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From left, Alessandro Benetton, chairman of the Cortina 2021 Foundation, Giuseppe Sala, mayor of Milan, and Gianpietro Ghedina, mayor of Cortina d'Ampezzo, pose for photographers during a press presentation of the Cortina 2021 ski world championships, in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. Enjoying its status of the leading contender to host the 2026 Winter Olympics, the Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo bid has received another boost with a funding promise from the Italian government. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Government offers to help Milan-Cortina bid for 2026 Games

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

Italian deputy Premier and Labor Minister Luigi Di Maio talks to reporters at the end of a cabinet meeting on Italy's budget, outside Rome's Chigi Palace government headquarters, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy faces higher borrowing costs, sanctions on budget

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Italian Economy Minister Giovanni Tria listens to reporters' questions during a joint press conference with Portuguese Finance Minister and head of the Eurogroup Mario Centeno, in Rome, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. Tria told lawmakers Friday that Italy will stick to its 2019 budget plan, despite EU officials' concerns about a big increase in spending. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy’s doesn’t budge in clash with EU over budget deficit

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Italy's Luca Sperandio, left, jumps for the ball during an international test match between Italy and Georgia, at the Artemio Franchi stadium in Florence, Italy, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. (Claudio Giovanni/ANSA via AP)

Italy dims talk of 6N demotion after beating Georgia 28-17

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Joplin man spends 5 decades searching for biological family

By KEVIN MCCLINTOCK - Associated Press

Italy’s budget row with EU escalates ahead of deadline

By COLLEEN BARRY and PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2010, file photo, Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman, listens to officials at a prison in Sheikhupura near Lahore, Pakistan. Italy is working to help relocate the family of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted eight years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy, amid warnings from her husband that their life is in danger in Pakistan. (AP Photo, File)

Italy working to help Pakistani Christian in blasphemy case

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Eurozone ministers urge Italy to respond to budget demands

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The external view of the post office in Pieve Modolena, near Reggio Emilia, Italy, where Francesco Amato, days after receiving a 19-year jail term for a Mafia conviction, took 5 employees hostage wielding a knife, Monday, Nov. 5, 2018. The man later freed the hostages and was arrested by police. (Elisabetta Baracchi/ANSA via AP)

Man convicted in Mafia case takes postal workers hostage

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Frecce Tricolori (Three Colors Arrows) acrobatic squad of the Italian Air Force flies over the Vittoriano, background center, the unknown soldier monument, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI and Armed Forces Day, in Rome, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italian president calls WWI a warning to Europe to co-exist

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Fallen trees by the hundreds caused by severe bad weather in recent days in the forest near Belluno, Veneto Region, northern Italy, are seen Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018. (Moreno Geremetta/ANSA via AP)

Storms, floods in Sicily kill at least 12 people; 2 missing

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Lazio's Ciro Immobile celebrates after scoring his side's 2nd goal during the Serie A soccer match between Lazio and Spal at the Olympic stadium in Rome, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018. (Angelo Carconi/ANSA via AP)

Struggling with Italy, Immobile is still a threat for Lazio

By ANDREW DAMPF and DANIELLA MATAR - Associated Press

Ireland's Jordan Larmour, center, goes past Italy's Luca Sperandio, left, during the second half of rugby match Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kamil Krzaczynski)

Larmour hat trick as Ireland whip Italy 54-7 in Chicago

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Mussolini and Hitler’ by Christian Goeschel

By Joseph C. Goulden

Ireland, Italy in a best-of-the-rest test at Soldier Field

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Workers cut up and remove a fallen tree a day after strong winds and rain hit the city, in Rome, Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. The national Civil Protection Agency has issued red and orange alerts -- meaning possible &quot;loss of life&quot; from landslides, floods, and infrastructural damage -- due to an Atlantic storm system that has brought torrential rains and hail, electrical storms, powerful winds and high seas to Italy from North to South. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

At least 11 dead as violent storms buffet Italy

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

A woman walks in a flooded street of Venice, Italy, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, as, according to city officials, 70 percent of the lagoon city has been flooded by waters rising 149 centimeters (more than 58 1/2 inches) above sea level. Venice frequently floods when high winds push in water from the lagoon, but Monday's levels are exceptional and forecast to rise even higher, to 160 centimeters (nearly 63 inches) by mid-afternoon. (Andrea Merola/ANSA via AP)

Venice hit by high tide as Italy buffeted by winds; 6 killed

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Evzones of Greek presidential guard parade through the streets of the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Greece during a military parade, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. The parade is held to celebrate Greece's refusal to align itself with a belligerent fascist Italy in 1940 and instead fight a much stronger opponent, a decision which dragged it into World War II and eventually led to a brutal occupation by Nazi Germany. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Greek, Italian presidents attend WWII commemoration parade

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEMETRIS NELLAS - Associated Press

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte speaks during a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin (not pictured) in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is holding talks with Russian officials on his first trip to Moscow. (Sergei Chirikov/Pool Photo via AP)

Italy PM welcomes S&P move to maintain rating, lower outlook

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Italian Minister of Economy and Finance, Giovanni Tria, talks as a picture of European Union's budget chief Pierre Moscovici is projected on a giant screen, during a RAI State TV program, in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. The European Commission has rejected Italy's proposed budget for next year, arguing its deficit and spending are out of line to keep its debt in control. (Riccardo Antimiani/ANSA via AP)

What’s at stake as Italy plays chicken with markets, EU

By COLLEEN BARRY and DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press