Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said Friday the President Donald Trump's assertion that Premier Giorgia Meloni begged him for a photo during the G7 summit was not credible. (ANSA)

"Italy and I do not beg," Meloni said in a video rebuke posted on social media Friday. Italy's top diplomat, meanwhile, said he was cancelling a visit to the U.S because of the…

Trump, as self-obsessed as ever, has now sparked a diplomatic crisis with Italy.