Italy's navy on Sunday was taking 49 migrants it picked up in international waters to detention facilities in Albania, the interior ministry said, resuming a plan to curb sea arrivals mired in legal controversy.

Italian navy vessel Cassiopea has embarked 49 migrants during its patrols in the Mediterranean and is transferring them to processing centers in Albania, the Interior Ministry said in a statement Sund

Giorgia Meloni’s presence at Donald Trump’s inauguration aimed to reinforce her status as a privileged interlocutor with the new US administration. But this position carries risks for Italy and the EU.

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But Tarik Lamloum, a Libyan activist working with the Belaady Organization for Human Rights which focuses on migrants in Libya, said Italy’s release of al-Masri was expected. He said his release shows the power of militias who control the flow of migrants to Europe through Libya’s shores.

He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni are fast forging a new transatlantic "special relationship". Italian Prime Minister Meloni was the sole European leader at Trump's presidential inauguration on Monday,

Italy's gas stocks were running at 68% on Wednesday morning, the CEO of gas-network company SNAM Stefano Venier said. "We are slightly above the European average and this gives us an advantage over other European countries",

ROME — Italy’s government fears merger deals by some of the country’s biggest financial groups will sap its ability to summon patriotic investment in a crisis.

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni has emerged as the US president’s favourite EU interlocutor, with hopes growing she could talk him out of a trade war.

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But with Trump preparing to rip up federal regulation and rethink the parameters of government action, the EU’s moves look altogether more tentative. “The engagement is not to deregulate, but to simplify,

Italy says it is transferring 49 migrants picked up in the Mediterranean to new processing centers in Albania, in the third such attempt facing hurdles by courts.