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Migrants arrive in Porto Empedocle, Sicily, aboard two military ships after being transferred from the island of Lampedusa, where a number of small boat carrying migrants arrived in the last days, Monday, July 27, 2020. (Fabio Peonia/LaPresse via AP)

In shift, Tunisians top migrant groups reaching Italy by sea

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Mick Hoffman, executive director of the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, poses for a photo, Thursday, July 16, 2020, sitting in the empty stands of the Renton School District's Renton Memorial Stadium, which is used for high school football, soccer, and track events in Renton, Wash. Hoffman and other administrators across the country are facing difficult decisions regarding the overwhelming uncertainty of whether high school sports can go forward this fall as the clock ticks closer to the start of the 2020-21 school year with little clarity in place for an obvious and safe path moving forward for athletics. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

The Latest: Big Sky delays start of fall Olympic sports

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Italian officers arrested for lockdown abuses, other crimes

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List 3/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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European Union leaders during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, July 17, 2020. Leaders from 27 European Union nations meet face-to-face on Friday for the first time since February, despite the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic, to assess an overall budget and recovery package spread over seven years estimated at some 1.75 trillion to 1.85 trillion euros. (Francois Lenoir, Pool Photo via AP)

Warning: Italy’s Mafias eye EU’s billions in recovery funds

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - A Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018 file photo showing a view of the Morandi highway bridge that collapsed in Genoa, northern Italy. Italy's government says it has scored a victory in a battle stemming from the deadly 2018 collapse of Genoa's bridge, with the Benetton fashion family agreeing to exit the holding company that manages and maintains most of Italy's toll roads and bridges. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Italy, Benettons reach deal after Genoa bridge collapse

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Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, from San Francisco, California, attends a hearing of the trial for the case of two American teenagers accused of slaying Italian police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, at the Rome court, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Police partner at Americans’ murder trial recounts knifing

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

A recovered stolen artwork by British artist Banksy, depicting a young female figure with a mournful expression, that was painted as a tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks at the Bataclan music hall in Paris, is shown during a ceremony at the French Embassy in Rome, Tuesday, July 14, 2020. The work was recovered last June 10 during a search of a home in Tortoreto, a city near the Adriatic coast in the Abruzzo region’s Teramo province. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Italy returns stolen Banksy to France on Bastille Day

By ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

Pedestrians pass by a screen showing a Vivetta model during the Milan Digital Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, July 14, 2020. Forty fashion houses are presenting previews of menswear looks for next spring and summer and pre-collections for women in digital formats, due to concerns generated by the COVID-19. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Prada headlines Milan’s first Digital Fashion Week

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Italian Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte, left, talk during a meeting at the German government's guest house 'Meseberg' in Gransee, north of Berlin, Germany, Monday, July 13, 2020. (Tobias Schwarz/Pool Photo via AP)

Merkel: 2nd summit may be needed to forge EU stimulus deal

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Slovenian President Borut Pahor and Italian President Sergio Mattarella, left, hold hands in Basovizza, near Trieste, Italy, Monday, July 13, 2020. The presidents of Italy and Slovenia met a several ceremonies on Monday linked to sorrowful incidents in their nations history and aimed at reinforcing reconciliation. In the area of Trieste, a port city near Italy’s border with Slovenia, Italy’s Sergio Mattarella and Slovenia’s Borut Pahor held hands and observed a minute of silence at a monument to four anti-Fascist Slovenes, who were executed by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s regime in 1930. The four became symbols the Slovene minority's resistance to Italian Fascism. (Francesco Ammendola, Italian Presidency via AP)

Italian, Slovene presidents hold hands, recall sad times

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FILE - In this June 10, 2020 file photo, members of Noi Denunceremo (We will denounce) Facebook group, from left, Laura Capella, Nicoletta Bosica, Stefano Fusco and Arianna Dalba holds pictures of their relatives, victims of COVID-19, as they stand in front of Bergamo's court, Italy, Wednesday, June 10, 2020. Noi Denunceremo and affiliated non-profit committee are filing 100 new cases Monday, July 13, 2020, with Bergamo prosecutors, on top of 50 complaints lodged last month. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, file)

Families of Italy’s virus dead seek answers, solace, justice

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

A Qatar Airways aircraft is parked at Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci international airport, Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Rome airport authorities have refused to let 112 Bangladeshi passengers off a plane that landed from Qatar as Italy tightens restrictions on people arriving from coronavirus hotspots. The 112 Bangladeshis were among 205 passengers who arrived Wednesday aboard a Qatar Airways flight that originated in Pakistan and stopped in Doha, Qatar. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)

Italy cracks down on Bangladesh amid virus concerns

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte arrives to give a press conference on measures to relaunch the economy following the coronavirus outbreak, at Palazzo Chigi premier's office, in Rome, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Italy seeks to simplify notoriously knotted bureaucracy

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In this file photo dated Tuesday, March 6, 2018, Italian composer Ennio Morricone directs an ensemble during a concert of his &quot;60 Year Of Music World Tour&quot;, in Milan, Italy. Morricone, who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and the soundtracks such classic Hollywood gangster movies as “The Untouchables,” died Monday, July 6, 2020 in a Rome hospital at the age of 91. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, file)

Ennio Morricone, Spaghetti Western movie composer, dead at 91

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Juventus goalie Gianluigi Buffon warms-up prior to the Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Torino, at the Allianz Stadium in Turin, Italy, Saturday, July 4, 2020. Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon set an outright Serie A record on Saturday with his 648th appearance in Italy’s top flight. The Turin derby game against Torino moved the 42-year-old Buffon one ahead of AC Milan great Paolo Maldini, who set the record in 2009. (Marco Alpozzi/LaPresse via AP)

Buffon sets Serie A record with 648th appearance

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, July 3, 2020, migrants and SOS Mediterranee staffers stand aboard the Ocean Viking ship in the Mediterranean Sea. A charity ship says it has declared a state of emergency on board after six of the rescued migrants aboard tried to kill themselves. SOS Mediterranee, which operates the Ocean Viking, said in a statement Friday, July 3, 2020 that some of the 180 migrants have started physical fights among themselves or are threatening fellow survivors and crew. (Flavio Gasperini/SOS Mediterranee via AP)

Aid ship declares emergency after 6 migrants attempt suicide

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Hague court: Italy has jurisdiction in 2012 Indian shooting

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Italian President Sergio Mattarella, center, speaks in front of Bergamo's cemetery, Sunday, June 28, 2020. Italy bid farewell to its coronavirus dead on Sunday with a haunting Requiem concert performed at the entrance to the cemetery of Bergamo, the hardest-hit province in the onetime epicenter of the outbreak in Europe. President Sergio Mattarella was the guest of honor, and said his presence made clear that all of Italy was bowing down to honor Bergamo’s dead, “the thousands of men and women killed by a sickness that is still greatly unknown and continues to threaten the world.” (Italian Presidency via AP)

Italy honors, remembers virus dead with Donizetti’s Requiem

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

A supporter of Atalanta soccer team wears a face mask in the team's colors, prior to the Serie A soccer match between Atalanta and Sassuolo at the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo, Italy, Sunday, June 21, 2020. Atalanta is playing its first match in Bergamo since easing of lockdown measures, in the area that has been the epicenter of the hardest-hit province of Italy's hardest-hit region, Lombardy, the site of hundreds of COVID-19 deaths. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italy mulls new WHO guidelines on virus patient isolation

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press