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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

Italian Red Cross volunteers and coast guards recover a body after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas, at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. Rescue officials say an undetermined number of migrants have died and dozens have been rescued after their boat broke apart off southern Italy.(Antonino Durso/LaPresse via AP)

Death toll at 62 in Italy migrant tragedy; dozens missing

By Paolo Santalucia and Luigi Navarra - Associated Press

Forza Italia party leader Silvio Berlusconi at he Senate, in Rome, on Oct. 26, 2022. Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi was found not guilty Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, of witness tampering in the final trial related to the sexually charged “bunga bunga” parties at is villa near Milan while he was in premier's office. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Berlusconi acquitted in trial tied to ‘bunga bunga’ parties

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Designer Stella Jean accepts applause at the end of her women's Spring/Summer 2018/19 fashion collection, presented in Milan, Italy, on Sept. 24, 2017. Stella Jean, the only Black designer belonging to Italy’s fashion council is withdrawing from this month’s Milan Fashion Week citing a lack of commitment to diversity and inclusion, and on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, announced a hunger strike out of concern that other minority designers associated with her will suffer a backlash. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Stella Jean quits Milan Fashion Week over lack of inclusion

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

A computer-generated image released by the Italian Police, of Mafia top boss Matteo Messina Denaro. Italian police say Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, they arrested Italy's No. 1 fugitive, Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, on run for 30 years. (Italian Police, LaPresse via AP)

Italy arrests No 1 fugitive Mafia boss, 30 years on the run

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Former Italian national soccer team striker Gianluca Vialli, right, kicks the ball under the gaze of Torino's defender Sean Sogliano during their Italian Serie A soccer match at the Delle Alpi stadium in Turin, Italy, Saturday, April 6, 1996. Gianluca Vialli, the former Italy striker who helped both Sampdoria and Juventus win Serie A and European trophies before becoming a player-manager at Chelsea, has died on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. He was 58. (AP Photo/Mauro Pilone, File)

Gianluca Vialli, former Italy striker, dies at 58

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FILE - Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, visits Ise Jingu shrine in Ise, central Japan on Jan. 4, 2023. Japan and the United States will hold security talks between their foreign and defense ministers in Washington the day before Japanese Prime Minister Kishida lands in the U.S. capital next week wrapping up his tour of Group of Seven nations as Tokyo expands its military and deepen alliance with America amid China's growing influence.(Kyodo News via AP, File)

Japan, U.S. to hold security talks before Kishida meets Biden

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Passengers arriving from China wait in front of a COVID-19 testing area set at the Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, north of Paris, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. France says it will require negative COVID-19 tests of all passengers arriving from China and is urging French citizens to avoid nonessential travel to China. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

EU urges pre-flight COVID-19 tests on passengers from China

By Raf Casert - Associated Press