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May 6, 2021 at 9:59 am

Family upset that 2 Americans got Italy’s harshest sentence

ROME (AP) — The family of one of two Americans, both convicted of a fatal stabbing during a scuffle with an Italian police officer, on...

Finnegan Lee Elder listens as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer on a street near the hotel where he and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth were staying while on vacation in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) FP123 FP123 FP123

May 5, 2021 at 1:58 am

Rome jury convicts 2 US friends in slaying of police officer

A jury convicted two American friends Wednesday in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small time drug deal...

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May 3, 2021 at 11:45 pm

US men await their fate as murder trial nears end in Rome

ROME (AP) — The pandemic was just bearing down on Italy when the trial began of two young American men, charged with the murder of...

May 1, 2021 at 11:18 am

Pope prays for COVID pandemic’s end and for a ‘horizon of hope’

Speaking softly, Pope Francis lamented how the pandemic has left so many people "anguished, bewildered and weeping for their dear ones who have died, buried...

May 1, 2021 at 9:31 am

Over 800 migrants rescued at sea head to Italy

ROME (AP) — Two Italian ports faced an influx of hundreds of migrants on Saturday, as a charity ship sailed toward a Sicilian port with...

April 28, 2021 at 3:16 am

Former members of Italian Red Brigades arrested in France

PARIS (AP) — Seven Italians convicted of left-wing domestic terrorist crimes in the 1970s and 1980s, including several former members of the Red Brigades, were...

April 25, 2021 at 7:45 am

Rescue groups decry loss of migrant lives in Mediterranean

ROME (AP) — Rescue groups and the Vatican are decrying the latest deaths of migrants who put to sea in traffickers’ unseaworthy boats, amid laments...

April 25, 2021 at 4:45 am

Pope: Migrants begged for help at sea, shamefully ignored

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday decried as shameful the deaths of 130 migrants in the Mediterranean, saying they pleaded for two days...

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April 25, 2021 at 2:59 am

Pope ordains 9 priests, saying: Stay humble, compassionate VIEW

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Catholic church nine new priests, encouraging them in an ordination ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica...

April 24, 2021 at 7:25 am

‘Indominable’: Milva, beloved Italian singer, dies at 81

ROME (AP) — Milva, one of Italy’s most popular singers in the ’60s and ’70s who was also beloved by many fans abroad, died Saturday...

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