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Italy vows to be ready in time to host G-7 in Sicilian town

By GINO MACELI - Associated Press

FILE -- In this file photo taken on April 11, 2007, Egyptian cleric Osama Hassan Mustafa Nasr, known as Abu Omar, who was allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents off the streets of an Italian city and taken to Egypt where he said he was tortured, talks on his mobile as he walks at a Cairo street after attending Amnesty International press conference in Cairo, Egypt. A Portuguese court ordered police to extradite a former CIA agent Sabrina de Sousa to Italy, where she is due to serve a four-year prison sentence after being convicted of involvement in a U.S. program that kidnapped suspects for interrogation, her lawyer said Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2017. De Sousa was among 26 Americans convicted for kidnapping suspect Mustafa Nasr. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Lawyer: Portugal to extradite ex-CIA agent to Italian jail

By BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

Red cards could prevent Balotelli from rejoining Italy squad

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Roma's Edin Dzeko, center, celebrates with his teammates Emerson, right, and Radja Nainggolan after scoring against Crotone during an Italian Serie A soccer match in Crotone, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. Roma won 2-0. (Albano Angilletta/ANSA via AP)

Juve wins as Higuain, Buffon stand out on night for legends

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 file photo, Australia's Trent Sainsbury, right, competes for the ball with South Korea's Son Heung Min during their AFC Asia Cup soccer match in Brisbane, Australia. Trent Sainsbury, a 25-year-old defender from Australia, was one the biggest signings in the Serie A on a low-key transfer deadline day on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. Few people in Italy had ever heard of him before last week, but he decided to make it easy on his new fans.v“My nickname is Skippy,” Sainsbury said. “Like the kangaroo from the television series, of which my old coach in Holland was a fan.” (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard)

‘Skippy’ relishing new challenge at Inter Milan

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

Italy's Fabio Fognini returns the ball to Argentina's Guido Pella during the Davis Cup first round tennis match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Feb. 6, 2017.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Davis Cup: Defending champ Argentina KO’ed by Italy

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Iranian-born bioengineer researcher Nima Enayati in interviewed by the Associated Press, at the Milan's Malpensa International airport in Busto Arsizio, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. Just hours after an appeals court blocked an attempt to re-impose the travel ban, Iranian researcher Nima Enayati checked in on an Emirates Airline flight direct from Milan’s Malpensa airport to New York’s JFK on Sunday afternoon. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

The Latest: Iranian researcher turned away, arrives at JFK

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Juventus players celebrate their 1-0 win over Inter Milan at the end of a Serie A soccer match, at the Juventus Stadium in Turin, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. (Andrea Di Marco/ANSA via AP)

Juventus beats Inter 1-0, leads Serie A by 6 points

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

Italy's Andreas Seppi celebrates his victory over Argentina's Carlos Berlocq after a Davis Cup first round tennis match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Davis Cup: Italy leads champion Argentina 2-0

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015 file photo, Bologna's Anthony Mounier tries to stop the ball during a Serie A soccer match between Bologna and Inter, at the Bologna Dall'Ara stadium, Italy. The attacking midfielder who signed a six-month loan deal with the French league club last week has returned to Italy without playing a ball after Saint-Etienne fans made it clear he was not welcome at Geoffroy Guichard stadium. (AP Photo/Gianfilippo Oggioni, File)

Balotelli says Italian transfer deadline day was dull

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

Hull City manager Marco Silva gestures during the English League Cup, Semi Final Second Leg soccer match between Hull City and Manchester United at KCOM stadium in Hull, England, Thursday Jan. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)

The Latest: Sakho leaves Liverpool for Palace on loan

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In this Jan. 12, 2017 photo, Chris Kurz inserts a mirror inside the F-hole of a violin he constructed from scratch during a visit to his alma mater William Senior High School in York, Pa. Valedictorian of his high school class, Chris Kurz, 27, dropped out of Penn State to study violin-making in Cremona, Italy. With his extended visa expiring in April, Kurz is now at a career crossroads. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record via AP)

York grad carves out exotic, uncertain career

By FRANK BODANI - Associated Press

Avalanche survivor Giorgia Galassi, wearing black at right, smiles with her parents mother Isa Toccotelli, center, and Tomasso Galassi, at their home in Giulianova, Italy, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017. Galassi and her boyfriend Vincenzo Forti were at the Hotel Rigopiano when the avalanche buried the hotel on Jan. 18 and were rescued three days later. (AP Photo/Colleen Barry)

3 dogs give avalanche rescuers hope but 20 people missing

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA and COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE - This Dec. 29, 2016 file photo shows Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh speaking during a news conference in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Before the NCAA’s ban of spring break sports trips goes into effect, Harbaugh is taking his team to Rome, Italy. The Wolverines will hold three spring practices at the training facility of soccer club AS Roma. Michigan did not announce on Monday, Jan. 23, 2017 the exact dates of the trip, but said in a release it would take place “after finals toward the end of winter semester in April.” (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, file)

Harbaugh taking Michigan to Rome for 3 practices

By RALPH D. RUSSO - Associated Press

Flames engulf a bus that crashed near Verona, northern Italy, Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Police say 16 people have died when the bus carrying Hungarian school students returning home from France crashed into the side of a highway near Verona. Thirty-nine people survived. The bus was returning to Budapest with students ages 15 to 17. (Lanfranco Fossa' via AP)

Hungarian official: Bus crash victim IDs could take days

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

A rescue helicopter approaches the area in Rigopiano, central Italy, where a hotel have been buried under an avalanche on Wednesday, to recover 6 people who have been reportedly extracted alive from the debris, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo Gregorio Borgia)

5 reported alive in rubble of Italian hotel hit by avalanche

By Paolo Santalucia and Gregorio Borgia - Associated Press

A rescue helicopter approaches the area in Rigopiano, central Italy, where a hotel has been buried under an avalanche on Wednesday, to recover some people who have been reportedly extracted alive from the debris, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo Gregorio Borgia)

The Latest: Girl pulled from avalanche hotel, wants cookie

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An Italian firefighters helicopter flies during rescue operations in the area where an hotel was hit by an avalanche in Farindola, Italy, early Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. A hotel in the mountainous region hit again by quakes has been covered by an avalanche, with reports of dead. Italian media say the avalanche covered the three-story hotel in the central region of Abruzzo, on Wednesday evening. (Matteo Guidelli/ANSA via AP)

Italy avalanche buries hotel; scores of people missing

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