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The migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, carrying 47 migrants, comes into the Sicilian port of Catania, southern Italy, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2018. The Sea-Watch 3, operated by the German aid group Sea Watch, was being escorted by Italian finance police and coast guard ships into port in Catania on Thursday morning after being kept at sea for nearly two weeks while Italy pressed other European countries to agree to take them in. (Orietta Scardino/ANSA via AP)

The Latest: Migrants disembark from rescue ship in Sicily

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The migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, carrying 47 migrants, comes into dock at the Sicilian port of Catania, southern Italy, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2018. The Sea-Watch 3, operated by the German aid group Sea Watch, was being escorted by Italian coast guard ships into port in Catania on Thursday morning after being kept at sea for nearly two weeks while Italy pressed other European countries to agree to take them in. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Migrants disembark in Sicily as latest EU standoff ends

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A coastguard boat approaches the German humanitarian group's rescue boat Sea Watch 3, to deliver food and blankets for the cold, off the coast of Syracuse, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019. The Italian coast guard is bringing socks, shoes, bread and fruit to 47 migrants who have been stranded at sea for nine days aboard a German ship. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Italy’s Conte: Migrants in latest standoff to disembark soon

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Protesters gather during a demonstration in support of German humanitarian group Sea-Watch, in front of the Italian lower chamber’s Montecitorio palace, in Rome, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019. A Sea-Watch rescue ship that picked up 47 migrants off the Libyan coasts on Jan. 19, was allowed to shelter in the Italian territorial waters due to threatening weather last Thursday, but the government refuses to let aid groups disembark the migrants in Italian ports. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy to seek court ruling Dutch must deal with migrant boat

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Abu Dhabi’s ADNOC inks $5.8B deals with Eni and OMV

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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech prior to the the signing of a new Germany-France friendship treaty at the historic Town Hall in Aachen, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. The new Treaty of Aachen is the succession of the 1963 Elysee Treaty signed by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the then French President Charles de Gaulle. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Italy’s Salvini lashes out at Macron as ‘terrible president’

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FILE - In this April 12, 2012 file photo, Italian Cesare Battisti attends the presentation of his book about his experience in prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Italy sent an aircraft to Bolivia on Sunday Jan. 13, 2019, to pick up fugitive communist militant Cesare Battisti after he was captured there nearly three decades after he was convicted of murder, setting the stage for a climax to one of Italy’s longest-running sagas. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

Italian fugitive brought home to serve life term for murder

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this frame grab taken by a video released by the Italian Police, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, Italian fugitive communist militant Cesare Battisti walks in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. Italy sent an aircraft to Bolivia on Sunday to pick up Battisti after he was captured there nearly three decades after he was convicted of murder, setting the stage for a climax to one of Italy’s longest-running sagas.(Italian Police Via AP)

The Latest: Bolivia cops say Battisti now in Italy’s custody

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FILE - In this April 12, 2012 file photo, Italian Cesare Battisti attends the presentation of his book about his experience in prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Italy sent an aircraft to Bolivia on Sunday Jan. 13, 2019, to pick up fugitive communist militant Cesare Battisti after he was captured there nearly three decades after he was convicted of murder, setting the stage for a climax to one of Italy’s longest-running sagas. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

Italian fugitive captured 3 decades after murder conviction

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, left, and his Polish counterpart Joachim Brudzinski, right, address the media following their talks in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. Salvini's visit is seen as sounding out a possible alliance with Poland's ruling EU-skeptic party ahead of spring elections for the European Parliament. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Italy’s Salvini seeks to build new European order with Poles

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The Sea-Watch ship waits off the coast of Malta, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2018. Two German nonprofit groups are appealing to European Union countries to take in 49 migrants whose health is deteriorating while they are stuck on rescue ships in the Mediterranean Sea. Sea-Watch and Sea-Eye representatives told reporters in Berlin on Tuesday that drinking water was being rationed on their ships and some migrants had trouble eating due to illness. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud)

The Latest: Italy alleges extremists smuggled migrants

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Serbia's Novak Djokovic returns the ball to South Africa's Kevin Anderson during the final match of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Novak Djokovic, Simona Halep top seeds for Australian Open

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Italian mayors, governors challenge government asylum law

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Italian coalition chiefs spar over stranded migrants

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - This March 20, 2018, file photo made available Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019 by the Parish of Farra di Soligo, shows North Korea's acting ambassador to Italy Jo Song Gil, center, holding a model of &quot;Bell of Peace of Rovereto&quot; during a cultural event on the occasion of a visit of the North Korean delegation to the Veneto region, in San Pietro di Feletto, near Treviso, northern Italy. Jo who South Korea’s spy agency says has gone into hiding along with his wife, appears to be the latest member of the North’s elite to abandon the secretive totalitarian state. The North, which touts itself as a socialist paradise, is extremely sensitive about defections, especially among its elite, and has previously insisted that they are South Korean or U.S. plots to undermine its government. Flanked by Jon are don Brunone De Toffol, parish priest of Farra di Soligo, left, and Senator Valentino Perin, right. (Parish of Farra di Soligo via AP, File)

A look at high-profile defections from North Korea

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

A woman looks at a fresco at the Schola Armaturarum building in Pompeii, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. A 2,000-year-old building where gladiators trained in ancient Pompeii is now open to visitors, eight years after its collapse following rainfall. The Pompeii archaeological site said the public can visit the Schola Armaturarum on Thursdays and that restoration experts will explain how they painstakingly restored frescoes inside the building. (Cesare Abbate/ANSA via AP)

Restored Pompeii gladiator building open to public

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 27, 2018, file photo, a North Korean flag flutters in the wind atop a 160-meter tower in North Korea's village Gijungdongseen, as seen from the Taesungdong freedom village inside the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea. South Korea's spy agency on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019, has told lawmakers that North Korea's acting ambassador to Italy Jo Song Gil went into hiding with his wife in November. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

North Korean envoy to Italy vanishes _ did he defect?

By FRANCES D'EMILIO and KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

An external view of the North Korean embassy in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2018. North Korea's acting ambassador to Italy, Jo Song Gil, went into hiding with his wife in November, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers in Seoul on Thursday. (AP Photo/Gianfranco Stara)

The Latest: Defector: Missing NKorean from prominent family

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Administrators called in for troubled Italian bank

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Former lower chamber President Laura Boldrini, top right, shows the Constitution to Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte, left, and Economy Minister Giovanni Tria to protest during the vote of confidence on the budget law at the Italian lower chamber in Rome, Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018 . (Fabio Frustaci/ANSA via AP)

Italy’s contentious budget wins government’s confidence vote

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