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Italian soccer legend Roberto Baggio smiles as he attends an event at the Expo 2015 World's Fair on the occasion of the UN World Food Day in Rho, near Milan, Italy, Friday, Oct. 16, 2015. Retired Italy star Roberto Baggio was robbed at gunpoint on Thursday, June 20, 2024 at his home while watching the national team’s game against Spain at the European Championship. Italian media reports say at least five armed robbers burst into Baggio’s villa near the northern city of Vicenza around around 10 p.m. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Retired Italy star Roberto Baggio robbed at home while watching national team’s game against Spain

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Marine biologist Linda Albonetti releases a turtle named Vulcano into the Adriatic Sea in a no-fishing zone off the coast of Marina di Ravenna, Italy, Saturday, June 8, 2024. A nonprofit rescues and treats injured turtles that are sometimes hurt by trawlers. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Sea turtles are under threat from trawlers in the Adriatic. A center offers them a sanctuary

By Taiwo Adebayo, Luca Bruno and Sara Lemlem - Associated Press

US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at Buergenstock Resort during the Summit on peace in Ukraine, in Stansstad near Lucerne, Switzerland, Saturday, June 15, 2024. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)

Kamala Harris stepping in for Biden at Ukraine summit as she takes growing role in 2024 campaign

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President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, shake hands after signing a security agreement on the sidelines of the G7, Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Savelletri, Italy. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden, Zelenskyy sign $50 billion loan pact as Russia war rages on

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

5-Star Movement lawmaker Leonardo Donno, center top, is protected by parliament employees from other lawmakers during brawl in the lower chamber of deputies at the Italian parliament, in Rome, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Tensions in Italy's lower house over a government proposal that opponents says will further impoverish the poorer south erupted into a fist-fight that sent an opposition lawmaker to the hospital. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)

Fistfight erupts in Italian Parliament as tensions rise over expanding regional autonomy

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One of nine Egyptians, who was on trial for migrant smuggling, waves to the media persons as he leaves the court in Kalamata, southwestern Greece, on Tuesday, May 21, 2024. A Greek judge dismissed charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year and sent shockwaves through the European Union's border protection and asylum operations, after a prosecutor told the court Greece lacked jurisdiction. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek judge dismisses case against Egyptians accused in shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants

By Derek Gatopoulos - Associated Press

La Scala theatre square is filled with 172 coffins, as many as the number of deaths at work that Lombardy recorded in 2023, during a flash mob organised by UIL trade union organization, in Milan, Italy, Friday, May 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Mock coffins fill a square in Milan in a protest over workplace safety in Italy

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FILE - Eike Bretschneider exits the Seabird aircraft after flying for nearly six hours before running low on fuel over the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, as a storm approaches the island of Lampedusa, Italy, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. Italy’s aviation authority has barred humanitarian migrant rescue groups from using a Sicilian airport to launch search and rescue flights over the Mediterranean, in the government’s latest crackdown on their activities. (AP Photo/Renata Brito, File)

Italy bars NGO migrant rescue flights from Sicilian airport, says they interfere with coast guard

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

In this image taken from video, police arrest some 125 activists as they broke up a pro-Palestinian demonstration camp at the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, as protests that have roiled campuses in the United States spread into Europe. (AP Photo InterVision)

Police break up pro-Palestinian camp at Amsterdam university as campus protests spread to Europe

By Mike Corder and Barbara Surk - Associated Press

Romanian opposition party leader George Simion talks with Tim Constantine at last week's MEGA (Make Europe Great Again) conference in Romania. (Tim Constantine)

Romania leading Europe into a new conservative era

By Tim Constantine

Fans gather at the burial site of late Brazilian Formula One driver Ayrton Senna to mark the 30th anniversary of his death, at Morumbi cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. The three-time F1 world champion died in a crash at the Imola race track in San Marino. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

F1 champion Ayrton Senna remembered on Imola track 30 years after his death

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Dozens of people raise their arms in the fascist salute and shout the fascist chant "present" in Dongo, northern Italy, Sunday, April 28, 2024 during ceremonies to honor Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on the 79th anniversary of his execution. Dressed in black, the neo-fascist supporters marched through northern Italian towns where Mussolini was arrested and executed at the end of World War II. (LaPresse Via AP)

Dozens in Italy give a fascist salute on the anniversary of Mussolini’s execution

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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

FILE - Italy's Arianna Errigo celebrates on the podium her silver medal after the women's Individual Foil final against Italy's Alice Volpi, at the Fencing World Championships in Milan, Italy, on July 26, 2023. Fencer Arianna Errigo and high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi were named as Italy’s flagbearers Monday, April 29, 2024 for the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Fencing mom Arianna Errigo and high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi named Italy’s Olympic flagbearers

By Andrew Dampf - Associated Press

A view of the Enel Green Power hydroelectric plant at the Suviana Dam, some 70 kilometers southwest of Bologna, Italy, Wednesday , April 10, 2024. Search and rescue operations were still under way on Wednesday morning at a decades-old hydroelectric plant close to the northern Italian city of Bologna, after a devastating blast a day before killed at least three workers, injured five, and left four missing. Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

4 are still missing but hopes are fading after a deadly explosion at an Italian hydroelectric plant

By Giada Zampano and Antonio Calanni - Associated Press

Amanda Knox speaks at a Criminal Justice Festival at the University of Modena, Italy, Saturday, June 15, 2019. Knox faces yet another trial for slander in a case that could remove the last remaining guilty verdict against her nine years after Italy's highest court definitively threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate, Meredith Kercher. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

What to know about the latest trial involving Amanda Knox

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

In this Sept. 26, 2008, Amanda Knox, center, is escorted by Italian penitentiary police officers to Perugia's court. Amanda Knox faces yet another trial for slander in a case that could remove the last remaining guilty verdict against her eight years after Italy's highest court definitively threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate, Meredith Kercher. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)

Italy opens new slander trial against Amanda Knox. She was exonerated 9 years ago in friend’s murder

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Amanda Knox speaks at a Criminal Justice Festival at the University of Modena, Italy, Saturday, June 15, 2019. Knox faces yet another trial for slander in a case that could remove the last remaining guilty verdict against her eight years after Italy's highest court definitively threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate, Meredith Kercher. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Amanda Knox faces a new slander trial in Italy that could remove the last legal stain against her

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Britain's Defense Minister Grant Shapps, right, Italy's Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, left, and Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara, center, shake hands after a signing ceremony for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) at the defense ministry, Dec. 14, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan. Japan’s Cabinet on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, approved a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets that it’s developing with Britain and Italy to other countries, in the latest move away from the country’s postwar pacifist principles. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Japan approves plan to sell fighter jets to other nations in latest break from pacifist principles

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Britain's Defense Minister Grant Shapps, right, Italy's Defense Minister Guido Crosetto, left, and Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara, center, shake hands after a signing ceremony for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) at the defense ministry, Dec. 14, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan. Japan’s Cabinet on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, approved a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets that it’s developing with Britain and Italy to other countries, in the latest move away from the country’s postwar pacifist principles. (David Mareuil/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Japan approves plan to sell fighter jets to other nations in latest break from pacifist principles

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press