ROME, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A bill introduced Thursday in the Italian Senate aims to quicken the glacial pace of the country's court system by setting time limits for trials and appeals.

ROME, Dec. 16 (UPI) -- The speaker of the Italian Parliament said Tuesday the Catholic Church should have denounced the anti-Semitic laws adopted in 1938.

VATICAN CITY, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- A controversy over the expulsion of 38 Romanian immigrants by the Italian government has drawn an admonition from Pope Benedict XVI.

TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom claims Iran has missiles capable of carrying a nuclear weapon as far as Rome.

GENOA, Italy, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Forty-five police officers and medical staff went on trial Wednesday on brutality charges stemming from the 2001 Group of Eight Summit in Genoa, Italy.

ROME, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- An opinion poll released Friday says Italy's center-right government led by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is headed for defeat in next year's elections.

ROME, June 12 (UPI) -- Catholic politicians in Italy Sunday rejected the Vatican's call for a boycott of a two-day referendum on assisted procreation.

BAGHDAD, May 28 (UPI) -- The Iraqi government will seek an extension of the Dec. 31 deadline of U.N. Resolution 1546 to have more time to finish writing a constitution.

ROME, May 18 (UPI) -- The Italian government has announced it has information that an Italian citizen kidnapped in the Afghan capital, Kabul, is well. Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini told reporters Tuesday that Clementina Cantoni, an aid worker with Care International