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Pope Leo XIV called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of hostages and delivery of humanitarian aid in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff.

A tourist visiting Rome was impaled by a spiked fence in front of the Colosseum and left dangling from it for more than 20 minutes after climbing the structure on Friday.

Preparations for the conclave progressed with installation of chimney from Sistine Chapel to signal election of a successor to Pope Francis.

President Trump joined the gathered mourners outside St Peter’s Basilica, having flown overnight to Italy for the funeral of Pope Francis. 

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have departed the United States for Italy, where they will attend Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday morning.

The Vatican kept the doors of  St. Peter’s Basilica open all night Wednesday due to higher-than-expected turnout of Catholic faithful determined to bid farewell to the late Pope Francis.

U.S. officials have reportedly scheduled a third round of talks with Iranian representatives in Oman, following what both American and Iranian sources described as a successful second round of nuclear negotiations in Rome on Saturday.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his family were at the Vatican for Good Friday services to celebrate Easter. The convalescing pope did not attend.

Tesla cars, dealerships, and charging ports have been the target of attacks across the globe as the company’s CEO Elon Musk spearheads DOGE.

Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican from the hospital on Sunday after surviving a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia.

Pope Francis remained hospitalised and in critical condition Monday as he battles pneumonia in both lungs, the Vatican said amid global concern over the ailing pontiff’s health.

Some 30,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Rome on Saturday, calling for an end to the “barbaric practice” of abortion and for the defense of all human life from conception to natural death.

Police detained an Italian man found with a knife in his bag hours before Pope Francis made his weekly appearance.

A fire broke out in a hospital on Rome’s outskirts, killing at least three people and forcing an overnight evacuation.

Family members of the victims killed and kidnapped by Hamas during its savage October 7 attack on Israeli civilians traveled to Rome on Wednesday for talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and other top officials.

Just days after appearing to wimp out of a physical fight with Mark Zuckerberg, calling for a “noble” debate as he claimed he may require back surgery, Elon Musk is suddenly talking about a fight again. Musk provided fresh details about the “fight” in a series of tweets, claiming an “epic location” in Italy, adding that “Everything done will pay respect to the past and present of Italy.”

Italian authorities have vowed to find and punish the tourist who was filmed carving graffiti on the wall of the Colosseum in Rome.

Europe will be conquered by Islam, according to a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad official who claims the continent’s subjugation is part of

Eco-activists targeted Rome’s Trevi Fountain, turning the waters black with dye to protest the supposed impeding doom of climate change. 

ROME — Climate activists poured black liquid into the waters of Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome’s Piazza Navona on Saturday before being dragged away by police.

Archeologists in Livorno, Italy, discovered 175 silver Roman denarii coins, nearly all of which were in good condition.

An Italian princess has been evicted from her royal $533 million villa in Rome, which includes a ceiling painting by Caravaggio, during an intense five-year inheritance battle with her stepchildren. Texas-born Italian Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi, formerly known as American actress

Celebrated Evangelist Franklin Graham will proclaim an Easter message live from Rome, Italy, next Sunday just blocks from where Pope Francis will be issuing his.

Pope Francis has been taken by ambulance to a hospital in Rome on Wednesday after suffering from alleged respiratory issues. 

The economically ailing Vatican has inaugurated a 120,000-square-foot shopping mall to cater to the millions of tourists and pilgrims that visit it each year.

A group of three foreigners were arrested in Rome after allegedly using dating apps to lure homosexual men to areas where they ambushed and robbed them.

Far-left anarchists attacked political offices over the weekend, demanding the release of convicted anarchist terrorist Alfredo Cospito. 

Far-left anarchists are accused attacking police in Milan and Rome in revenge for an extremist engaged in a hunger strike. 

The ancient Romans perfected the use of concrete, and researchers believe they have found the ingredient that made it so strong.

Tens of thousands of mourners, including world leaders and top church figures, gathered in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City.

Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, who are collectively 143 years old, are suing Paramount Pictures over the alleged trauma they’ve dealt with since filming Romeo and Juliet 55 years ago.

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis on Wednesday said his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, is “very sick,” and he asked the faithful to pray for the retired pontiff so God will comfort him “to the very end.”

The U.S. Mission to Italy has asserted that “global conflicts, climate change, and supply disruptions from COVID-19” have exacerbated the world food crisis.

Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader and conservative firebrand Giorgia Meloni has stated that the establishment left is afraid of her right-populist coalition winning the Italian national election this weekend, promising a new era of freedom for Italians.

A 34-year-old Afghan migrant accused of sexually assaulting two underage girls at an Italian beach has been released by a judge just a day after his arrest.

Plans for an alleged bank heist in Rome were thwarted this week when the tunnel being dug to the bank vault collapsed, leaving one of the would-be thieves buried for hours, Italian media report.