Frances D'emilio

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Italy pardons US Air Force officer in CIA case

Frances D'emilio · April 5, 2013 8:16 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 file photo Amanda Knox gestures at a news conference in Seattle Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011, after returning home from Italy. Italy's highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox in the slaying of her British roommate and ordered a new trial. The Court of Cassation ruled Tuesday, March 26, 2013 that an appeals court in Florence must re-hear the case against the American and her Italian-ex-boyfriend for the murder of 21-year-old Meredith Kercher. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)

Knox saga still not over for Italian courts

Frances D'emilio · March 27, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - This Nov. 2, 2007 file photo shows Amanda Marie Knox, of the U.S., left, and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, of Italy, outside the rented house where 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher was found dead in Perugia, Italy. The Court of Cassation on Monday March 25, 2013 is considering prosecutors' contentions that the 2011 acquittals of American Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher should be thrown out and a new trial ordered. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici, File)

Knox awaits decision from Italy’s highest court

Frances D'emilio · March 25, 2013 4:00 am

Italian marines sought by India are questioned

Frances D'emilio · March 20, 2013 5:38 pm

Debt-laden Italy struggles to find stable govt

Frances D'emilio · March 20, 2013 1:41 pm

FILE -- In this photo from files taken on Feb. 24, 2013 and provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his blessing during his last Angelus noon prayer, from the window of his studio overlooking an overcrowded St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. Planning for the moment when the next pope is proclaimed to the world, and for the installation ceremony a few days later, is a big-time guessing game. And that adds up to an ungodly logistical headache for the city of Rome. Nearly everything went smoothly for Benedict's last public appearances, although some faithful panicked during the retired pope's penultimate Sunday blessing from his studio window, when thousands of last-minute arrivals tried to squeeze through three narrow openings through a metal fence ringing the edge of the square. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho)

Rome braces for conclave crowd control challenge

Frances D'emilio · March 10, 2013 5:00 am

Pope Benedict XVI leaves after greeting the faithful from the balcony window of the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, the scenic town where he will spend his first post-Vatican days and made his last public blessing as pope,Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Now a ‘simple pilgrim,’ Benedict resigns papacy

Nicole Winfield, Frances D'emilio · February 28, 2013 5:00 am

Berlusconi: if I win, Italians get home tax back

Frances D'emilio · February 3, 2013 2:19 pm

Italian Premier Mario Monti, left, and former Premier Silvio Berlusconi shake hands in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. Silvio Berlusconi says Benito Mussolini did much good, except for dictator's regime's anti-Jewish laws. Berlusconi also defended Mussolini for siding with Hitler, saying the late fascist leader likely reasoned that German power would expand so it would be better for Italy to ally itself with Germany. He was speaking to reporters Sunday on the sidelines of a ceremony in Milan to commemorate the Holocaust. When Germany's Nazi regime occupied Italy during World War II, thousands from the tiny Italian Jewish community were deported to death camps. In 1938, before the war's outbreak, Mussolini's regime passed anti-Jewish laws, barring them from universities and many professions, among other bans. Berlusconi called the laws Mussolini's "worst fault" but insisted that in many other things, "he did good." (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Berlusconi defends Mussolini for backing Hitler

Frances D'emilio · January 27, 2013 5:00 am

Berlusconi: I won’t be premier if my party wins

Frances D'emilio · January 20, 2013 3:05 pm

Missoni scion on plane missing in Venezuela

Ian James, Frances D'emilio · January 5, 2013 5:00 am

Ben Kiniry, of Texas, gets cash from an ATM machine along Rome's Via della Conciliazione, the main road leading to the Vatican St. Peter's Basilica, whose dome is visible in background, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. It's "cash only" now for tourists at the Vatican wanting to pay for museum tickets, souvenirs and other services after Italy's central bank decided to block electronic payments, including credit cards, at the tiny city state. The Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported Thursday that Bank of Italy took the action because the Holy See has not yet fully complied with European Union safeguards against money laundering. That means Italian banks are not authorized to operate within the Vatican, which is in the process of improving its mechanisms to combat laundering. The Vatican says it's scrambling to find a non-Italian bank to provide the electronic payment services "quite soon" but declined to discuss Bank of Italy's concerns. The central bank had no immediate comment on the situation. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

It’s ‘cash only’ now for tourists at the Vatican

Frances D'emilio · January 3, 2013 5:00 am