Italian women kept people alive long enough to keep fighting. Women served as nurses, assisted wounded partisans and sick fighters in public hospitals, and ran first-aid centers of their own.

Italy gave the world Caravaggio, Verdi, and the sort of architecture that makes tourists weep into their gelato. A place of operas, cathedrals, couture, and cuisine. And yet, this week, its parliament ...

Murders of women killed for misogynistic reasons will now be classified as femicide. Campaigners say a broader cultural shift is still needed. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome It’s rare for ...