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Italy: Teacher’s ‘experiment’ with black pupil arouses anger

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Survivor of sex abuse Francesco Zanardi, right, listens to Mark Rozzi, Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, during a press conference at the Italian Lower Chamber press hall in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Pope Francis opened a landmark sex abuse prevention summit Thursday by warning senior Catholic figures that the faithful are demanding concrete action against predator priests and not just words of condemnation. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Abuse victims: Italian law helps bishops dodge investigation

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2018 file photo, migrants disembark at the port of Crinavis in Algeciras, Spain, after being rescued in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri said Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019 that there is &quot;no burning crisis&quot; right now in Europe due to migrant arrivals, but that more and more African people are trying to enter Spain from Morocco. (AP Photo/Olmo Calvo, File)

EU border guard chief says ‘no burning crisis’ over migrants

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

This March 20, 2018 photo provided on Jan. 3, 2019 by Italian senator Valentino Perin, shows the senator, right, posing for a photo with then North Korean diplomat Jo Song Gil on the occasion of a cultural event with the Veneto region at a restaurant in San Pietro di Felletto, near Treviso, northern Italy. Italy's foreign minister said Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019 that Italy is investigating whether the 17-year-old daughter of former North Korean diplomat Jo Song Gil was forcibly returned to Pyongyang as her parents apparently tried to defect. (Valentino Perin via AP)

Italy’s checking if NKorean envoy’s daughter was forced back

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 24, 2018, file photo, a demonstrator throws debris at a burning barricade while protesting with others against the rising of the fuel taxes on the famed Champs Elysees avenue, in Paris. The offer by Italy's 5-Star Movement to share its web platform with France's &quot;yellow vests&quot; could be harbinger of what's to come in the upcoming European Parliament elections. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu, File)

Tech could unite Europe’s populists ahead of EU vote in May

By LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

Five star movement leader and deputy Premier Luigi di Maio talks during a press conference, in Rome, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. France is sending its ambassador Christian Masset back to Italy Friday following the biggest diplomatic dispute between the two countries since World War II after Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio met with French yellow vest activists seeking to run for the European Parliament, causing France to recall the ambassador to protest perceived Italian meddling in French domestic politics. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

French ambassador returns to Italy following dramatic spat

By FRANCES D'EMILIO and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

A view of the Italian entrance of the 1871 Frejus tunnel on the conventional railway between Italy and France in Bardonecchia, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. A Turin–Lyon high-speed railway project is part of a European wide network to improve high-speed rail connections. On the Italian side, the construction site long targeted by sabotaging protesters is guarded by four law enforcement agencies and has been reduced to maintenance work only. The survival of Italy's increasingly uneasy populist government could very well depend on whether Italy restarts construction on the TAV link, which it halted in June.(AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

High-speed tunnel project divides Italy’s ruling populists

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Defending champion Croatia to face Spain in new Davis Cup

By TALES AZZONI - Associated Press

Italy confirms talks with Delta, EasyJet for Alitalia stake

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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte attend a debate on the future Europe at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2019. France recalled its ambassador to Italy last week in the two EU countries' biggest diplomatic dispute since World War II. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Italy slams EU for lack of solidarity, but faulted for same

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Italian Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi delivers his speech at the parliament in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. Italy’s populist government wants elections soon in Venezuela but hasn’t joined EU allies in recognizing Juan Guaido as interim president. Foreign Minister Enzo Moavero Milanesi told lawmakers Tuesday the Venezuelan vote that elected Nicolas Maduro wasn’t democratic. He said Italy is calling for “new democratic presidential elections soon” for Venezuela. (Giuseppe Lami/ANSA via AP)

Italy: New presidential election needed soon in Venezuela

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Wales' Jake Ball, center, is tackled by Italy's Michele Campagnaro, left, and Italy's Guglielmo Palazzani during the Six Nations rugby union international between Italy and Wales, at Rome's Olympic Stadium, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

6N: Wales equals wins record after Italy scare in Rome

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A man wears a yellow shirt with writing in French reading &quot;France in anger&quot; during a demonstration of Italian and French yellow vests, in Sanremo, Italy, Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. France's government spokesman said that the recall of the French ambassador to Italy was prompted by months of &quot;unfounded attacks&quot; from Italian government members Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini — and especially by Di Maio's meeting in France this week with yellow vest protesters. (Riccardo Antimiani/ANSA via AP)

French minister warns Italian populist over diplomat recall

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FILE - In this Nov.9, 2018 file photo, Italian deputy Premier and Labor Minister Luigi Di Maio talks to reporters during a press conference at the Foreign Press Association headquarters, in Rome. France is recalling its ambassador to Italy amid mounting tensions, after Di Maio met with French yellow vest protesters and offered to support their anti-government movement. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

France keeps up pressure on Italy in historic EU dispute

By ANGELA CHARLTON and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Migrants are photographed for identification as they disembark from the rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, which was carrying 47 migrants, as it docked at the Sicilian port of Catania, southern Italy, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. Europe's latest migrant standoff came to a conclusion Thursday as 47 migrants kept at sea for nearly two weeks while Italy pressured European countries to take them in finally disembarked from their rescue ship in Sicily. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Council of Europe alarmed by Italy’s migrant policy

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A screenshot taken on Thursday Feb. 7, 2019, from an online fashion outlet showing a Gucci turtleneck black wool balaclava sweater for sale, that they recently pulled from its online and physical stores. Gucci has apologized for the wool sweater that resembled a &quot;blackface&quot; and said the item had been removed from its online and physical stores, the latest case of an Italian fashion house having to apologize for cultural or racial insensitivity. (AP Photo)

Gucci pulls ‘blackface sweater’ from stores after complaints

By Nicole Winfield and Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo reacts during the Serie A soccer match Juventus and Parma at the Allianz stadium in Turin, Italy, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. (Alessandro Di Marco/ANSA via AP)

Italy call-up but no record for Quagliarella

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

An helicopter of the Valdostano Alpine Rescue corp leaves an helipad in Aosta, Italy, Monday, Feb. 4, 2019, to reach the spot where the bodies of three skiers where found. Rescuers have found the bodies of three skiers in Italy's Alps and are searching for a fourth, raising the death toll in recent avalanches in the country to at least five. The Valdostano Alpine Rescue aircraft on Monday, searching for two British and two French skiers who were reported missing a day earlier, spotted three bodies. Dogs were helping in the search. (Thierry Pronesti/ANSA Via AP)

Avalanche death toll in the Italian Alps rises to 6

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Scotland's Tommy Seymour, left, tackles Italy's Angelo Esposito during the Six Nations rugby union international between Scotland and Italy, at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Scotland, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)

6N: Italy reaches new low by losing to Scotland 33-20

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Italian Deputy Premier and Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, visits the construction site of a high-speed railway project in Chiomonte, near Turin, Italy, Friday, Feb. 1, 2019. Matteo Salvini says he supports a review of a high-speed railway project that protests kept stalled for decades. But Salvini said during a visit to the construction site on Friday that he thinks the European Union project should be completed. (Alessandro Di Marco/ANSA via AP)

Italy’s Salvini backs EU train line opposed by govt partner

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press