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Italian PM Meloni ally fires back against criticism says policies the same but 'Europe has changed'

FIRST ON FOX – A close ally to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told Fox News Digital that criticism against her for abandoning policies on illegal migration and other issues is unfounded. Italian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Edmondo Cirielli told Fox News Digital, “Giorgia Meloni hasn’t changed, Europe has changed.” Cirielli is the co-founder and national coordinator of Meloni’s …

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Climate activist who defaced National Gallery of Art exhibit sentenced

A climate activist who smeared paint on a case surrounding 19th-century French artist Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” sculpture at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art was sentenced Friday. Joanna Smith, 54, of Brooklyn, New York, got 60 days of prison time out of a possible maximum sentence of five years for defacing the exhibit, the U.S. Attorney’s Office …

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Israel debunks 'Hamas libels' about mass grave spread by media for internet clicks, says Netanyahu spokesman

JERUSALEM – The Office of the Prime Minister of Israel on Friday flatly rejected the disinformation campaign waged by the terrorist movement Hamas that the Jewish State was involved in any misconduct regarding a mass grave found at a battle site located on a hospital compound in Gaza. “Hamas libels know no limits. It’s sad to see how many news …

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Bread king of Paris rises to the top in annual baguette contest: 'A lot of love'

The new bread king of Paris has been crowned. Xavier Netry rose to the top of a field of 172 competitors and was declared winner of the 31st annual “Grand Prix de la baguette” earlier this week, said the Associated Press. Netry, who has been baking for 25 years, is head baker at Utopie, a bakery in Paris’ 11th district, …

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Ukraine lawmaker, 34, fights for Kharkiv in the public square

Mariia Mezentseva is a face of the war in Ukraine. At just 34 years old and a member of Ukraine’s parliament, her formal tasks include looking into ways Ukraine can integrate into the rest of Europe’s institutions. But, what really has gotten her attention are her posts about her hometown, Kharkiv. It has a population of 1.3 million people, just …

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Pelosi university speech interrupted by anti-Israel agitators: 'Warmonger'

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was interrupted by anti-Israel students during a speech she gave in the U.K. on Thursday. A protest group also called her a “warmonger.” As Pelosi, former House speaker, was beginning her remarks to the Oxford Union at the University of Oxford, a student quietly stood up and walked to the front of the room. He then …

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Iranian-backed Houthis claim responsibility for US reaper drone crash off Yemen coast

Iranian-backed Houthis rebels have claimed responsibility for a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone crash off the coast of Yemen on Thursday, Fox News confirmed on Friday. Thursday’s crash is the fourth remotely piloted drone brought down by Iranian-proxy groups since November, costing the U.S. government upwards of $120 million. It is also the third time Houthi rebels have brought down a …

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Former Olympian Oscar Pistorius smiles in first spotting since prison release for killing model girlfriend

The disgraced former Paralympian track star Oscar Pistorius was spotted for the first time in eight years following his release from prison for the murder of his model girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius, now 37, served nine years of a 13-year prison sentence for fatally shooting Steenkamp, 29, on Valentine’s Day in 2013. During his trial, he maintained that he thought …

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Holocaust Remembrance Center president compares anti-Israel mobs at Columbia to Nazis at German university

The ongoing anti-Israel demonstrations at elite U.S. colleges and universities are exactly what happened in Germany in the 1920s, just years before Nazis took over the country, according to the head of the Holocaust museum. Dani Dayan, the chairman of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, wrote a letter to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik on Friday, April 26, …

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Republic of the Congo declares monkeypox epidemic after more than a dozen cases confirmed

Republic of the Congo has declared an epidemic of mpox after 19 cases were confirmed across five departments, including the capital Brazzaville. No deaths have yet been recorded, Health Minister Gilbert Mokoki said in a statement on Tuesday. He called on the public to take precautions including avoiding close contact with suspected cases, avoiding contact with animals and avoiding handling …

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