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A view of the archeological site of Largo Argentina, in Rome, Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. A complex of ancient temples linked to Julius Caesar’s murder will be opened to the public. The below-street-level temple ruins at Largo Argentina in the heart of downtown Rome is visible to pedestrians. But Rome’s mayor said Monday by late 2021, walkways will be constructed inside the site so that tourists can stroll through the ruins. Bulgari luxury goods maker is sponsoring the work. The area includes a stone podium that was part of the senate-meeting place where Caesar was slain in 44 B.C. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Ancient site linked to Caesar’s murder to open to public

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Pope Francis delivers his blessing during the Angelus noon prayer In St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Sex abuse survivors to meet with Vatican summit organizers

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Police: Rome is increasingly prey to Italy’s 3 big mafias

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Italian Army bomb experts work on the removal of three German bombs with a total weight of 150 kilograms (330 pounds), at the Ciampino airport in the outskirts of Rome, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. Rome’s Ciampino airport has been temporarily closed due to the discovery of World War II-era ordinance during maintenance work. (Italian Ministry of Defence via AP)

Rome airport temporarily closed by discovery of WWII bombs

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Youth greet Pope Francis as he arrives in his popemobile in the metro park Campo San Juan Pablo II, in Panama City, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019, to celebrate an early morning Mass. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The Latest: Pope departs for Rome, ending Panama visit

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FILE - In this April 12, 2012 file photo, Italian Cesare Battisti attends the presentation of his book about his experience in prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Italy sent an aircraft to Bolivia on Sunday Jan. 13, 2019, to pick up fugitive communist militant Cesare Battisti after he was captured there nearly three decades after he was convicted of murder, setting the stage for a climax to one of Italy’s longest-running sagas. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

Italian fugitive brought home to serve life term for murder

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

A man who appears to be Italian fugitive Cesare Battisti enters the cabin door of a plane before it takes off for Italy, where he will serve a life sentence, at the airport in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Battisti escaped from an Italian prison in 1981 while awaiting trial on four counts of murder allegedly committed when he was a member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Italian militant reassigned to island prison

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FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2018, file photo, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich speaks during a news conference in Springfield, Ill. U.S. Catholic bishops will gather starting Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2019, for a weeklong retreat at a seminary near Chicago. It's a prelude to a gathering of bishops from all over the world in February for an unprecedented summit on clergy sex abuse at the Vatican. The hosting archbishop, Cupich, was Pope Francis' first major U.S. appointment and he's also been hand-picked by the pope to help organize the Vatican summit. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP, File)

US Catholic bishops to pray over clergy sexual abuse scandal

By JEFF KAROUB and TERESA CRAWFORD - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2018 file photo, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, listens to a reporter's question during a news conference during the USCCB's annual fall meeting, in Baltimore. When Cardinal DiNardo told a stunned meeting of U.S. bishops that the Vatican wouldn't let them adopt new measures to address clergy sex abuse, he said the Holy See wanted them to wait until after a February abuse prevention summit called by Pope Francis. But a letter from the Vatican's Cardinal Marc Oullet, obtained this week by The Associated Press, said the main reason the Vatican objected to the November vote was because U.S. bishops had withheld the problematic texts from the Vatican until the last minute, and didn't consult Rome in drafting them. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)

AP Exclusive: Vatican letter undermines US cardinal on abuse

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Violent Eintracht fans create disorder at Lazio match

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Rome’s trash troubles turn into emergency after blaze

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

A hole in the cobblestone pavement is seen where 20 small bronze plaques honoring the members of a Jewish family deported during the Holocaust should have been, in Rome's Monti neighborhood, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018.. The plaques, affixed to the cobblestones in front of the Di Consiglio family home, were apparently taken overnight. Rome's historic center houses the Jewish ghetto, near Monti, and its cobblestoned streets are dotted with the plaques in front of homes of Jews who were killed or deported. (Silvia Lambertucci/ANSA via AP)

Outrage after plaques honoring Rome’s deported Jews stolen

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

People watch from a balcony as Pope Francis delivers his blessing in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary, near Rome's Spanish Steps Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, an annual tradition marking the start of the city's holiday season. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope to Romans in holidays speech: Make city more livable

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FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2009 file photo, Italian Daniele Gatti conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra during the opening night gala of Carnegie Hall's 119th season in New York. Rome’s opera house on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018 said that the theater is defending hiring conductor Gatti, who was fired by a Dutch orchestra this year over #metoo allegations. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, file)

Rome opera hires Gatti, who lost job over #metoo allegations

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2016, file photo, the family of Giulio Regeni follow his coffin during the funeral service in Fiumicello, Northern Italy. Egypt’s official news agency says prosecutors have rejected an Italian request to name several policemen as suspects in the 2016 killing of Regeni, an Italian graduate student in Cairo. The agency’s report, published Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, in state-owned newspapers, says the prosecutors turned down a similar request by the Italians a year ago on the grounds that there was no concrete evidence to incriminate the policemen. (AP Photo/Paolo Giovannini, File)

Lawyer for family of slain Italian warns Egypt suspects

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Italy investigating 5 Egyptians in student’s murder

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Italy summons Egypt ambassador over Regeni killing

By MENNA ZAKI and FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

A street sign on a road leading to the ancient Colosseum is covered in stickers, in Rome, Monday, Nov. 5, 2018. Rome’s monumental problems of garbage and decay exist side-by-side with Eternal City’s glories. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

AP PHOTOS: Sights of Rome include monumental eyesores

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Joplin man spends 5 decades searching for biological family

By KEVIN MCCLINTOCK - Associated Press

A military soldier guards the entrance of the Apostolic Nunciature, the Vatican's embassy to Italy, in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. The Vatican said Tuesday that human bones were found during renovation work near its embassy to Italy, reviving talk about one of the Holy See's most enduring mysteries — the fate of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee who disappeared in 1983. (Fabio Frustaci/ANSA via AP)

Missing girl’s family presses Vatican about found bones

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