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EU vaccine politics reach fever pitch; Britain a target
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union vaccine politics reached a fever pitch Friday with charges of British blackmail and unfair practices among EU members flying...
AP Interview: Serie A trying to get it right on anti-racism
ROME (AP) — A botched anti-racism campaign launch involving a painting of apes. Consistent failures to punish clubs whose fans direct monkey chants at...
Hands touch: Italy’s nursing homes emerge from COVID tunnel
ALZANO LOMBARDO, Italy (AP) — Their last hug was through plastic.
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EU top diplomats in Libya to support interim authorities
CAIRO (AP) — The foreign ministers of France, Italy and Germany met with Libyan officials Thursday to show support for the country's newly elected...
Italy: Teen in hijab aims to be ‘Afro-influencer’ on TikTok
MILAN (AP) — In Milan’s chic Victor Emmanuel II Gallery, a spacious mall that would be jammed with shoppers were it not for the...
Spaniards line up for AstraZeneca amid concerns over vaccine
MADRID (AP) — Desperate to finally put the coronavirus pandemic behind them, thousands of Spaniards lined up to get shots of AstraZeneca on Wednesday...
Pope, citing pandemic effect, cuts pay for cardinals, others
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Trying to save jobs as the pandemic pummels Vatican revenues, Pope Francis has ordered pay cuts for cardinals and other...
The Latest: UNLV now plans in-person spring graduation
LAS VEGAS — The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is changing course and now plans in-person spring graduation ceremonies in May as the coronavirus...
As vaccinations lag, Italy’s elderly again pay a price
BERGAMO, Italy (AP) — One year ago, Bergamo’s state-of-the-art Pope John XXIII Hospital verged on collapse as doctors struggled to treat 600 patients, with...
AstraZeneca vaccinations resume in Europe after clot scare
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Countries across Europe resumed vaccinations with the AstraZeneca shot on Friday, as leaders sought to reassure their populations it is...
EU agency: AstraZeneca vaccine safe, will add clot warning
LONDON (AP) — The European Union's drug regulatory agency said Thursday that the AstraZeneca vaccine doesn't increase the overall incidence of blood clots and...
Italy honors COVID dead with living monument on anniversary
ROME (AP) — Italy inaugurated a living monument to its COVID-19 dead Thursday as it marked the anniversary of one of the most haunting...
Ex-Vatican altar boy testifies in seminary sex abuse trial
ROME (AP) — A former Vatican altar boy has testified that an older seminarian would come into his bed at night to perform a...
After vaccine freeze, European countries seek a quick thaw
PARIS (AP) — First, France abruptly halted AstraZeneca vaccinations. Now, the French prime minister wants to get one as soon as he can.
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‘We can rest when we retire’: Rashford rejects burnout fears
With 46 appearances for his club and his country in less than six months, Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford is pushing his body to...
The Latest: Philippines imposes airport entry restrictions
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine government has decided to temporarily ban the entry of foreigners and limit the entry of returning Filipinos at Manila’s...
Italy court blocks Bannon-linked plans for populist academy
ROME (AP) — Italy’s top administrative court has ruled against a conservative think tank affiliated with former White House adviser Steve Bannon over its...
EXPLAINER: Why countries are halting the AstraZeneca shot
LONDON (AP) — At least a dozen countries including Germany, France, Italy and Spain have now temporarily suspended their use of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine...
Major European nations suspend use of AstraZeneca vaccine
BERLIN (AP) — A cascading number of European countries — including Germany, France, Italy and Spain — suspended use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday...
Much of Europe tightens anti-pandemic rules as virus surges
ROME (AP) — Tighter restrictions aimed at reining in surging coronavirus infections took hold in much of Italy and parts of Poland on Monday,...
Pandemic sets back Italian women’s long fight for jobs
ROME (AP) — One of hundreds of thousands of women in Italy who lost jobs in the pandemic, Laura Taddeo has a masters degree...
The Latest: Mexico’s president knocks US over vaccines
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took a dig at the U.S. government Sunday, saying the United States has not helped...
The Latest: All Duke University undergrads must quarantine
DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University issued a quarantine order for all of its undergraduates effective Saturday night due to a coronavirus outbreak caused by...
The Latest: US health officials warn of false positives
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials are warning health professionals about the risk of false positive results with a widely used laboratory test for COVID-19...
Germany, others stick with AstraZeneca vaccine as some pause
BERLIN (AP) — Officials in several European countries pushed back Friday against decisions by others to pause use of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine following sporadic...
WHO whistleblower who denounced spiked Italy report resigns
ROME (AP) — A U.N. epidemiologist who publicly denounced the World Health Organization’s withdrawal of a report on Italy’s coronavirus response has resigned, citing...
An ‘optimistic’ Verona Arena announces summer opera lineup
MILAN (AP) — Riccardo Muti and Plácido Domingo will headline the 2021 Verona Arena Opera Festival, essentially last year's season revived as a sign...
CEO: Italy-made Sputnik V aimed for EU market, if approved
MILAN (AP) — The head of a Swiss pharmaceutical company said Wednesday that hopes behind a deal with Russia to produce the Sputnik V...
Russia to make Sputnik V vaccine in Italy, a first in EU
MILAN (AP) — Russia has signed a deal to produce its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Italy, the first contract in the European Union,...
Provincial Italian hospital overrun by virus variant
CHIARI, Italy (AP) — The 160-bed hospital in the Po River Valley town of Chiari has no more room for patients stricken with the...
The Latest: New Zealand opens 1st big vaccination clinic
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand has opened its first large vaccination clinic as it scales up efforts to protect people from the coronavirus.
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Etna keeps up its spectacular explosions; ash rains on towns
ROME (AP) — A particularly spectacular blast from Italy's Mount Etna volcano belched out a towering cloud of ash and lava stone Sunday onto...
Dolce&Gabbana seeks over $600M damages from 2 US bloggers
MILAN (AP) — The Milan fashion house Dolce&Gabbana has filed a defamation suit in an Italian court seeking over $600 million in damages from...
Italian prosecutor seeks life for US men charged with murder
ROME (AP) — An Italian prosecutor on Saturday requested life in prison for two young American men charged with slaying an Italian police officer...
Europe staggers as infectious variants power virus surge
MILAN (AP) — The virus swept through a nursery school and an adjacent elementary school in the Milan suburb of Bollate with amazing speed....
France backs Italy in vaccine ban as EU defends mechanism
BRUSSELS (AP) — Europe's vaccine solidarity got a boost on Friday after France said it could emulate Italy's move to block coronavirus vaccine exports...
EU, Italy stop AstraZeneca vaccine exports to Australia
BRUSSELS (AP) — A shipment of more than a quarter million AstraZeneca vaccines destined for Australia has been blocked from leaving the European Union,...
Tactical shift: Europe seeks vaccine ‘overdrive’ to catch up
BERLIN (AP) — Slow off the blocks in the race to immunize its citizens against COVID-19, Germany faces an unfamiliar problem: a glut of...
Nearly 100 on trial in Sicily for suspected Mafia EU fraud
ROME (AP) — A trial began in Sicily on Tuesday for 97 suspected Mafia members and white-collar professionals allegedly in cahoots with mobsters in...
Virus variant races through Italy, especially among children
ROME (AP) — The variant of the coronavirus discovered in Britain is prevalent among Italy's infected schoolchildren and is helping to fuel a “robust”...
US youth testifies he stabbed Italian officer in defense
ROME (AP) — A young American on trial in Rome for the slaying of an Italian police officer has told the court that he...
Milan designers hit reset button during digital fashion week
MILAN (AP) — Fashion is off the hamster wheel, taking a deep breath that is allowing some freshness to seep into the once relentless...
The Latest: First US J&J vaccine doses shipping Sunday night
WASHINGTON — Nearly 4 million doses of the newest COVID-19 vaccine will be shipped Sunday night, and will begin to be delivered to states...
Long-time mayor of Croatian capital of Zagreb dies at 65
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Milan Bandic, the controversial long-serving mayor of Croatia’s capital of Zagreb, has died from a heart attack, his office said...
The Latest: U.S. FDA approves J&J single-shot vaccine
WASHINGTON — The U.S. now has a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19.
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Borsalino looks ahead with cool bucket hats, baseball caps
MILAN (AP) — The fedora Humphrey Bogart wore in “Casablanca” may have secured Borsalino’s place in fashion and cinematic history, but it will be...
Archeologists find intact ceremonial chariot near Pompeii
MILAN (AP) — Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site in Italy announced Saturday the discovery of an intact ceremonial chariot, one of several important...
WFP: Security protocols, leaks a focus of Congo probe
ROME (AP) — A U.N. investigation into the attack on a humanitarian convoy in Congo that killed the Italian ambassador, his bodyguard and driver...
Vaccine roll-out gaps a core concern for G-20 countries
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Italy honors slain ambassador, bodyguard and prays for Congo
ROME (AP) — Italy paid tribute Thursday to its ambassador to Congo and his bodyguard who were killed in an attack on a U.N....
Italy’s Lombardy again in virus crisis as Brescia sees surge
ROME (AP) — Italy’s northern Lombardy region, where Europe's coronavirus outbreak erupted last year, asked the national government Thursday for more vaccines to help...
Explainer: Mount Etna puts on its latest spectacular show
ROME (AP) — Mount Etna, the volcano that towers over eastern Sicily, evokes superlatives. It is Europe’s most active volcano and also the continent’s...
Italy orders food delivery services to treat riders better
ROME (AP) — Italy is going after online food delivery companies, with one prosecutor lamenting Wednesday that the cyclists who deliver the food, many...
Del Core intros new brand with live show during digital MFW
MILAN (AP) — It was a lockdown well-spent for Daniel Del Core.
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Report: Italy’s mobsters well-poised to exploit pandemic aid
ROME (AP) — Italy’s organized crime investigators raised alarm Wednesday that the nation’s mobsters are well-positioned to exploit pandemic recovery projects worth billions of...
5 Africa-born designers open digital Milan Fashion Week
MILAN (AP) — Five designers of African origin making their runway debuts opened Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday under the banner “We are Made...
Italy presses UN for answers on envoy’s slaying in Congo
ROME (AP) — Italy on Wednesday pressed the United Nations for answers about the attack on a U.N. food aid convoy in Congo that...
Congo, Italy, UN probe ambassador’s killing amid questions
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Italian Carabinieri experts were joining U.N. and Congolese authorities in investigating the killings of the Italian ambassador, his bodyguard and...
BLM in Italian Fashion campaign shows early tangible results
MILAN (AP) — A digital runway show by five Italian fashion designers of African origin opens Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday, one tangible result...
Mt Etna’s latest eruptions awe even those who study volcanos
ROME (AP) — Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, has awed even seasoned volcanologists in recent days with spectacular spurts of lava lighting up...
Italian ambassador among 3 killed in attack on Congo convoy
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The Italian ambassador to Congo, an Italian Carabinieri police officer and their Congolese driver were killed Monday when gunmen attacked...
With heavy hearts, Italians mark year of COVID-19 outbreak
CODOGNO, Italy (AP) — With wreath-laying ceremonies, tree plantings and church services, Italians on Sunday marked one year since their country experienced its first...
Italy: Pope, others hail health workers on COVID anniversary
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis and Italy’s president on Saturday marked a newly established annual day to honor doctors, nurses and other health care...
Italy taps German archaeologist to oversee Pompeii ruins
ROME (AP) — A German-born archaeologist has been chosen to be the next director of Pompeii, which is still revealing its ancient mysteries centuries...
Arturo Di Modica, sculptor of Wall Street bull, dies at 80
ROME (AP) — The artist who sculpted Charging Bull, the bronze statue in New York which became an iconic symbol of Wall Street, has...
Kim and Kanye: Tales of an uber celeb marriage gone wrong
NEW YORK (AP) — Holograms and Twitter rants, roving gospel gatherings and billion-dollar business ventures. If there's one word that defines the lives of...
Italy: Holocaust survivor’s plug for vaccine sparks hatred
ROME (AP) — An Italian Holocaust survivor’s attempt to encourage other older adults to receive the anti-COVID-19 vaccine has triggered a wave of anti-Semitic...
‘Alone’: How Italian town with 1st known virus death fared
VO, Italy (AP) — Italy delivered the first shocking confirmation of locally transmitted coronavirus infections outside of Asia a year ago Sunday, with back-to-back...
Barred from travel by husband, Iran ski coach works remotely
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — When the husband of Iran’s Alpine ski team coach took advantage of a local law and barred his wife...
Anti-vax at the Vatican? You might lose your job
ROME (AP) — The Vatican is taking Pope Francis’ pro-vaccine stance very seriously: Any Vatican employee who refuses to get a coronavirus shot without...
Italy’s COVID anniversary commemoration nixed by new variant
ROME (AP) — One of this weekend's main events commemorating the anniversary of the start of Italy’s COVID-19 outbreak was canceled Thursday after a...
Italy’s Draghi easily wins Senate backing for unity gov’t
ROME (AP) — Premier Mario Draghi easily won a confidence vote in Parliament’s upper chamber Wednesday night after vowing to do whatever it takes...
Sicilian village cleans up ash, stones from Mt Etna eruption
PEDARA, Sicily (AP) — Residents and municipal teams worked Wednesday to clean up a Sicilian village near Mount Etna after Europe’s most active volcano...
The Latest: Schwarz wins combined for Austria’s 3rd gold
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — The Latest from the skiing world championships (all times local):
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Conte’s last hurrah? Italy’s ‘simple citizen’ plots return
ROME (AP) — When Giuseppe Conte left the Italian premier’s office over the weekend, Chigi Palace employees leaned out the windows to warmly applaud...
Italy won’t open its ski slopes due to virus fears
ROME (AP) — The Italian government on Sunday abruptly delayed opening Italy's beloved ski season because a coronavirus variant was detected in a good...
Draghi takes helm in Italy, focused on pandemic recovery aid
ROME (AP) — Mario Draghi, the man largely credited with saving the euro currency, took the helm as Italy's premier Saturday after assembling a...
British lawyer Karim Khan elected next ICC prosecutor
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — More than 120 countries elected British lawyer Karim Khan on Friday as the next prosecutor of the International Criminal Court,...
Draghi forms new govt blending experts, political operatives
ROME (AP) — Former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi on Friday accepted the Italian president's bid to form a new government, announcing a...
2-time Olympic champion Ted Ligety to retire after worlds
Ted Ligety’s young son recently brought home a medal he earned at ski school and wondered if dad had any of his own.
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Vatican seeks elder care rethink after COVID-19 ‘massacre’
ROME (AP) — The Vatican is calling for a new paradigm of care for older people after what it calls the “massacre” wrought by...
Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper’ reopens to public with short wait
MILAN (AP) — COVID-19 restrictions have brought a novelty to art lovers: The possibility of seeing Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” without waiting in...
Italy teachers balk at AstraZeneca vaccine plans
ROME (AP) — Italy’s main teachers' union is balking at plans for educators under age 55 to receive the AstraZeneca vaccine rather than jabs...
Boat with 422 migrants, some with COVID-19, heads to Sicily
ROME (AP) — A rescue ship with 422 migrants aboard, a small number of whom tested positive for COVID-19, was headed to a port...
Italy’s Draghi wins support of 2 rival parties for new govt
MILAN (AP) — Italian Premier-designate Mario Draghi on Saturday secured preliminary support from two key parties for forming a new government that will decide...
Italy’s Conte: Draghi’s new government should be political
ROME (AP) — As Mario Draghi worked to secure the backing in Parliament he needs to govern, Italy's outgoing leader on Thursday warned against...
Italy looks to ‘Super Mario’ Draghi to end political crisis
ROME (AP) — Former European bank chief Mario Draghi agreed Wednesday to try to form a non-political government to steer Italy through the coronavirus...
Draghi brings market savvy, gravitas to tame Italy’s crises
MILAN (AP) — The former European Central Bank chief credited with helping to save the euro has now been tapped to lead Italy, the...
Mountain heartbreak: Italy has deep snow, closed ski resorts
CORTINA, Italy (AP) — The granite peaks that majestically encircle the northern Italian town of Cortina d’Ampezzo glimmer with one of the most prolific...
Ferrari earnings rise as production bounces back
MILAN (AP) — Ferrari reported Tuesday a 58% jump in fourth-quarter earnings as production and deliveries picked up after the brutal initial lockdown earlier...
Small pleasures as Italy reopens after Christmas lockdowns
ROME (AP) — Much of Italy gingerly reopened Monday from pre-Christmas coronavirus closures, with the Vatican Museums welcoming a trickle of visitors to the...
Probe into Italy virus response looks into preparedness plan
ROME (AP) — Prosecutors from northern Italy traveled to Rome on Thursday to question the health minister and others as part of their broadening...
UniCredit designates investment banker Orcel as new CEO
MILAN (AP) — Italian bank UniCredit said Wednesday that Andrea Orcel, one of Europe’s leading investment bankers, will replace outgoing CEO Jean Pierre Mustier,...
Turin mayor convicted in 2017 soccer final stampede
MILAN (AP) — Turin's mayor and four others were convicted and sentenced to a year and six months in jail on Wednesday in connection...
Italian premier resigns, setting off scramble for new allies
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte resigned Tuesday after a key coalition ally pulled his party’s support over Conte’s handling of the coronavirus...
Italian premier to offer resignation as government wobbles
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte intends to offer his resignation on Tuesday, his office said Monday, a move seen as gamble that...
Pompeii’s museum comes back to life to display amazing finds
POMPEII, Italy (AP) — Decades after suffering bombing and earthquake damage, Pompeii’s museum has been reborn, showing off exquisite finds from excavations of the...
Ailing pope, reducing appearances, prays for homeless dead
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Ailing Pope Francis, who this week is making limited public appearances due to persistent pain, has drawn attention to the...
Italy takes action against TikTok following girl’s death
MILAN (AP) — Italy’s data protection authority said Friday it was imposing an immediate block on TikTok’s access to data for any user whose...
World leaders cheer US return to climate fight under Biden
BERLIN (AP) — World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort...