President Trump escalated his feud with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday, insisting she "begged" for a photo at this week's G7 summit despite her public denial that his claim was "fabricated".

Trump claimed in a social media post that Meloni asked "over and over" for the photograph. "She wanted a photo with me so badly," he said in an earlier interview with an Italian journalist. "I could have skipped it, but I felt sorry for her."

Meloni swiftly denied the........

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