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ROME (AP) — The leaders of the world’s economic powerhouses on Saturday took part in the first in-person summit since the coronavirus pandemic, with climate change, COVID-19 economic recovery and the global minimum corporate tax rate on the agenda.

President Joe Biden met secretly with Pope Francis on Friday in Rome, breaking tradition by keeping reporters out of the room when he arrived.

President Joe Biden flies off Thursday to attend global summits in two European cities. After he climbs the steps of Air Force One he will stop, turn and wave goodbye to a Democratic party scrambling to deliver a roughly $2 trillion spending package and a nation troubled by a host of domestic issues.

The leaders of Russia and China aren’t coming. Turkey nearly set off a diplomatic incident on the eve of the meeting. And the United States, Australia and France will be at the same table for the first time since Washington pulled the rug out from under Paris’ $66 billion submarine deal Down Under.

Anyone interested in watching people protest about the environment, politics, human rights, health, education, race, and the inequality of life in general, then CBS has a reality show planned for you: “The Activist.”

ROME (AP) – Italy’s final evacuation flight of refugees from Afghanistan has landed at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport. The Italian Air Force C-130J with 58 Afghan citizens aboard arrived Saturday morning, some 17 hours after it departed from the

The former head of the Vatican’s highest court, Cardinal Raymond Burke, has come off a ventilator and has left ICU, as his condition battling the coronavirus improves.

An Italian police officer has been placed under investigation after shooting a knife-wielding Ghanian migrant in the legs who was threatening passersby.

ROME (AP) — An Italian court late Saturday convicted four African men in the drugging, aggravated sexual assault and murder of an Italian teen in Rome, a crime that spurred calls in Italy for quick expulsions of migrants illegally living in in the country, state TV and private Italian media said.

ROME (AP) – A gunman shot and killed an elderly man and two young boys in Italy before barricading himself in a home outside Rome. He was found dead as police moved in, authorities said.

A German 19-year-old woman reportedly escaped an apartment in Rome where she had been forcibly confined and sexually abused.

Democrat Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) has taken more than $110,000 worth of special interest-funded lavish trips, filings with the U.S. House Ethics Committee reveal.

Nigerian drug trafficking gangs have expanded in Rome after recruiting migrants from asylum centres as drug couriers.

Pope Francis has given the poor and homeless of the city of Rome an unusual Christmas present: 4,000 free coronavirus tests.

The northern Italian region of Valle d’Aosta has defied coronavirus restrictions imposed by the central government, declaring itself a “yellow zone” and reopening restaurants, bars, shops, and businesses.

Four highly-populated Italian cities are at risk of being declared “red zones” and put into strict lockdowns as new daily Wuhan coronavirus cases surge.

Pope Francis urged Christians on Tuesday to learn from the example of Jesus Christ dying so that others may live.

Officials in Rome and the surrounding Lazio region have imposed a new anti-COVID regulation, requiring the wearing of masks outdoors even when walking alone.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Rome Saturday to protest an extended national “state of emergency” for the coronavirus, which allows the government to issue decrees outside of the legislative process.

The United States Embassy to the Holy See accused the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of the theft of American technology and intellectual property Wednesday during the visit of China’s foreign minister to Rome.

Homosexual male prostitutes, most of whom are South American, are said to be behind at least 15 arson attacks as they fight over territory in a Roman park.

A migrant arrested after attacking police in Rome continued to make threats against officers while in custody, boasting that judges would not do anything to him.

Italian bus drivers are taking martial arts lessons so that they can better enforce new rules in the wake of Chinese coronavirus.

Two-year-old conjoined twins Ervina and Prefina were successfully separated after an 18-hour procedure on Sunday.

Rome mayor Virginia Raggi boasted on social media this week that she used a drone to track down and eventually fine a jogger who violated the coronavirus lockdown.

Nurses and doctors joined Pope Francis for a torch-lit Good Friday Way of the Cross ceremony in an empty St. Peter’s Square, as Italy and much of the world remains in lockdown for the coronavirus pandemic.

The streets of Rome were deserted the day before Palm Sunday, wiped antiseptically clean by fears of the coronavirus and, even more, of draconian measures instituted by the state to keep citizens confined to their homes.

Rome’s mayor, Virginia Raggi, boasts on social media that police have conducted a record number of stops of citizens and handed out hundreds of hefty fines for those judged to be in noncompliance with the coronavirus lockdown.

A new directive to Rome police eliminates random vehicle checks, instructing officers to stop every vehicle passing checkpoints in order to limit movement and so curb the spread of the coronavirus.

ROME (AP) — Outbreaks of the coronavirus have stricken two convents in the Rome area.

The local police of Cerveteri, outside Rome, interrupted a Mass Sunday that was being live-streamed on Facebook because there were several people kneeling outdoors in front of the Church.

The online pornography giant Pornhub has offered Italians free access to its premium service during the coronavirus crisis, just as the Catholic Church has cancelled all Masses and limited access to confession and other sacraments.

The coronavirus has succeeded in converting Rome from a bustling metropolis into a virtual ghost town in a matter of days.

Italy has reacted with severity to the coronavirus which has so far killed over 1,000 in the nation, with lockdowns leaving streets empty.

The Diocese of Rome has issued a new decree partially reversing Thursday’s decision to close all Catholic churches in the city, now ordering that parish and mission churches be reopened.

Pope Francis has questioned the Church’s adoption of “drastic measures” in dealing with the coronavirus after the closing of the nation’s churches and the suspension of the sacraments.