C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was preparing to fly to Washington to ...

He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West. Donald ...

Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed in on ...

Forty-six Democrats crossed party lines in voting to pass a bill requiring undocumented immigrants arrested for violent ...

When Elon Musk performed a gesture that many saw as a fascist gesture, his supporters claimed it was a Roman salute. So ...

After forging unexpectedly fond ties with President Biden, Italy's right-wing Premier Giorgia Meloni is poised to leverage a ...

The Roman salute is conditionally allowed in Italy and outright banned in Germany. German chancellor Olaf Scholz responded to ...

If this is true it is a disgrace because it makes the poor unfortunate who have nothing pay the price of imbalance. This is ...

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni has emerged as the US president’s favourite EU interlocutor, with hopes growing she could talk him out ...

The comments provided the latest indication of a potential renewal of friction between the Vatican and the next Trump White ...

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