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February 26, 2023 | 7:07 AM

Dozens of migrants have been killed in a shipwreck off the coast of Italy

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said that the migrants were crowded into a 20-meter (66-foot) -long boat

By The Associated Press

January 2, 2021 | 10:27 AM

‘Where are the women?’: Uncovering the lost works of female Renaissance artists

By Sylvia Poggioli/NPR

April 14, 2020 | 9:29 AM

Music for Hope

By Fred Vigeant/WITF

March 19, 2020 | 2:28 PM

‘Every single individual must stay home’: Italy’s coronavirus deaths pass China’s

As of Thursday, Italy has registered 41,035 diagnoses of the coronavirus and 3,405 deaths.

By Sylvia Poggioli/NPR

March 16, 2020 | 4:49 AM

Global deaths from coronavirus surpass 6,000

The head of the World Health Organization says Europe had become the new epicenter of the pandemic after it peaked earlier in Asia.

By Scott Neuman/NPR

March 8, 2020 | 9:36 AM

Coronavirus: Italy imposes quarantine on 16 million; U.S. sees 1st East Coast deaths

As of late Saturday afternoon, the total tally of confirmed cases worldwide stood at more than 105,000, some 3,500 of whom have died from the disease.

By Colin Dwyer/NPR

February 26, 2020 | 5:16 AM

Temple’s Italy and Japan campuses on alert over coronavirus

A university spokesman says they have curtailed some field trips at their Rome campus because of the outbreak in Italy.

By Tom MacDonald/WHYY

February 7, 2020 | 7:02 AM

Mamma Mia! Pa. Italian food purveyors say more tariffs could be ‘devastating’

“The consumer is going to get a product which is much worse … and will be paying the same price.”

By Laura Benshoff/WHYY