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Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends at Fenix, the FdI youth festival, in Rome, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026. (Valentina Stefanelli/LaPresse via AP)

Meloni plans to ban burqas and niqabs in Italian schools, and cap foreign students in classrooms

By Maria Grazia Murru - Associated Press

A 12-year-old unaccompanied minor who crossed into Spain is escorted by a Spanish soldier to the Spain-Morocco border as the child begs not to be sent back to Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. The forced deportation of the unaccompanied minor was stopped by a high-ranking official a few meters before the child reached the border after residents and journalists said the migrant was a minor. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Spain imposes border checks on Italian travelers in tit-for-tat move over Ceuta migrants row

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President Donald Trump speaks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at a working lunch with leaders of G7 and the Middle East in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Facing barbs and pressure from Trump, Europe’s leaders close ranks

By Giada Zampano and Sam McNeil - Associated Press

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Letter to the editor: Why the Trump-Meloni picture tiff matters

President Donald Trump speaks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at a working lunch with leaders of G7 and the Middle East in Evian-les-Bains, France, Tuesday, June 16, 2026. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump deepens the dustup with Italy’s Meloni over a disputed photo from the G7 summit

By Seung Min Kim - Associated Press

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni looks on ahead of a working session at the G7 summit, in Evian-les-Bains, France, Wednesday, June 17, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)

Meloni slams Trump’s claim she ‘begged’ for photo with him as Italy’s top diplomat cancels U.S. trip

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

EU Parliament member and former Italian army general Roberto Vannacci addresses the audience as he concludes the two-day founding congress of his far-right party, Futuro Nazionale (National Future) in Rome, Sunday, June 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy’s Meloni faces a far-right dilemma as ‘Il Generale’ Vannacci rises

By Giada Zampano - Associated Press

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, left, speaks with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides as she arrives for the EU Summit in Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday, April 24, 2026. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)

Italy’s Meloni denounces deepfake photo as a political attack

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FILE - Alex Zanardi, smiles after winning the silver medal in the men's road race H5, during the 2016 Paralympics Games, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sept. 15, 2016, (AP Photo/Mauro Pimentel, File)

Alex Zanardi, auto racing champ who won Paralympic golds between life-altering accidents, dies at 59

By Andrew Dampf - Associated Press

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni addresses the Senate regarding the conflict in Iran and the Gulf region, in Rome, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ** FILE **

Italian PM Meloni talks tough on Russia, but Italy still has an energy problem

By Guillaume Ptak - Special to The Washington Times

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni speaks during a news conference at the end of an intergovernmental summit at Villa Doria Pamphilj in Rome, Jan. 23, 2026, to discuss political and economic cooperation. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Italy suspends defense pact with Israel in rift over strikes in Lebanon

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Italian lawyers Marco Mellone, right, and Graziella Cerulli arrive at Italy's highest Court of Cassation, in Rome, Tuesday, April 14, 2026, to argue against the new citizenship law that restricts citizenship by descent. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

U.S. families contest Italian law restricting citizenship by descent in highest court

By Colleen Barry and Silvia Stellacci - Associated Press

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni addresses the Senate regarding the conflict in Iran and the Gulf region, in Rome, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) ** FILE **

Meloni hails arrest of top crime family suspect after raid at an Italian resort

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Migrants trying to reach Britain, walk on a beach shore in Gravelines, northern France, Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Europe seeks to increase deportations as some warn of Trump-like tactics

By Sam McNeil and Giada Zampano - Associated Press

Migrants trying to reach Britain, walk on a beach shore in Gravelines, northern France, Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Europe looks to increase deportations as some warn of Trump-like tactics

By Sam McNeil and Giada Zampano - Associated Press

A woman arrives to vote in a referendum on judicial reform, at a polling station in Milan, Italy, Sunday March 22, 2026. (Marco Ottico/Lapresse via AP)

Italy’s justice referendum becomes a high stakes test for conservative Premier Giorgia Meloni

By Giada Zampano and Paolo Santalucia - Associated Press

Vice President JD Vance, center, attends a preliminary round match of women's ice hockey between United States and Czechia at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Vance meets with PM Meloni to bolster U.S.-Italy relationship before Milan opening ceremonies

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A detail of a fresco inside the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, in Rome, shows a cherub bearing a striking resemblance to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

An angel resembling Italy’s Meloni is painted over after an outcry from church and state

By Silvia Stellacci, Nicole Winfield and Trisha Thomas - Associated Press

A detail of a restored chapel with Angels depicted on a fresco to the memory of late Italy's King Umberto II inside the Basilica of St. Lawrence in Lucina in Rome, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Church and state in Italy are investigating the appearance of a cherub resembling Meloni

By Nicole Winfield and Trisha Thomas - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, left, receives Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Rome, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Surge of anti-Israel sentiment pulling Meloni to left on Palestinian state

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times