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Italian Red Cross volunteers and coast guards recover a body after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas, at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Rescue officials say an undetermined number of migrants have died and dozens have been rescued after their boat broke apart off southern Italy.(Antonino Durso/LaPresse via AP)

Death toll at 62 in Italy migrant tragedy; dozens missing

By Paolo Santalucia and Luigi Navarra - Associated Press

Forza Italia party leader Silvio Berlusconi at he Senate, in Rome, on Oct. 26, 2022. Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi was found not guilty Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, of witness tampering in the final trial related to the sexually charged “bunga bunga” parties at is villa near Milan while he was in premier's office. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Berlusconi acquitted in trial tied to ‘bunga bunga’ parties

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Designer Stella Jean accepts applause at the end of her women's Spring/Summer 2018/19 fashion collection, presented in Milan, Italy, on Sept. 24, 2017. Stella Jean, the only Black designer belonging to Italy’s fashion council is withdrawing from this month’s Milan Fashion Week citing a lack of commitment to diversity and inclusion, and on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, announced a hunger strike out of concern that other minority designers associated with her will suffer a backlash. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Stella Jean quits Milan Fashion Week over lack of inclusion

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

A computer-generated image released by the Italian Police, of Mafia top boss Matteo Messina Denaro. Italian police say Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, they arrested Italy's No. 1 fugitive, Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, on run for 30 years. (Italian Police, LaPresse via AP)

Italy arrests No 1 fugitive Mafia boss, 30 years on the run

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Former Italian national soccer team striker Gianluca Vialli, right, kicks the ball under the gaze of Torino's defender Sean Sogliano during their Italian Serie A soccer match at the Delle Alpi stadium in Turin, Italy, Saturday, April 6, 1996. Gianluca Vialli, the former Italy striker who helped both Sampdoria and Juventus win Serie A and European trophies before becoming a player-manager at Chelsea, has died on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. He was 58. (AP Photo/Mauro Pilone, File)

Gianluca Vialli, former Italy striker, dies at 58

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FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, visits Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, central Japan on Jan. 4, 2023. Japan and the United States will hold security talks between their foreign and defense ministers in Washington the day before Japanese Prime Minister Kishida lands in the U.S. capital next week wrapping up his tour of Group of Seven nations as Tokyo expands its military and deepen alliance with America amid China's growing influence.(Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan, U.S. to hold security talks before Kishida meets Biden

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Passengers arriving from China wait in front of a COVID-19 testing area set at the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. France says it will require negative COVID-19 tests of all passengers arriving from China and is urging French citizens to avoid nonessential travel to China. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

EU urges pre-flight COVID-19 tests on passengers from China

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Nunn-Shnaider after 16...Bd7.

Young or old, chess is a game for the ages

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Pope Francis arrives for his general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican, on Nov. 16, 2022. Pope Francis returns to his father’s birthplace in northern Italy on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022 for the first time since ascending the papacy to celebrate the 90th birthday of a second cousin who long knew him as simply “Giorgio.” (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Pope heads to immigrant father’s hometown for birthday party

By Colleen Barry and Gianfranco Stara - Associated Press

Survivor of sex abuse Francesco Zanardi meets the media during a press conference in Rome, on Feb. 21, 2019. Italy’s Catholic bishops on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, provided their first-ever accounting of clergy sexual abuse, but Italy's main survivor advocate Zanardi said it was “shamefully” inadequate given it only covered reports to church authorities over the last two years and omitted documentary research into church archives. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Italy church says 600 sex abuse cases sent to Vatican

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Migrants disembark from the Humanity 1 rescue ship run by the German organization SOS Humanitarian, in the port of Catania, Sicily, southern Italy, early Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. Italy allowed the Humanity 1 rescue ship carrying over 100 migrants to enter the Sicilian port and begin disembarking minors, while refusing to respond to requests for safe harbor from three other ships carrying 900 more people in nearby waters. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Italy stops 35 migrants from getting off rescue ship in port

By Colleen Barry and Salvatore Cavalli - Associated Press

People march in the hometown of former dictator Benito Mussolini to mark the 100th anniversary of the coup d'etat by which he sized power in 1922, in Predappio, Italy, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Thousands commemorate Italy’s fascist dictator Mussolini

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, center, receives the applause after addressing the lower Chamber ahead of a confidence vote for her Cabinet, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. Giorgia Meloni, whose party with neo-fascist roots finished first in recent elections, is Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. She is also the first woman to serve as Italian premier. At right Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and at left, Infrastructures Minister Matteo Salvini. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Breakthrough or breakdown? Europe watches, waits as far-right Meloni takes charge in Rome

By Eric J. Lyman and Marianna D’Alessio - Special to The Washington Times

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni sworn in as Italian premier

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Barilla® reimagines pasta with Al Bronzo, its new premium line, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022 in New York. Made with the highest quality durum wheat, Barilla® Al Bronzo is expertly crafted using innovative micro-engraved bronze dies for a robust texture and an extraordinary sauce grip. A class action lawsuit accusing Barilla America Inc. of false advertising was allowed to proceed this week in the U.S. District of Northern California. (Stuart Ramson/AP Images for Barilla USA)

False-advertising lawsuit over Barilla’s claims of being Italian can proceed

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Silvio Berlusconi is mobbed by press as he leaves a reunion to decide the group leaders of at the Lower Chamber, in Rome, Tuesday, Oct.18, 2022. ( Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Berlusconi says Russia’s Putin gifted him vodka, sweet note

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Spain's Vox party leader Santiago Abascal speaks to supporters during a rally in Madrid Spain, Sunday Oct. 9, 2022. Former U.S. President Donald Trump has thrown his weight behind Spain's far-right in a video shown at a rally in Madrid that also featured messages Italy's Giorgia Meloni and Hungary's Viktor Orban. The annual rally comes just weeks after Abascal and the rest of Europe's far-right celebrated the victory of Meloni's neo-fascist Brothers of Italy Party. (Jesus Hellin/Europa Press via AP)

Trump speaks via video at rally of global far-right in Spain

By Joseph Wilson and Alicia Leon - Associated Press

Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni gestures flanked by Coldiretti Ettore Prandini, left, prior to speaks during an Italian farmers association's event, at the Sforzesco Castle in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

History As It Happens: From Mussolini to Meloni

By Martin Di Caro

Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni delivers her speech during an Italian farmers association's event, at the Sforzesco Castle in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italy’s Meloni vows to put national energy interests first

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press