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FILE - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, left, welcomes US Vice President Joe Biden at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome, Wednesday, June 1, 2011. Giorgio Napolitano, the first former Communist to rise to Italy’s top job — president of the Republic — and the first president to be re-elected, has died Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. He was 98. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Giorgio Napolitano, former Italian president and first ex-Communist in that post, has died at 98

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A view of Senate, before voting at a decree on various economics matters, in Rome, Thursday, July 14, 2022. The stability of Italian Premier Mario Draghi's coalition government is at risk because 5-Star lawmakers say they will not participate in a confidence vote in Parliament. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italian PM Draghi to resign after losing ally on key vote

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In this file photo, Italian President Sergio Mattarella speaks during a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at Quirinale Palace in Rome, Monday, June 28, 2021. Mattarella has been elected to a second seven-year term as the country’s head of state, ending days of political impasse as party leaders struggled to pick his successor. Earlier on Saturday, lawmakers entreated Mattarella, 80, who had said he didn’t want a second mandate, to change his mind and agree to reelection by lawmakers in Parliament and regional delegates. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File) **FILE**

Italy’s president, 80, is recruited to stay on for 2nd term

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Feb. 9, 2021 file photo, Five Star Movement's Beppe Grillo arrives to meet with former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi, at the Chamber of Deputies, in Rome. The populist 5-Star Movement, the Italian Parliament’s largest party, is holding off for now on committing to back the new government Mario Draghi is trying to assemble. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Italian populists dither over support for Draghi government

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 file photo Premier Giuseppe Conte attends a debate at the Senate prior to a confidence vote, in Rome. The political parties that make up caretaker Premier Giuseppe Conte's collapsed government kept up their squabbling over key policy issues, including European Union pandemic aid, as they struggle to give birth to what would be a revived coalition. President Sergio Mattarella has set Tuesday Feb. 2, 2021 as the deadline for a progress report. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)

Ex-ECB’s Draghi positioned to lead Italy after politics fail

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Italian President Sergio Mattarella, center, speaks in front of Bergamo's cemetery, Sunday, June 28, 2020. Italy bid farewell to its coronavirus dead on Sunday with a haunting Requiem concert performed at the entrance to the cemetery of Bergamo, the hardest-hit province in the onetime epicenter of the outbreak in Europe. President Sergio Mattarella was the guest of honor, and said his presence made clear that all of Italy was bowing down to honor Bergamo’s dead, “the thousands of men and women killed by a sickness that is still greatly unknown and continues to threaten the world.” (Italian Presidency via AP)

Italy honors, remembers virus dead with Donizetti’s Requiem

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

President Donald Trump welcomes Italian President Sergio Mattarella to the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump boasts that US would win tariff war with Europe

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In this Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, file photo, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte, right, is flanked by Deputy-Premier Matteo Salvini as he addresses the Senate in Rome. Italy's populist 5-Star Movement has asked, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, the nation's president to give caretaker Premier Giuseppe Conte the mandate to form a new coalition government, a week after the one he led for 14 months collapsed. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

Giuseppe Conte asked to seek new Italy gov’t aimed at foiling Matteo Salvini

By Colleen Barry and Giada Zampano - Associated Press

The League party leader Matteo Salvini talks to the press after meeting Italian President Sergio Mattarella, in Rome, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. President Sergio Mattarella continued receiving political leaders Thursday, to explore if a solid majority with staying power exists in Parliament for a new government that could win the required confidence vote. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

The Latest: Italy’s president gives parties more time

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FILE - In this March 12, 2019, file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a plenary session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The country's foreign ministry announced on Monday, March 18, 2019 that Xi will visit Italy, France and Monaco from Thursday to March 26. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

China’s Xi visits Italy with Belt and Road deal as prize

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Five star movement leader and deputy Premier Luigi di Maio talks during a press conference, in Rome, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. France is sending its ambassador Christian Masset back to Italy Friday following the biggest diplomatic dispute between the two countries since World War II after Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio met with French yellow vest activists seeking to run for the European Parliament, causing France to recall the ambassador to protest perceived Italian meddling in French domestic politics. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

French ambassador returns to Italy following dramatic spat

By FRANCES D'EMILIO and SYLVIE CORBET - 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

Carlo Cottarelli, Italian economist, to meet President Sergio Mattarella amid political crisis

By Colleen Barry - Associated Press

Luigi Di Maio, leader of Italy's 5-Star movement, is in talks with Matteo Salvini of the League to form a populist and anti-immigrant alliance. (Associated Press)

Italy government alliance clashes with EU ideology

By Eric J. Lyman - Special to The Washington Times

Pope Francis talks with Italian President Sergio Mattarella during a private audience, in the pontiff's studio at the Vatican, Saturday, April 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Maurizio Brambatti, POOL)

Pope Francis asks Europe to do more for migrants flooding into Italy

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