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Italian Premier Mario Draghi says a bilateral treaty signed with French President Emmanuel Macron to deepen bilateral cooperation will in turn strengthen the European Union.

Young refugee Sharbat Gulla's piercing green eyes on a 1984 National Geographic cover captivated the world. Almost 30 years later, she's sought refuge again, this time in Italy.

Sharbat Gulla arrived in Italy as part of the West's evacuation effort, Italy's government said Thursday. Premier Mario Draghi's office said Italy organized her evacuation after she asked for help.

National Geographic’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country.

National Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said Thursday. The office of Premier Mario Draghi said Italy organized the evacuation of Sharbat Gulla after she asked to be helped to leave the country. The Italian government will now help to get her integrated into life in Italy, the statement said.

Police in Italy are conducting searches against 17 anti-vaccine activists who were purportedly affiliated with a Telegram chat that espoused violence against government, medical and media figures for their perceived support of COVID-19 restrictions.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison denies lying to French President Emmanuel Macron while secretly negotiating a submarine deal with the United States and Britain.

President Joe Biden is praising a new U.S. and European Union agreement that would crack down on “dirty steel” that leads to carbon emissions.

Leaders of the world's biggest economies made a compromise commitment Sunday to reach carbon neutrality "by or around mid-century."

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies have agreed to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries.

The move was hailed by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen as benefiting American businesses and workers.

It's been two years since the leaders of the 20 largest economies met in person. "We can finally look at the future with great — or with some — optimism," said Italy's Mario Draghi, the summit host.

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies have endorsed a global minimum tax on corporations as part of an agreement on new international tax rules.

The Italian city that suffered the brunt of COVID-19’s first deadly wave is dedicating a vivid memorial to the pandemic dead: A grove of trees, creating oxygen in a park opposite the hospital where so many died, unable to breathe.

The G-20, whose annual summit plays out in Rome this weekend, has morphed from its creation in the 1990s as an international group to grapple with financial crises into a forum facing such pressing problems as worldwide vaccine access and climate change.

President Joe Biden says Pope Francis told him he's a “good Catholic” and should keep taking Communion when the world's two most prominent Roman Catholics met at the Vatican on Friday.

A Group of 20 summit scheduled for this weekend in Rome is the first in-person gathering of leaders of the world’s biggest economies since the COVID-19 pandemic started.

Key European Union leaders are unconvinced by Polish arguments that fundamental judicial changes the country has made would not undermine the bloc and said that the withholding of billions in EU recovery funds would likely continue unless Warsaw falls back into line.

Italy's center-left forces have won big in Rome and most other significant mayoral races, dealing a heavy blow to right-wing parties that have been hoping to capture the premiership in the next national election.

The International Monetary Fund is warning of rising threats to a global recovery posed by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and an outbreak of inflation.

The outcome of Virginia's gubernatorial race could determine whether McAuliffe's campaign is a blueprint for vulnerable Democrats in other divided states or a warning sign for what's to come.

Italy is wrestling with how to deal with a neo-fascist party that has violently exploited anger over the government's anti-COVID restrictions.

The Group of 20 nations have warned about a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan as the European Union pledged 1 billion euros ($1.15 billion) in support for Afghan people.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to be escorted from a mass in Rome on Saturday after major protests against Italy's new vaccine mandates broke out.

Italian Premier Mario Draghi is paying tribute to outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel for her “calm, determined” leadership even during difficult years for Europe and the common currency.

Young climate activists have denounced Italian police for temporarily detaining delegates who protested peacefully inside their Milan conference before Italian Premier Mario Draghi’s speech.

New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge days before it was to take effect.

Officials in both the U.S. and the European Union are struggling with the same question.

Italian workers in both the public and private sectors will be obliged to provide a health pass to access the workplace from Oct. 15 under a decree that has been approved by Premier Mario Draghi’s broad-based coalition government.

Italy is currently enjoying a "window of stability," according to one expert, despite the ever-present risk of a political crisis in the country.

The Italian government has vowed to crack down on demonstrators threatening to block train tracks as a rule requiring COVID-19 tests or vaccines took effect for long-distance domestic transport.

Intense heat baking Italy is creeping northward towards the popular tourist destination of Florence while wildfires charred the country’s south, and Spain appears headed for an all-time record high temperature as a heat wave keeps southern Europe in a fiery hold.

The European Union has caught up to the once-vaunted U.S. coronavirus vaccination effort despite a sluggish start.

A German charity boat carrying 257 rescued migrants has docked in Sicily after Italian authorities granted permission.

Italy and France are introducing Europe's toughest vaccine pass regimes for normal social activities like dining indoors at restaurants, visiting museums and attending sporting events.

In what appears to be a growing trend across Europe, the world three leaders first received a dose of an adenovirus vaccine (AstraZeneca) before switching to an mRNA for the second.

The Weeknd, BTS and Billie Eilish will participate in Global Citizen Live, a 24-hour event on Sept. 25 organized to raise funding and awareness to battle worldwide issues including COVID-19, climate change and extreme poverty.

Europe's soccer champions have returned home to the ecstatic cheers of Italians.

European Union leaders have given the greenlight for plans to give Turkey billions of euros in coming years to assist Syrian refugees on its territory, but also to help the country boost border controls.

The Vatican’s Secretary of State has attempted to tamp down controversy over a Vatican diplomatic communication to Italy.

The European Union’s chief executive is vowing to take action to thwart a new law in Hungary that would ban content portraying or promoting homosexuality or sex reassignment to children.

A state government minister has been infected with COVID-19 and another minister is in isolation as a cluster in the Australian city of Sydney worsens.

The pandemic is giving Italy a chance to revamp its underperforming economy.

The European Union's executive branch has given the formal nod to 191.5 billion euros in pandemic recovery funds for Italy.

The Vatican has lodged an “unprecedented” interference in Italian politics by objecting to a law that would criminalise violence and hate speech against gay and transgender people. The Holy See confirmed on Tuesday that it had sent a diplomatic protest to the government of prime minister Mario Draghi over the so-called Zan bill, which would punish acts of discrimination and incitement to violence against gay, lesbian, transgender and disabled people. The bill, promoted by Alessandro Zan, a gay M

The Vatican has formally opposed a proposed Italian law expanding anti-discrimination protections to the LGBT community.

The leaders of the G-7 issued a joint statement on Sunday promising to enact measures on Covid-19 vaccines, China and global corporate tax.

Phil Noble via ReutersThere is no question among European leaders preparing for President Biden’s arrival in Brussels this week that reinstating the United States in the global conversation is a good thing—especially after a largely glowing G7 reception in the U.K. But Brussels is different, and in many ways the stakes are much higher for Biden, who just spent the weekend focused on China and will have to pivot to Russia, another country that evokes different opinions. This is especially true wh

The G7 summit was stuck in time, between the era of Trump and the future.

President Joe Biden says the U.S. has restored its presence on the world stage, as he has used his first overseas trip to connect with a new generation of leaders from some of the world’s most powerful countries and more closely unite allies around addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and China’s trade and labor practices.

China's U.K. embassy scoffs at G7 as Biden urges allies to take stand against Beijing

Leaders of the world largest economies have unveiled an infrastructure plan for the developing world to compete with China’s global initiatives.

President Joe Biden will press G-7 leaders to take concrete steps to counter China's rising global influence on Saturday, the second day of the annual summit.

Italy will play Turkey in the opening game of the European Championship on Friday.

Group of Seven leaders began arriving at a luxury seaside resort in England on Thursday for a Group of Seven summit where the world’s richest nations will pledge to give up some of their coronavirus vaccines with the poorest.

It's a very exclusive club, perhaps the most selective in the world.

Already on a first-name basis with relationships that range from just months to years, the leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized democracies are gathering Friday amid hopes that the departure of their most unruly member and a new era of personal friendships enhanced by face-to-face discussions can restore a global anti-authoritarian consensus on climate, the coronavirus, China and Russia. The G-7’s return to polite quasi-normality comes as President Joe Biden seeks to restore steady U.S. leadership to the bloc, which had been hamstrung by his predecessor Donald Trump’s often confrontational approach to longtime American allies. Trump had thrown a wrench into G-7 unity, demanding the absolute prioritization of U.S. interests, threatening decades-old security guarantees, insulting colleagues and loudly suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin be invited back into the group despite his refusal to meet demands for Moscow to stay out of Ukraine.

Artist behind sculpture depicting world leaders hopes they'll see it as they arrive for summit, and then do something to tackle the world's mountains of e-waste.

The first cruise ship since the pandemic has wended its way through the heart of Venice, escorted by triumphant water-spouting tugboats and elated port workers as it traveled down the Giudecca Canal.

Early risers in Venice have woken to the sight of a cruise ship traveling down the Giudecca canal for the first time since the pandemic, despite repeated government pledges to reroute the huge vessels on safety and environmental grounds.

EU leaders have agreed to donate at least 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to poorer nations by the end of the year.

The cable car fell near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region. At least 11 people were on board at the time, Sky News said.

A global health summit that underlined the pandemic disparities between rich and poor countries has ended with pledges by pharmaceutical companies to deliver more than 1.3 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to low- and middle-income countries this year.

A global health summit that underlined the growing disparity between rich and poor countries during the pandemic closed Friday with pledges by pharmaceutical companies to deliver more than 1.3 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to low- and middle-income countries this year. Italian Premier Mario Draghi, host of the Rome summit that brought together the Group of 20 and the European Union’s executive arm, called the contributions by private companies “significant and staggering.” The pledges made include 1 billion doses from American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German company BioNTech’s, 200 million from Johnson & Johnson and 100 million from Moderna.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers against any further rocket attacks following a cease-fire. In a speech hours after the truce took effect on Friday, he said, “if Hamas thinks we will tolerate a drizzle of rockets, it is wrong.” Israel and Hamas fought an 11-day war, their fourth since the Islamic militant group seized power in Gaza from rival Palestinian forces in 2007.

Several hundred more migrants have reached a tiny Italian island, swelling to past 2,100 the number of arrivals in 24 hours.

More than 1,200 migrants in several decrepit, overcrowded fishing boats on Sunday reached a tiny Italian island in a span of 12 hours, as human traffickers exploited calm seas and warm weather to launch multiple vessels, the mayor said. The first of the migrants arrived at 5 a.m., Lampedusa Mayor Salvatore Martello told Sky TG24 TV at 5 p.m. It was the biggest number of migrants to come ashore this year in a single day at an Italian port this year. Italian news reports said Italian coast guard and customs police boats escorted the vessels to Lampedusa after they were spotted in the Mediterranean a few miles offshore.

Soldiers and police in the Pacific nation of Fiji have surrounded and locked down a major hospital.

British tourists will be able to holiday in Italy from the second half of this month without having to quarantine, the government has indicated. Visitors will have to demonstrate that they have either been vaccinated against Covid-19, they have recently tested negative, or they have had the virus in the past and now have immunity. The Italian government has not yet decided whether it will require a rapid antigen test or a more thorough molecular test. Mario Draghi, the prime minister, announced that Italy was opening up to the world at the end of a meeting of tourism ministers from the Group of 20 wealthy nations. A government source said the health ministry would soon formally announce that Italy’s five-day quarantine rule would be scrapped for visitors who can show that they are negative, vaccinated or immune. Italy will not wait until Brussels introduces an EU-wide coronavirus health pass scheme, the prime minister said. “Waiting for the European certificate... we have a national green pass that will enable people to move from region to region and will be operational by mid-May, so let us not wait until mid-June for the EU pass,” Mr Draghi said. “In mid-May tourists can have the Italian pass... so the time has come to book your holidays in Italy. “Few countries are as closely intertwined with tourism as Italy. The world longs to travel here. Italy is ready to welcome back the world. Our mountains, our beaches, our cities and our countryside are reopening.”

Italian Premier Mario Draghi is presenting a 222.1 billion euro ($268.6 billion) coronavirus recovery plan to Parliament.

Italy’s gradual reopening after six months of rotating virus closures is satisfying no one: Too cautious for some, too hasty for others.

Rescue groups and the Vatican are decrying the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean on unseaworthy boats, even as more lives were reported in danger in rough seas.

The head of the U.N. refugee agency says he has urged Italy not to unnecessarily impede NGOs that operate migrant rescue ships in the central Mediterranean, as warmer weather is expected to bring the usual seasonal uptick in the departure of smugglers’ boats from Libya.

A vial of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is seen at the Lochee Health Centre in Dundee, Scotland, Britain January 4, 2021. Andy Buchanan| Pool | ReutersLONDON — France and Italy say they are ready to quickly restart inoculation programs with the AstraZeneca vaccine if regulators confirm it's still safe to use. It added that in the event of a positive conclusion by the EMA, France and Italy were ready "to promptly restart" inoculations with the vaccine. Since then, more countries have reported cases of blood clots and an unusual number of platelets in a few patients. The EMA said Tuesday that there is "no indication" so far that the reports of blood clots were directly caused by the vaccine.

Rome — A year after COVID-19 struck Italy, more than half of the country's residents were set to be placed back under hard lockdown restrictions from Monday, March 15 at least through Easter. Restrictions are being tightened in response to yet another rise in case numbers — Italy is entering a third wave of coronavirus infections. medical staff tend to a patient in the COVID-19 unit of the Bolognini hospital in Seriate, Bergamo, Italy, March 12, 2021. MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/GettyItaly was the first country in the world to implement a nationwide lockdown last winter, when it was the nation at the epicenter of the pandemic. The country's inoculation campaign began in late December, but like other European nations it has suffered delays in the distribution process.

(Photo by Alexander Pohl/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Alexander Pohl NurPhoto via Getty ImagesLONDON — The head of Germany's public health agency on Friday warned that a third wave of coronavirus infections has already begun. German Chancellor Angela Merkel had previously warned the country could be caught in a third wave of infections if restrictive public health measures were lifted too quickly. Italy, meanwhile, is reportedly set to impose another near national lockdown over the Easter weekend in an effort to curb the spread of the virus. The move, which is expected to be signed into law on Friday, comes just over a year after it became the first country in the world to impose nationwide lockdown measures. Wieler said he was "very worried" about the public health crisis.

Christine Lagarde is speaking in Frankfurt, Germany, for her first press conference as president of the European Central Bank. The former International Monetary Fund chief took the helm at the euro zone's top financial institution last month. Analysts say she will also likely need to mend divisions at the bank over its recent policy measures under former President Mario Draghi. Global central banks have been easing mode this year, as the headwinds of U.S.-China trade tensions and signs of economic weakness grip businesses and investors. Investors are likely to monitor Lagarde's presser for any signs as to the bank's outlook for the euro zone and forward guidance.

There is an end to everything: Mario Draghi will leave the European Central Bank (ECB) after eight years in charge of the institution that changed the way monetary policy is conducted in the euro zone. The ECB moved from being a central bank modeled after the German Bundesbank to a modern, Anglo-Saxon type organization under his reign. Christine Lagarde, the incoming president, will find her hands pretty much tied by Draghi's last big policy package. "After the Governing Council passed a comprehensive and highly controversial easing package at its 12 September meeting, we expect the ECB policy to be on hold for the remainder of the year and for much if 2020," said Florian Hense from Berenberg in a research note. "A divided ECB with a new president could maintain its current stance until 2021."

[The stream is slated to start at 09:30 ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Mario Draghi is speaking at his last press conference as president of the European Central Bank. The central banker, who has led the ECB since 2011, reigned over a lengthy period of quantitative easing and record low interest rates for the euro zone. The ECB is set to enter a new era, with Draghi about to step down and former International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde taking up the mantle.

The European Central Bank (ECB) kept rates unchanged on Thursday, in what marked President Mario Draghi's last monetary policy meeting at the institution. "Incoming economic data continue to point to moderate, but positive growth in the second half of this year," Draghi told reporters Thursday afternoon. The ECB expects a gross domestic product rate for the region of 1.1% this year and 1.2% in 2020. We have discussions, everybody has discussions; all jurisdictions have disagreements when monetary policy decisions come to be discussed and these disagreements are often made public, often they are not ... "The Governing Council expects them to run for as long as necessary to reinforce the accommodative impact of its policy rates, and to end shortly before it starts raising the key ECB interest rates," the bank said in a statement.

The S&P 500 climbed 0.28% to end the day at 3,004.52. The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.19% to 8,119.79 The major averages struggled for direction as the corporate earnings season rolled on. Thursday marks the busiest day of the earnings season, with 45 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report. Amazon, Visa, Intel, 3M and Twitter are among the companies set to release their results. In Europe, the European Central Bank will hold its last meeting with Mario Draghi at the helm.

In an interview with the Financial Times over the weekend, ECB President Mario Draghi said "what matters is to make the (euro) union stronger" and "in some areas, further integration achieves that goal." The euro zone is made up of 19 European nations that share the same currency the euro. "To have a stronger EMU (economic and monetary union), we need a common euro zone budget. Led by the French delegation, European finance ministers agreed to create a common euro zone budget earlier this year. He said that monetary policy alone cannot lift the moribund growth and inflation levels seen in the region.

European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi didn't leave any doubt about his institution's conviction to do "whatever it takes" to counter a fall in inflation expectations when he spoke at the banks annual gathering recently in Sintra, Portugal. All instruments are on the table and can be deployed. The question now is: Will anything happen as early as this week? Traditional ECB watchers though expect a change in the central bank's forward guidance at this month's meeting on Thursday and then potential action on interest rates at its meeting in September. "In September the ECB could cut its deposit rate from -0.4% to -0.5% and to relaunch net asset purchases of around 40 billion euros for 12 months starting in (the fourth quarter of 2019)," he added.

European officials are still scratching their heads over Christine Lagarde's successor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to several people with knowledge of the discussions, with no standout candidate for the role. Some of the non-official candidates are:Jeroen Dijsselbloem, former Dutch finance minister and president of the Eurogroup (which brings together the 19-euro zone finance ministers). Mario Centeno, the Portuguese finance minister and currently Eurogroup chief. Nadia Calvino, the Spanish finance minister. "If (the) age limit is adapted to today's realities, there is Georgieva and Draghi," the European minister told CNBC.

France's central bank governor hasn't ruled out more stimulus for the euro zone coming as early as this summer, ahead of Christine Lagarde's installment as the new president of the European Central Bank (ECB). Many market watchers saw this as Draghi tying his successor now due to be Lagarde in November to his path of easy monetary policy. But Franois Villeroy de Galhau, France's central bank governor and a member of the Governing Council at the ECB, said a stimulus program could be launched before that, if needed. "If we speak about monetary policy we have several Governing Councils to come, in the next month, including with Mario Draghi. So let us wait for our next Governing Council, and there are several to come, to assess the data and then to decide."

BRUSSELS Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is one name being touted as a possible replacement for Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB). The leaders of the 28 EU member states are currently locked in discussions to figure out who will lead the various European institutions, following parliamentary elections in May. All of the main EU bodies, which includes the ECB, need a new president. Four different EU officials confirmed to CNBC that Lagarde is one of the possible names for the ECB's top job. The current president, Draghi, finishes his eight-year mandate in October and his successor would be in place the following month.