ROME: Italy signalled on Tuesday it wanted to avoid a diplomatic rupture with Egypt after three Egyptian security officials were found guilty in absentia of the 2016 kidnapping of student Giulio Regeni, who was killed after his abduction. “There has been a conviction. Egypt has not been convicted, three people have been convicted,” Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said, appearing keen to separate the verdict from Italy’s broader relationship with Egypt. Regeni, a 28-year-old postgraduate stude
