Italy prosecutors have opened an investigation into the death of a Moroccan model who testified in one of the inquiries linked to ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s “bunga bunga” parties.

Voters in one of Italy’s least populated regions are casting ballots in an election that was regarded as a limited indicator of national parties’ popularity ahead of European Parliament elections.

Pope Francis has met with the founder of a Spanish aid group whose ship has been blocked from leaving port to resume rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean.

The leaders of Italy’s populist coalition parties are sparring over migrants stranded at sea aboard private rescue vessels.

The Latest on the disappearance of a North Korean diplomat and his wife from Italy (all times local): 1 p.m.

Prosecutors in Rome on Tuesday formally opened an investigation into five Egyptian domestic secret service members and police investigators in connection with the 2016 torture and murder of an Italian researcher.

The Latest on migrants in Europe (all times local): 6 p.m. Greek authorities say they have broken a criminal ring that smuggled migrants that had entered Greece illegally to Italy by using small vessels departing from remote beaches.

The Latest on migrants and asylum-seekers in Europe (all times local): 5 p.m.

Italy said Tuesday that it is working to help relocate the family of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted eight years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy, amid warnings from her husband that the family’s life is in danger in Pakistan.