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In this April 29, 2016, photo, Pope Francis shakes hands with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden as he takes part in a congress on the progress of regenerative medicine and its cultural impact, being held in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican. President Joe Biden is scheduled to meet with Pope Francis on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) **FILE**

Vatican cancels live broadcast of Biden greeting pope

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

This picture made available by ITA (Italy Air Transportation) on Monday, Oct. 11, 2021, shows one of the company's first Airbus A320 that will start flying as of Oct. 15, 2021. Alitalia, long financially ailing, won’t exist anymore since Oct. 14, and its new incarnation, a new company called ITA, will start out with a fleet of 52 aircraft, which will go up to 78 in 2022 with the arrival of new-generation airplanes. The new company being formed says it will only keep some 2,800 of 10,000 of Alitalia’s employees. (ITA via LaPresse/AP)

End of an era: Alitalia makes final flights before folding

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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a joint news conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov following the talks in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (Maxim Shemetov, Pool via AP) ** FILE **

U.N. chief: World hunger worsened by climate change, conflict

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in this Thursday, April 1, 2021, file photo, Pope Francis celebrates a Chrism Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. During the Mass the Pontiff blesses a token amount of oil that will be used to administer the sacraments for the year. Pope Francis cracked down on the spread of the old Latin Mass on Friday, July 16, 2021, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI's signature decisions in a major challenge to traditionalist Catholics. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope Francis reverses Benedict XVI, reimposes restrictions on Latin Mass

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

Italy players celebrate end of the Euro 2020 soccer final match between England and Italy at Wembley stadium in London, Sunday, July 11, 2021. (Andy Rain/Pool Photo via AP)

Italy wins Euro 2020, beats England in penalty shootout

By Steve Douglas - Associated Press

In this Sunday, July 4, 2021, file photo, Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives to recite the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. In a brief announcement Sunday afternoon the Vatican said Pope Francis has gone to a Rome hospital for scheduled surgery for a stenosis, or restriction, of the large intestine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Vatican: Pope alert and well a day after intestinal surgery to remove half of his colon

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Finnegan Lee Elder, foreground, listens as the verdict is read, in the trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer on a street near the hotel where he and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth were staying while on vacation in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale Hjorth, young American men, convicted in Italy police slaying

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Finnegan Lee Elder, left, crosses his fingers as he talks with his father Ethan Elder, before a jury began deliberating the fates of Elder and his co-defendant Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, on trial for the slaying of an Italian plainclothes police officer on a street near the hotel where they were staying while on vacation in Rome in summer 2019, in Rome, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Rome jury convicts 2 US friends in slaying of police officer

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Italy: Hearing delayed in slaying case against Egyptians

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Roma's Edin Dzeko celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal during the Europa League second leg quarterfinal soccer match between Roma and Ajax at Rome's Olympic stadium, Italy, Thursday, April 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Džeko leads Roma against old rival United in Europa League

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

Advisory panel says to move Forrest statue to museum

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Roma’s Smalling says family ‘shaken up’ by armed robbery

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Roma defender Smalling, family held at gunpoint in burglary

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Demonstrators scuffle with Italian Policemen during a protest by Restaurant and shop owners outside the Lower Chamber in Rome, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Demonstrators demanded to reopen their business and protested against restrictive measures of the Italian Government to cope with the surge of COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Restaurant owners clash with police in Rome lockdown protest

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Matteo looks at himself in the mirror during an interview in is house in Rome, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Matteo Coccimiglio is an 18-year-old student who identifies as a man and is in the process of changing his legal gender from female to male. The Ripetta school of art in Rome - where he studies - recently joined a handful of high schools in Italy that give transgender students the right to be known by a name other than the one they were given at birth. The initiative is meant to create an environment where transgender students feel secure and reflects a growing awareness in Italy of gender dysphoria among teenagers and children. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Call me by my name: Rome school backs transgender students

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press

Authorities stand around a 1.5 square meter colorful mosaic dating back to 40 A.D. and belonging to the flooring of Caligula’s lavish ceremonial ships, that was found thanks to a joint police operation in the rooms of a Manhattan house and returned to the museum of Nemi, near Rome, Thursday, March 11, 2021. In September 2017, the department for cultural heritage protection of the Italian Carabinieri police, in collaboration with New York district attorney, managed to sequester the mosaic from the house of an Italian-American woman who brought it in the states illegally many decades earlier. (AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia)

Emperor’s mosaic displayed in Italy after stint as NYC table

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

A man sips coffee in front of Rome's ancient Colosseum after its reopening Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in a partial lifting of restriction measures aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19. Italy has eased its coronavirus restrictions Monday for most of the country downgrading Lazio and other regions from medium-risk orange zones to lower-risk yellow zones. (Cecilia Fabiano /LaPresse via AP)

Small pleasures as Italy reopens after Christmas lockdowns

By TRISHA THOMAS and ELISA COLELLA - Associated Press

Police investigate if man was grilling coyote or dog

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Premier Giuseppe Conte waits for the outcome of the confidence vote at the lower chamber of Parliament, in Rome, Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. Conte fights for his political life with an address aimed at shoring up support for his government, which has come under fire from former Premier Matteo Renzi's tiny but key Italia Viva (Italy Alive) party over plans to relaunch the pandemic-ravaged economy. (Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pool photo via AP)

Giuseppe Conte, Italian prime minister, job threatened by coronavirus record

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

Italy’s South Tyrol again flouts Rome over virus closures

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press