Italy’s Berlusconi: 600,000 migrants ‘ready’ to commit crime

Former Italian Prime Minister and Forza Italia (Go Italy) party leader, Silvio Berlusconi, is backdropped by The League party leader Matteo Salvini during the recording of the Italian state television RAI, Porta a Porta (Door To Door) talk show in Rome, January 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Former Italian Prime Minister and Forza Italia (Go Italy) party leader, Silvio Berlusconi, is backdropped by The League party leader Matteo Salvini during the recording of the Italian state television RAI, Porta a Porta (Door To Door) talk show in Rome, January 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Ex-PM vows Africans will be deported if his center-right party wins March elections, says they are a ‘social bomb ready to explode’

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Volcanic explosion on Mount Etna injures 10 people

FILE PHOTO A tourist stands in front of Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s tallest and most active volcano, as it spews lava during an eruption on the southern island of Sicily, Italy February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello/File photo

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Italian PM calls UNESCO vote ‘unacceptable and wrong’

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi during the opening ceremony of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, on November 30, 2015. (Thibault Camus/AFP)

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi during the opening ceremony of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, on November 30, 2015. (Thibault Camus/AFP)

Matteo Renzi says his envoy abstained in line with other EU countries, but intimates Rome may break European unity in future votes

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Italy earthquake kills dozens, reduces towns to rubble

Rescuers search amid rubble following an earthquake in Amatrice Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. The magnitude 6 quake struck at 3:36 a.m. (0136 GMT) and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, including Rome where residents of the capital felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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The Latest: Vatican says Iran should help fight terrorism

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, left, and Italian Premier Matteo Renzi talk to each during their meeting at the Campidoglio, Capitol Hill, in Rome, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. Rouhani arrived Monday in Rome on the first state visit to Europe by an Iranian president in almost two decades, eager for foreign investments after the lifting of international sanctions. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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