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Ben Hallock, right, of the U.S. and Dmitrii Kholod of Russia fight for the ball during the men's water polo Group D third round match of the 17th FINA Swimming World Championships in Hajos Alfred National Swimming Pool in Budapest, Hungary, in this Friday, July 21, 2017, file photo. Hallock, 23, is among 18 U.S. men’s water polo players who joined professional teams in Europe after COVID-19 hampered their training in California. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP, File)

US water polo players flock to Europe to prepare for Tokyo

By JAY COHEN - Associated Press

A nurse tends to a patient inside a COVID-19 intensive care unit of the Tor Vergata Polyclinic Hospital in Rome, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. Italy is reclaiming a record that nobody wants: The most coronavirus deaths in Europe. Italy is still trying to figure out how to protect its vulnerable elderly. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy surpasses UK for worst COVID-19 death toll in Europe

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

A resident wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks a dog through snow in Goyang, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

The Latest: COVID-19 vaccine begins arriving in Canada

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FILE - In this May 12, 2020 file photo, the casket containing the body of Annunziata Ginoble, the mother of Mayor of Roseto degli Abruzzi Sabatino Di Girolamo, third from right, with his sister, Marisa Di Felice, second from right, and his son, Francesco, right, is taken to her burial site inside the small cemetery of Montepagano, central Italy. Italy is poised to reclaim the dishonor of reporting the most coronavirus deaths in Europe, as the second surge ravages the country’s disproportionately old population and exposes how public health shortfalls and delayed restrictions compounded a lack of preparedness going into the pandemic. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, file)

Italy’s staggering virus toll poses uncomfortable questions

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Switzerland-Italy train travel to be suspended amid pandemic

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Italian police break up migrant trafficking ring, arrest 19

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Wales overcomes Italy 38-18 to finish fifth in Nations Cup

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People, wearing masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, walk in Istiklal street, the main shopping street in Istanbul, late Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. The number of daily COVID-19 infections in Turkey jumped to above 28,000 on Wednesday after, in a surprise development, the government resumed publishing all positive cases and not just the number of patients being treated for symptoms of the coronavirus.The government was accused of hiding the full extent of the virus spread in Turkey, after it was revealed that the number of asymptomatic cases were not being included in data published since July 29. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Emperor’s New Year greeting cancelled in Japan

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Passengers at Fiumicino Rome airport show their quick COVID-19 test reports upon boarding a flight to Milan, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. In a trial that started Wednesday on the route between Rome and Milan, all passengers go through a quick test before being allowed to board their flight. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Rome airport poised to try ‘COVID tested” flights from US

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Illustration on the European lockdown model by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Forget lockdowns: At home self testing can work for COVID-19 containment

By Doug Badger

Signs indicating where to get a rapid COVID-19 test are seen in both Italian and German as people line up at a testing facility in Bozen, northern Italy, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020. Citizens in Italy’s small Germany-speaking province of South Tyrol were lining up Friday at schools, gymnasiums and pharmacies for rapid COVID-19 tests that officials hope will speed a lifting of the partial lockdown and get children back to school. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

German-speaking Italian province conducts mass rapid test

By COLLEEN BARRY and ANTONIO CALANNI - Associated Press

Italy players celebrate after Domenico Berardi scoried his side's second goal during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Bosnia and Italy, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Italy’s national team smiling again under Roberto Mancini

By DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

An oxygen canister is carried on a stretcher outside the first aid department of the Cardarelli hospital in Naples, Italy, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. Outside the ER entrance of Cardarelli, the main health care facility for densely populated Naples, those desperate for oxygen for loved ones lined up in their cars, waiting for nurses to bring tanks of the life-saving element. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

As virus hits Italy’s south, some flee troubled health care

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Italy players celebrate after Domenico Berardi scoried his side's second goal during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Bosnia and Italy, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Kemal Softic)

Italy reaches Nations League finals by beating Bosnia 2-0

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Italy's Lorenzo Insigne, right, and Poland's Kamil Glik vie for the ball during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Italy and Poland at Mapei Stadium, in Reggio Emilia, Italy, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. (Fabio Ferrari/LaPresse via AP)

Italy beats Poland 2-0 to take Nations League group lead

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FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 file photo, Italy coach Roberto Mancini gestures during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Italy and Poland at Dall'Ara stadium in Bologna, Italy. Italy coach Roberto Mancini has tested positive for the coronavirus days before the international break. The Italian soccer federation says that Mancini is “completely asymptomatic” and is self-isolating at his house in Rome. The Italy squad will meet up on Sunday. It plays an international friendly against Estonia on Wednesday and hosts Poland in the Nations League four days later. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, File)

Virus-hit Italy hosts Poland without coach and star forward

By DANIELLA MATAR - 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 extends partial lockdown as Naples hospitals struggle

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA and COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Doctors carry a coronavirus patient in the Intensive Care Unit at Varese’s Circolo hospital, in Varese, Italy, Friday, Nov. 6, 2020. During Italy's autumn pandemic resurgence, concern is falling less on intensive care wards and more on regular medical wards, as eight regions have seen the needle move alarmingly into the red-alert zone with more than half of hospital beds dedicated to coronavirus patients. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italian hospitals face breaking point in fall virus surge

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2018 file photo, Autostrade per L'Italia CEO Giovanni Castellucci attends a press conference in Genoa, Italy. Italian financial police on Wednesday issued arrest warrants against six current and former managers of Italy’s main private highway operator as part of the investigation into the Genoa bridge collapse that killed 43 people in August 2018. Three - including Castellucci - have been put under house arrest as part of a probe into defects in highway barriers linked to the deadly bridge collapse, while another three faced restrictive measures. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

6 Italian execs arrested in probe linked to bridge collapse

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List 2/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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