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Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni shows a placard reading in Italian "Thank you Italy" at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Italians voted in a national election that might yield the nation's first government led by the far right since the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Giorgia Meloni baloney: She’s no ‘right-wing extremist’

By Cal Thomas

Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni flashes the victory sign at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Italian voters rewarded Giorgia Meloni's euroskeptic party with neo-fascist roots, propelling the country toward what likely would be its first far-right-led government since World War II, based on partial results Monday from the election for Parliament. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

First female premier poised to take helm of Italy government

By Nicole Winfield and Frances D'emilio and Giada Zampano - Associated Press

Brothers of Italy's Leader Giorgia Meloni attends the center-right coalition closing rally in Rome Thursday, Sep. 22, 2022. Italians vote on Sunday for a new Parliament, and they could elect their first far-right premier of the post-war era. If opinion polls hold, Giorgia Meloni could be that premier, as well as become the first woman to lead an Italian government. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italians vote in election that may bring far-right to power

By Frances D'Emilio and Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Far-right Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni votes at a polling station in Rome, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. Italians are voting in a national election that might yield the nation's first government led by the far right since the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Far-right Meloni on path to power in landmark Italian vote

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

Pope Francis celebrates mass on the occasion of the 27th national Eucharistic congress, in Matera, southern Italy, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope urges Italians to have more children, welcome migrants

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Kim Kardashian, center, is flanked by Domenico Dolce, right, and Stefano Gabbana at the end of the Dolce & Gabbana women's Spring Summer 2023 fashion show presented in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Kim Kardashian culls Dolce & Gabbana archives for Milan show

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Right-wing party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni addresses a rally as she starts her political campaign ahead of Sept. 25 general elections, in Ancona, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Riding high in voter opinion surveys for weeks now, Meloni might become Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. Italy will elect a new Parliament on Sept. 25. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

The politicians vying to lead Italy’s next government

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

A poster of Italy's candidate premier Giorgia Meloni stands on the side of a bus in Rome, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Italy could be on the verge of electing its first woman premier. That prospect delights some Italian women, but others are dismayed by her conservative beliefs and policies. If opinion polls prove on the mark, Giorgia Meloni and the far-right Brothers of Italy party she co-founded less than a decade ago will triumph in Sept. 25 elections for Parliament. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Meloni’s surge has far-right on the brink of power in Rome

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

A woman carries backpacks as her son walks after coming out of a primary school, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Italy could be on the verge of electing its first woman premier. That prospect delights some Italian women, but others are dismayed by her conservative beliefs and policies. If opinion polls prove on the mark, Giorgia Meloni and the far-right Brothers of Italy party she co-founded less than a decade ago will triumph in Sept. 25 elections for Parliament. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Prospect of far-right female premier divides Italian women

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

A U.S. Air Force F-16 jet fighter from the 31st Fighter Wing lands at NATO's Aviano Air Base in Aviano, Italy, on Friday, March 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

U.S. servicewoman in Italy charged with vehicular homicide in drunk driving accident

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Fratelli d' Italia (Brothers of Italy) party leader Giorgia Meloni speaks during a center-right opposition rally in Rome's central Piazza del Popolo, Saturday, July 4, 2020. The far-right candidate, who aspires to be Italy’s first female premier, came under fire Monday Aug. 22, 2022 from opponents for posting a pixelized video that purports to show a woman being raped by an asylum seeker. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File)

Italy’s Meloni shocks opponents with alleged rape video

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

FILE - The League leader Matteo Salvini, right, is flanked by Silvio Berlusconi as he addresses a rally in Rome, on Oct. 19, 2019. The ink had barely dried on the presidential decree putting a premature end to Parliament after Italian Premier Mario Draghi's government collapsed, but politicians, including coalition allies who helped topple him, were already rushing into campaign mode on Friday. Perhaps the quickest was Matteo Salvini, the right-wing leader, who teamed up with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi to desert a confidence vote that Draghi sought this week to revive his struggling 17-month-old coalition, (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

With Italy’s Draghi toppled, populists campaign in fast gear

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Italian Premier Mario Draghi attends a debate at the Senate in Rome, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Draghi was deciding Wednesday whether to confirm his resignation or reconsider appeals to rebuild his parliamentary majority after the populist 5-Star Movement triggered a crisis in the government by withholding its support. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy’s Draghi resigns after government implodes

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

This undated image, provided by the Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Squad in Bari, southern Italy, Tuesday, July 19, 2022, shows 17th Century painter Artemisia Gentileschi's Caritas Romana (Roman Charity). The oil on canvas was illegally exported to Austria in 2019. Italy’s art squad police have thwarted the potential, illegal sale by a Vienna auction house of a 17th-century painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, a celebrated Baroque artist. (Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Squad via AP)

Italy thwarts illegal auction abroad of Gentileschi painting

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

A view of Senate, before voting at a decree on various economics matters, in Rome, Thursday, July 14, 2022. The stability of Italian Premier Mario Draghi's coalition government is at risk because 5-Star lawmakers say they will not participate in a confidence vote in Parliament. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italian PM Draghi to resign after losing ally on key vote

By Fraces D'Emilio - Associated Press

This undated image made available Monday, July 4, 2022, by the press office of the Autonomous Province of Trento shows the glacier in the Marmolada range of Italy's Alps near Trento from which a large chunk has broken loose Sunday, killing at least six hikers and injuring eight others. Drones were being used to spot any more bodies on an Italian Alpine mountainside a day after a huge chunk of a glacier broke loose, sending an avalanche of ice, snow, and rocks onto hikers. Rescuers on Sunday spotted six bodies and said nine survivors were injured. Attention on Monday was focused on determining how many people who might have been hiking on the Marmolada peak are unaccounted for. Rescuers said conditions downslope from the glacier, which has been melting for decades, were still too unstable to immediately send rescuers and dogs into the area to look for others buried under tons of debris. (Autonomous Province of Trento via AP)

Official: 17 unaccounted for in Italian glacier avalanche

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrives for the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday, June 30, 2022. North Atlantic Treaty Organization heads of state will meet for a NATO summit in Madrid from Tuesday through Thursday. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Live updates | Trudeau: Canada to up Latvia troop presence

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Some of the soldiers with the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team before being deployed to Germany from Hunter Army Airfield, Wednesday March 2, 2022 in Savannah, Ga. The division is sending 3,800 troops as reinforcements for various NATO allies in Eastern Europe. (Stephen B. Morton /Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

U.S. bolsters long-term troop presence in Europe as Russia-Ukraine war drags on

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A view of the secluded Schloss Elmau luxury hotel in Elmau, Germany, Sunday, June 26, 2022, where President Joe Biden and the other leaders of the Group of Seven, G-7, leading economic powers will attend their annual summit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Live updates | G-7 nations seek to counter Chinese influence

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Canadian-born film director Paul Haggis, center, arrives with his lawyer Michele Laforgia at Brindisi law court in southern Italy, Wednesday, June 22, 2022, to be heard by prosecutors investigating a woman's allegations he had sex with her without her consent over the course of two days. Under Italian law, a judge, after hearing arguments from both prosecutors and defense lawyers, will rule on whether Haggis can be set free pending possible additional investigation. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)

Director Haggis appears in Italy court amid assault probe

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