![]() Pavel Golovkin/APīiden hosts Italian prime minister he once viewed with skeptical eye President Joe Biden and Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wait to have their photo taken during a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 12, 2023. His comments came while discussing the case of a 19-year-old woman who was allegedly gang-raped by seven men at a party near the Sicilian city of Palermo in August. “But if you avoid getting drunk and losing consciousness, perhaps you’d also avoid getting into trouble, because then you’ll find the wolf.” “If you go dancing you are fully entitled to get drunk,” he said on his television program. Her trip to Caivano was overshadowed by comments made by her partner, Andrea Giambruno, an Italian journalist with whom she shares a daughter but to whom she is not married, who suggested some of the sexual violence over the summer was the fault of the victims. Neither of these issues has so far been a focus of Meloni’s “Italy-first” traditional family agenda, which has focused on removing same sex parents from birth certificates, clamping down on inheritance rights for gay couples, and seeking to criminalize surrogacy with prison terms even if it is carried out abroad. The alleged repeated rapes of the two girls – aged 10 and 12 at the time and now in protective custody out of fear their families can’t protect them – capped a summer of headlines about sexual violence and gender-related killings of women and girls. Meloni, the country’s first female prime minister, was there to draw attention to an alleged systematic gang rape of pre-teen cousins by a group of delinquents. Gauff, the youngest woman to reach the US Open final since Serena Williams in 1999, will next face Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka as she bids to win her first grand slam title.ĬNN’s Jenny Stevens contributed to this report.When Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni made an official visit to the crime-ridden Neapolitan suburb of Caivano last week, she promised a “radical reclamation” of a territory she admitted “the state had failed.” But hey, if that’s what they felt they needed to do to get their voices heard, I can’t really get upset at it.” “Obviously, I don’t want it to happen when I’m winning up 6-4 1-0 and I wanted the momentum to keep going. It was done in a peaceful way, so I can’t get too mad at it. I always speak about preaching what you feel and what you believe in. ![]() I know the stadium was because it just interrupted entertainment. She added: “I wasn’t pissed at the protesters. So, you know, following the trend, it was definitely going to happen here. “It happened in the French Open, it happened in Wimbledon. “I had a feeling it was going to happen this tournament,” said Gauff. ![]() Gauff and Muchová both left the court during the delay as the protestors were escorted out of the stadium.Ĭlimate protestors also disrupted last year’s French Open and matches earlier this year at Wimbledon, where they sprinkled orange confetti and jigsaw puzzle pieces on the grass playing surface. New York police officers escort a man out of the crowd. Would I prefer it not happening in my match? 100%, yeah. I know the tournaments are doing things to do better for the environment. “I think there are things we can do better. I don’t really know exactly what they were protesting. “Throughout history, moments like this are definitely defining moments,” Gauff later told reporters. How putting her life 'into perspective' helped Coco Gauff handle the pressure during US Open runĪs the attendee – who was shouting about “environmental issues,” according to the ESPN broadcast – was removed, fans inside the stadium cheered.įour protesters were involved, and three of them “were escorted out of the stadium without further incident,” according to a statement from the US Tennis Association. in action during her quarter final match against Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko REUTERS/Brendan Mcdermid Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters Open - Flushing Meadows, New York, United States - September 5, 2023Coco Gauff of the U.S.
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