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Pasta Carbonara is made with spaghetti, eggs, cheese and pork.

Bacon, Eggs, Cheese — And Spaghetti? The Italian Twist On A Hangover Cure

7:00am January 01, 2017

by Deena Prichep

This New Year's day, consider a bowl of pasta carbonara for a hangover fix. Made with spaghetti, eggs, cheese and pork, some say it's just as effective as bacon, egg and cheese on toast.

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Italy Surpasses Greece As Top Euro Destination For Asylum Seekers

4:35am December 28, 2016

by Sylvia Poggioli

Those arriving in Italy are more likely to be from sub-Saharan Africa rather than the Middle East. Most have little understanding of a process that can take years.

Judge Daniela Monaco Crea reads the sentence on Tuesday in the trial against ship captain Mohammed Ali Malek and crewmate Mahmud Bikhit in the April 2015 shipwreck off Libya that killed 700 people.

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Italy Convicts 2 Men For Shipwreck That Killed Some 700 Migrants

5:11pm December 13, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

A Sicily court has convicted the ship's captain and another man over the wreck involving hundreds of migrants in April 2015. It was one of the deadliest migrant disasters in the Mediterranean.

Long Seen As Victim, 17th Century Italian Painter Emerges As Feminist Icon

5:11pm December 12, 2016

by Sylvia Poggioli

Much of what is known of Artemisia Gentileschi comes from her testimony in the trial of a painter who raped her. "Now we try to go back and fill in and properly understand," says a curator.

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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced Sunday night he would resign, after voters rejected the referendum on constitutional reforms. Opposition parties had framed the vote as a referendum on Renzi himself.

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Message From Italy's Failed Referendum: More European Uncertainty Ahead

12:33pm December 05, 2016

by Sylvia Poggioli

The big winners in the referendum are Italy's two major euroskeptic parties — the anti-immigration Northern League and the maverick 5-Star Movement, which waged vitriolic campaigns.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announces his resignation during a press conference in Rome, after the results of Sunday's referendum on constitutional reforms.

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Italian Voters Reject Proposed Changes, Prompting Prime Minister's Resignation

8:46pm December 04, 2016

by Colin Dwyer

Matteo Renzi had pinned his political future on the proposed constitutional changes, which would have taken some power away from Italy's Parliament. Renzi announced he will resign on Monday.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speaks in Rome on Nov. 26 in support of Sunday's referendum that would amend the constitution. Renzi says it will modernize the political system in a country that has had more than 60 governments in the past 70 years. H

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Italy's Big Vote Could Rattle Europe Once Again

8:41am December 03, 2016

by Sylvia Poggioli

Italy's had more than 60 governments in the past 70 years. A referendum Sunday is designed to make governing less chaotic, but could bring down the country's leader and give Europe another jolt.

Five lots of white truffles on display entice bidders in both Philadelphia and Italy.

A $112,000 White Truffle?! At Auction, Philly Embraces Fungi Mania

6:50am November 20, 2016

by Kristen Hartke

A bidding war was sparked between the United States and Italy over a 2.5-pound truffle, but the winner might have been the city of Philadelphia, which is trying to shine as a gourmet food town.

A family disembarks from the Topaz Responder, a rescue ship, Oct. 27 at Brindisi in southern Italy. The ship arrived with 347 migrants and refugees from Central Africa and Syria following a rescue operation off the Libyan coast.

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Italy Becomes A Leading Destination For Migrants, Matching Greece

8:29am November 05, 2016

by Sylvia Poggioli

Italy received almost 160,000 arrivals this year and the nation says it can't manage the flow. Meanwhile, it's creating a DNA database to help ID migrants who've perished on the way.

An earthquake has virtually destroyed the basilica of San Benedict in Piaza San Benedetto in Norcia, Italy.

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6.6-Magnitude Earthquake Flattens Much Of Historic Basilica In Central Italy

9:53am October 30, 2016

by Bill Chappell

"The monks are all safe, but our hearts go immediately to those affected, say the Benedictine monks of Norcia.