Rome, IT

Pablo González

In and around Rome, it’s not uncommon to see hairy wild boars rummaging through garbage bins or wandering down the street. And while residents have mostly resigned themselves to coexisting with the animals, the situation appears to be getting worse. Some of the animals now have a contagious disease, and others have injured the humans that live in their ever-expanding habitat.

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's population will shrink by 5 million within 30 years unless decisive steps are taken to increase the number of births, the head of the country's statistics institute ISTAT warned on Thursday. The COVID-10 pandemic hastened a long-running decline in Italy's birthrate, ISTAT reported in March, with...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Marjorie Appelman is off this week so we are offering an encore of a previous column. From the Trinita dei Mon