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Kalush Orchestra from Ukraine singing 'Stefania' performs during the final dress rehearsal at the Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy, Friday, May 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Ukraine favorite to win Eurovision Song Contest amid war

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People gather at a bar in Rome, Sunday May 1, 2022. Face masks, for the first time since the start of the pandemic, are no longer required in supermarkets, bars, restaurants, shops and most workplaces throughout Italy, but remain mandatory on public transport, planes, trains and ships, theatres, cinemas, concert halls and for indoor sporting events. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Tourists, rejoice! Italy, Greece relax COVID-19 restrictions

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 1, 2013 photo, Valery Gergiev, looks on after a &quot;pre-premiere&quot; performance, put on for veterans and senior employees of the theatre in the new Mariinsky Theatre on the eve of the it's official opening in St.Petersburg, Russia. Gergiev, a conductor who is close to Russia President Vladimir Putin, will not lead the Vienna Philharmonic in a five-concert U.S. tour that starts at Carnegie Hall on Friday night. The 68-year-old Russian conductor is music director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, the White Nights Festival there and is chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic. He received a Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation prize that Putin revived in 2013. Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will replace Gergiev for the Carnegie concerts. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)

Ukrainian artists embraced as Russia sees cultural blacklist

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

In this April 1, 2013, file photo, TV personality Joy Behar arrives at the &quot;Lucky Guy&quot; Opening Night in New York. (Photo by Dario Cantatore/Invision/AP, File)

‘The View’ host Joy Behar worries war in Ukraine could spoil her European vacation

By Peter Santo - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Italian President Sergio Mattarella speaks during a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at Quirinale Palace in Rome, Monday, June 28, 2021. Mattarella has been elected to a second seven-year term as the country’s head of state, ending days of political impasse as party leaders struggled to pick his successor. Earlier on Saturday, lawmakers entreated Mattarella, 80, who had said he didn’t want a second mandate, to change his mind and agree to reelection by lawmakers in Parliament and regional delegates. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File) **FILE**

Italy’s president, 80, is recruited to stay on for 2nd term

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

President of the Italian Senate, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, left, and President of the Italian Lower Chamber Roberto Fico count ballots in the Italian parliament in Rome, during a voting session in the Italian parliament, in Rome, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. The first rounds of voting in Italy's Parliament for the country's next president yielded an avalanche of blank ballots, as lawmakers and special regional electors failed to deliver a winner amid a political stalemate. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, pool)

Vote for Italy’s president fails again; no political deal

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi waves to media following a meeting with center-right leaders in Rome, on Dec. 23, 2021. Former premier Silvio Berlusconi has bowed out of Italy’s presidential election set for next week. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP, File)

Bye-bye, bunga-bunga? Berlusconi drops Italian presidential bid on eve of vote

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi is framed by microphones prior to deliver his speech at the Italian Senate, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010. Italy is poised to elect a new president, a figure who is supposed to serve as the nation's moral compass and foster unity by being above the political fray. Silvio Berlusconi thinks he fits the bill. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Berlusconi drops bid to be elected as Italy’s president

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

European Parliament President David Sassoli speaks prior to a signing ceremony of EU Legislative Priorities for 2022 on the sidelines of an EU Summit in Brussels, on Dec. 16, 2021. The spokesman for European Parliament president David Sassoli says the Italian has been hospitalized due to abnormal functioning of his immune system. He said the 65-year-old Italian has been in the hospital in Italy since Dec. 26. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)

European Parliament President David Sassoli dies at 65

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Pope Francis looks at the crowd after delivering the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for 'to the city and to the world' ) Christmas' day blessing from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

On Christmas, pope prays for pandemic’s end, peace dialogues

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Italian police officers wait to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in a vaccination center set up in a gym of a police barracks in Rome, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021. Italian Government made COVID-19 vaccination mandatory to police starting from December 15. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy requires quarantines for unvaccinated EU visitors

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Italian Premier Mario Draghi speaks during a press conference at Chigi Palace, in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. Draghi has slammed as “cowardly” COVID-19 vaccine opponents who have been threatening or harassing Italian ministers, governors, journalists and doctors. “I must express my full solidarity to those who have been the target of violence, hate, by the so-called no-vaxers,’’ Draghi told reporters at a news conference in Rome Thursday. (Fabio Frustaci/Pool Photo via AP)

Italy’s harsh COVID-19 measures test new prime minister’s popularity

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times - The Washington Times

In this file photo taken on Oct. 26, 2016, Pakistan's Inam Khan, owner of a book shop shows a copy of a magazine with the photograph of Afghan refugee woman Sharbat Gulla, from his rare collection in Islamabad, Pakistan. National Geographic’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said Thursday. The office of Premier Mario Draghi said Italy had organized the evacuation of Sharbat Gulla after she asked to be helped to leave the country. The Italian government will now help to welcome her and get her integrated into life here, the statement said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

‘Afghan Girl’ with green eyes from famous National Geographic cover portrait is evacuated to Italy

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A demonstrator holds a banner reading "No Green Pass, freedom" during a protest at Rome's Circus Maximus, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021. The Green Pass is the Italy's health pass, which shows proof of vaccination, a recent negative test or having been cured of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy targets unvaccinated with restrictions as cases rise

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Migrants walk on the quay after disembarking in Roccella Jonica, Calabria region, southern Italy, early Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021. The Italian Coast Guard rescued over three hundred young men and boys, mostly from Egypt, in heavy storms as their fishing boat floundered off the coast of Calabria Saturday night. In an operation that finished at dawn Sunday morning, the Coast Guard rescue team from Roccella Jonica made three trips out to the fishing boat where they transferred groups of migrants to their rescue boat and brought them to port barefoot, soaking wet, and shivering. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italian Coast Guard rescues 300 migrants from stormy seas

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