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Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni gestures during the Senate session in Rome, Wednesday, Dec.18, 2024. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s premier defends her friendship with Musk and asserts her independence

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Demonstrators gather during a public and private sectors' national strike called by the labor unions to protest against government's budget law in Rome, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Thousands of workers march across Italy in general strike demanding better pay and services

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

FILE -Demonstrators hold placards of Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, left, and Italian Democratic Party Leader Elly Schlein reading: complicit in the genocide, as they take part in a national antigovernment demonstration, in Rome, June 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Grogorio Borgia, File)

Italian Premier Meloni’s coalition suffers setbacks in 2 regional elections

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks at a breakfast meeting with Italian business leaders at Villa Wolkonsky in Rome, Italy, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)

Starmer and Meloni holding talks on curbing migrant boats reaching U.K. and Italy

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

People gather on the beach as a migrant center is seen in the foreground in the port of Shengjin, northwest Albania, Thursday, July 25, 2024. Migrants rescued at sea while attempting to reach Italy are likely to see themselves transported to Albania from next month while their asylum claims are processed, under a controversial deal in which the small Balkan country will host thousands of asylum-seekers on Italy's behalf. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

From August, migrants seeking refuge in Italy could be taken to Albania pending asylum decisions

By Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni shakes hands with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, Sunday, July 28, 2024, ahead of a forum with Italian and Chinese business leaders. Meloni is on an official visit to China this week to try to reset relations at a time of both fears of a trade war with the European Union and continued interest in attracting Chinese investment in auto manufacturing and other sectors. (Filippo Attili/Italian Premier Press Office Via AP)

Italy and China sign a 3-year action plan as Italian leader Meloni tries to reset relations

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni looks at Britain's King Charles, right, during the European Political Community meeting, near Oxford, England, Thursday July 18, 2024. (Hollie Adams/Pool via AP)

Italian judge orders a journalist to pay 5,000 euros in damages for making fun of Meloni’s height

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President Joe Biden is greeted by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni upon arrival at the G7, Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Borgo Egnazia, Italy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden kisses Italian leader Giorgia Meloni’s hair in awkward embrace at G7

By Staff - The Washington Times

Palestinian supporters hold a banner reading "Yesterday partisans, today antiZionists and antifascists" as they march on the occasion of the Liberation Day commemoration marking Italy's liberation from Nazi occupation and fascist rule, in Rome, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Controversy over spiked antifascist speech dominates Italy’s Liberation Day anniversary

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Palestinians line up for free food in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. An estimated 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the war took refuge in Rafahor, which is likely Israel's next focus in its war against Hamas.(AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Biden approves military airdrops of aid into Gaza after chaotic encounter left more than 100 dead

By Zeke Miller, Aamer Madhani and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni answers journalists' questions during her year-end press conference, in Rome on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italian Premier Meloni says curbing migrant arrivals from Africa is about investment, not charity

By Giada Zampano and Paolo Santalucia - Associated Press

Italy and deals with China illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wisely spurns deal with China

By James Jay Carafano and Stefano Graziosi

Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, and Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, left, shake hands after the signing of a memorandum of understanding on migrant management centres during a meeting in Rome, Italy, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Albania agrees to temporarily house migrants who reach Italy while their asylum bids are processed

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Iitaly's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni listens during the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes, England, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s office has expressed “regret” that she fell prey to a prank call that induced her to acknowledge “fatigue” over the war in Ukraine. Meloni believed she was speaking with officials of the African Union. She told a pair of Russian pranksters that “there is a lot of fatigue, I have to say the truth, from all the sides. We are near the moment in which everybody understands that we need a way out." (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)

Italian PM Meloni’s office says she regrets her frank talk in unknowing call with Russian pranksters

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Italian carabinieri police speak to migrants protesting at a reception center on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Thousands of migrants and refugees have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa this week after crossing the Mediterranean Sea on small unseaworthy boats from Tunisia, overwhelming local authorities and aid organizations. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Top E.U. official heads to an Italian island struggling with migrant influx as Italy toughens stance

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Migrants walk towards a station to board a bus directed to Marseille, France, in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Despite vows by Italy’s right-wing government to crack down on migrant arrivals and European Union-inked deals with Tunisia to stem the flow, the numbers of desperate people making the dangerous Mediterranean crossing keep rising. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A flotilla of migrant boats from Tunisia overwhelms an Italian island and tests Meloni’s policy

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment event on the day of the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Pool)

Italy’s Meloni meets with China’s Li as Italy’s continued participation in ‘Belt and Road’ in doubt

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A mural posted outside the shutter of a closed pub reads, "We are the son of a barricade" in downtown Rome, Sunday, Aug. 13 ,2023. When Giorgia Meloni was running to become Italy’s first far-right head of government since the demise of the country's fascist dictatorship, she steeped her campaign in ideological touchpoints like national sovereignty and “traditional families.” (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italian leader tones down divisive rhetoric but carries on with pursuit of far-right agenda

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni talks to reporters as she meets with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 27, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Giorgia Meloni’s warm welcome in Washington bodes well for U.S.-Italian relations

By James Jay Carafano and Stefano Graziosi

President Joe Biden meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, July 27, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Italy’s right-wing prime minister finds common ground with left-wing Biden

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times