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Visitors closely admire early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli's &quot;Spring&quot;, at the Uffizi Gallery museum, in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. To protect the masterpieces in the Uffizi Gallery’s collection, the Florence museum’s director climbed a ladder and hurled an employee’s bicycle down at a sheet of glass specially made to keep prized pieces such as Botticelli’s “Spring” and “Birth of Venus” safe from vandals. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Will populist politics undo a renaissance at Italy’s Uffizi?

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini receives media attention at the end of a political rally as part of his 'Italian summer tour', in Taormina, Southern Italy, Sunday, Aug. 11, 2019. Italy on Friday edged closer to holding an election as early as this fall that could move the country farther to the right, with anti-migrant Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini already unofficially campaigning for the premiership and declaring it makes “no sense” to keep alive the feuding populist coalition government. (Carmelo imbesi/ANSA via AP)

Matteo Salvini, Northern League head, has eyes on prime minister of Italy

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

Italian premier Giuseppe Conte gives a press conference at Chigi Palace in Rome Thursday evening, Aug. 8, 2019. Italy faced a government crisis Thursday as Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of the right-wing League party called for a new election, saying his party's coalition with the populist 5-Star Movement had collapsed over policy differences. (AP Photo/Alberto Pellaschiar)

Italy edges closer to an election, perhaps in late October

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Migrants are seen aboard the Open Arms Spanish humanitarian boat as it cruises in the Mediterranean Sea, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019. Open Arms has been carrying 121 migrants for a week in the central Mediterranean awaiting a safe port to dock, after it was denied entry by Italy and Malta. (AP Photo/Valerio Nicolosi)

Ship carrying migrants stranded while waiting for safe port

By COLLEEN BARRY and RENATA BRITO - Associated Press

The Latest: Italy’s Salvini calls for a new election soon

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Personnel of a Maltese Armed Force vessel, right, helps a man to board their ship from the German humanitarian vessel Alan Kurdi, off the Maltese coast, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019.. The humanitarian group said the 40 migrants that were rescued at sea off the coast of Libya have been successfully transferred to the Maltese military boats to be brought to port. Alan Kurdi had headed toward Malta after Italy again refused to open its ports to a humanitarian rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea. (Pavel D. Vitko/Sea-eye.org via AP)

UN refugee agency says new Italian law could endanger lives

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In this Aug. 1, 2019 photo, Ezequiel Villalonga, one of about 20 ex-students from the Antonio Próvalo School for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children who say they were sexually abused by Roman Catholic priests, including cases of rape, poses for a photo in Mendoza, Argentina. Villalonga has expressed the power he feels after years of suffering now that the priests whom he and other former students accuse of abuse are finally going to trial. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Trial for priests accused of abusing deaf Argentine students

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and NATACHA PISARENKO - Associated Press

Italian Interior Minister and deputy Premier Matteo Salvini listens to journalists questions during a press conference he held in Rome, Thursday, July 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Migrants on Italian coast guard ship to go to 5 EU nations

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From left, Carabinieri Colonel Lorenzo D'Aloia, prosecutors Nunzia D'Elia, and Michele Prestipino, and Carabinieri General Francesco Gargano arrive to a press conference about the investigation on the murder of Carabinieri's officer Mario Cerciello Rega in Rome, Tuesday, July 30, 2019. Two American teenagers were jailed in Rome on Saturday as authorities investigate their alleged roles in the fatal stabbing of the Italian police officer on a street near their hotel. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy: Slain police officer didn’t have gun when stabbed

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 2, 2019, file photo, Fred Hoiberg smiles as he is introduced as Nebraska's new NCAA college basketball head coach at a news conference in Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska’s nine-day tour of Italy next month will be the epitome of a team-building exercise. New coach Fred Hoiberg’s personnel decisions combined with the departure of four senior starters and a junior taken in the NBA draft left the Cornhuskers with one player who was active last season. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Hoiberg’s Huskers getting acquainted before heading overseas

By ERIC OLSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, July 26, 2017, a firefighting plane drops fire retardant over a forest near La Londe-les-Maures on the French Riviera, after authorities ordered the evacuation of 10,000 people as fires hopscotched around the Riviera for a third day. Forest blazes are growing in intensity, especially in southern European countries and the European Union describes wildfires as &quot;a serious and increasing threat&quot; across the continent. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, FILE)

AP Explains: Deadly mega-fires bring new challenge to Europe

By BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

Passengers check train times at Naples' Central station, southern Italy, Monday, July 22, 2019. A suspected arson fire has forced cancellations of at least 42 high-speed trains in Italy on the heavily-traveled Milan-Naples corridor. (Cesare Abbate/ANSA via AP)

Fire forces cancellations of high-speed trains in Italy

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Mullah Krekar faces the media in a District Court in Oslo, Norway, Wednesday July 17, 2019. Norway’s controversial refugee, Mullah Krekar, was seized Tuesday by the Norwegian police intelligence agency PST and held on the request of Italian authorities, after an Italian court sentenced him to 12-years in prison for planning terrorist acts. (Carina Johansen / NTB Scanpix via AP)

Norway holds Muslim cleric for 4 weeks after Italy trial

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FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2009 file photo, Italian author Andrea Camilleri makes his point during a demonstration against the Vatican's influence on the ongoing right-to-die debate, in Rome. Italian writer Andrea Camilleri, known for his popular novels and TV series centered on the much-loved inspector Salvo Montalbano, died in Rome Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at age 93. Camilleri was Italy’s most successful writer, but until he was nearly 70 he had been a virtually unknown author of a handful of historical novels set in his native Sicily. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)

Camilleri, author of Montalbano detective series, dies at 93

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Italian Deputy-Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini meets the media in Rome, Monday, July 15, 2019. The Italian premier's office on Sunday distanced itself from a lobbyist who is under investigation for allegedly seeking Russian money for Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's pro-Moscow League party, saying the man attended a recent dinner for visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin only because a Salvini adviser intervened on his behalf. (Maurizio Brambatti/ANSA via AP)

Italy’s Salvini bows to pressure to respond on Russia report

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Correction: Norway-Italy-Radical Cleric story

By JAN M. OLSEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, July 5, 2015 file photo, an Alitalia plane takes off from Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci international airport. The Italian government is hoping the Alitalia airline will turn a new page after four private investors expressed an interest in joining the state railway, the Italian treasury and Delta Air Lines in trying once again to relaunch the struggling flagship carrier. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca, File)

Atlantia chosen to help relaunch Italy’s Alitalia airline

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Italy firefighters battle wildfires; 1 dead, others evacuate

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FILE - This June 7, 2016 file photo taken from a video and released by the Italian Police shows a man identified by prosecutors as Medhane Yehdego Mered, center, a 35-year-old Eritrean, arrested two weeks earlier in Sudan, upon his arrival at Ciampino's airport, on the outskirts of Rome. On Friday, July 12, 2019, a court in Sicily will deliberate the fate of alleged migrants smugglers, including an Eritrean who claims his is a case of mistaken ID. The defendant's lawyer, Michele Calantropo contends the defendant's identity is Medhanie Tesfamariam Behre and that he's innocent, prosecutors insist his client is Medhane Yehdego Mered, an alleged human trafficking kingpin. ( Italian Police via AP/files)

The Latest: Italian court rules mistaken identity, frees man

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Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, right, is greeted by supporters in Trieste, Italy, Friday, July 5, 2019. Salvini said Friday that Italy is ready to use more resources to &quot;seal the border with Slovenia and definitively stop the entrance of illegal migrants.&quot; But he stopped short of mentioning a plan to build an anti-migrant wall along the Slovenian border, previously mentioned by the League's regional governor. (AP Photo)

Italian minister Salvini closes migrant center in Sicily

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press