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Italy to punish 'synthetic' food purveyors, protect farmers
ROME (AP) — Italy’s government has endorsed legislation that would outlaw laboratory-grown food and allow stiff fines for those who make it or sell it, a proposal that is part of Premier Giorgia Meloni's crusade to protect “made in Italy” products. Meloni celebrated with...
Italy partisans criticize Meloni over Nazi massacre comment
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni marked the anniversary Friday of one of the worst World War II-era massacres in German-occupied Italy, but the main association of partisans who fought to free Italy from fascism quickly criticized her comments. Meloni, whose Brothers of...
Italy's far-right premier addresses country's oldest union
MILAN (AP) — Premier Giorgia Meloni on Friday became the first Italian leader in nearly 30 years to address the annual meeting of the nation’s largest, oldest and most left-wing CGIL union confederation. Meloni, who heads post-war Italy’s first far-right led government, was...
Italian government limits parental rights of gay couples
MILAN (AP) — Gay rights activists on Tuesday denounced as homophobic moves by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government to limit recognition of parental rights to the biological parent only in families with same-sex parents. In a move that is expected to impact...
Italy's leaders, attacked on migrant tragedy, blame Russians
ROME (AP) — On the defensive after a deadly migrant boat shipwreck near an Italian beach, Italy's right-wing government is contending that Russian mercenaries in Libya are behind an uptick in migrant arrivals in alleged retaliation for Western support for Ukraine. On Monday...
Italy estimates 680K migrants might cross sea from Libya
ROME (AP) — Intelligence reports indicate nearly 700,000 migrants are in Libya awaiting an opportunity to set out by sea toward Italy, a lawmaker from Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party said Sunday, but a U.N. migration official called the number not credible. Tommaso...
Italy to raise penalties for smugglers after migrant tragedy
ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni unveiled her right-wing government's plans to crack down on people smugglers following a Cabinet meeting she led Thursday in the southern town near the beach where a wooden boat packed with migrants broke apart 11 days earlier, killing scores and leaving...
Israel's Netanyahu flies to Rome as Meloni condemns swastika
ROME (AP) — Far-right Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni condemned antisemitic graffiti directed at her main rival on Thursday, ahead of a visit to Italy by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his first since Meloni's victory last year. The graffiti, which included a swastika,...
Italy rejects any blame for deadly migrant shipwreck
ROME (AP) — Italy’s interior minister on Tuesday strongly rejected claims that government policies to discourage illegal migration played a role in a shipwreck off the nation’s southern coast in which at least 72 people died. Minister Matteo Piantedosi said that assertions...
2 Italian air force planes collide mid-air, killing pilots
ROME (AP) — Two Italian air force pilots were killed Tuesday during an exercise when the light aircraft they were flying collided mid-air and crashed to the ground, Italy's air force said in a statement. The two U-208 aircraft crashed near the Guidonia military airport, located...
