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Elderly Italian terrorists surrender in Paris; 1 more sought

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

In this June 23, 2009, photo, a Sichuan Airlines Airbus A320 passenger jet arrives at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan Province. A Chinese airline that Indian news reports say was carrying medical supplies to India says it has suspended cargo flights due to concern about its upsurge in coronavirus infections. Sichuan Airlines said in a statement Wednesday, April 28, 2021, that flights were temporarily suspended due to &quot;recent sudden changes in India's coronavirus epidemic situation.&quot; (Chinatopix via AP)

The Latest: Philippines extends virus lockdown to mid-May

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 17, 1995 file photo, Giorgio Pietrostefani attends an hearing of the trial for the killing of police officer Luigi Calabresi. Pietrostefani, among the founders of Lotta Continua group, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the 1972 murder of Milan police commissioner Luigi Calabresi, was arrested along with six other members of left wing groups sentenced in Italy for “acts of terrorism”. French police are searching for three more suspects who were not at home. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Former members of Italian Red Brigades arrested in France

By SYLVIE CORBET and FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Commuters walk on the platform after getting off a regional train at the Cadorna railway station in Milan, Italy, Monday, April 26, 2021. Italy is gradually reopening on Monday after six months of rotating virus lockdowns. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Italy’s ‘epochal’ recovery plan targets women, youth, south

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Chairs and tables are being prepared outside a restaurant ahead of Monday's reopening following the ease of COVID-19 restrictions, in Rome, Friday, April 23, 2021. Even Italy’s tentative reopening is satisfying no one. Outdoor dining is too little, too late for restaurant owners whose survival is threatened by a year of rotating closures. Yet the nation’s weary virologists worry that Monday, April 26, 2021, will see people crowding bars and restaurants and bring yet another spike to the virus that has not really properly receded yet. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Italy opens again amid hopes for real economic relaunch

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Pope Francis spreads incense during a ceremony to ordain nine new priests, standing in front of him and wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19, inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope ordains 9 priests, saying: Stay humble, compassionate

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

The Official UEFA Champions League match balls are on display ahead of the Champions League quarter final second leg soccer match between Liverpool and Real Madrid at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, England, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Jon Super) **FILE**

Threats of expulsion rise as UEFA confronts Super League rebel 12

By Rob Harris and Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

People wait at a vaccination center in Milan, Italy, Friday, April 16, 2021. Italian Premier Mario Draghi announced Friday that Italy will take a “reasoned risk” in reopening restaurants with outdoor seating and school at all grade levels in some regions from April 26. The openings will apply to regions that have the lowest tiers of restrictions and require both mask-wearing and social distancing be “scrupulously observed.” (Claudio Furlan/LaPresse via AP)

Italy moves toward slow reopening with outdoor dining

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2021 file photo, migrants and refugees from different African nationalities wait for assistance aboard an overcrowded wooden boat, as aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms approach them in the Mediterranean Sea, international waters, at 122 miles off the Libyan coast. The head of the U.N. refugee agency on Friday said he has urged Italy not to unnecessarily impede NGOs that operate migrant rescue ships in the central Mediterranean, as warmer weather is expected to bring the usual seasonal uptick in the departure of smugglers’ boats from Libya. Charity boats “fill an important void” in the absence of collective EU efforts, Filippo Grandi told reporters after meeting a day earlier with Italian Premier Mario Draghi. (AP Photo/Bruno Thevenin)

UNHCR appeals to Italy not to impede migrants rescue boats

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Michelle Hunziker upon her arrival at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards in Milan, Italy, on Sept. 22, 2019. Swiss-Italian TV host Michelle Hunziker apologized on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, for mimicking Asians on a satirical television program that drew wide-spread protests on social media. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Sketch mocking Chinese launches racism debate in Italy

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE -- In this April 8, 2021 file photo Italian Premier Mario Draghi speaks during a press conference in Rome . Turkey demanded Friday that Italy's premier apologize for having called President Tayyip Erdogan a “dictator,” adding fuel to the scandal over the perceived seating snub of the European Commission president and deepening the EU-Turkey rift at the precise moment both sides were hoping for rapprochement. (Riccardo Antimiani/Pool Photo via AP)

Turkey demands apology after Draghi calls Erdogan a dictator

By NICOLE WINFIELD and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2020 file photo, Francesco Zambon, lead author of a withdrawn World Health Organization (WHO) report into Italy's coronavirus response, is interviewed by The Associated Press in Rome. Italian prosecutors formally accused top WHO official Ranieri Guerra of lying to them about a spiked U.N. report into Italy’s coronavirus response, revealing private communications Friday that are likely to embarrass the U.N. agency. Emails show that Guerra tried to have one of the main report authors, Dr. Francesco Zambon, alter the data in the report to say that Italy had “updated&quot; its pandemic plan when it had not. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, file)

Italy prosecutors: WHO exec lied about spiked virus report

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, July 29, 2019 file photo, Daniele De Rossi speaks during a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Italian soccer federation said Friday, April 9, 2021 that Italy assistant coach De Rossi had been admitted to an infectious diseases hospital with pneumonia after testing positive for the coronavirus. He was one of four Azzurri staff members to contract COVID-19 during recent World Cup qualifiers. (AP Photo/Tomas F. Cuesta, File)

Italy’s De Rossi in hospital after positive virus test

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Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, right, and Mario Draghi, the Prime Minister of Italy, speak to media, Tuesday, April, 6 2021 in Tripoli, Libya. (AP Photo/Nada Harib)

In his first travel abroad, new Italian PM visits Libya

By RAMI MUSA - Associated Press

A woman stands outside her nativity scenes shop along San Gregorio Armeno street in Naples, in the Campania region, Italy, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. The regions of Campania and Tuscany were designated red zone on Friday, signaling the dire condition of a hospitals struggling with a surge of new admissions. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy enters 3-day Easter lockdown amid vaccination snags

By NICOLE WINFIELD and ANDREA ROSA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021 file photo elderly people wait for the COVID-19 vaccine at the Don Orione rest home in Rome. In some Italian region lawyers, magistrates, professors and other younger professionals got vaccinated against COVID-19 before octogenarians despite government pledges of prioritizing Italy’s oldest citizens. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)

Young professionals cut ahead of older Italians for vaccine

By FRANCES D'EMILIO and COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Passengers take selfies on a deck of the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship in Civitavecchia, near Rome, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. MSC Grandiosa, the world's only cruise ship to be operating at the moment, left from Genoa on March 30 and stopped in Civitavecchia near Rome to pick up more passengers and then sail toward Naples, Cagliari, and Malta to be back in Genoa on April 6. For most of the winter, the MSC Grandiosa has been a lonely flag-bearer of the global cruise industry stalled by the pandemic, plying the Mediterranean Sea with seven-night cruises along Italy’s western coast, its major islands and a stop in Malta. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy may be in Easter lockdown, but the party’s on at sea

By MARIA GRAZIA MURRU - Associated Press

A view of the Russian Embassy in Rome, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. Italy has ordered two Russian Embassy officials expelled and arrested an Italian Navy captain on spying charges after police caught the Italian allegedly giving classified documents to one of the Russians in exchange for money. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy orders 2 Russian Embassy officials expelled for spying

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Italy's Stefano Sensi, covered by his teammates, celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal during the World Cup 2022 Group C qualifying soccer match between Lithuania and Italy at LFF stadium in Vilnius, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Italy beats Lithuania 2-0 to extend perfect qualifying run

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Matteo looks at himself in the mirror during an interview in is house in Rome, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Matteo Coccimiglio is an 18-year-old student who identifies as a man and is in the process of changing his legal gender from female to male. The Ripetta school of art in Rome - where he studies - recently joined a handful of high schools in Italy that give transgender students the right to be known by a name other than the one they were given at birth. The initiative is meant to create an environment where transgender students feel secure and reflects a growing awareness in Italy of gender dysphoria among teenagers and children. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Call me by my name: Rome school backs transgender students

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press