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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

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)

Italy probes a migrant boat disaster that left 41 feared dead. Four survivors tell a harrowing tale

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

In this picture taken from video distributed on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023 by the Italian Alpine Rescue squads, a migrant stranded on a rocky reef on the tiny Italian southern island of Lampedusa, Sicily is pluck to safety by helicopter. Dozens of migrants were dramatically rescued by Italy as they foundered in the sea or clung to a rocky reef Sunday after three boats launched by smugglers from northern Africa shipwrecked in rough waters in separate incidents over the weekend (Italian Alpine Rescue via AP)

Dozens saved by Italy from migrant shipwrecks; some, clinging to rocks, plucked to safety by copters

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

A French military Airbus A330 carrying French and other foreign nationals enroute to Paris, France, takes off from Niamey, Niger, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. The French Foreign Ministry in Paris cited recent violence that targeted the French Embassy as one of the reasons for the evacuation. The decision comes during a deepening crisis sparked by the coup last week against Niger's democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. (AP Photo/Fatahoulaye Hassane Midou)

Foreign nationals evacuate Niger as regional tensions rise

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni talks to reporters as she meets with Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 27, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Giorgia Meloni’s warm welcome in Washington bodes well for U.S.-Italian relations

By James Jay Carafano and Stefano Graziosi

FILE - England's Harry Kane challenges for the ball with Italy's Nicolo Barella during the Euro 2024 group C qualifying soccer match between Italy and England at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium in Naples, Italy, on March 23, 2023. Italy and Turkey have asked to co-host soccer’s 2032 European Championship for which they are the only bidders, UEFA said Friday July 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

UEFA says Italy and Turkey have teamed up for bid to co-host 2032 European Championship

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

From left, Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, President Joe Biden, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose during a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 12, 2023. Biden is set to welcome Meloni to White House for talks. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Biden is welcoming far-right Italian Premier Meloni for White House talks

By Aamer Madhani and Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

President Joe Biden meets with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, July 27, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Italy’s right-wing prime minister finds common ground with left-wing Biden

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Patrick Zaki waves upon his arrival at the Milan Malpensa airport, Italy, Sunday, July 23, 2023. Egypt on Thursday released two human rights defenders, including one who has ties with Italy, their lawyers said, concluding two cases that drew significant international criticism and attention. The releases of Patrick George Zaki, an activist and postgraduate student in Italy, and Mohamed el-Baker, a human rights lawyer, came a day after they were pardoned by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi along with four other people. (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Freed Egyptian human rights campaigner arrives in Italy, which championed his case

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Participants into an International conference on migration pose for a family photo in Rome, Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy’s Meloni opens conference that aims to stanch flows of migrants to Europe with aid to Africa

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A giant portrait of activist and researcher Patrick George Zaki, hangs from the facade of Rome's Capitol Hill on Jan. 25, 2021. A prominent Egyptian rights activist with ties to Italy walked free from jail Thursday, July 20, 2023 a rights defender said. Patrick George Zaki, a post graduate student in Italy, was pardoned by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, along with five other people on Wednesday, according to the country’s Official Gazette. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP, File)

Two prominent Egyptian rights figures released from prison following pardons

By Jack Jeffery and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Protesters demonstrate in support of Patrick Zaki by the Piazza del Nettuno, in Bologna, Italy, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. An Egyptian court sentenced Zaki, a rights activist, on Tuesday to three years in prison over an opinion article he wrote in 2019 in a case that renewed global attention to Egypt's intolerance of government critics. He was arrested in February 2020 shortly after landing in Cairo on a short trip home from Italy where he was a postgraduate student at the University of Bologna. (Guido Calamosca/LaPresse via AP)

Egypt pardons jailed activists, including two prominent rights defenders, official reports say

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A mural depicts detained Egyptian human rights advocate and student at the University of Bologna in Italy, Patrick George Zaki, being hugged from behind by Italian researcher Giulio Regeni, who was murdered in Cairo in 2016, on a wall in Rome, Feb. 19, 2020. An Egyptian court has sentenced Patrick George Zaki to three years in prison over an opinion article he wrote in 2019. Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights said the court on Tuesday, July 18, 2023 convicted Zaki of “disseminating false news” related to his article about alleged discrimination against Coptic Christians in Egypt. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

An Egyptian court hands down 3-year prison sentence to rights activist in case that echoed in Italy

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

In this frame grab taken from a footage made available by the Italian firefighters is show a wing of a three-story apartment building collapsed in Torre Del Greco, Sunday, July 16, 2023, a seaside suburb of Naples. Two people were pulled out alive from the rubble, Italian firefighters said. (Italian Firefighters Via AP)

3 survivors rescued from rubble of collapsed apartment building in Naples, Italian officials say

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Alejandra Alonso De Villa, right, and Andrea Ustero Prieto both of Spain, return the ball to compatriots Paula Josemaria and Ariana Sanchez during their match at the Italy Major Premier Padel tournament in Rome, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. A successful debut at the European Games with matches played before enthusiastic crowds in Krakow's central square last month. Record prize money of nearly $1 million at this week's tournament in Rome. Padel, the fastest growing racket sport in the world among amateurs, is also making big strides at the professional level. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Padel, a rapidly growing racket game, has designs on becoming an Olympic sport

By Andrew Dampf - Associated Press

This World War II-era photo provided by U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, shows U.S. Army Pvt. Wing O. Hom, of Boston. Hom, who was reported missing in action while his unit was involved in fighting against German forces in Italy during World War II, has been accounted for the military said. Hom, 20, went missing in February 1944 during fighting near the town of Cisterna di Latina, south of Rome. (U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency via AP)

Nearly 80 years after going MIA in WWII, U.S. soldier accounted for

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Marni Larsen and her son, Damon Rasmussen of Holladay, Utah, wait their turn in line hoping to snag her son's passport outside the Los Angeles Passport Agency at the Federal Building in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. Larsen applied for her son's passport two months earlier and spent weeks checking for updates online or through a frustrating call system. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

The wait for U.S. passports is creating travel purgatory and snarling summer plans

By Laurie Kellman, Rebecca Santana and David Koenig - Associated Press

Visitors take photos of the Ancient Colosseum, in Rome, Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Italy's culture and tourism ministers Gennaro Sangiuliano vowed to find and punish a tourist who was filmed carving his name and his girlfriend's name in the wall of the Colosseum, a crime that in the past has resulted in hefty fines. Video of the incident went viral on social media, at a time when Romans have already been complaining about hordes of tourists returning to peak season travel this year. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

American who filmed tourist carving name in Colosseum ‘dumbfounded’ as hunt for culprit intensifies

By Trisha Thomas and Rebecca Precciuti - Associated Press

A variety of salumis and olives are displayed on a graze board in New York. Salumi was born out of necessary to preserve meat pre-refrigeration, and to use all parts of the pig with no waste. Now there are many manufacturers commercially producing packaged salumi, available at supermarkets. (Carrie Crow via AP)

Cured: What you need to know about salumi (including salami)

By Katie Workman - Associated Press

Milan's Brera Art Gallery director James M. Bradburne poses for photos prior to an interview with the Associated Press, at Brera's art gallery, in Milan, Italy, Friday, June 23, 2023. The British-Canadian director of Milan’s Brera Art Gallery was hired with a reform that brought in a slew of foreign museum directors and ends his eight-year tenure as a new center-right government seeks to return top jobs to Italians. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Italy wants to put Italians in top museum jobs. The chief of Milan’s Brera hopes to leave his mark

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press