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Italy's Davide Rebellin of the Serramenti team celebrates as he wins the 73rd Walloon Arrow cycling race in Huy, Belgium on April. 22, 2009. German prosecutors say a truck driver wanted by Italy in connection with a crash last year that killed professional cyclist Davide Rebellin has been released from jail pending a decision on his extradition. Wolfgang Rieke is accused of road homicide and leaving the scene of a crash. German authorities said he surrendered last Thursday, June 15, 2023, in the western town of Rheine. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Germany frees driver sought by Italy in death of cyclist Rebellin pending extradition ruling

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, smiles as she arrives at the general assembly of the BIE , Tuesday, June 20, 2023 in Paris. 20 June 2023. Three candidatures for World Expo 2030 will be considered for election in November 2023: the Republic of Korea, for Busan, Italy, for Rome, and Saudi Arabia, for Riyadh. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Italy’s Meloni and France’s Macron express agreement on migration following policy dispute

By Sylvie Corbet and Angela Charlton - Associated Press

A group of men wait at the turnstiles and speak with survivors, mostly from Pakistan, of a deadly migrant boat sinking at a migrant camp in Malakasa north of Athens, on Monday, June 19, 2023. Hundreds of migrants are believed to be missing after a fishing trawler sank off southern Greece last week. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek court questions smuggling suspects over migrant ship disaster, as new survivor accounts emerge

By Costas Kantouris and Nicholas Paphitis - Associated Press

+ Europa's lawmakers Riccardo Magi, left, and Benedetto Della Vedova hold placards reading in Italian: "Parents not criminals" in the low Chamber in Rome during a debate on a bill promoted by the right-wing government that would make it a crime for Italy's citizens to use surrogate pregnancy abroad. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)

Italians pursuing parenthood via surrogates abroad could face prosecution under proposed law

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Italy's Davide Rebellin of the Serramenti team celebrates as he wins the 73rd Walloon Arrow cycling race in Huy, Belgium on April. 22, 2009. Police in Germany have arrested a truck driver accused in the crash in Italy last year that killed professional cyclist Davide Rebellin, Italian prosecutors said Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

German police arrest truck driver accused in crash that killed Italian cyclist Rebellin

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

In this undated photo from May, 2023 by a relative, Ali Sheiki, 29, poses for a photograph at an airport in an undisclosed location. Sheiki was trying to reach Europe from Libya on an overcrowded fishing vessel that capsized in the Mediterranean in the early hours of June 14, 2023, killing dozens of people, 104 passengers are rescued, and hundreds are feared to be missing. Sheiki's relatives in Germany and Syria told The Associated Press they had recognized Ali Sheiki among the survivors taken to a southern Greek port in social and other media photographs, but by the end of Thursday, June 15, they had not been able to make contact with him. (Courtesy of family of Ali Sheiki via AP)

Relatives fear worst with four men and a boy missing after Mediterranean ship disaster

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Italian politician, Romano Prodi and wife, Flavia Franzoni arrive at the official concert by the Maltese Philharmonic Orchestra, for the official euro celebrations at the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, Malta, on Jan. 12, 2008. Flavia Franzoni, a professor of social work and the wife of former Italian Premier Romano Prodi, died Tuesday June 13, 2023 during a hike in Umbria, Italy’s rescue service said. She was 76. (AP Photo/Lino Arrigo Azzopardi, File)

Flavia Franzoni, professor and wife of Italy’s ex-Premier Romano Prodi, dies during hike at 76

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Manchester City's Rodrigo holds the trophy after the Champions League final soccer match between Manchester City and Inter Milan at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, June 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Champions League players aim for another trophy at Nations League Final Four

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Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi waves to reporters as he arrives at the Chamber of Deputies to meet Mario Draghi, in Rome, Feb. 9, 2021. Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy's longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died, according to Italian media. He was 86. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s tarnished 3-time premier, dies at 86

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi waves to reporters as he arrives at the Chamber of Deputies to meet Mario Draghi, in Rome, Feb. 9, 2021. Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy's longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died, according to Italian media. He was 86. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s tarnished 3-time premier, dies at 86

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Silvio Berlusconi gets emotional during the center-right coalition closing rally in Rome Thursday, Sep. 22, 2022. Berlusconi, the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy's longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died, according to Italian media. He was 86. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Checkered and colorful, Berlusconi created a template for populists

By Eric J. Lyman — Special to The Washington Times

Then Premier Giuseppe Conte, left, talks with Health Minister Roberto Speranza at the Senate, in Rome, on Jan. 19, 2021. The Court of Ministers in Brescia on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, threw out the case against ex-Premier Giuseppe Conte and ex-Health Minister Roberto Speranza, alleging they failed to extend the lockdown to Bergamo and adjacent valleys in the early days of the pandemic, causing unwarranted deaths. Both officials have said they acted according to scientific knowledge and expert opinion available at the time. Conte told RAI state TV that the decision “comforts me.” (Andreas Solaro/Pool via AP)

Italian court throws out case alleging early pandemic mismanagement by ex-premier, ex-minister

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Inter Milan's Federico Dimarco smiles before the press conference during a media day ahead of the Champions League soccer final, at the Suning training center, in Appiano Gentile, northern Italy, Monday, June 5, 2023. Inter Milan will play a Champions League final against Manchester City in Istanbul, Turkey, next Saturday, June 10. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Mancini includes 5 Inter Milan players in Italy squad for Nations League final four

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In this image released by the Italian firefighters a helicopter search for missing after a tourist boat capsized in a storm on Italy's Lago Maggiore in the northern Lombardy region, Sunday, May 28, 2023, with at least one person confirmed dead. Authorities were searching for several people who were still missing after a sudden whirlwind overturned a boat carrying more than 20 tourists and crew. (Vigili Del Fuoco via AP)

Charter boat carrying Israeli and Italian intelligence officials sinks, killing 4

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Last Generation environmentalists show a banner against the use of fossil fuels in the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Sunday, May 21, 2023. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)

Climate activists dump coal in Rome’s Trevi Fountain to protest fossil fuels

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, walk in the garden at Chequers, the prime minister's official country residence, in Aylesbury, England, Monday, May 15, 2023. Zelenskyy set off across Europe with a long shopping list. Ukraine’s president will head home with much of what he wanted – though not the Western fighter jets he seeks to defend against Russian air attacks. (Carl Court/Pool via AP)

Zelenskyy’s European tour aimed to replenish Ukraine’s arsenal and build political support

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers his speech flanked by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni during a conference on birthrate, at Auditorium della Conciliazione, in Rome, Friday, May 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis joins Meloni in urging Italians to have more kids, not pets

By Nicole Winfield and Paolo Santalucia - Associated Press

Napoli fans celebrates after Napoli's Victor Osimhen scored his side's first goal as they watch a screen live broadcasting Udinese Napoli Serie A soccer match, in Naples, Italy, Thursday, May 4, 2023. For the third time in five days, Napoli fans are hoping and preparing to celebrate the Italian league soccer title. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Napoli fans celebrated in orderly manner, police chief says

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Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Tajani speaks to reporters prior to the plenary session of a bilateral meeting between Italy and Ukraine on the reconstruction of Ukraine in Rome Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Thursday, May 4, 2023, canceled a trip to Paris over remarks by the French interior minister criticizing the Italian premier’s migration policy, a foreign ministry official said. Italy had demanded clarification of the remarks by French minister Gerald Darmanin to the broadcaster RMC saying that Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni had lied to voters when she said she could solve the migration crisis. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Italian minister scraps trip over French official’s remarks

By Colleen Barry and Elaine Ganley - Associated Press

OpenAI: ChatGPT back in Italy after meeting watchdog demands

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press