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This image released by A24 shows Greta Lee, left, and Teo Yoo in a scene from "Past Lives." (Jon Pack/A24 via AP)

Summer Movie Guide: What to watch from May through Labor Day

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Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni gestures as she attends a ceremony to mark Italy's Liberation day at the unknown soldier monument, in Rome, Tuesday, April 25, 2023. The anniversary marks the day in 1945 when the Italian resistance movement proclaimed an insurgency as the Allies were pushing German forces out of the peninsula. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy’s Meloni calls for unity on Liberation Day anniversary

By Giada Zampano - Associated Press

A woman hangs out the laundry among banners and writings in support of Napoli soccer team, in downtown Naples, Italy, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. It's a celebration more than 30 years in the making, and historically superstitious Napoli fans are already painting the city blue in anticipation of the team's first Italian league title since the days when Diego Maradona played for the club. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Mayor: Napoli title will set off ‘big earthquake of joy’

By Andrew Dampf - Associated Press

Migrants associations members show banners reading in Italian "All brothers, we want peace because we know war, residence permit" during a protest against Italy's government's migrants' policy in Rome, Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy’s lawmakers to debate contested immigration crackdown

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

The Italian coast guard ship Peluso enters the Sicilian harbor of Catania, Italy, Monday, April 17, 2023, with some 300 migrants saved from the sea. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Italy pushes crackdown on migrants reaching its shores

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, second from left, waits to start her briefing to COPASIR parliamentary intelligence commission in Rome, Thursday, April 13, 2023. Italy is investigating how a Russian businessman escaped from house arrest to avoid extradition to the United States on sanctions-breaking charges. Artyom Uss apparently took off an electronic monitoring bracelet at the home near Milan where he had been confined since a Milan court OK'd his release from jail. At left is, the Delegate Authority for the Security of the Republic Alfredo Mantovano, and third from left is COPASIR President and opposition lawmaker Lorenzo Guarini. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s Meloni acknowledges ‘anomalies’ in Russian escape

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Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier of the U.S. perform during the pairs' short program in the World Figure Skating Championships in Saitama, north of Tokyo, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

United States wins figure skating World Team Trophy

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Tunisia's Foreign Affairs Minister Nabil Ammar left and Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani shakes hands for photographers at La Farnesina Foreign Minister headquarters in Rome, Thursday, April 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy vows help with IMF in bid to stabilize Tunisia

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Migrants with life jackets provided by volunteers of the Ocean Viking, a migrant search and rescue ship run by NGOs SOS Mediterranee and the International Federation of Red Cross (IFCR), sail in a wooden boat as they are being rescued some 26 nautical milessouth of the Italian Lampedusa island in the Mediterranean sea,on Aug. 27,2022. The U.N. human rights chief is appealing to governments to do more to help migrants and asylum-seekers after a “steep increase” in the numbers making risky attempts to cross the central Mediterranean to Europe. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez, File)

UN rights chief seeks help for surge in central Mediterranean migrants

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Forza Italia party leader Silvio Berlusconi at the Senate, in Rome, on Oct. 26, 2022. Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalized Wednesday, April 5, 2023, with apparent respiratory problems, Italian media reported. The 86-year-old three-time premier was in intensive care at Milan’s San Raffaele hospital, the clinic where he routinely receives care, LaPresse news agency, Sky TG24 and Corriere della Sera reported, without citing sources. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italian ex-leader Berlusconi hospitalized in ICU, but alert

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Italian Infrastructures Minister Matteo Salvini speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Press Club in Rome, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Salvini addressed questions, among others, about the role of Italy in the migration crisis in the Mediterranean Sea, and about the multi-billion euros project to build a bridge over the Messina strait between Sicily and Calabria in southern Italy. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Italy again tries to build a bridge to Sicily, seeks support

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Former member of a Italian left-wing terrorist group Marina Petrella, second left, arrives at Paris's courthouse in Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. France's top court has ruled Tuesday March 28, 2023 against extraditing 10 former far-left Italian militants who were convicted for attacks carried out in the 1970s and 1980s. The two women and eight men fled Italy after their convictions and before they could be sent to prison. Now ranging in age from 62 to 79, they have lived freely in France for decades. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

French court refuses to extradite Italian former militants

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A man walks amid the graves of the 335 victims of one of the worst World War II-era massacres in German-occupied Italy at the Ardeatine Caves in Rome, on its 79th anniversary, Friday, March 24, 2023. 335 people were shot to death on March 24, 1944, as a reprisal for an attack by partisans that killed 33 Nazi soldiers on a street in Rome. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Italy partisans criticize Meloni over Nazi massacre comment

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Finnegan Lee Elder, wipes his eye, as he and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth listen as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer on a street near the hotel where they were staying while on vacation in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, on May 5, 2021. The Court of Cassation late Wednesday, March 15, 2023, threw out the guilty verdicts against Lee Elder, now 23, and Natale-Hjorth, 22, both convicted in the stabbing death of the 35-year-old officer during a plainclothes operation while the Americans, teens at the time, were on vacation in Rome in the summer of 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Italy retrial ordered for Americans in killing of officer

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Activists demonstrate in favour of rights for gay couples, in Rome on Jan. 23, 2016. Italian opposition politicians and gay right activists on Tuesday decried as a step backward moves by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government to limit recognition of parental rights to the biological parent only in the case of same sex-parents. The city of Milan has been told to stop officially recording both parents in same-sex couples on city registers, the last major city in Italy to do so after a smattering of administrations had briefly embraced the practice of recognizing both parents regardless of sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Italian government limits parental rights of gay couples

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Police check a fishing boat with some 500 migrants in the southern Italian port of Crotone, early Saturday, March 11, 2023. The Italian coast guard was responding to three smugglers boats carrying more than 1,300 migrants “in danger” off Italy’s southern coast, officials said Friday. Three small coast guard boats were rescuing a boat with 500 migrants about 70 nautical miles off the Calabria region, which forms the toe of the Italian boot. (AP Photo/Valeria Ferraro)

Italy estimates 680K migrants might cross sea from Libya

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Personal belongings among the wreckage of a capsized boat washed ashore at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Nearly 70 people died in last week's shipwreck on Italy's Calabrian coast. The tragedy highlighted a lesser-known migration route from Turkey to Italy for which smugglers charge around 8,000 euros per person. (AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia, File)

Deadly shipwreck: How it happened, and unanswered questions

By Renata Brito and Paolo Santalucia - Associated Press

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill training in Kvitfjell, Norway, Thursday, March 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)

Shiffrin misses out in super-G, still chasing 86th victory

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A Starbucks sign advertises the company's Oleato coffee in one of their coffee shops in Milan, Italy, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Putting olive oil in coffee is hardly a tradition in Italy, but that didn't stop Starbucks founder and CEO Howard Schultz from launching a series of beverages doing just that in Milan, the city that inspired his coffee house empire. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Olive oil in coffee? New Starbucks line a curiosity in Italy

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Workers operate inside the construction site of the Olympic Village at the Porta Romana former railway yard, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, March 1, 2023. There is little sign the Winter Olympics are coming to Milan in less than three years. One of the major sites is still an overgrown wasteland and there is minimal construction work at what will be the Olympic Village. The organizing committee for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics says there have been delays and rising costs. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Little sign of Olympics in Milan with only 3 years to go

By Daniella Matar - Associated Press