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Italy PM Meloni says been denounced to ICC for complicity in genocide | World News

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Prime Miner of Italy Giorgia Meloni addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. (AP)

Italian Prime Miner Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday that she and two of her miners had been reported to the International Criminal Court for alleged complicity in genocide in connection with Israel’s offensive in Gaza.

Speaking in an interview with state television company RAI, Meloni said Defence Miner Guido Crosetto and Foreign Miner Antonio Tajani had been denounced, and “I think” also Roberto Cingolani, the head of defence group Leonardo MI.

In other remarks, Meloni said she believed that US President Donald Trump had come to the conclusion that Russia was not interested in a peace deal with Ukraine.

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