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Gabriel Natale Hjorth attends a hearing for the appeals trial in which he is facing murder charges for killing Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, in Rome, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. Two American men face a new trial in the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer during a botched sting operation after Italy's highest court threw out their convictions. (AP Photo/ Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy appeals court to rule on fate of 2 Americans in 2019 death of Rome police officer

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5-Star Movement lawmaker Leonardo Donno, center top, is protected by parliament employees from other lawmakers during brawl in the lower chamber of deputies at the Italian parliament, in Rome, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. Tensions in Italy's lower house over a government proposal that opponents says will further impoverish the poorer south erupted into a fist-fight that sent an opposition lawmaker to the hospital. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)

Fistfight erupts in Italian Parliament as tensions rise over expanding regional autonomy

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Shangai Bishop Joseph Shen Bin, left, talks with Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin during an international conference to celebrate "100 years since the Concilium Sinense: between history and the present" celebrating the First Council of the Catholic Church in China, organized by the Pontifical Urbaniana University, in Verona, Italy, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Vatican makes fresh overture to China, reaffirms that Catholic Church is no threat to sovereignty

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Alexanders Zverev, of Germany, left, serves to Nicolas Jarry, of Chile, during the Italian Open tennis tournament final match at Rome's Foro Italico, Sunday, May 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Zverev’s stock is rising for the French Open amid questions over Djokovic, Nadal, Sinner and Alcaraz

By Andrew Dampf - Associated Press

Poland's Iga Swiatek celebrates with fans after winning a match against Germany's Angelique Kerber at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Monday, May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Top tennis players say they’re playing too much because the tournaments are too long

By Andrew Dampf - Associated Press

Serbia's Novak Djokovic reacts during a match against Chile's Alejandro Tabilo at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Sunday, May 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Djokovic follows Nadal to early exit at Italian Open in first match after being hit by water bottle

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Iga Swiatek, of Poland, celebrates after winning a point during her match against YuliaPutintseva, of Kazakhstan, at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Saturday, May 11, 2024.(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Nadal overpowered by Hurkacz at Italian Open in his 1st meeting with a top-10 player in 1 1/2 years

By Andrew Dampf - Associated Press

General view of the construction site of a major underground hub in central Piazza Venezia in Rome, Thursday, May 9, 2024. The Vatican crosses a key milestone Thursday in the runup to its 2025 Jubilee with the promulgation of the official decree establishing the Holy Year. For the next four years at least, central Piazza Venezia and its Imperial Forum-flanked boulevard to the Colosseum are scheduled to be congested and blighted by giant, 14-meter (yard) high green silos that are needed for the subway drilling operation under way. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Holy Year or holy mess, Vatican and Rome begin dash to 2025 Jubilee with papal bull, construction

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Spain's Rafael Nadal serves the ball to Belgium's Zizou Bergs at the Italian Open tennis tournament, in Rome, Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Nadal shows he’s not quite ready for retirement in Italian Open comeback win

By Andrew Dampf - Associated Press

Jannik Sinner, of Italy, competes against Lorenzo Sonego, of Italy, during the Mutua Madrid Open tennis tournament in Madrid, Saturday, April 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Jannik Sinner withdraws from the Italian Open because of hip injury

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Palestinian supporters hold a banner reading "Yesterday partisans, today antiZionists and antifascists" as they march on the occasion of the Liberation Day commemoration marking Italy's liberation from Nazi occupation and fascist rule, in Rome, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Controversy over spiked antifascist speech dominates Italy’s Liberation Day anniversary

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

From left, Italian Senators Walter Verini, Ilaria Cucchi, and Ivan Scalfarotto exit a migrants repatriation center in Ponte Galeria, in the outskirts of Rome after a surprise visit, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. Pressure is building on Italy authorities to close the notorious migrant detention center of Ponte Galeria where Ousmane Sylla, a Guinean migrant, hung himself last month and visiting opposition senators described inhuman conditions for people ordered to leave Italy but still awaiting repatriation. (Valentina Stefanelli/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s migrant detention centers in spotlight after death of Guinean and calls to close them down

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Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, left, walks past Finnegan Lee Elder, as he arrives ahead of a hearing for the trial of the two American tourists accused of killing paramilitary police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Italy's highest Cassation Court ordered a new trial last year saying that it had not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendants, with limited Italian language skills, had understood that they were dealing with Italian police officers when they went to meet with an alleged drug dealer. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool, file)

2 American men are back in Italian court after convictions in officer’s slaying were thrown out

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Roma's head coach Daniele De Rossi celebrates after winning the Europa League play-off second leg soccer match between Roma and Feyenoord at Rome's Olympic stadium, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

De Rossi transforming Roma into an offensive machine after Mourinho’s defensive tactics

By Andrew Dampf - Associated Press

A view of Rome's Olympic Stadium on Aug. 14, 2004. The Italian athletics federation announced Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024, that it has withdrawn its candidacy to host the 2027 world championships in Rome. The move comes after the Italian government refused to guarantee the 85 million euros ($92 million) needed to host the meet at the Stadio Olimpico. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri, File)

Italian athletics federation withdraws bid to host the 2027 world championships in Rome

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