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Italy's Ange Capuozzo during the Rugby World Cup Pool A match between Italy and Uruguay at the Stade de Nice, in Nice, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Italy at the Rugby World Cup: ‘We’re coming for the All Blacks’

By Foster Niumata - Associated Press

Europe's Sepp Straka tees off the 1st hole for a practice round ahead of the Ryder Cup at the Marco Simone Golf Club in Guidonia Montecelio, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. The Ryder Cup starts Sept. 29, at the Marco Simone Golf Club. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

No mixed emotions for Straka after choosing to play for Europe over the United States at Ryder Cup

By Steve Douglas - Associated Press

United States' Justin Thomas chips onto the 10th green during a practice round ahead of the Ryder Cup at the Marco Simone Golf Club in Guidonia Montecelio, Italy, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023. The Ryder Cup starts Sept. 29, at the Marco Simone Golf Club. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Justin Thomas cares more about winning Ryder Cup than whether he should be on U.S. team

By Doug Ferguson - Associated Press

Fashion designer and owner of the Marco Simone Golf Club Lavinia Biagiotti Cigna poses for a photo during an interview with the Associated Press, in her castle next to the course that will host the 44th edition of the Ryder Cup, in Guidonia Montecelio, Italy, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Biagiotti Cigna’s parents bought the 11th-century castle in 1978 and then decided to build the surrounding golf course. The castle contains about 50 rooms, many of which feature Renaissance-era frescoes. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Ryder Cup ‘23: A look inside the walls of the 11th-century Marco Simone castle

By Andrew Dampf - Associated Press

FILE - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, left, welcomes US Vice President Joe Biden at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome, Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Giorgio Napolitano, the first former Communist to rise to Italy’s top job — president of the Republic — and the first president to be re-elected, has died Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. He was 98. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Giorgio Napolitano, former Italian president and first ex-Communist in that post, has died at 98

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Italy's Montanna Ioane, right, reacts after scoring a try during the Rugby World Cup Pool A match between Italy and Uruguay at the Stade de Nice, in Nice, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Italy rebounds to blow away Uruguay at the Rugby World Cup

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Rescued migrants disembark from a boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa during the evening of Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Tensions on the small island were rising Saturday, as both residents and migrants chafed at the long wait times to transfer people from the crowded reception center to the Italian mainland. Nearly 7,000 migrants arrived on Lampedusa from Tunisia this week, and the Red Cross said that 3,800 remained on the island on Friday. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

EU pledges crackdown on ‘brutal’ migrant smuggling during visit to overwhelmed Italian island

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Italian carabinieri police speak to migrants protesting at a reception center on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, southern Italy, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Thousands of migrants and refugees have landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa this week after crossing the Mediterranean Sea on small unseaworthy boats from Tunisia, overwhelming local authorities and aid organizations. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Top E.U. official heads to an Italian island struggling with migrant influx as Italy toughens stance

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Migrants sleep outside on Lampedusa Island, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa was overwhelmed Thursday as authorities worked to transfer to the mainland thousands of people who arrived on small, unseaworthy boats in a 24-hour span this week. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Bus with migrants crashes as Italy transfers new arrivals to relieve pressure on Lampedusa island

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Migrants walk towards a station to board a bus directed to Marseille, France, in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Despite vows by Italy’s right-wing government to crack down on migrant arrivals and European Union-inked deals with Tunisia to stem the flow, the numbers of desperate people making the dangerous Mediterranean crossing keep rising. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

A flotilla of migrant boats from Tunisia overwhelms an Italian island and tests Meloni’s policy

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment event on the day of the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Pool)

Italy’s Meloni meets with China’s Li as Italy’s continued participation in ‘Belt and Road’ in doubt

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Namibia's Wian Conradie, left, and Italy's Paolo Garbisi challenge for the ball during the Rugby World Cup Pool A match between Italy and Namibia at the Geoffroy Guichard stadium in Saint-Etienne, central France, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Italy flatters in record opening win over Namibia at Rugby World Cup

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Latvia forward Andrejs Grazulis (24) shoots against France center Rudy Gobert (27) during the Basketball World Cup group H match between France and Latvia at the Indonesia Arena stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Latvia tops Italy, moves into 5th-place game at Basketball World Cup

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U.S. forward Mikal Bridges (5) gestures during the Basketball World Cup quarterfinal game between Italy and U.S. at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

USA rolls past Italy to reach Basketball World Cup semifinals

By Tim Reynolds - Associated Press

Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato looks on next to an empty seat, during a press conference after a cabinet meeting in Rome's Palazzo Chigi premier's office, Friday March 16, 2007. A former Italian premier is contending that a French air force missile brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 and is appealing to France's president to respond. The crash of the Italian domestic airliner killed all 81 persons aboard. What caused the crash is an enduring mystery. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)

Italian ex-premier says French missile downed an airliner in 1980 by accident in bid to kill Gadhafi

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

FILE - Inter Milan's Romelu Lukaku walks on the pitch in front of a 'no to racism' banner during the training session prior the Europa League round of 16 soccer match between Inter Milan and Getafe at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. U.N.-backed human rights experts focusing on racial discrimination called on Italy's government to do more to eliminate acts of violence, hate speech, stigmatization and harassment against Africans and people of African descent, and expressed concern that no legal cases have been brought to punish fans and others racist acts at sports events. (Lars Baron/Pool via AP, File)

U.N.-backed panel says Italy can do more to fight racism, discrimination in sports and society

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs a weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023 (Menahem Kahana/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel says its foreign minister met with his Libyan counterpart in sign of burgeoning ties

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A mural posted outside the shutter of a closed pub reads, "We are the son of a barricade" in downtown Rome, Sunday, Aug. 13 ,2023. When Giorgia Meloni was running to become Italy’s first far-right head of government since the demise of the country's fascist dictatorship, she steeped her campaign in ideological touchpoints like national sovereignty and “traditional families.” (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italian leader tones down divisive rhetoric but carries on with pursuit of far-right agenda

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

FILE - A view of the collapsed Morandi highway bridge in Genoa, Italy, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. On Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, Italy marked the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Genoa’s Morandi Bridge with a minute of silence and demands for justice for the 43 people killed in what authorities say was an example of greed-fueled negligence. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Italy marks 5th anniversary of Morandi bridge collapse with demands for justice for the 43 killed

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Sea-Watch on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, four migrant survivors wave for help as they are in distress at sea. Migrants who set out in dozens of flimsy boats launched by smugglers on Tunisian shores have disembarked on three tiny Italian islands in a span of two days, officials said. Separately, a charity vessel carried out 15 rescue operations and the Italian coast guard on Sunday recovered a body off the western coast of Sicily from a shipwreck. (Karolina Sobel/Sea-Watch via AP, File)

Migrants from dozens of boats reach tiny Italian isles; charity ship rescues hundreds of people

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press