Italy’s Constitutional Court has ruled that two women can register as parents of a child on a birth certificate, saying recognition of parental rights cannot be restricted to the biological mother in families with same-sex parents ROME — Italy’s Constitutional […]
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Italy’s Constitutional Court has ruled that unmarried people can adopt foreign minors, ending a 40-year-long ban on the practice and setting a precedent that could pave the way to allowing Italian singles to adopt from within the country ROME —
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ROME — Heavy rains hit the Italian regions of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna on Friday, pushing the main rivers in the regions above alert levels for flooding. In the central Tuscany region, schools remained closed in several cities, including Florence, where
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LONDON — A U.S. naval base in Sicily, Italy, was placed on lockdown on Wednesday due to an “ongoing situation” at an entry control point, officials said. Naval Air Station Sigonella said in a social media post that a “lockdown/shelter-in-place
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ROME — Italy summoned Iran’s ambassador on Thursday to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran, as the government and opposition ramped up public pressure on the politically sensitive case. Cecilia Sala, a reporter for the
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ROME — The bodies of two Italian climbers have been found on Italy’s Gran Sasso massif five days after they disappeared during an excursion, rescuers said. Rescue teams supported by a helicopter managed to reach the location on Friday where
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Rome’s mayor Roberto Gualtieri, center, tosses a coin into the 18th century Trevi Fountain, one of Rome’s most iconic landmarks, as it reopens to the public after undergoing maintenance, just on time for the start of the Jubilee Year, an
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ROME — A man smashed a sculpture by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei during the private opening of his exhibition in the northern Italian city of Bologna, in an act of vandalism that the show’s curator described Tuesday as
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Officials in Italy say a two-story building has collapsed in the southern province of Naples, killing two young siblings and their mother, while burying the children’s grandmother under the rubble ROME — A two-story building collapsed in the southern Italian
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ROME — Seemingly every tourist in Rome knows the key to returning to the Eternal City is to toss a coin into the Trevi Fountain and make a wish. The result: Hoards of visitors packing the Baroque monument any given
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