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Why Amanda Knox returns to Italy — and how she talks with her daughter about injustice

12:32pm March 26, 2025

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison for a murder she didn't commit. After her exoneration, she reached out to the man who prosecuted her case. Knox's new memoir is Free.

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How's Pope Francis doing? His condition remains critical but stable, the Vatican says

11:00am February 25, 2025

Pope Francis' condition remains critical but stable and he was able to do some work while still in the hospital with double pneumonia, the Vatican said in a Tuesday evening update.

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U.S. prosecco importers panic as Trump's tariff threat bubbles up

10:59am February 07, 2025

President Trump's threats to impose new tariffs on European goods has led Americans to suddenly stockpile their favorite Italian wines, especially sparkling prosecco.

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Italian politicians allege Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting party killed a protected duck

3:49pm February 06, 2025

Italian politicians want action against a hunting party that included the president's son, who they accuse of allegedly killing a ruddy shelduck. One Italian paper called it the "Donald Duck crisis."

Christopher Columbus may have been a Spanish Jew, according to a new documentary

5:00am October 16, 2024

A recently televised documentary in Spain rekindles competing versions of the famed explorer's origins, but the scientific community is viewing it with caution.

Divers find 5 bodies during search of yacht wreckage off Sicily

11:01am August 21, 2024

The search continued for one more missing passenger on a yacht that sank off Sicily and questions intensified about why the vessel went down so quickly when a nearby sailboat remained largely unscathed.

Search resumes for British tech magnate and 5 others after yacht sinks off Sicily

2:31am August 20, 2024

Rescue teams were returning to the site of a sunken yacht off Sicily on Tuesday to search for six people, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who are believed to be still trapped in the hull.

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'Hellishly hot' southern Europe bakes under temperatures topping 104 F

6:40am July 17, 2024

by The Associated Press

Temperatures were in the triple-digits in much of the area on Tuesday and authorities warn that they could top 110 degrees F in southern Spain in the coming days.

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A Roman beach destroyed by Mount Vesuvius is open to the public for the first time

6:00am June 22, 2024

by Rachel Treisman

The beach at Herculaneum is believed to be where some 300 people died while waiting for boats to save them from the volcanic eruption in 79 AD. It's now open to the public for the first time.

Caregiver Liliya Khodunay cuts Anna's hair in Anna's home in Milan, Italy, in February 2023.

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Ukrainian caregivers in Italy feel effects of war from afar

11:04am February 20, 2024

by Chiara Negrello

Photographer Chiara Negrello documented Ukrainian caregivers in Italy as they try to stay connected to family back home during the ongoing war.