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Former Italian PM Berlusconi acquitted in bribery case

An Italian court on Thursday acquitted former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi of bribing a witness in a 2013 underage prostitution case, giving a boost to the veteran politician weeks after his return to parliament.

Reuters

Meloni tells NATO it can count on Italy in Ukraine

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is pledging Italy’s “strong commitment” to NATO and efforts to help liberate Ukraine from Russia’s invasion

The Independent UK

Italy’s new, far-right leader heads to EU HQ to break ice

New Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is coming to Brussels

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The fox in the chicken coop: how the far right is playing the European Parliament

Several countries in the European Union are currently governed by far-right political parties. In Hungary, Fidesz under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been progressively dismantling the country’s constitutional protections of the rule of law and democratic institutions. Poland under its ruling Law and Justice party has shown equally worrying trends.…

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Serie A’s Mari Sidelined for Two Months after Supermarket Stabbing

Serie A soccer player Pablo Mari faces at least two months out of the game after an operation on Friday for stab wounds from an attack in an Italian supermarket that left one man dead. Milan's Niguarda hospital said its trauma team had reconstructed two muscles in the back of…

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Soccer player injured in knife attack calls himself 'lucky'

Spanish soccer player Pablo Marí called himself “lucky” to survive after getting wounded in a knife attack at an Italian shopping center

The Independent UK

Italian PM Meloni easily wins 2nd and final confidence vote

Italy’s first far-right-led government since the fall of fascism in World War II can get down to business after new Premier Giorgia Meloni easily won the second of two required confidence votes in Parliament on Wednesday.

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Matteo Salvini revives ancient dream of building bridge to Sicily

Italy’s infrastructure minister says plan is one of his goals, despite cost, impracticability and seismic risk

The Guardian - UK

Italy's prime minister meets Emmanuel Macron on her first day in office

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took her first steps on the international stage on Sunday, meeting French President Emmanuel Macron just hours after she formally took office.

Radio France Internationale

Macron meets with far-right Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

French President Emmanuel Macron promised Sunday to work with Giorgia Meloni with "dialogue and ambition", after his first meeting with Italy's new prime minister in Rome.

France 24

Italy's 'political earthquake' as Giorgia Meloni is first far-right leader since WWII

Giorgia Meloni's appointment has been described as a "political earthquake" in European politics, as minorities fear their rights will be severely impacted by her Brothers of Italy party

Daily Mirror

David Pratt: Far-right gain power in Italy and Trump's shadow hangs over US midterms

IT’S a long political journey from being a teenage activist in 1992 to being sworn in as Italy’s first female prime minister yesterday. But…

The National (Scotland)

Far-right Giorgia Meloni sworn in as Italy’s first female prime minister

Ceremony took place amid tensions within Meloni’s coalition after partner Berlusconi boasted about Putin ties.

Al Jazeera

Fall of Liz Truss gives Italy’s far right a lesson in what not to do

Giorgia Meloni’s radical economic agenda had resembled Kwasi Kwarteng’s. It won’t any longer

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The Independent UK

Is Meloni a far-right firebrand or moderate?

As Giorgia Meloni becomes Italy’s first female premier, the world is watching closely to see if she will emerge as a firebrand leader of a far-right party with neo-fascist roots or the more moderate right-wing politician who succeded in capturing 26% of the vote

The Guardian - UK

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni: an ambiguous figure with a tough job ahead

Far-right Brothers of Italy leader is now in charge of navigating economic crisis – and she’s wasting no time

Reuters

Factbox-Key ministers in new Italian Meloni government

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government was sworn into office on Saturday. Her cabinet was made up of 24 ministers. Here the profiles of some of the key figures:

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Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has been sworn in as Italian premier

Giorgia Meloni was sworn in on Saturday as Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. She is also the first woman to be premier.

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Italy’s far-right Meloni becomes country’s first woman to lead government

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni was named Italian prime minister on Friday, becoming the first woman to head a government in Italy. Her appointment is an historic event for the eurozone's third largest economy and for the Brothers of Italy party, which has never been in government.

Reuters

Right-wing Meloni sworn in as Italy's first woman prime minister

Giorgia Meloni was sworn in as Italy's first woman prime minister on Saturday alongside her cabinet team, giving the country its most right-wing government since World War Two.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Is Meloni a far-right firebrand or moderate?

Reuters

Key ministers in new Italian government

Giorgia Meloni's Italian government will be sworn in on Saturday at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT). Her cabinet will be made up of 24 ministers. Here the profiles of some of the key figures:

The Independent UK

Italy's Meloni steeped herself in far-right ideology as teen

As a young teen, Italy's Giorgia Meloni embarked on an ideological quest that has propelled her to the height of government power

Reuters

Giorgia Meloni: The long climb to Italy's political summit

In 2019, Giorgia Meloni made a speech that has come to define her: "I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can't take that away from me," she told cheering supporters in Rome.

The Independent UK

History-maker Giorgia Meloni becomes Italy’s first female PM

Far right figure Meloni has accepted a mandate to form a new government

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