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November 22, 2021 at 12:07 am

Sailboats packed with migrants seek Italy in latest tactic VIEW

Officials in southern Italy are seeing a sharp increase in the number of migrant crossings using a lesser-known smuggling route from Turkey to the southern...

November 14, 2021 at 5:50 am

Italian Coast Guard rescues 550 migrants from stormy seas VIEW

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters...

September 25, 2021 at 10:42 am

Basta! Romans say enough to invasion of wild boars in city VIEW

Rome has been invaded by Gauls, Visigoths and vandals over the centuries, but the Eternal City is now grappling with a rampaging force of an...

Nation & World

September 4, 2021 at 12:05 pm

Afghan filmmakers at Venice fear loss of identity, culture VIEW

Afghan female filmmakers who fled the Taliban are begging the world to not forget the Afghan people and to support its artists

Entertainment

July 28, 2021 at 11:46 pm

Denied ticket over COVID, Guinean Olympian clings to dream VIEW

A West African wrestler's dream of competing in the Olympics came down to a plane ticket

Sports

July 28, 2021 at 11:34 pm

Denied ticket over COVID, Guinean Olympian clings to dream VIEW

A West African wrestler's dream of competing in the Olympics came down to a plane ticket

June 18, 2021 at 4:00 am

Rare poached cacti found in Italy sent home to native Chile VIEW

ROME (AP) — Armed with a search warrant, Italy’s police wildlife unit entered the house of a suspected cactus trafficker, finding over 1,000 rare cacti...

May 23, 2021 at 3:32 am

Italy Eurovision winners return home to cheers, a drug test VIEW

ROME (AP) — The Italian glam rock band that won the Eurovision Song Contest returned home Sunday to the adulation of fans, congratulations from the...

Entertainment

March 25, 2021 at 12:56 am

Italy: Teen in hijab aims to be ‘Afro-influencer’ on TikTok VIEW

MILAN (AP) — In Milan’s chic Victor Emmanuel II Gallery, a spacious mall that would be jammed with shoppers were it not for the pandemic,...

Business

November 27, 2020 at 7:07 am

New cardinals quarantine in pope’s hotel ahead of ceremony

ROME (AP) — The Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel was built to sequester cardinals during papal elections. It's now sequestering soon-to-be cardinals in town for this...