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Italian court clears Vice Premier Salvini of illegally detaining migrants on a rescue ship in 2019

Dec. 20, 2024 13:57 PM EST

ROME (AP) — A court in Sicily Friday found Vice Premier Matteo Salvini not guilty of illegally detaining 100 migrants aboard a humanitarian rescue ship when he was interior minister. The court dropped all the charges against Salvini in relation an incident in 2019, when he refused...

Italian court set to issue verdict in Salvini's kidnapping trial over migrants blocked at sea

Dec. 20, 2024 04:29 AM EST

ROME (AP) — A court in Sicily is expected to announce its verdict Friday on whether Italy's vice premier, Matteo Salvini, was guilty of illegally detaining 100 migrants aboard a humanitarian rescue ship when he was interior minister. Salvini faces up to six years in jail if...

Italy's Salvini faces verdict for blocking migrants at sea. Case weighs limits of stemming migration

Dec. 19, 2024 12:48 PM EST

MILAN (AP) — Italy’s deputy premier, Matteo Salvini, has sounded defiant ahead of Friday’s court verdict in Sicily for blocking some 100 migrants at sea on a humanitarian rescue boat in 2019 when he was interior minister. Salvini, who leads the Euroskeptic, anti-migrant League,...

Thousands of workers march across Italy in general strike demanding better pay and services

Nov. 29, 2024 07:09 AM EST

MILAN (AP) — Thousands of teachers, health care workers, trash collectors and others walked off their jobs across Italy on Friday to protest a decline in spending power, persistently low salaries and government policies they say have weakened public services. Italy’s most...