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Serbia's Novak Djokovic kisses the trophy as ATP world best player at the ATP World Tour Finals, at the Pala Alpitour, in Turin, Italy, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. Djokovic was presented with the trophy for finishing the year ranked No. 1. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Novak Djokovic gets his trophy after securing year-end No. 1 ranking for a record-extending 8th time

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A volunteer removes a gate on the ski slope after an alpine ski, men's World Cup downhill training was cancelled due to heavy snowfall on the new ski course "Gran Becca", between Zermatt in Switzerland and Cervinia in Italy, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

Heavy snowfall and strong winds force cancellation of first men’s World Cup downhill at Matterhorn

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A truck exits from the port of Shengjin, northwestern Albania, on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni announced that Albania had agreed to give temporary shelter to thousands of migrants who try to reach Italian shores while their asylum bids are being processed. Albania will offer two facilities, a quarantine area at the port of Shengjin and an accommodation center for those who will be deported at a former military airport in Gjader. (AP Photo/Armando Babani)

Albania’s deal with Italy on migrants has been welcomed by many. But others are confused and angry

By Llazar Semini - Associated Press

This undated family handout photo provided on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 shows six-month-old Indi Gregory. Italy's government on Monday granted Italian citizenship to an eight-month-old terminally ill British girl after a court in Britain upheld rulings authorizing the withdrawal of life-supporting invasive treatment. Baby Indi Gregory's situation is the latest in a series of cases in Britain in which doctors and parents have sparred over the treatment of terminally ill children. The Vatican's pediatric hospital, Bambino Gesu, in Rome has offered to care for Indi Gregory. (Family Handout/PA via AP)

Parents of a terminally ill baby lose U.K. legal battle to bring her home

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, and Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, left, shake hands during a meeting in Rome, Italy, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Migration experts say Italy’s deal to have Albania house asylum-seekers violates international law

By Colleen Barry and Trisha Thomas - Associated Press

Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, and Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, left, shake hands after the signing of a memorandum of understanding on migrant management centres during a meeting in Rome, Italy, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Albania agrees to temporarily house migrants who reach Italy while their asylum bids are processed

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

People make their way on a flooded street in Campi di Bisenzio, in the central Italian Tuscany region, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. Record-breaking rain provoked floods in a vast swath of Tuscany as storm Ciaran pushed into Italy overnight Friday, trapping people in their homes, inundating hospitals and overturning cars. At least three people were killed, and four were missing. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Storm Ciaran brings record rainfall to Italy with at least 6 killed. European death toll rises to 14

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Newcastle's Sandro Tonali looks on during the Champions League match between AC Milan and Newcastle, at San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sept. 19, 2023. Premier League players Sandro Tonali and Nicolò Zaniolo were sent back to their clubs from Italy’s training camp on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023 after being notified by police of involvement in a betting investigation. (Spada/LaPresse via AP)

Newcastle’s Tonali banned for 10 months from soccer for betting violations, will miss Euro 2024

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Switzerland's Seraina Piubel, right, and Spain's Oihane Hernandez fight for the ball during the women's Nations League group D soccer match between Spain and Switzerland at the Nuevo Arcangel stadium in Cordoba, Spain, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Breton)

Spain’s women’s players want to focus on soccer again as Hermoso rejoins national team

By Tales Azzoni - Associated Press

Sevilla's Papu Gomez in action during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Sevilla and Real Betis at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville, Spain, on March 14, 2021. Monza forward Alejandro “Papu” Gomez has been banned for two years in a doping case stemming from his time at Spanish club Sevilla — possibly ending the 35-year-old player's career. Monza said Friday Oct. 20, 2023 it had received notification from FIFA, via the Italian soccer federation, of the sentence by the Spanish anti-doping commission. (AP Photo/Mateo Villalba, File)

Monza forward Alejandro ‘Papu’ Gomez banned for 2 years after failing doping test with Sevilla

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Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrives at the Europe Summit in Granada, Spain, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government said authorities in the northeastern border region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia had identified 16,000 people so far this year who had entered Italy illegally. Italy on Wednesday suspended an open-border agreement with neighboring Slovenia citing an increased threat of terrorism in Europe due to Middle East violence. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Italy suspends open border with Slovenia, citing increased terror threat as Mideast violence spikes

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Juventus' Nicolo Fagioli controls the ball during the 'Berlusconi trophy' soccer match between Monza and Juventus in Monza, near Milan, Italy, Saturday, July 31, 2021. A Lawyer for Juventus midfielder Nicolò Fagioli acknowledged Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, that the player is being investigated by prosecutors in Turin for betting online via unauthorized websites. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Banned Fagioli apologizes for ‘naive’ betting error, Newcastle giving ‘full support’ to Tonali

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People participate in a march of remembrance marking the 80th anniversary of the roundup of the Jews of Rome in Rome, Italy, Monday Oct. 16, 2023. Italian lawmakers on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi roundup of more than 1,200 Roman Jews in the Holocaust with a debate on a measure to partially fund a long-delayed Holocaust Museum in the capital. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Italian lawmakers debate long-delayed Holocaust Museum revived by far-right-led government

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Newcastle's Sandro Tonali looks on during the Champions League match between AC Milan and Newcastle, at San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Sept. 19, 2023. Premier League players Sandro Tonali and Nicolò Zaniolo were sent back to their clubs from Italy’s training camp on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023 after being notified by police of involvement in a betting investigation. (Spada/LaPresse via AP)

More than a dozen Serie A players could be implicated in latest scandal to hit Italian soccer

By Daniella Matar - Associated Press

Newcastle's Sandro Tonali warms up prior to the start of the Champions League group F soccer match between AC Milan and Newcastle at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Premier League players Tonali and Zaniolo leave Italy’s training camp amid betting inquiry

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Italy's Paolo Garbisi, center, reacts after a try from New Zealand during the Rugby World Cup Pool A match between New Zealand and Italy at the OL Stadium in Lyon, France, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Unbeaten France has lots of reasons to be worried about Italy in crunch Rugby World Cup match

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

Migrants swim next to their overturned wooden boat during a rescue operation by Spanish NGO Open Arms at south of the Italian Lampedusa island at the Mediterranean sea, Aug. 11, 2022. Italy has impounded the Spanish charity rescue boat Open Arms in a Tuscan port for violating rules by Italy’s far-right-led government banning multiple rescues at sea, the charity said Thursday. Open Arms protested the sanctions as a violation of the law of the sea that requires boats to offer rescue, said it was being punished rescuing 176 people in three operations, including people of “extreme vulnerability.” (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Spanish charity protests Italy’s impounding of rescue ship for multiple rescues

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Italy's Paolo Garbisi, center, reacts after a try from New Zealand during the Rugby World Cup Pool A match between New Zealand and Italy at the OL Stadium in Lyon, France, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

France makes 2 changes to face Italy at Rugby World Cup. Italy changes front row

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Italian firefighters work at the scene of a passenger bus accident in Mestre, near the city of Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. The bus fell from an elevated road, late Tuesday, killing multiple people. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

A bus plummeted 15 meters from an elevated road in Venice, killing 21 people in a fiery crash

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

FILE - Rescuers approach a migrants' boat adrift in international waters off Malta in the Mediterranean Sea, on Oct. 25, 2022. The leaders of nine southern European Union countries met in Malta on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, to discuss common challenges such as migration, the EU's management of which has vexed national governments in Europe for years. (AP Photo/Vincenzo Circosta)

Leaders of European Union’s Mediterranean nations huddle in Malta to discuss migration

By Kevin Schembri Orland - Associated Press