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Italy and war-torn Libya on Saturday resumed commercial flights for the first time in a decade, authorities in the Libyan capital said.

Pope Francis has launched an appeal to rescue more migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and bring them to Europe despite the record numbers already arriving.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticized the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday for hypocrisy on the issue of mass migration, charging open-borders advocates with spreading “chaos,” making human traffickers rich, and bringing the evil of slavery back into the world.

Olive oil is the latest commodity to see huge price hikes as it faces extreme weather during its production.  

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni vowed “extraordinary measures” to deal with the migrant crisis, including calling anew for a naval blockade.

Humanitarian concern on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa after more than 5,000 people arrived in one day on smugglers boats.

Headline-grabbing nudity stunt landed the pair a life ban by one of Venice’s most prestigious boat companies, reportedly beloved by A-listers.

A former Italian PM claimed France shot down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean in 1980 in a failed assassinate bid on Muammar Gaddafi.

The West’s strategy in Ukraine and attempts to crush the Russian economy have failed, former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said.

A record-breaking number of illegal migrants arrived on Italy’s shores this weekend, leading Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to call an emergency meeting Monday to confront the situation.

Legendary Italian singer Toto Cutugno, best known for his worldwide 1983 hit song, “L’Italiano,” died on Tuesday at the age of 80.

Italy has seen the number of illegal boat migrants landing on its shores double over last year, reaching nearly 90,000 in just seven months.

Just days after appearing to wimp out of a physical fight with Mark Zuckerberg, calling for a “noble” debate as he claimed he may require back surgery, Elon Musk is suddenly talking about a fight again. Musk provided fresh details about the “fight” in a series of tweets, claiming an “epic location” in Italy, adding that “Everything done will pay respect to the past and present of Italy.”

Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after being shipwrecked last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said.

Dozens of migrants were dramatically rescued by Italy as they foundered in the sea or clung to a rocky reef Sunday.

The South Korean Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that high-level diplomats from South Korea and Italy met in Rome to discuss enhanced bilateral cooperation on economic and security issues.

Italy’s defense minister Guido Crosetto has blasted his country’s 2019 decision to join China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), calling the move “improvised and villainous.”

Amidst apocalyptic news coverage, Greece’s climate change minister admitted that the majority of the wildfires were a result of arson.

Over 100 trans men, women who identify as men, have entered the Miss Italy pageant in protest against the competition banning trans women from entry.

One in three victims of human trafficking in Italy are children, with many being forced into farm labour and others being sold for sex.

After weeks in Libya trying to reach Europe illegally, Muhammad turned back, abandoning a journey that’s cost hundreds of lives this year.

Prime Minister Meloni said at a summit in Rome that the EU should support African states to help stop migrants from trying to reach Europe.

Italian beauty pageant Miss Italy has banned biological males from entering its competition. Patrizia Mirigliani, who oversees the nation’s beauty pageant, said “only women since birth” are welcome to compete while she is in charge of the event.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni led negotiations that saw a migrant deal struck between the European Union and Tunisia.

Italy is on pace to see a record number of illegal boat migrants land on its shores as landings surged by 150 per cent.

A man identifying as a woman has won bronze in the women’s 400m at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris.

A fire that broke out in a Milan nursing home early Friday killed six of the residents and injured about 80 others, Italian firefighters said.

FM reflects on what he sees as weeks of tragedy caused by open borders policies, saying events in France prove Hungarian voters right.

A political firestorm erupted as an Italian government minister, Vittorio Sgarbi, boasted in public of sleeping with over 1,500 women.

The downside of the resurgence in Italy’s tourism sector is likely to be persistent inflation.

Italian authorities have vowed to find and punish the tourist who was filmed carving graffiti on the wall of the Colosseum in Rome.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this week that Italy intends to set an example in aiding persecuted Christians around the world, insisting that “religious freedom is not a second-class right.”

American actor Jeffrey Parise caught Cuba’s figurehead “president” Miguel Díaz-Canel and partner Lis Cuesta enjoying one of Rome’s top fine dining restaurants this week, outraging Cubans who have faced frequent, severe food shortages at home for decades.

The confessionals where generations of Belgians admitted their sins stood stacked in a corner of the Church, having outlived their purpose.

Miguel Díaz-Canel, the figurehead “president” the Castro family uses to represent the Cuban Communist Party abroad, held a meeting with Pope Francis on Tuesday as part of a greater tour of Europe including Italy, Serbia, and France.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with Tesla founder and Twitter owner Elon Musk for an hour and a half in Rome this week, bonding over concerns about low natality rates.