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Italian premier Giuseppe Conte gestures during a year end press conference in Rome, Italy, Friday, Dec.28, 2018. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy’s premier insists budget deal not dictated by EU

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Italy’s foreign minister to visit Washington on Jan. 3-4

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$A smoke column comes out of the Etna volcano in Catania, Italy, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. The Mount Etna observatory says lava and ash are spewing from a new fracture on the active Sicilian volcano amid an unusually high level of seismic activity. (AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra)$

Quake from Mount Etna volcano jolts Sicily, sparks panic

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

$A smoke column comes out of the Etna volcano in Catania, Italy, Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. The Mount Etna observatory says lava and ash are spewing from a new fracture on the active Sicilian volcano amid an unusually high level of seismic activity. (AP Photo/Salvatore Allegra)$

Sicilian airport reopens amid Mount Etna’s latest eruption

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Democratic Party senators protest during the confidence vote on the budget law in the Senate of the Republic in Rome on Satuday, Dec. 22, 2018. Italy's populist government is under pressure to get the new draft approved by both houses before Dec. 31, a condition set by the EU Commission when it accepted the updated draft earlier this week. (Riccardo Antimiani/ANSA via AP)

Italian Senate OKs budget, tweaked to satisfy EU concerns

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

In this Friday, Dec. 21, 2018, photo, migrants sit in a rubber dinghy after Proactiva Open Arms, a Spanish NGO, spotted and rescued them in the Central Mediterranean Sea at 45 miles (72 kilometers) from Al Khums, Lybia. The Spanish NGO Open Arms have rescued about 300 migrants from 3 boats crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe on Friday. (AP Photo/Olmo Calvo)

Aid ship with 311 migrants ignored by Italy, heads to Spain

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

A view of the Italian Senate as during the Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte address on the budget law, in Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. The European Commission says it has reached an agreement with Italy to avert legal action over the country's budget plans, which the EU's executive arm had warned could break euro currency rules. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italian govt criticized for hasty moves to pass budget

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016 file photo, the wrecked fishing boat that capsized and sunk on April 18, 2015 off the coast of Libya, lies outside a NATO base in the Sicilian town of Mellili, Italy. One of the two investigators on the project tracing families and survivors in Africa, has confirmed that the boat that sank on April 18, 2015 carried not 800 migrants as previously believed, but as many as 1,100. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli, File)

Hunt for names in deadly migrant shipwreck yields more dead

By LORI HINNANT and TRISHA THOMAS and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2016 file photo, the hull of a fishing boat that capsized off the coast of Libya sits outside, at the NATO base in the Sicilian town of Melili, Italy. The story of the fishing boat known as the &quot;peschereccio&quot; and its passengers reflects how migrants can simply vanish worldwide, sometimes without a trace. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli, File)

300 uncounted dead: 2015 migrant shipwreck yields new clues

By LORI HINNANT and TRISHA THOMAS and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici pauses before speaking during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018. The European Commission says it has reached an agreement with Italy to avert action over the country's budget plans, which the EU's executive arm had warned could break euro currency rules. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU reaches deal with Italy on budget

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FILE - In this June 13, 2016 file photo, Najmuddin Ahmad Faraj, better known as Mullah Krekar, at Oslo District Court in Oslo, Norway. Iraqi-born cleric, Mullah Krekar, suspected of enticing recruits to fight in Iraq and Syria has been given travel documents to travel to Italy where he faces trial, Norway’s justice minister said. (Terje Pedersen/NTB Scanpix via AP, File)

Norway allows cleric to face court in Italy

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Italy steps up holiday security at airports, train stations

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FILE - This Feb. 8, 2002, file photo, shows U.S. champion Michelle Kwan practicing for the women's short program for the Winter Olympic Games at the Salt lake Ice Center in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City got the green light to bid for an upcoming Winter Olympics most likely for 2030 in an attempt to bring the Games back to the city that hosted in 2002 and provided the backdrop for the U.S. winter team's ascendance into an international powerhouse. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, file)

Salt Lake City gets go-ahead to bid for Winter Olympics

By EDDIE PELLS and BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 12, 2012 file photo, Cesare Battisti attends the presentation of his new book about his experience in an Italian prison, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A Brazilian supreme court judge ordered the arrest of Battisti on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. but that the president would have the final word over his extradition to Italy. Battisti escaped from Italian prison in 1981 while awaiting trial on four counts of murder allegedly committed when he was a member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism. He was convicted in absentia in 1990. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

Brazilian president orders extradition of Cesare Battisti

By STAN LEHMAN - Associated Press

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, right, greets Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018. (Francisco Seco)

Italy lowers deficit in revised budget to avoid EU sanctions

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini speaks during a press conferences at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Italy’s far-right minister visits Israel, drawing criticism

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

A hole in the cobblestone pavement is seen where 20 small bronze plaques honoring the members of a Jewish family deported during the Holocaust should have been, in Rome's Monti neighborhood, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018.. The plaques, affixed to the cobblestones in front of the Di Consiglio family home, were apparently taken overnight. Rome's historic center houses the Jewish ghetto, near Monti, and its cobblestoned streets are dotted with the plaques in front of homes of Jews who were killed or deported. (Silvia Lambertucci/ANSA via AP)

Outrage after plaques honoring Rome’s deported Jews stolen

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pickle business thrives with family recipe, creativity

By KRISTINA DORSEY - Associated Press

Rescuers assist injured people outside disco Lanterna Azzurra in Corinaldo, central Italy, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. A stampede at a rap concert in an overcrowded disco in central Italy killed five young teenagers and a woman who had accompanied her daughter to the event early Saturday, police said, adding that 59 people were injured. (AP Photo/Bobo Antic)

Italy: Teen, club owners investigated in fatal stampede

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, Elizabeth, from Nigeria, works at her sewing machine in the &quot;Well(c)home&quot; shelter residence for migrants where she lives, in Rome. Thousands of migrants in Italy are anxiously waiting to see if they will lose their housing and benefits following approval of a government-backed law that aims to reduce the number of migrants granted humanitarian protections. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy’s migrants fear new law deprives them of protections

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press