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In this image released by Vatican Media, Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla meet Pope Francis at The Vatican, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)

Pope Francis meets privately with King Charles and Queen Camilla during his Vatican convalescence

Pope Francis met privately with King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the Vatican during the royal couple’s four-day state visit to Italy and on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary.

King Charles III, right, and Queen Camilla walk as they visit the Colosseum archeological park, in Rome, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

UK royals meet Italy’s president and enjoy a special tour of Rome’s Colosseum

King Charles III and Queen Camilla have met Italian President Sergio Mattarella on the second day of a state visit to Italy that marks the king’s first overseas trip since he was briefly hospitalized for side effects of his cancer treatment.

Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., March 2, 2025. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP File)

Venice says it will host Bezos wedding and denies reports of possible disruptions for the city

The city of Venice has confirmed it will host the wedding of multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sanchez, denying reports the famous Italian city would be invaded by hundreds of celebrities and possible disruptions for citizens and tourists.

Migrants disembark an Italian Navy ship, as Italy sent 49 people to Albania for processing following earlier court rejections to Albania, in Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj, File)

Italy approves new decree to use Albanian migration centers as repatriation hubs

Italy’s far-right-led government has approved a new decree that allows the use of centers opened in Albania for asylum seekers’ fast-track processing also as repatriation hubs, in line with a recent EU proposal.

The day before the European Day of the artisanal ice cream, pilgrims and tourists are offered free jubilee-inspired Hallelujah ice cream as they arrive at the Vatican, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Hallelujah! A day to celebrate the Pope’s release from the hospital — and his beloved gelato

“Hallelujah!” That’s what countless Catholics exclaimed as Pope Francis left the hospital after more than a month fighting pneumonia. It’s also the name of a new gelato flavor.

Pope Francis waves as he arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Pope Francis to be released from hospital Sunday after 5 weeks fighting life-threatening pneumonia

Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, his doctors have said, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in both lungs. Gemelli medical director Dr.

Sculptures are seen atop the Constitutional Court building near the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome, on Saturday, April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Italy’s Constitutional Court allows singles to adopt foreign minors, ending a 40-year ban

Italy’s Constitutional Court has ruled that unmarried people can adopt foreign minors, ending a 40-year-long ban on the practice and setting a precedent that could pave the way to allowing Italian singles to adopt from within the country.

People protest during a pro-Europe rally in Rome’s central Piazza del Popolo, Italy, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Tens of thousands join pro-Europe rally in Rome, amid worries over European Union’s plan to rearm

Tens of thousands of Italians have joined a pro-Europe rally in the center of Rome, waving blue European Union flags in a sign of support and unity amid a European push for rearmament that has split the country.

A woman holds up a photo of Giulia Cecchettin, the 22-year-old university student stabbed to death by her former boyfriend, on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, in Milan, Italy, Nov. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Italy approves draft law targeting femicide with punishment of up to life in prison

The Italian government has approved a draft law that for the first time introduces the legal definition of femicide in the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life imprisonment.

Migrants stand on the deck of the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti, moored at the Catania harbor, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Italy’s top court orders government to compensate migrants who were stranded at sea for days

Italy’s highest appeals court has ordered the government to compensate a group of migrants who were stranded at sea for days on a coast guard vessel in 2018 due to then-Interior minister Matteo Salvini’s tough anti-migration policies.

US air base in Italy locked down for hours over security alarm

A U.S. air base in Italy went on lockdown for several hours after security forces received word of a possible car bomb targeting the facility. Officials later determined Wednesday there was no threat.

Some auspicious Neapolitan horns are displayed inside Italian sculptor Lello Esposito's art gallery in Naples, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Giada Zampano)

An iconic symbol of love and fortune, the red horn ‘cornicello’ brings Naples tradition to the world

Food, music and culture have made the Italian southern city of Naples famous around the globe. But there’s another Neapolitan tradition that fascinates locals and visitors alike: the cornicello, an iconic symbol of prosperity, love and fortune that has become a popular present among lovers on Valent

Migrants follow the authorities after their arrival in the port of Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj, File)

Italian court blocks asylum-seekers expulsions in challenge to Meloni’s migrant deal with Albania

An Italian appeals court has refused to approve the speedy expulsion of 43 asylum seekers detained in Albania under a controversial migration deal to move the proceedings beyond European Union borders.

Migrants disembark from the Italian navy ship Libra at the port of Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulajm, File)

Italy resumes migrant transfers to processing centers in Albania

Italy says it is transferring 49 migrants picked up in the Mediterranean to new processing centers in Albania, in the third such attempt facing hurdles by courts.

Italy’s Meloni defends repatriation of a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court

Italy’s prime minister has addressed growing criticism of the repatriation of a Libyan warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court. Giorgia Meloni on Saturday cited an appeals court order and security concerns.

A view of a ' Monte Dei Paschi di Siena ' bank branch in Milan, Italy, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Italian bank Monte dei Paschi launches 13 billion euro takeover bid for peer Mediobanca

Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena has announced it is launching a 13.3 billion euro takeover bid for larger peer Mediobanca in a surprise move that could reshape the country’s banking sector.

Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni holds the year-end press conference in Rome, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Italy’s Meloni to leverage strong ties with Trump — but as president whisperer or Trojan horse?

After forging unexpectedly fond ties with President Biden, Italy’s right-wing Premier Giorgia Meloni is poised to leverage a more natural alliance with incoming President Trump that positions her as a key interlocutor between the U.S. and Europe.

Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani is pictured in front of one of his works, a self-portrait, at the former Church of St. Pier Scheraggio, in Florence, Italy, Sept. 7, 2016. (Leonardo Bianchi/LaPresse via AP)

Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani, famed for provocative Benetton campaigns, dies at 82

Oliviero Toscani, the photographer behind Benetton’s provocative ad campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s who later broke with the Italian knitwear brand under controversy, has died at age 82. His family announced the death Monday.

Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained on Dec. 19 as she was reporting in Iran walks on the tarmac as she landed at Rome' Ciampino airport after being released, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (Filippo Attili, Italian Government Office via Ap )

Italy releases Iranian citizen held on a US warrant over drone attack in Jordan

Italy has released an Iranian citizen wanted by the U.S. over a drone attack in Jordan that killed three Americans a year ago, after the Italian justice minister asked a court to revoke his arrest.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni holds the 2024 year-end press conference, in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Meloni says Italy is exploring deals on telecoms security, but denies private talks with Musk

Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni says her government is in talks with private companies, including Elon Musk’s SpaceX, over the country’s telecoms security system, but denied having discussed the issue privately with Musk.

This image released Friday Dec. 27, 2024 by Chora Media shows Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained on Dec. 19 as she was reporting in Iran, Italy's foreign ministry said. ( Chora Media via Ap )

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala detained by police while reporting in Iran

Italy’s foreign ministry says an Italian journalist who was reporting in Tehran has been detained by the Iranian police. Cecilia Sala was reporting in the Iranian capital when she was detained on Dec. 19, the ministry said.

Italy’s vice premier, Matteo Salvini arrives at a court in Sicily that is expected to announce its verdict on whether Salvini is guilty of illegally detaining 100 migrants aboard a humanitarian rescue ship when he was interior minister, in Palermo, Italy, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024. (Alberto Lo Bianco/LaPresse via AP)

Italian court clears Vice Premier Salvini of illegally detaining migrants on a rescue ship in 2019

A court in Sicily Friday found Italian Vice Premier Matteo Salvini not guilty of illegally detaining 100 migrants aboard a humanitarian rescue ship iin 2019 when he was interior minister.

Italy’s privacy watchdog fines OpenAI for ChatGPT’s violations in collecting users personal data

Italy’s data protection authority says it has fined OpenAI $15.6 million after wrapping up a probe into the collection of personal data by its generative artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT.

A volunteer walks in an open area of the Ponte Galeria center, one of the facilities created in Italy to detain migrants ahead of their repatriation, as they are considered ineligible for refugee status or international protection, in Rome, Italy, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Europe’s anti-torture watchdog slams Italy over migrant detention abuses

The Council of Europe anti-torture committee has criticized Italy’s treatment of migrants in local detention centers.

Pope Francis delivers his speech during a mass on the occasion of the World Day of the Poor in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis calls for investigation to determine if Israel’s attacks in Gaza constitute ‘genocide’

Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s attacks in Gaza constitute genocide. That’s according to excerpts from a new book, “Hope never disappoints.

Police clash with students in Turin as anti-government rallies draw support across Italy

Students clashed with police during a demonstration in Turin on Friday, as thousands of people took to the streets across Italy to protest against the far-right government of Giorgia Meloni.

Italian hotel manager rejects Israeli couple’s reservation, accusing Israeli people of ‘genocide’

The manager of a small hotel in northern Italy has refused a reservation made by a couple of Israeli tourists and accused Israeli people of being “responsible for genocide.” Jewish groups decried the incident as an example of antisemitism.

Migrants disembark from the Italian navy ship Libra at the port of Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Friday, Nov. 8, 2024, as a second group of eight migrants were intercepted in international waters. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

One of 8 migrants sent to Albania returned to Italy

One of the eight migrants brought for processing in an Albanian center after being intercepted in international waters has returned to Italy after being deemed “vulnerable.”

UN report warns of famine, aggravated by conflicts and climate shocks

Severe food crises threaten hundreds of thousands in vulnerable areas, including Sudan, South Sudan, Haiti, Mali and the Palestinian territories, where populations face or approach famine, a report by the United Nations’ food agencies says.

FILE - Migrant and security officials walk at the port of Shengjin, northwestern Albania. Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024 after disembarking from the Italian navy ship Libra, carrying the first group of 16 migrants intercepted in international waters. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj, File)

Italy adopts a new decree to overcome hurdles jeopardizing its migration deal with Albania

Italy’s far-right government has approved a new decree aimed at overcoming judicial hurdles that risked derailing a controversial migration deal with Albania.