Italy

A huge cactus bust in Italy has resulted in the confiscation of over 1,000 rare cacti poached from Chile’s Atacama Desert

The first cruise ship since the pandemic has wended its way through the heart of Venice, escorted by triumphant water-spouting tugboats and elated port workers as it traveled down the Giudecca Canal

Germany’s Dax was weighed down by Deutsche Bank after reports that the Fed said it was concerned about the lender’s anti-money laundering practices.

The largest of Italy’s three active volcanoes erupted again, spewing lava and ash.

The three suspects in Italy’s cable car disaster have left prison after a judge indicated that for now, most of the blame fell on the service technician who intentionally disabled the car’s brake because it kept locking spontaneously.

With two major events in the same weekend, the international arts scene signaled it has no intention of letting yet another year get canceled by Covid.  

Police in northern Italy have made three arrests in a cable car disaster that killed 14 people

A cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of some of northern Italy’s most picturesque lakes has plummeted to the ground, killing at least 14 people

Was Christopher Columbus really from Genoa, in Italy

The family of one of two Bay Area men, both convicted of a fatal stabbing during a scuffle with an Italian police officer, on Thursday blasted the jury for ordering Italy’s harshest punishment of life imprisonment, a sentence frequently meted out to mobsters who assassinate state officials.

Two Mill Valley men found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in Italy Wednesday. One of them admitting to stabbing an Italian police officer, claiming it was self-defense. Cheryl Hurd reports.

A jury in Rome on Wednesday convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to life in prison.

Two young Americans have been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison in Italy for killing a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small-time drug deal gone bad.

Two Bay Area teens were found guilty of killing a police officer in Italy in 2019. They said it was a botched drug deal and they didn’t know the man they killed was an officer. NBC Bay Area’s Jessica Aguirre spoke to Paula Canny, a criminal defense lawyer in San Mateo County about the verdict.

A jury in Rome on Wednesday convicted two American friends in the 2019 slaying of a police officer in a tragic unraveling of a small time drug deal gone bad, sentencing them to life in prison.

A jury in Rome on Wednesday began deliberating the fates of two young Bay Area men who are charged with killing an Italian police officer near the hotel where they were staying while on summer vacation in 2019.

Federal prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of an ancient Roman sculpture that was on its way to Kim Kardashian when it was seized at Los Angeles’ port five years ago.

Italy’s culture minister says a project to build a high-tech, light-weight stage inside the Roman Colosseum will allow visitors a central viewpoint from within the ancient structure “to see the majesty of the monument.”

A hospital worker in Italy has reportedly been accused of taking home 538,000 euros ($648,000) in pay, despite having never turned up for work in 15 years.

Venice has turned a water bus into a floating vaccination center to bring the COVID-19 vaccine to its hard-to-reach residents.