown humiliated him

The Italian tenor spoke Monday in a Senate conference room, where he was introduced by right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini, who has railed against the...

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A ferry leaves Giglio island, near the Italian coast of Tuscany, Tuesday, June 23, 2020. In spite of various people with coronavirus stopped by the island at times, no one of the islanders developed COVID-19 infection. For Paola Muti, a professor of Epidemiology, being trapped by lockdown in her late motherâ€™s house for months on Giglio Island, the situation also made for an opportunity to possibly contribute to scientific understanding of why some people in close contact with people ill with COVID-19 donâ€™t get infected. (AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia) ROM110 ROM110

July 26, 2020 at 1:11 am

Luck? Genetics? Italian island spared from COVID outbreak VIEW

Intrigued about why “the virus didn't seem to interact" with the island's population, researcher Paola Muti hadn't reached any conclusions. She plans to write up...

July 24, 2020 at 5:37 am

Mandatory masks becoming the rule amid Europe’s virus uptick VIEW

ROME (AP) — New rules on wearing masks in England came into effect Friday, with people entering shops, banks and supermarkets now required to wear...

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July 17, 2020 at 8:27 am

Warning: Italy’s Mafias eye EU’s billions in recovery funds

ROME (AP) — Italy’s anti-Mafia investigators issued a dramatic warning Friday that mobsters will scheme to get some of hundreds of billions of euros in...

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July 15, 2020 at 7:42 am

FRANCES D'EMILIO

Italy’s pioneering comic actor, Franca Valeri, dies at 100

Italian island runs out of room to quarantine new migrants

Andrea Bocelli, who had COVID, says lockdown humiliated him

Luck? Genetics? Italian island spared from COVID outbreak VIEW

Mandatory masks becoming the rule amid Europe’s virus uptick VIEW

Warning: Italy’s Mafias eye EU’s billions in recovery funds

Police partner at Americans’ murder trial recounts knifing VIEW

Italy: Town residents protest housing migrants with virus

UN: Pandemic could push tens of millions into chronic hunger

Flood-weary Venice puts ‘Moses’ inflatable barriers to test VIEW