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Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, right, and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte hold a joint press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday June 13, 2025. (Stefan Jerrevång/TT News Agency via AP)

Sweden and the Netherlands say before NATO summit they will spend 5% of GDP on defense

Sweden and the Netherlands say they intend to increase defense spending to 5% of their gross domestic product in line with U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands. Trump and his NATO counterparts meet for a summit in the Netherlands on June 24-25.
 
Attorney General Pam Bondi, from second left, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro walk to cars as law enforcement work the scene after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum, Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Global leaders are condemning the fatal attack on 2 Israeli Embassy staffers. Here’s what they said

 
U.S. delegates leave the Omani Embassy in Rome after closed-door meeting with an Iranian delegation to discuss Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program, Saturday, April 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

US and Iran say talks over Tehran’s nuclear program make progress and set plans for more

 
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, foreground and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend a news conference following their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 18, 2025. (Tatyana Makeyeva/Pool Photo via AP)

Iran seeks Russia’s support for its nuclear talks with US

 
This combo shows Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, left, pictured in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 and Steve Witkoff, right, White House special envoy, pictured in Washington, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photos Stringer, Mark Schiefelbein)

Tehran says next round of Iran-US nuclear talks in Oman after Rome named by officials

 

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Migrants disembark an Italian Navy ship, as Italy sent 49 people to Albania for processing following earlier court rejections to Albania, in Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj, File)

Italy approves new decree to use Albanian migration centers as repatriation hubs

 
People protest during a pro-Europe rally in Rome’s central Piazza del Popolo, Italy, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Tens of thousands join pro-Europe rally in Rome, amid worries over European Union’s plan to rearm

 

Italy’s government discusses the case of an Italian citizen detained in Venezuela without charges

 
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani speaks to the media a he arrives for a meeting at Rome's Villa Madama, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025 on the situation in Syria after the collapse of the Assad regime. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini

Italy’s foreign minister heads to Syria to encourage post-Assad transition

 

Iran confirms arresting Italian journalist Cecilia Sala

 
This image released Friday Dec. 27, 2024 by Chora Media shows Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained on Dec. 19 as she was reporting in Iran, Italy's foreign ministry said. ( Chora Media via Ap )

Italian journalist Cecilia Sala detained by police while reporting in Iran

 
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, front, arrives to pose for a family photo with, from left, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Britain's Foreign Office Political Director Christian Turner at the G7 of foreign Ministers in Fiuggi, some 70 kilometers south-east of Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool)

G7 ministers throw support behind Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire but make no mention of ICC warrant

 

G7 FMs inaugurate a red bench to raise awareness about gender-based violence

 

World leaders call on Iran and Israel to avoid allowing conflict to worsen

 

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets the journalists during a press conference at the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting on Capri Island, Italy, Friday, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Israel gave US last-minute warning about drone attack on Iran, Italian foreign minister says at G7

 

Released hostages back in Italy after captivity in Mali

 
This undated photo released Wednesday Oct. 11, 2023 by Nadav Kipnis, shows him, at left, flanked by his family from left, his brother Yotam Kipnis, his mother Lilach Lea Havron 60 and his father Eviatar Moshe Kipnis 65. Eviatar Moshe Kipnis and Lilach Lea Havron are among the estimated 150 people believed held by Hamas in Gaza following the militant group's stunning incursion in Israel on Saturday. The couple and their health care aide were last heard from Saturday morning, sheltering in their safe room, after militants had begun storming Be'eri, where at least 100 people were later found dead. (Kipnis Family via AP)

An Italian couple is unaccounted for in Southern Israel. The husband needs regular medical care

 
Palestinians rescue a young girl from the rubble of a destroyed residential building following an Israeli airstrike, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. The militant Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel Saturday, killing over 900 people and taking captives. Israel launched heavy retaliatory airstrikes on the enclave, killing hundreds of Palestinians. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment event on the day of the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, Sept. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Evelyn Hockstein, Pool)

Italy’s Meloni meets with China’s Li as Italy’s continued participation in ‘Belt and Road’ in doubt

 
CAPTION CORRECTS THE DAY In this photo released by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, meets with Italian Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani in Beijing Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. China's foreign minister is seeking to sell his Italian counterpart on the benefits of leader Xi Jinping's signature "Belt and Road" initiative of Chinese-built and -funded infrastructure projects, as Rome considers whether to renew the agreement. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China via AP)

China touts the benefits of its ‘Belt and Road’ initiative to Italy, which may end the agreement

 
Thick mud and debris cover streets following a mountain mudslide, which caused the flooding of a stream in Bardonecchia, a city near Turin in the Val di Susa mountain valley, Italy, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Rescue crews in an Italian Alpine city were searching Monday for any possible missing people and clearing mud-caked roads after a mountain mudslide sent water and debris pouring into town, bursting riverbanks. Authorities said all residents were accounted for. (LaPresse via AP)

Crews clear roads after mudslide in the Italian Alps coats city streets in muck

 

Military plane arrives in Rome with Niger evacuees

 
French and other nationals gather at the international Airport to be airlifted back to France on a French military aircraft, in Niamey, Niger, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2023, to be airlifted back to France on a French military aircraft. French forces in the capital, Niamey, evacuated hundreds of mostly French nationals to Paris on two flights Tuesday, following concerns that their citizens and other Europeans risked becoming trapped by last week’s military coup, which ousted and detained President Mohamed Bazoum. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Niger’s military ruler warns against foreign meddling, urges population to defend the country

 
Forza Italia's members, from left, Licia Ronzulli, Antonio Tajani, Paolo Barelli, and Fulvio Martusciello stand in front of a poster of late party founder Silvio Berlusconi Friday, June 16, 2023, during their first party meeting after Berlusconi's death on Monday. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday that in his role of coordinator, he and other party stalwarts loyal to the former premier will keep waging Berlusconi's battles for lower taxes, higher pensions, and reform of the justice system their late leader contended was biased against him. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Berlusconi aides vow after his death to reinvigorate political party he created, fight his battles

 

Zelenskyy visits Rome and the Vatican

 

Italian FM concerned with Mideast escalation and Ukrainian situation

 

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