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[ad_1] ROME: Italy is to admit 300 migrant workers from Lebanon, Ivory Coast and Ethiopia who will not have refugee status under a pilot project spearheaded by the Community of Sant’Egidio, a Catholic charity and advocacy group. The “work corridors”, which Sant’Egidio agreed on Friday with the interior ministry, follow pledges by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni‘s rightist government to balance a tough approach on irregular migration with some openings…

[ad_1] The war of words that unfolded following the ‘prayer’ highlights larger, long-standing schisms in Lebanon over Hezbollah. File. | Photo Credit: AP The nun stood in front of a group of young students at a Lebanese Christian school and asked them to pray for the “men of the resistance” in southern Lebanon who she said were defending the country. The men to whom nun Maya Ziadeh was referring…