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An Italian Coast Guard boat approaches the French NGO &quot;SOS Mediterranee&quot; Aquarius ship as migrants are being transferred, in the Mediterranean Sea, Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Italy dispatched two ships Tuesday to help take 629 migrants stuck off its shores on the days-long voyage to Spain in what is forecast to be bad weather, after the new populist government refused them safe port in a dramatic bid to force Europe to share the burden of unrelenting arrivals. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Hungary sends smugglers to prison for 71 suffocation deaths

By Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

A migrant woman and baby wait for a health check up after disembarking from Italian Coast Guard vessell &quot;Diciotti&quot; which docked at the Sicilian port of Catania, southern Italy, Wednesday, June 13, 2018. The vessel docked in Catania with 932 migrants aboard in a sign that Italy under the populist 5-Star Movement and anti-migrant League is still accepting some migrants, but is forcing other countries to share the burden. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

The Latest: Aid group refuses migrants from US Navy ship

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Migrants wait to disembark from an Italian Coast Guard vessell &quot;Diciotti&quot; as it docks at the Sicilian port of Catania, southern Italy, Wednesday, June 13, 2018. The vessel docked in Catania with 932 migrants aboard in a sign that Italy under the populist 5-Star Movement and anti-migrant League is still accepting some migrants, but is forcing other countries to share the burden. (Orietta Scardino/ANSA via AP)

Migrant aid ship on way to Spain as Italy draws deeper line

By NICOLE WINFIELD and SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

This undated photo released on Tuesday, June 12, 2018, by French NGO &quot;SOS Mediterranee&quot; and posted on it's Twitter account, shows stranded migrants aboard SOS Mediterranee's Aquarius ship and MSF (Doctors Without Borders) NGOs, in the Mediterranean Sea. Italy's new &quot;Italians first&quot; government claimed victory Monday when the Spanish prime minister offered safe harbor to a private rescue ship after Italy and Malta refused to allow it permission to disembark its 629 migrant passengers in their ports. (Kenny Karpov/SOS Mediterranee via AP)

The Latest: US Navy confirms Mediterranean rescue operation

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

CORRECTS NAME OF BOAT This undated photo released by by French NGO &quot;SOS Mediterranee&quot; on Monday June 11, 2018 and posted on it's Twitter account, shows migrants aboard SOS Mediterranee's Aquarius ship and MSF (Doctors Without Borders) NGOs, in the Mediterranean Sea. Italy and Malta dug in for a second day and refused to let the rescue ship Aquarius with 629 people aboard dock in their ports, leaving the migrants at sea as a diplomatic standoff escalated under Italy's new anti-immigrant government. (Kenny Karpov/SOS Mediterranee via AP)

Migrant boat low on food as Italy-Malta standoff escalates

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2014, file photo, the Western Kentucky mascot, Big Red, runs around the field during an NCAA college football game against Illinois in Champaign, Ill. Western Kentucky mascot will be going another round in the legal fight against his evil Italian twin, Gabibbo. ESPN reported Wednesday, June 6, 2018 that the highest court in Italy published a decision &quot;affirming the merits&quot; of a plagiarism suit filed by Big Red's inventor against the Italian media company that owns Gabibbo, sometimes referred to as the &quot;Barney of Italy.&quot; (AP Photo/Bradley Leeb, File)

Big Red to take on evil twin Gabibbo in Italian court, again

By JUSTIN SAYERS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016 file photo, people walk in front of Gucci shop in Monte Napoleone street in Milan, Italy. Nigerian women who were trafficked to Italy to work as prostitutes have found new work in a handbag and dressmaking shop that recently received some fabulous raw materials: 4,000 meters (4,374 yards) of fabric leftovers from Gucci. The initiative was announced Wednesday, June 6, 2018 complete with a fashion show by the Nigerian dressmakers and a group of Italian design students who helped teach them to sketch and sew the designs, which mix Gucci silks, satins and cotton with bright African prints. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, file)

Gucci donates scrap fabric to migrant dressmaking shop

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

The League leader Matteo Salvini speaks from a stage during a campaign rally for local election in Massa Carrara, Italy, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. Salvini made clear Wednesday he preferred early elections, saying it was up to Italian President Sergio Mattarella to now chart the way forward since he rejected the proposed 5-Star-League cabinet. (Riccardo Dalle Luche/ANSA via AP)

Matteo Salvini, League look to be Italy’s dominant political force

By Eric J. Lyman — Special to The Washington Times

Leader of the League party, Matteo Salvini, right, and Luigi Di Maio, leader of the Five-Star movement, during the swearing-in ceremony for Italy's new government at Rome's Quirinale Presidential Palace, Friday, June 1, 2018. (Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA via AP)

New Italian gov’t vows to create jobs, deport migrants

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron attends the OECD ministerial council meeting on &quot;Refounding Multilateralism&quot;, in Paris, France, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. Macron warned against trade wars in an impassioned speech about international cooperation Wednesday, two days before the Trump administration decides whether to hit Europe with punishing new tariffs. (Philippe Wojazer/Pool Photo via AP)

EU in flux as US alliance creaks, populists rise in Italy

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

Italy's premier-designate Giuseppe Conte leaves his house in Rome, Friday, June 1, 2018. Italy's president has tapped politically inexperienced law professor Giuseppe Conte to be the premier who will head Italy's first populist government. The president's office announced Thursday that Conte had accepted the role and would be sworn in Friday afternoon with Cabinet ministers. (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP)

Euroskeptics cheer, markets up as Italy populists start work

By Nicole Windfield - Associated Press

Carlo Cottarelli, Italian economist, to meet President Sergio Mattarella amid political crisis

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Man wanted on firearms charges arrested in Italy, ad aired

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Tom Wolfe set the pace for conservative social criticism

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

FILE - In this Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 filer, Nice's forward Mario Balotelli controls the ball during the Europa League group I soccer match between OGC Nice and FC Salzburg, in Nice stadium, southeastern France. Mario Balotelli could make his first appearance for Italy in nearly four years after being named in a 30-man squad by new coach Roberto Mancini. Balotelli last played for Italy in the 2014 World Cup. He was called up by Antonio Conte in November of that year but was forced to withdraw from the squad with injury. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

Mario Balotelli included in Mancini’s first Italy squad

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Luigi Di Maio, leader of Italy's 5-Star movement, is in talks with Matteo Salvini of the League to form a populist and anti-immigrant alliance. (Associated Press)

Italy government alliance clashes with EU ideology

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011 file photo Manchester City's manager Roberto Mancini, right, issues instructions to Italian stiker Mario Balotelli during the team's 3-0 win over Stoke in their English Premier League soccer match at The Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England. Roberto Mancini has been confirmed as Italy's new coach, the Italian football federation made the announcement late Monday, May 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Super, File)

Mancini to talk to Mario Balotelli about Italy return

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon celebrates with a team staffer at the end of the Serie A soccer match between Roma and Juventus, at the Rome Olympic stadium, Sunday, May 13, 2018. The match ended in a scoreless draw and Juventus won record-extending seventh straight Serie A title. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

With retirement expected, Buffon to hold news conference

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Roberto Mancini is Italy coach

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In this picture taken April 12, 2018, Forza Italia (Go Italy) party leader Silvio Berlusconi meets journalists at the Quirinale presidential palace after talks with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, in Rome, Thursday, April 12, 2018. A court in Milan has ruled that Berlusconi can run for office again, five years after a tax fraud conviction. The Milan daily Corriere della Sera on Saturday, May 12, 2018, reported that the tribunal had decided favorably a day earlier on a request from lawyers for the 81-year-old former premier. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Silvio Berlusconi, former Italian PM, can run for office again, court rules

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press