Paolo Santalucia

1 month ago | argus-press.com | Paolo Santalucia

ROME (AP) — Residents of the Tuscany beach enclave of Orbetello are seeking a state of emergency declaration to help combat an invasion of midges that are keeping people indoors and threatening businesses catering to tourists. Millions of the tiny bugs have invaded Orbetello, a speck of land that juts out into the Orbetello lagoon, a natural reserve off Tuscany's coast between the Tyrrhenian Sea and Monte Argentario.

1 month ago | religionnews.com | Nicole Winfield |Paolo Santalucia

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is recovering well from pneumonia and a “new stage” in his pontificate is opening, two of his closest advisers said Friday, offering notes of optimism as the 88-year-old pontiff hit the five-week mark in his hospitalization. Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra told The Associated Press that he had found Francis in good humor and serene during the three times he has visited the pope at the Gemelli hospital in Rome.

1 month ago | citizentribune.com | Paolo Santalucia

ROME (AP) — Residents of the Tuscany beach enclave of Orbetello are seeking a state of emergency declaration to help combat an invasion of midges that are keeping people indoors and threatening businesses catering to tourists. Millions of the tiny bugs have invaded Orbetello, a speck of land that juts out into the Orbetello lagoon, a natural reserve off Tuscany's coast between the Tyrrhenian Sea and Monte Argentario.

1 month ago | independent.co.uk | Nicole Winfield |Paolo Santalucia |Trisha Thomas

Francis was meant to go straight back to the Vatican, but he had other plansNicole Winfield,Paolo Santalucia,Trisha ThomasFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing.

1 month ago | bedfordgazette.com | Nicole Winfield |Paolo Santalucia |Trisha Thomas

VATICAN CITY (AP) - A weak and frail Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican from the hospital on Sunday after surviving a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia, making a surprise stop at his favorite basilica on the way home before beginning two months of prescribed rest and recovery. The motorcade carrying the 88-year-old pope entered the Perugino gate into Vatican City, and Francis was seen in the front passenger seat wearing nasal tubes to give him supplemental oxygen.