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Colleen Barry

Pope Leo XIV sprinkles holy water with a bunch of hyssop sprigs as he presides over Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
April 5, 2026, 3:49 pm
Pope urges peace in his first Easter mass: ‘Let those who have weapons lay them down’
Leo XIV departs from tradition of listing world’s conflict by name in the Urbi et Orbi blessing at St. Peter’s Basilica, where he greets crowd in 10 languages
By Colleen Barry and Paolo Santalucia
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, left, prays in front of the body of Pope Francis laid out in state inside his private chapel at the Vatican, April 21, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP, HO)
April 22, 2025, 6:25 pm
Pope Francis’ funeral to be held Saturday after three days of lying in state
Public viewing of deceased pontiff to start Wednesday at St. Peter’s Basilica; first image released of Francis during private viewings by Vatican officials, pontifical household
By Nicole Winfield and Colleen Barry
Pope Francis arrives at the end of the mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, April 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
April 13, 2025, 3:46 pm
Convalescing Pope Francis greets faithful at Vatican, delivers brief remarks
88-year-old pontiff delights worshippers gathered at St. Peter’s Square for Palm Sunday, in 2nd appearance there since battling life-threatening pneumonia
By Colleen Barry
Israeli-Argentine pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim talks with The Associated Press during an interview, at La Scala theatre in Milan, Italy, February 14, 2023. (AP/Luca Bruno)
February 15, 2023, 4:31 pm
Argentine-Israeli maestro Barenboim lives day by day, balancing music with illness
Conductor troubled by current situation in Israel; says that en route to Jewish state at age 10, parents prevented him from playing in Germany due to memory of Holocaust
By Colleen Barry
Local authorities inaugurate the Christmas lighting in the streets of Vigo, Spain, November 19, 2022. (AP/Lalo R. Villar, File)
November 27, 2022, 12:03 am
Sober or bright? Europe faces holidays during energy crunch
Countries grapple with choice of dimming festivals or making a show after two years of COVID
By Colleen Barry
People march in the hometown of former dictator Benito Mussolini to mark the 100th anniversary of the coup d'etat by which he sized power in 1922, in Predappio, Italy, on October 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
October 30, 2022, 8:25 pm
Thousands of Italian fascist sympathizers stage rally in memory of Mussolini
Rome’s failure to fully come to terms with its past has never been more stark, as new PM Meloni seeks to distance her far-right Brothers of Italy party from its neo-fascist roots
By Colleen Barry
Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early September 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
October 27, 2022, 12:29 pm
Italy’s unresolved fascist past in spotlight as far-right government takes power
Unlike Germany, Italy never underwent process of erasing fascist symbols after World War II; even PM Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party retains flame emblem used by Mussolini
By Colleen Barry
Archaeologists are seen cleaning up their latest finding in Pompeii, Italy, in an image released November 6, 2021. (AP Photo)
November 6, 2021, 9:44 pm
Pompeii excavation site yields rare window into daily life of the enslaved
Archeologists digging in a villa amid the ruins of the 79 AD volcanic eruption find a dormitory and storage area room, with many personal items
By Colleen Barry
Author Saul Friedlander during the Leipzig Book Fair award ceremony in Leipzig, eastern Germany, March 22, 2007. (AP Photo/Eckehard Schulz, File)
September 13, 2021, 5:00 pm
Holocaust historian Saul Friedlander wins $815,000 Balzan Prize
Israeli professor, whose parents were murdered at Auschwitz, honored for having ‘changed the way historians write about the history of the Holocaust’
By Colleen Barry
In this image provided by the US Air Force, a US Air Force loadmaster, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, assists evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of Operation Allies Refuge at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 20, 2021. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/US Air Force via AP)
August 20, 2021, 7:40 pm
Western groups desperate to save Afghan workers in danger after Taliban takeover
European nations pledge to evacuate those at particular risk — feminists, political activists and journalists — but unclear where line being drawn or how many people meet standard
By Colleen Barry and Kerstin Sopke
Anti-missile decoy flares are deployed as U.S. Black Hawk military helicopters and a dirigible balloon fly over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP/Rahmat Gul)
August 16, 2021, 2:14 am
Chaos in Kabul as Westerners, Afghans attempt to flee Taliban rout
Helicopters whisk diplomats from US and other NATO countries to airport, but fate unclear for translators and others who are in danger for helping foreign forces
By Ellen Knickmeyer and Colleen Barry
People gather to protest against the COVID-19 vaccination pass in Rome on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)
August 2, 2021, 3:47 am
European protesters compare vaccine passes to Holocaust, apartheid
Effort to boost rates by requiring proof of vaccination to attend public events is largely working, but pockets of resistance draw together groups from political extremes
By Colleen Barry
Customers sit in a terrace bar in downtown Barcelona, Spain, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
May 29, 2021, 7:07 pm
As summer rolls around, Europe sees dramatic fall in COVID cases
Infections, hospitalizations and deaths all plummet as vaccination drives accelerate across continent, allowing for further reopening and some semblance of normalcy
By Nicole Winfield, Frank Jordans and Colleen Barry
A medical worker holds a vial with Russia's Sputnik V (Gam-COVID-Vac) vaccine against the coronavirus disease at a vaccination point at the GUM department store in Moscow, Russia, January 18, 2021. (Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
March 9, 2021, 4:20 pm
In first for an EU country, Russia to make its Sputnik V vaccine in Italy
Deal signed for production of 10 million doses this year, starting in July
By Colleen Barry and DARIA LITVINOVA
Fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation units), backing the Iraqi forces, pose for a photograph with a flag of the Islamic State (IS) group in Tal Afar's Qalea central district during an operation to retake the city from the jihadists on August 27, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
September 29, 2020, 5:42 pm
Italy repatriates female Islamic fighter and her 4 children
Authorities say Alice Brignoli will face trial on terror-related charges, contributed to radicalizing her children to ’embrace global cause of jihadism’
By Colleen Barry
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