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Adored, scorned, impossible to ignore in life, Silvio Berlusconi in death drew tributes even from critics, and ever more lush praise from admirers, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Italian media are reporting that Silvio Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption and bribery, has died at age 86.

High food prices are pinching households across Europe, where food inflation is outpacing other major economies like the U.S., Japan and Canada.

Silvio Berlusconi's doctors say the former Italian premier was admitted to a Milan hospital for planned medical checks related to his chronic leukemia.

European Union interior ministers are making a fresh attempt to overcome one of the bloc’s most intractable political problems as they weigh new measures for sharing out responsibility for migrants entering Europe without authorization.

Italian media are reporting that three members of Italy's border police force are under investigation in connection with a February shipwreck in which more 90 migrants died.

Italy is displaying hundreds of antiquities that were looted from Italian territory and were recovered from a London antiquities dealer.

The French general manager of Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala is facing the threat of a tenure cut short, even as he unveiled a star-studded 2023-24 season on Monday.

Italian firefighters say that they have recovered three bodies from a northern Italian lake after a tourist boat capsized in a sudden, violent storm.

German airline Lufthansa on Thursday signed a deal with the Italian government for a minority share in the long-struggling ITA Airways, formerly Alitalia.

A car driven by someone with apparent psychiatric problems rushed one of the entrance gates of the Vatican.

Rescue crews are working to reach towns and villages in northern Italy that were cut off from highways, electricity and cell phone service following heavy rains and flooding.

Officials in northern Italy are warning residents to get to higher ground amid fears that rain-swollen rivers could again burst their banks.

Rivers swollen by days of downpours have flooded some towns in northern Italy.

Italian authorities say customs police and a dog with a fine nose for cocaine found more than 2,700 kilos (about 3 tons) of the drug hidden in 70 tons of boxed bananas shipped from Ecuador.

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has made his first public statements since being hospitalized a month ago, delivering a video address from a Milan hospital to his Forza Italia political party.

Sandro Botticelli's iconic goddess of love in his 15th-century masterpiece “Birth of Venus” has now become a “virtual influencer” in a new Italian tourism campaign.

Former Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has been physically attacked during an official appearance in Tuscany by a man protesting against Italy’s lockdowns and other measures to contain the pandemic.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has abruptly canceled a trip to Paris over remarks by the French interior minister criticizing the Italian premier’s migration policy.

Italian conductor Riccardo Muti plans to visit Syrian musicians living in the vast Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on the sidelines of his annual Roads of Friendship concert series that aims to use music to build bridges and help those touched by war.

Napoli fans are celebrating wildly in the streets of the southern city following the team’s first Serie A title in more than three decades.

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Police across Europe have arrested dozens of people, raided homes and seized 25 million euros in assets in a joint effort to crack down on Italy’s ’ndrangheta organized crime syndicate.

At least one Napoli player is looking forward to the club’s possible title celebrations on Thursday in a town far from home.

Napoli fans are already celebrating in anticipation of sealing the club’s first Italian league title since the days when Diego Maradona played for the club.

ChatGPT’s maker says the artificial intelligence chatbot is available again in Italy after the company met the demands of regulators who temporarily blocked it over privacy concerns.

Italian police say Austrian authorities have handed over one of the suspected smugglers of the boat which capsized in February off southern Italy in a tragedy that killed 92 migrants.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has declared that Britain and Italy are “very aligned” in values as he welcomed far-right Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni.

It's a celebration more than three decades in the making and Napoli fans are not waiting for it to become official before coloring their city in the team's blue colors.

Some 1,200 migrants have arrived since Sunday on a tiny Italian island.

Foreign governments have been evacuating diplomats, staff and others trapped in Sudan as rival generals battled for a ninth day with no sign of a truce that had been declared for a major Muslim holiday.

The doctors caring for former Premier Silvio Berlusconi in a Milan hospital, where he is recovering from a lung infection, say his treatment continues now that he is out of intensive care.

Italy’s right-wing government is pressing ahead with plans to crack down on migrants after hundreds arrived in the last few days.

Italy is pledging Tunsia a host of investments and help with negotiating an International Monetary Fund bailout.

The U.N. human rights chief is calling for an expansion in regular migration channels and search-and-rescue operations after a “steep increase” in the number of migrants and asylum-seekers making risky attempts to cross the central Mediterranean to Europe.

ChatGPT could return to Italy by the end of the month if its maker, OpenAI, complies with measures to satisfy regulators who had imposed a temporary ban on the artificial intelligence software over privacy worries.

The migration agency of the United Nations says the first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats.

Italy will push for stiff, five-figure fines on vandals who damage monuments or other cultural sites.

Italy's right-wing government has declared a state of emergency to help it cope with a surge in migrants arriving on the country's southern shores.

The Israeli military says its forces have struck targets in Syria after six rockets were launched from Syrian territory in two batches toward Israel in a rare attack from Israel’s northeastern neighbor.

Silvio Berlusconi’s doctor, who is treating him for a lung infection, says the former Italian premier is responding well to treatment in an intensive care unit at a Milan hospital.

Italian regulators say the company behind ChatGPT will propose measures to resolve data privacy concerns that sparked the country's temporary ban on the artificial intelligence chatbot.

A Florida charter school principal has been forced to resign after a parent complained sixth graders were exposed to pornography during a lesson on Renaissance art that included Michelangelo’s “David” sculpture.

Visitors to London’s Westminster Abbey will be allowed to stand for the first time on the exact spot where King Charles III will be crowned.

An American aid worker and a French journalist kidnapped and held by Islamist extremists were freed on Monday, four days after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid a visit to West Africa.

Italy’s highest court has ordered a retrial for two American citizens who were convicted in the slaying of an Italian carabiniere during a sting operation gone wrong.

Italy’s highest court has started deliberations in what should be the final appeal of two U.S. citizens convicted in the stabbing death of a police officer during a plainclothes operation in Rome.

An Italian lawmaker says intelligence reports indicate 680,000 migrants in Libya are awaiting an opportunity to set out in smugglers' boats toward Italy.

Italian coast guard and navy vessels are ferrying hundreds of migrants to shore after rescues in the Mediterranean Sea.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has announced a crackdown on people smugglers, from a southern town near where a boat crowded with migrants broke apart, killing scores of people.

The coffins of dozens of migrants who died in a shipwreck off Italy's southern coast have been laid out in rows inside a sports complex for public viewing.

Putting olive oil in coffee is hardly a tradition in Italy, but that didn’t stop Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz from launching a series of beverages doing just that in Milan.

A new documentary that is expected to head to a streaming service later this year recounts the birth of Italian ready-to-wear, giving Giorgio Armani due credit for putting Milan on the fashion world map.

A wooden boat crowded with migrants smashed into rocky reefs and broke apart before dawn off the Italian coast.

Designers with diverse backgrounds figured prominently in shows on the fourth day of Milan Fashion Week during a season when diversity in Italian fashion has become an every more pressing topic.

A Sugar Land mansion reminiscent of an Italian villa is on the market for $4,500,000.

The only Black designer belonging to Italy’s fashion chamber has withdrawn from this month’s Milan Fashion Week, alleging a lack of support for diversity and inclusion after the chamber “abandoned” a project to promote young designers of color working in Italy.

Italian skier Federica Brignone won the women’s combined race on the opening day of the world championships after defending champion Mikaela Shiffrin skied out near the end of her slalom run.

Italy has increased security at its diplomatic missions around the globe in response to what the foreign minister called “a crescendo of terroristic attacks” by an anarchist network acting in solidarity with an imprisoned Italian militant.

A fresco from Herculaneum, a city which was destroyed along with Pompeii by the 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius is now back in Italy, along with 59 other ancient pieces which were illegally trafficked to the United States.

Italy and Algeria moved to broaden ties through a series of memorandums signed Monday during a two-day visit by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, who said the two countries are in the process of building “an extraordinary bridge” and, hopefully, transforming her country into an energy hub for Europe.

American skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s pursuit of a record 83rd World Cup win will move on to the next stop on the circuit.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is looking to boost already strong energy ties with Algeria to further wean Italy off Russian energy.

German airline Lufthansa says it has submitted an offer for a minority stake in Italy’s ITA Airways Spa, formerly Alitalia.

Prosecutors are likening the arrest of a Mafia boss who was Italy's No. 1 fugitive to an “earthquake” rocking the Sicily-based crime syndicate.

Italy’s No. 1 fugitive has been arrested.

You know her from season 18 of Bravo’s hit competition ‘Top Chef’ or for her famous focaccia bread which has become one of the most popular Italian delicacies in Houston.

The leaders of Britain and Japan are signing a defense agreement that could see troops deployed to each others’ countries.

The European Union is assessing Beijing’s rollback of its strict anti-infection controls but has refrained from immediately following EU member Italy in requiring coronavirus tests for airline passengers coming from China.

Opposition lawmakers in Italy are seeking a parliamentary commission of inquiry into three cold cases that have consumed the Italian public’s imagination for decades.

An Italian court has ruled that a suspect in a big corruption scandal linked to the European Parliament can be handed over to Belgium.

A week after a cash-for-favors scandal broke at the European Union's parliament more questions remain than answers.

Two European aid groups have docked their rescue vessels in Italian ports and some 500 would-be refugees have disembarked, even as the Italian government insists it isn't backing down on its hard line against migrant smuggling operations from North Africa.

World champions Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier are looking to become the first American pairs team to win the prestigious Grand Prix Final.

Italian confectioner Ferrero is acquiring Wells Enterprises, one of the largest U.S. ice cream makers.

Italy’s premier opera house has opened its new season with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov.”.

After 11 days of digging, search teams recovered the final victim from the debris of an enormous landslide on the Italian resort island of Ischia, bringing the final death toll to 12.

Search teams on Thursday recovered three more bodies buried under mud and debris from a weekend landslide on the Italian resort island of Ischia, raising the death toll to 11.

Search teams have pulled the body of a young girl from her family home as they dig through mud for a second day in the search for people still missing after an enormous landslide on the Italian resort island of Ischia.

Heavy rainfall has triggered a massive landslide on the southern Italian resort island of Ischia.

Italy’s Catholic bishops have provided their first-ever accounting of clergy sexual abuse.

A maritime rescue ship has docked in a southern French port carrying 230 migrants whose fates sparked a diplomatic row between France and Italy.

A deal for Europe to jointly help asylum-seekers was breaking apart in a bitter French-Italian feud over a ship floating in the Mediterranean, its passengers and crew desperate for land.

Singer Gal Costa, an icon in the Tropicalia and Brazilian popular music movements has died at age 77.

A European humanitarian group says its migrant rescue ship is heading to the French island of Corsica in hopes France will offer its 234 passengers a safe port.

Italy’s new government has blocked humanitarian rescue ships from accessing its ports, resulting in a standoff with charities that patrol the deadly central Mediterranean Sea, used by people desperate to reach Europe for a new life.

Italian authorities have announced the extraordinary discovery of more than 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring.

The far-right-led Italian government’s weekslong standoff with aid groups running rescue ships partially eased on Tuesday, as officials allowed all remaining migrants on two boats to access port.

The German humanitarian group Mission Lifeline says that Italy has directed its migrant rescue ship with 89 people on board to proceed to the port of Reggio Calabria.

The captain of a charity-operated migrant rescue ship has refused Italian orders to leave a Sicilian port after authorities refused to let 35 migrants disembark.

England coach Gareth Southgate hopes that gay soccer players “come out soon” because “it would have an enormous impact on society."

Two German-run migrant rescue ships carrying nearly 300 rescued people are waiting off the eastern coast of Sicily.

Italy’s new far-right led government has adopted a measure formalizing the closure of its ports to rescue ships run by humanitarian groups as four vessels with more than 1,000 migrants continue to press for a safe port.

Italy’s new prime minister has defended her government against criticism that a decree banning rave parties could be used to clamp down on sit-ins and other forms of protest.

Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers chanted and sang in praise of Benito Mussolini as they marched to the slain Italian dictator’s crypt Sunday, 100 years after Mussolini entered Rome and completed a bloodless coup that gave rise to two decades of fascist rule.

About 1,000 anti-fascists have celebrated the anniversary of the 1944 liberation of Benito Mussolini’s birthplace.

The crystal-clear waters issuing from the Alps in Europe could become increasingly contested as climate change and glacier melt become more apparent.

Exactly 100 years ago Friday, the Black Shirt March on Rome triggered events that brought Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini to power.

Italy’s new far-right-led government of Giorgia Meloni has won the first of two required confidence votes in Parliament by a comfortable margin.

Italy’s presumed next premier, Giorgia Meloni, and former Premier Silvio Berlusconi are seeking to put days of acrimony behind them over possible Cabinet picks.