Italy

Italy is no stranger to political conflicts and a new crisis is threatening the current government.

In June 2018, Giuseppe Conte, a law professor with no political experience, became Italy’s prime minister because of a compromise. He’s still in the role now.

Emails seen by The Associated Press show that an official who coordinated work on a withdrawn World Health Organization report into Italy’s coronavirus response warned his bosses that people could die if the agency allowed political concerns to suppress the document

More than 15 years ago, I set out to study the longevity and food habits of the world’s healthiest people. From meat consumption to how they monitor coffee and wine intake, here’s what I learned.

Italy became Europe’s first coronavirus hotspot earlier this year, after cases started to emerge in the northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto in February.

Most of us have no problem pronouncing the vast majority of food-related words: Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy. But thanks to our increasingly diverse world (and increasingly diverse cuisines) there’s been an increase in food words that a lot of us don’t know how to say.

There’s one thing that most people are agreed upon: Christmas is not likely to be the same this year.

This nativity scene in Naples, Italy, is decked out with masks as the country experiences an increase in coronavirus cases.

Dr. Luca Cabrini was certain his hospital in Italy’s Lombardy province would reach its breaking point with 300 COVID-19 patients

A kidney in Italy was delivered by police in a Lamborghini Huracan to promote an organ donor campaign being run by Italy’s National Transplant Center and the Ministry of Health.

Four Italian regions are being put under “red-zone” lockdown, with severe limits imposed on the circumstances under which people can leave home

Pope Francis is halting his public general audiences and will limit participation at Christmas and other upcoming Masses amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Italy and the Vatican

Coronavirus cases around the world have climbed to all-time highs of more than 330,000 per day as the scourge comes storming back across Europe and spreads with renewed speed in the U.S. Many places are being forced to reimpose tough restrictions they had eased just a few months ago

Pope Francis has given his blessing to a new Vatican think tank that is seeking to prevent the Mafia and organized crime groups from exploiting the image of the Virgin Mary for their own illicit ends

Museum officials in Florence say a restoration of one of Michelangelo’s sculptures of the Madonna and Christ has uncovered previously unknown details.

Cruise ship passengers had temperatures checked and took COVID-19 tests Sunday so they could set sail on what is being billed as the first Mediterranean cruise after Italy’s pandemic lockdown.

Italy produced 10% less garbage during its coronavirus lockdown, thanks to a drop in consumption

Italian authorities released footage of an Austrian tourist who broke part of a historic sculpture after sitting on it for a photo opp.

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who had COVID-19, says the pandemic lockdown made him feel “humiliated and offended” by depriving him of freedom

Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and the soundtracks such as classic Hollywood gangster movies as “The Untouchables,” has died