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Serbia's Novak Djokovic wipes his face during his match with Germany's Dominik Koepfer during their quarterfinals at the Italian Open tennis tournament, in Rome, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)

Nadal still rusty after break; Djokovic still angry

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

The stands around the Central Court of the Foro Italico are empty during a match between Serbia's Novak Djokovic and Italy's Salvatore Caruso, at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. The tournament at the Foro Italico was rescheduled from May because of the pandemic and is being played without fans in attendance. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)

Pushed to the limit, Djokovic finds a way to win in Rome

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

The stands around the Central Court of the Foro Italy are empty during a match between Italy's Mattia Berrettini and Argentina's Federico Coria, at the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. The tournament at the Foro Italico was rescheduled from May because of the pandemic and is being played without fans in attendance. (Alfredo Falcone/LaPresse via AP)

Djokovic behaves better in 1st match since US Open default

By ANDREW DAMPF - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020 file photo, fashion designer Stella Jean talks during an interview with the Associated Press, in Rome. The Italian fashion council’s only Black designer has hailed as a ‘’breakthrough’’ the inclusion of a Black Lives Matters event to the official September show calendar and the formation of a working group aimed at ending racial discrimination in Italian fashion. Stella Jean, a Haitian-Italian designer based in Rome, has been pressuring the Italian National Fashion Chamber to promote cultural reform through concrete commitments toward greater racial diversity, spurred by top fashion house’s social media posts supporting Black Lives Matters. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

Milan Fashion Week to include Black Lives Matter event

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: Georgia

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Monday, Aug. 15, 2005, filer, the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, brother of Pope Benedict XVI, waves as he walks in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, where the pontiff greeted the faithful for Assumption day celebrations. The Rev. Georg Ratzinger, the older brother of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, who earned renown in his own right as a director of an acclaimed German boys choir, has died at age 96. The Regensburg diocese in Bavaria, where Ratzinger lived, said in a statement on his website that he died on Tuesday, June 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Retired pope’s elder brother, Georg Ratzinger, dies at 96

By David Rising - Associated Press

Police target loansharking as businesses reel from lockdown

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, June 9, 2020 photo, Harvey Curtis, left, discusses repair plans with customer Jack Matheson outside Sidecountry Sports, a bike shop in Rockland, Maine. Matheson is looking forward to getting his 40-year-old Raleigh back on the road. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Pandemic leads to a bicycle boom, and shortage, around world

By DAVID SHARP and KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, left, welcomes his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Athens, on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. (Costas Baltas /Pool via AP)

Minister: Greece to lift restrictions for Italian tourists

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Thursday, May 21, 2020, Italian Lazio region's environmental agency biologist Salvatore De Bonis shows how they perform tests on sea water during an interview with The Associated Press on a Coast Guard boat off Fiumicino, near Rome. Preliminary results from a survey of seawater quality during Italy’s coronavirus lockdown indicate a sharp reduction in pollution from human and livestock waste in the seas off Rome. Authorities stressed it was too soon to give the lockdown sole credit for the change. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Italy’s seas speak: No tourists or boats mean cleaner water

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct.23, 2019 file photo, tourists wait to see Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa, at the Louvre museum, in Paris. Iconic sites that are among some of France's biggest tourist draws won't reopen when the country lifts most of its coronavirus restrictions next week. Neither the Louvre Museum, the Eiffel Tower nor the Versailles Palace will be reopening next week when France lifts many of its remaining coronavirus lockdown restrictions. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Europe prepares post-corona, socially-distanced culture-fest

By JOHN LEICESTER - Associated Press

This picture taken on May 9, 2020 and made available on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 by Suedtiroler Schuetzenbund, a group that rejects the legitimacy of Italian rule of the area that became part of Italy after World War II, shows writing with fire reading in German Iatz &quot;Now&quot;, in Ultimo, known in German as Ulten, in the German-speaking province of South Tyrol, in northern Italy. (Suedtiroler Schuetzenbund via AP)

Italy’s South Tyrol invokes autonomy to pry open lockdown

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

People gather inside Rome's Villa Pamphili park as it reopened after several weeks of closure, part of nationwide limited easing of some lockdown restrictions, on Monday, May 4, 2020. Italy began stirring again Monday after a two-month coronavirus shutdown, with 4.4 million Italians able to return to work and restrictions on movement eased in the first European country to lock down in a bid to stem COVID-19 infections. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Italy eases virus lockdown, and gets first reckoning of toll

By NICOLE WINFIELD and COLLEEN BARRY AND FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Olive oil is put on a pizza ready to be home delivered, at the Caputo pizzeria in Naples, Italy, Monday, April 27, 2020. Region Campania allowed cafes and pizzerias to reopen for delivery Monday, after a long precautionary closure due to the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Naples’ beloved pizza is back after virus shutdown eases

By Paola Santalucia - Associated Press

Otilia Maria Martinez Dos Santos, an artist of Portuguese origins, performs at the Rony Roller circus parked on the outskirts of Rome, Friday, April 17, 2020. &quot;I miss the audience, the preparation, the emotion of the show. The applause that fills the heart with joy, I hope that the future is what our past was like until the virus, I'm afraid it will be hard to come back as we were. The Rony Roller itinerant circus made its last performance on March 7 after that show the national shutdown of public events to contain the spreading of the COVID-19 in Italy blocked about 60 animals and seven families. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

AP PHOTOS: Traveling circus stays put in virus-hit Italy

By ALESSANDRA TARANTINO and KARL RITTER - Associated Press

Pope Francis attends a Mass for Holy Thursday, inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Francis celebrated the Holy Week Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, which was largely empty of faithful because of restrictions aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Alessandro Di Meo/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope hails priests, health workers as ‘the saints next door’

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Cardinal George Pell sits in the back seat of a car as he leaves prison in Geelong, Australia Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Pope Francis' former finance minister Pell had been the most senior Catholic found guilty of sexually abusing children and has spent 13 months in high-security prisons before seven High Court judges unanimously dismissed his convictions. (James Ross/AAP Image via AP)

Cardinal Pell welcomes court’s dismissal of abuse conviction

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

A man walks by Bernini's colonnade in St. Peter's Square during Pope Francis' weekly general audience, streamed by the Vatican television due to restrictions to contain the Covid-19 virus, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 1, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Palm Sunday services held without public; some on rooftops

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

An ambulance and a Carabinieri car are parked in front of the ancient Colosseum in Rome Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Italy says EU has abandoned them during coronavirus pandemic

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

Anna Travezzano, 39, a nurse at the Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital in Bergamo, Italy poses for a portrait at the end of her shift Friday, March 27, 2020. The intensive care doctors and nurses on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic in Italy are almost unrecognizable behind their masks, scrubs, gloves and hairnets. But that flimsy battle armor donned at the start of each shift is their only barrier to contagion. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

AP PHOTOS: Italy’s front-line medical heroes, in portraits

By LUCA BRUNO and DOMENICO STINELLIS and ANTONIO CALANNI - Associated Press