Tag: Italy

Italian Lawmakers Say They Have Agreed to Re-Elect Sergio Mattarella as President

For days, the competing political parties engaged in all sorts of tactics…

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Viral Photograph of Munzir El Nezzel Helps Bring Syrian Refugee Family to Italy

SIENA, Italy — The award-winning photograph — of a man who had…

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Silvio Berlusconi Angles for Italy’s Presidency, Bunga Bunga and All

ROME — Early this month, Silvio Berlusconi sat at a dining room…

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Italy Ponders a New Role for Draghi. Let the Politicking Begin.

The secrecy, and self-interested nature, of the vote makes it ripe for…

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Venice to Replace Glass on Santiago Calatrava’s Slippery Bridge

VENICE — As tourists wandered obliviously on the glass floor of the…

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Europeans Ponder Living With, Not Defeating, Covid

MADRID — Covid-19 infections were rising all across Spain, but the message…

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Italian Bishop Gives Children Harsh News: There Is No Santa Claus

ROME — All that separated the giddy Sicilian school children from meeting…

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On Syria’s Ruins, a Drug Empire Flourishes

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Built on the ashes of 10 years of war…

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Eitan Biran Returns to Italy From Israel in Custody Dispute

ROME — Nearly three months after he was spirited by his grandfather…

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