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DAVID BILLER

Southern Europe news director

Biller has been AP’s Southern Europe news director since 2025, based in Rome. He was previously Brazil news director in Rio de Janeiro, where he lived for 12 years, and before that was reporting in Mexico and Chile.
A firefighter gives a thumbs-up as rescuers pull a construction worker from under the debris of a medieval tower that was under renovation near the Roman Forum in Rome, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, after it partially collapsed earlier in the morning. (Fabrizio Corradetti/LaPresse via AP)
Worker dies after 11 hours trapped within partially collapsed medieval tower in Rome
Firefighters have rescued a worker from beneath rubble inside a medieval tower in Italy’s capital. The tower partially collapsed during renovation work.
 
A view of the ancient Roman Colosseum, in Rome, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Raves at Rome’s ancient amphitheater? New Colosseum director sets the record straight
The new director of Rome’s Colosseum, has rejected reports that the ancient site will host electronic dance music parties.
 
Italian driver Fabio Barone attempts to break his own speed record on a ship, at the wheel of a Ferrari SF 90, on the flight deck of the Italian Navy aircraft carrier Nave Trieste, docked at the port of Civitavecchia, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
One man in an Italian supercar atop an aircraft carrier has a record in his sights
A driver off Italy’s central coast has made a bid for a new world record for the fastest car on a boat.
 
A bride poses for photos in front of Rome's Pantheon, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/ Domenico Stinellis, File)
More American couples are turning to Italy’s ‘dolce vita’ in a quest for memorable weddings
Italy is becoming a top destination for American couples tying the knot. Over 15,000 couples have chosen Italy for their weddings in 2024, marking an 64% increase from 2019.
 
Jeff Bezos, left, and Lauren Sanchez kiss as they leave a hotel for their pre wedding reception, in Venice, Italy, Thursday, June 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Bespoke bash for a billionaire: Jeff Bezos weds Lauren Sánchez in lavish Venice ceremony
The sky itself is no limit for billionaire Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sánchez, who have traveled into space — and expectations were about as high ahead of their wedding in Venice on Friday.
 
Food parcels provided by the World Food Program, part of the humanitarian aid shipments into Syria, are stacked at the Reyhanli border crossing with Syria, near Hatay, southern Turkey, Wednesday, May 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, Pool, File)
The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a ‘death sentence’
The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them struggling with conflict.
 
Drum queen Lorena Raissa from Beija-Flor samba school performs during Carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, early Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
AP PHOTOS: In Rio and beyond, Carnival brings euphoria and release to Brazilians
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It’s that time of year in Rio de Janeiro: Carnival!

Carnival in the Brazilian city has two sides: the street parties, known as blocos, and the parades at the legendary Sambadrome.
 
A dancer performs during the ceremony that officially kicks off Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Carnival 2025: Highlights from Brazil’s street parties
Today’s live coverage has ended. See what you missed below and find on Brazil’s carnival at apnews.com
 
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva poses for a photo after his first cabinet meeting of 2025, at the Granja do Torto country residence, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil to set up deportee reception center after contentious flight from US
The Brazilian government says it is going to create a reception center for deported migrants from the United States following controversy over conditions on a recent flight.
 
President Donald Trump, right, sits alongside Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., March 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
With Trump returning to the White House, Brazil displays a judicial path not taken by the US
A polarized nation. A right-wing populist casting doubt on the electoral system then refusing to concede.
 
A police station sign hangs on a post near the Christ the Redeemer statue in the favela Morro dos Prazeres, the day after Argentine tourist Gastón Fernando Burlón was shot, in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. Burlón was hit in the head and chest after he mistakenly drove his car into this low-income community, according to police, to make his way to visit the statue. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Argentine tourist who was shot in the head in Rio dies, authorities say
Argentine tourism authorities say that an Argentine tourist who was shot in the head and chest in Rio de Janeiro last month has died.
 
Dog trainer Luis Estrela plays with a caramelo dog on the set of Netflix film "Caramelo" in Sao Paulo, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
Forget soccer and samba. This caramel-colored street dog is Brazil’s new national icon
For decades, lanky stray dogs have scrounged for food on Brazilian streets, abandoned and overlooked.
 
FILE - In a silhouette, Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the media upon arrival to the airport in Brasilia, Brazil, June 29, 2023, where Supreme Electoral Court judges evaluate the case which claims he abused his power by using government communication channels to promote his campaign and cast unfounded doubts on the country's electronic voting system. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
The dizzying array of legal threats to Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been a target for investigations since his early days in office, and the swarm of cases since his failed reelection bid in 2022 has left him in ever-deeper legal jeopardy.
 
World leaders attending the G20 Summit pose for a group photo in Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Lula urges G20 members to take action to slow global warming
Brazil’s president has opened the second day of a meeting of the world’s 20 major economies by calling for more action to slow global warming, saying developed nations must speed up their initiatives to reduce harmful emissions.
 
Leaders attending the G20 Summit pose for a group photo in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil’s G20 summit produces a broad declaration that’s short on specifics
The summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in Rio de Janeiro has produced a joint declaration that, while not totally endorsed by one of the group’s members, succeeded in addressing most topics host Brazil had prioritized addressing.
 
Peru's President Dina Boluarte speaks during the APEC Leaders' Informal Dialogue at the APEC Summit in Lima, Peru, Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
APEC leaders hold Lima summit as Trump prepares to return to office
Leaders of Pacific Rim countries including the U.S. and China have gathered in Peru for an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, the first major global summit since U.S.
 
President Joe Biden speaks at Grubb-Worth Mansion, in Claymont, Del., Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
A diminished Biden heads to APEC summit in Peru, overshadowed by China’s Xi
If things had gone differently last week, U.S. President Joe Biden could have arrived at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Peru on Thursday projecting confidence and pledging his successor’s cooperation with eager Latin American partners.
 
FILE - Supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro storm the the National Congress building, in Brasilia, Brazil, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
Brazil federal police seek extradition of Bolsonaro supporters from Argentina
Brazil’s Federal Police has requested the extradition of dozens of people who had fled the country after being accused of storming top government offices last year, in an alleged bid to forcefully restore former President Jair Bolsonaro to office.
 
Part of the Sao Raimundo that connects to the Negro River is visible amid a drought in Manaus, state of Amazonas, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)
Dramatic images show drought’s toll on Amazon and its rivers
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — Drought is devastating Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and some rivers are falling to historic lows.
 
Judge orders the arrest of a top Brazilian country music star as part of a money laundering probe
A judge in Brazil’s northeastern Pernambuco state has ordered the preventive arrest of Gusttavo Lima, one of the nation’s biggest country music stars, in connection with a money laundering investigation.
 
Diogo Soares Abdulmassih, 48, who is deaf, watches Brazilian singer Zeca Baleiro perform at the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Rock in Rio’s sign language pumps up Brazil’s deaf audience
Brazil’s mega music festival Rock in Rio has sign language interpreters on its screens around main stages for the first time in its 40-year history.
 
The border collie named Floki plays footvolley, a combination of soccer and volleyball, on Leblon beach in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
This Brazilian dog is a footvolley star. He teaches beachgoers how to play their own game
Brazilian dog Floki is a footvolley star. The 3-year-old border collie teaches beachgoers how to play their own game in Rio de Janeiro.
 
FILE - Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes sits for a portrait at home in Los Angeles, May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
Sergio Mendes, Grammy-winning Brazilian music legend, dies at 83
Sergio Mendes, the Grammy-winning Brazilian musician whose 1966 hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global superstar, has died after months battling the effects of long COVID.
 
An ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping center in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. The sign reads in Portuguese: "Musk creates profile on X against Moraes to leak confidential decisions of the Supreme Court," referring to Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes who ordered the platform blocked for having failed to name a local legal representative as required by law. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
With Musk’s X banned in Brazil, its users carve out new digital homes
As billionaire Elon Musk’s clash with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice came to a head last week, there were legal twists, insults, ultimatums, defiance and then, finally, capitulation.
 
An ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping center in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024. The sign reads in Portuguese: "Musk creates profile on X against Moraes to leak confidential decisions of the Supreme Court," referring to Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes who ordered the platform blocked for having failed to name a local legal representative as required by law. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Elon Musk’s X will stay blocked in Brazil after top court upholds a judge’s decision
A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X nationwide.
 
FILE - Brazilian Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexandre de Moraes arrives for a court hearing, in Brasilia, Brazil, June 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
On the first day without X, many Brazilians say they feel disconnected from the world
The blocking of social media platform X in Brazil has divided users and politicians over the legitimacy of the ban, and many Brazilians had difficulty and doubts about navigating other social media in its absence.
 
FILE - Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk listens to a question as he speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
How one Brazilian judge could suspend Elon Musk’s X
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice could shut down the local operation of X nationwide if its billionaire owner Elon Musk doesn’t name a legal representative.
 
FILE - Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer Elon Musk listens to a question as he speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Brazil top court threatens to suspend X operations in latest twist of ongoing feud
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice is threatening to shut down the operations of X, formerly Twitter, in that country unless its billionaire owner Elon Musk names a legal representative in Brazil within 24 hours.
 
A claw machine stands at a toy store in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. The Rio police press office said they were carrying out search warrants targeting claw machines because they are considered games of chance and therefore illegal. (AP Photo/Hannah-Kathryn Valles)
Claw machine games are Rio de Janeiro’s new public enemy
Rio de Janeiro police carried out 16 search warrants targeting the claw machines that elicit exhilaration among children and adults alike across the city.
 
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro talks with supporters during his arrival to the international airport in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, July 5, 2024. Brazilian police have indicted Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds the far-right leader received from Saudi Arabia during his time in office, according to a source with knowledge of the accusations. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
The dizzying array of legal threats to Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been a target for investigations since his early days in office, and the swarm of cases have multiplied since his failed reelection campaign in 2022.
 
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