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3 Egyptian Officials Convicted of Kidnapping Slain Italian Student

The verdict followed a decade-long effort in Italy to account for the killing of Giulio Regeni, an Italian researcher who disappeared in Cairo in 2016.

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Paola Deffendi, Giulio Regeni’s mother, outside a courtroom on Monday in Rome after three Egyptian security officials were found guilty of kidnapping her son.
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Italy Moves to Cap Number of Foreign Students in Its Classrooms

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said the goal was to better integrate non-Italian speaking children, but critics accused her of trying to appease anti-immigrant sentiment.

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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at a youth festival in Rome last week.
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Italy’s Prisons Were Overcrowded. Then They Overheated.

As temperatures in the country continue to approach 90 degrees Fahrenheit, inmates have been sleeping on concrete cell floors. Even the guards have complained.

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Outside the Rebibbia prison in Rome. There are nearly 65,000 inmates in Italian detention facilities, crammed into cells built for less than 47,000.
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