Italy

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This video encompasses two of Dennis' favorite things. Fishing and Italy. A man fishing in Italy's Po River caught a mammoth catfish that looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. The catfish weighed in at 8ft-9-inches long and a whopping 280-lbs...

MILAN (AP) -- Heavy rains have provoked landslide at the ancient Italian site of Pompeii, partially collapsing a retaining wall and sending rubble into a garden at the house of Severus.

MILAN (AP) -- Tens of thousands of union workers marched through more than 50 Italian cities on Friday to protest government economic reforms that they say erode their rights.

CASERTA, Italy (AP) -- Pope Francis has traveled to a southern Italian stronghold of a clan of mobsters who poisoned local farmlands by dumping illicitly trafficked toxic waste.

MILAN (AP) -- An Italian appeals court on Friday acquitted former Premier Silvio Berlusconi in a sex-for-hire case, reversing a lower court conviction that had carried a seven-year prison sentence and a lifetime ban on holding political office.

I was fortunate enough to be invited to my Italian cousins' wedding last week on The Amalfi Coast.  It' one of the most beautiful coastal resort areas in the world.  I went with my son, his girlfriend and my daughter.  We stayed a few days in Rome, an afternoon with a friend in Venafro (a small town in the tiny region of Molise) and a few days near my family in Salerno (just south of the Amalfi Co

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis denounced corrupt politicians, businessmen and priests for the second day in a row Tuesday, scaling up his criticisms as prosecutors crack down on a series of bribery scandals afflicting several major public projects in Italy.

MILAN (AP) -- Venice's mayor resigned under pressure Friday, a day after being freed from house arrest under a plea deal linked to a bribery scandal involving the construction of underwater barriers to protect the lagoon city from flooding.

VENICE, Italy (AP) -- Venice's mayor and more than 30 other people were arrested Wednesday in a sweeping corruption scandal in which politicians are accused of financing election campaigns with some 25 million euros ($34 million) in bribes from the consortium building underwater barriers to protect the lagoon city from flooding.