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In this Jan 13, 2021, file photo, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is mobbed by reporters as he walks near Palazzo Chigi government headquarters, in Rome, Wednesday, Jan 13, 2021. Former premier Matteo Renzi is testing his already low popularity by provoking a political crisis that could bring down the government at yet another critical juncture in the fight against the pandemic. The outcome Renzi’s powerplay — orchestrating the resignations of two ministers from his tiny but key Italia Viva party — will play out this week, when Premier Giuseppe Conte addresses both houses of Parliament in a bid to win support and form what would be his third coalition government since elections in 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italian PM Conte seeks to save his government from falling

By Colleen Barry and Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Italian Senator, former premier and head of the political party 'Italia Viva' (IV), Matteo Renzi holds a press conference at the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. The Italian cabinet was in crisis on January 13, 2021 following the resignations of ministers Teresa Bellanova and Elena Bonetti, members of former premier Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva party. (Alberto Pizzoli/pool via AP)

EXPLAINER: Italy faces a political crisis amid a pandemic

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018 file photo, Carlo Capasa, head of the National Chamber of Italian Fashion, attends the Fendi women's 2019 Spring-Summer fashion show, during the Fashion Week in Milan, Italy. Italy’s fashion chamber opens the first Milan Fashion Week on Friday with no VIPS populating runway front rows, as the reality of the persistent virus resurgence in Italy has forced an all-digital, no physical week of menswear previews. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Milan opens 1st fashion week with no VIP guests due to virus

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

A new of the Italian Senate, in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. His government risking collapse, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte will address Parliament on how he plans to deal with the political crisis triggered by a small coalition partner’s yanking of support. Conte told President Sergio Mattarella in a meeting Thursday at the presidential palace that he intends to go before Parliament to lay out “the indispensable political clarification” about the crisis, the palace said in a statement. It wasn’t immediately announced when that would happen. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy’s PM to address Parliament on latest coalition crisis

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Anti-mafia Prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, left, stands by military personnel outside a specially constructed bunker on the occasion of the first hearing of a maxi-trial against more than 300 defendants of the ‘ndrangheta crime syndicate, near the Calabrian town of Lamezia Terme, southern Italy, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. A maxi-trial opened Wednesday in southern Italy against the ‘ndrangheta crime syndicate, arguably the world's richest criminal organization that quietly amassed power in Italy as the Sicilian Mafia lost its influence. (Valeria Ferraro/LaPresse via AP)

Italy puts over 320 on trial for ‘ndrangheta mob ties

By ANDREA ROSA and FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte gives his year end press conference, in Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Ex-premier yanks ministers from Italy’s coalition government

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

WHO blames spiked Italy report on error, “overlooked” rule

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Migrants from Eritrea, Egypt, Syria and Sudan, rest on board the Spanish NGO Open Arms vessel after having been rescued in the Mediterranean sea, about 110 miles north of Libya, on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)

Charity rescue ship with 265 migrants anchors off Italy

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FILE - In this May 27, 2019, file photo, the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles world headquarters is shown in Auburn Hills, Mich. Shareholders of Fiat Chrysler and France's PSA Group are meeting Monday, Jan. 4, 2021 to vote on a merger that will create the world's fourth-largest automaker. The new company called Stellantis will be run by PSA CEO Carlos Tavares, who is known for cutting vehicles or ventures that don't make money. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Fiat Chrysler, Peugeot shareholders approve merger

By COLLEEN BARRY and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

Armando Alviti, 71, sits inside his newspaper kiosk, in Rome, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. In Italy, which has the world's second-oldest population, many people in their 70s and older have kept working through the COVID-19 pandemic. From neighborhood newsstand dealers to farmers bring crops to market, they are defying stereotypic labels that depict the old as a monolithic category that's fragile and in need of protection. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

In graying Italy, the old defy biases laid bare by pandemic

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 1993, file photo, Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula is carried on his team's shoulders after his 325th victory, against the Philadelphia Eagles in Philadelphia. Sports in 2020 was an unending state of mourning. Sports in 2020 was an unending state of mourning. Football lost a big piece of its heart: Don Shula, Gale Sayers, Paul Hornung, Bobby Mitchell. (AP Photo/ George Widman, File)

From Kobe to Maradona, a year of staggering losses in sports

By FRED LIEF - Associated Press

Men wearing full protective suits against coronavirus, take a box containing COVID-19 vaccines, from military personnel at the National Center for Storage of the COVID-19 Vaccine, a military run facility, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020. Romanian authorities will start COVID-19 vaccinations on Dec. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

‘Believe in science’: EU kicks off COVID-19 vaccine campaign

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Italian Carabinieri officers check vehicles in front of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. Italians are easing into a holiday season full of restrictions, and already are barred from traveling to other regions except for valid reasons like work or health. Starting Christmas eve, travel beyond city or town borders also will be blocked, with some allowance for very limited personal visits in the same region. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Italy enters Christmas lockdown amid signs of resurgence

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Carolina Previtali, 93, center, is flanked by director Maria Giulia Madaschi, left, and carer Melania Cavalieri as she talks on a video call with Eleonora Nola, a donor unrelated to her, who bought and sent her a Christmas present through an organization dubbed &quot;Santa's Grandchildren&quot;, at the Martino Zanchi nursing home in Alzano Lombardo, one of the area that most suffered the first wave of COVID-19, in northern Italy, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Santa’s ‘grandchildren’ spread joy in Italian nursing homes

By COLLEEN BARRY and LUCA BRUNO - Associated Press

Francesco Zambon, lead author of a withdrawn WHO report into Italy's coronavirus response shows his report during an interview with The Associated Press in Rome, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Zambron warned his U.N. bosses in May of lost lives and &quot;catastrophic&quot; reputational damage if they allowed Italian political interests to suppress the document, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

‘I couldn’t be silent’: UN whistleblower on WHO Italy report

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

FILE- In this Friday Dec. 18, 2020, file photo, A traveller wearing a face mask checks the flight departures at Schiphol Airport, near Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Netherlands is banning flights from the United Kingdom for the rest of the year in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of the COVID-19 virus in Britain does not reach its shores. The ban came into effect Sunday morning Dec. 20, 2020, and the government said it was reacting to tougher measures imposed in and around London on Saturday. The Netherlands said it will assess &quot;with other EU nations the possibilities to contain the import of the virus from the United Kingdom.&quot; (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, FILE)

More EU nations ban travel from UK, fearing virus variant

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

People line up for a free dinner at a soup kitchen in Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This soup kitchen is operated by neighbors who are in charge of preparing food and serving it to the public for free. The Secretariat of Inclusion and Social Welfare of Mexico City started its soup kitchen program in 2009. (AP Photo/Ginnette Riquelme)

The Latest: Tenn. governor enacts new virus restrictions

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

People queue for food at the 'Pane Quotidiano' (Daily Bread) Onlus, in Milan, northern Italy, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Nowhere in Italy is poverty more evident than in Lombardy, the northern region that has been the pandemic epicenter in both surges. The Coldiretti agriculture lobby estimates that the virus has created 300,000 so-called &quot;new poor,'' based on surveys of the dozens of charity associations operating in the region. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Pandemic exposes the vulnerability of Italy’s ‘new poor’

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Francesco Zambon, lead author of a withdrawn WHO report into Italy's coronavirus response speaks with The Associated Press in Rome, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Zambon warned his U.N. bosses in May of lost lives and &quot;catastrophic&quot; reputational damage if they allowed Italian political interests to suppress the document, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

WHO was warned lives were at risk over yanked Italy report

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Eighty-two-year-old patient Mario reads a note on his medical condition during a routine examination by Dr. Giovanni Passeri, upper left, and his assistant Dr. Mariaconcetta Terracina during the night shift in the COVID-19 section of the Maggiore Hospital in Parma, northern Italy, on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. Mario has been under oxygen CPAP (continuous positive air pressure) headgear ventilation and he could only communicate in writing because the hissing sound of the oxygen made it difficult for him to hear the doctor's voice. Mario's health conditions worsened since his admission on March 28. He died on the evening of April 14. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

A pandemic atlas: Italy becomes Europe’s viral epicenter

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press