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Italy's Meloni and Hungary's Orbán pledge deeper cooperation on migration and Ukraine

Dec. 04, 2024 13:31 PM EST

ROME (AP) — Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni met her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán on Wednesday in Rome, where the two discussed the situation in the Middle East, their support for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and their commitment to the eastern country’s reconstruction. ...

Armed men in speedboats make off with women and children when a migrants' dinghy deflates off Libya

Nov. 29, 2024 11:39 AM EST

MILAN (AP) — Armed men in two speedboats took off with women and children after a rubber dinghy carrying some 112 migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean Sea started deflating off Libya's coast, a humanitarian aid group said Friday. Dozens of men and boys who were aboard the...

G7 ministers throw support behind Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire but make no mention of ICC warrant

Nov. 26, 2024 20:22 PM EST

FIUGGI, Italy (AP) — Foreign ministers from leading industrialized countries threw their strong support Tuesday behind an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah but sidestepped the question of whether to enforce an international arrest warrant for Israel’s...

G7 foreign ministers push for Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire in final G7 of Biden administration

Nov. 25, 2024 14:19 PM EST

FIUGGI, Italy (AP) — Foreign ministers from the world’s leading industrialized nations expressed cautious optimism Monday about possible progress on a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The top diplomats met for the final time before a new U.S. administration takes office...

EU lawmakers seal a deal to rubber-stamp one of the bloc's most right-leaning executives

Nov. 20, 2024 19:04 PM EST

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers on Wednesday ended a week of bickering to rubber-stamp a new team of policy commissioners that will head one of the most rightward-leaning executive branches ever chosen in the bloc for the next five years. The main centrist pro-European...

Marquette University names Kimo Ah Yun as its new president

Nov. 20, 2024 17:45 PM EST

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Marquette University officials announced Wednesday that Kimo Ah Yun will serve as the school's next president. Ah Yun had served as acting president since June, when President Michael Lovell died in Rome after a three-year battle with cancer. Ah Yun...

Italian Premier Meloni's coalition suffers setbacks in 2 regional elections

Nov. 19, 2024 05:41 AM EST

ROME (AP) — Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni suffered election setbacks in two regions as the opposition Democratic party won a tight race in the central Umbria region and deepened its control of the traditional left-leaning stronghold of Emilia-Romagna. The results of the two-days...

Aid groups say Italy-Albania migration deal violates medical ethics

Nov. 15, 2024 12:24 PM EST

ROME (AP) — More than a dozen humanitarian organizations that provide health care to migrants criticized Italy’s migration deal with Albania on Friday as violating the code of medical ethics, and urged health workers not to cooperate with it. The deal, the centerpiece of Premier...

A French student who was arrested and detained in Tunisia returns to Paris

Nov. 15, 2024 10:45 AM EST

PARIS (AP) — A French doctoral student detained in Tunisia returned to Paris on Friday after weeks of top-level diplomatic discussions. Victor Dupont, a 27-year-old pursuing a Ph.D. at Aix-Marseille University’s Institute of Research and Study on the Arab and Islamic Worlds,...

Italy's president sharply rebukes Elon Musk over comments on X about migration court rulings

Nov. 13, 2024 16:57 PM EST

ROME (AP) — Italian President Sergio Mattarella sharply rebuked Elon Musk on Wednesday for weighing in on Italian court rulings that have stymied the government’s plans to process some asylum-seekers in Albania. Musk, who is expected to have a top advisory role in Donald...