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Italy's Meloni honours Jewish journalists from fascist era

FILE PHOTO: Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni gestures on the day of her first cabinet meeting at Chigi Palace, in Rome, Italy, October 23, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

Italy's hard-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday pledged to fight "every kind of discrimination and anti-Semitism" as she unveiled a plaque for 35 Jewish journalists persecuted under fascist-era racial laws.

Meloni, who joined a neo-fascist youth movement in her teenage years, is trying to show that her Brothers of Italy party belongs to the conservative mainstream, despite its far-right roots.

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