After Iran elected a more moderate president last year, Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist, thought something may have changed in the country, which she had been covering from afar. For two years, Iran had rejected her application for a journalist visa, but it granted her one after the election. Colleagues and friends told her Iran’s […]

When an Italian journalist was arrested in Iran in December, her boyfriend back home feared she might linger in prison for years. So, amid talk that Iran and Italy were negotiating a prisoner swap that involved the United States, he says, he decided to try to get a message to someone who might be in […]

Oliviero Toscani, an Italian photographer who used images of an AIDS patient and death row inmates to break the boundaries of fashion imagery as the creative mastermind of Benetton’s advertising campaigns, died on Monday. He was 82. His death was announced by his family on Instagram. They did not say where he died or cite […]

Italy’s justice minister has requested the revocation of the arrest of an Iranian man sought by the United States for allegedly providing material used in a drone attack that killed three American soldiers, the Italian government announced on Sunday. Mohammad Abedini Najafabadi, 38, was arrested last month in Milan and the U.S. Justice Department had […]

The Vatican has approved new guidelines for Italy that say that an applicant for the seminary cannot be rejected simply because he is gay, as long as he remains celibate. The guidelines say that seminary directors should consider sexual orientation as only one aspect of a candidate’s personality. They do not change the Roman Catholic […]

Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained last month in Iran while on a reporting trip, was released and on her way back to Italy on Wednesday, the Italian government said in a statement. “The plane that is taking journalist Cecilia Sala home took off a few minutes ago from Tehran,” the Italian government […]

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy was headed to Mar-a-Lago to visit President-elect Donald J. Trump for an informal meeting being held on Saturday, three people familiar with the trip said. The trip comes just a few days before Ms. Meloni is set to welcome President Biden in Rome for an official visit to Italy […]