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Paolo Santalucia

Pope Leo XIV attends the presentation of his first encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,' at the Vatican, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
May 25, 2026, 4:25 pm
Pope calls for robust AI regulation in manifesto pondering the future of humanity
Leo XIV’s first encyclical demands AI be ‘disarmed,’ freed from use as ‘instrument of domination, exclusion and death’; expert says edict may be ‘defining document for our era’
By Nicole Winfield, KAITLYN HOUMANI and Paolo Santalucia
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
Italian Cabinet Minister Luca Ciriani, left back, speaks during Question Time in the Chamber of Deputies, in Rome, February 12, 2025. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)
February 13, 2025, 2:45 pm
Italy denies spying on journalists, migrant activists using Israeli spyware
Rome says it will cooperate with probe into ‘vulnerabilities’ after at least 7 Italian cellphones apparently hacked with military-grade cyber surveillance tech Paragon
By Nicole Winfield and Paolo Santalucia
BAC Consulting CEO Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono (via LinkedIn)
September 20, 2024, 10:14 pm
CEO of company linked to Hezbollah pagers being guarded by Hungarian secret services
Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, head of BAC Consulting, has not been seen since Tuesday’s widespread explosions in Lebanon
By Justin Spike, Paolo Santalucia and Sarah El Deeb
People gather during a march organized by the anti-fascist Italian Partisans association in Mussolini's birthplace Predappio, Italy, Oct. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
October 29, 2022, 3:08 am
Anti-fascists march in Mussolini’s birthplace as his supporters rally in Rome
Dueling events highlight Italy’s uneasy reckoning with its past as new Prime Minister Meloni takes helm of 1st postwar government led by a party with neo-fascist roots
By Paolo Santalucia and Luca Bruno
Vera Lytovchenko holds her violin as she poses for a photo in a basement of an apartment building in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday March 6, 2022. (Vera Lytovchenko via AP)
March 10, 2022, 5:22 pm
Sheltering from Russian bombs, Ukraine’s ‘cellar violinist’ plays on
Vera Lytovchenko becomes internet icon of resilience as images of her playing in basement bomb shelter inspire an international audience via social media
By Paolo Santalucia
CasaPound militant Davide Di Stefano in CasaPound headquarters in Rome, September 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
September 28, 2017, 7:14 pm
In Italy, neo-fascists get a boost from anti-migrant sentiment
Growing CasaPound social movement combines progressive policies with diehard nationalism and violence
By Paolo Santalucia
A rescue helicopter approaches the area in Rigopiano, central Italy, where a hotel was buried under an avalanche on Wednesday, to recover 6 people who have been reportedly extracted alive from the debris, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo Gregorio Borgia)
January 20, 2017, 7:19 pm
Joy erupts as Italian rescuers pull out avalanche survivors
Two children are among the 10 found alive two days after massive snow slide buries around 30 people at ski resort
By Paolo Santalucia and GREGORIO BORGIA
Firefighters gather in the damaged central Italian village of Amatrice on August 26, 2016, two days after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the region killing at least 267 people. (AFP/Andreas Solaro)
August 26, 2016, 11:38 am
Aftershocks rattle Italy as death toll climbs to 267
Hopes of finding more survivors from Wednesday’s quake dim, but rescue workers in central Italy press on
By Paolo Santalucia and Nicole Winfield
Rescuers carry a man from the rubble after a strong earthquake hit Amatrice, Italy on August 24, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
August 24, 2016, 5:36 pm
Death toll in Italian quake rises to 73 as towns reduced to rubble
Witnesses describe scenes of devastation as rescuers race to reach survivors in mountain region after 6.2 magnitude temblor
By Paolo Santalucia and Nicole Winfield
In this image taken from a Dec. 28, 2014 video and made available Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014 a tug boat passengers sprays water on the Italian-flagged ferry Norman Atlantic after it caught fire in the Adriatic Sea. (Photo credit: AP /APTN)
January 1, 2015, 5:04 am
Italy: 98 still unaccounted for from fire-ravaged ferry
Hundreds were rescued, but exact number of survivors and how many were on board to begin with still not known
By Paolo Santalucia
In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, right, and Pope emeritus Benedict XVI pray together in Castel Gandolfo Saturday. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)
March 23, 2013, 5:20 pm
‘We are brothers,’ Francis tells Benedict
In gardens south of Rome, the two popes embrace warmly, pray side-by-side as new pope refuses to pray alone at front of chapel
By Nicole Winfield and Paolo Santalucia
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