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

Dec. 20, 2024 14:27 PM EST

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

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...

Martin Scorsese on 'The Saints,' faith in filmmaking and what his next movie might be

Nov. 14, 2024 18:41 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. “Who are these people? What is a saint?” Scorsese recalls. “The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and...