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A medical worker stands in protective garments behind caution tape at a drive-through testing site for the coronavirus in a parking lot at Gillette Stadium, Sunday, April 5, 2020, in Foxborough, Mass. The site, which opened Sunday, is designated specifically for police officers, firefighters and other first responders who may have been exposed or are showing virus symptoms. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and...

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US braces for ‘hardest, saddest’ week

by Jim Mustian Associated Press, and Frances DEmilio Associated PressApril 5, 2020

A member of the Venezuelan civil protection agency explains commuters symptoms and preventive measures for the new coronavirus in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, March 15, 2020. Venezuela announced quarantine measures in six states and in Caracas. The vast majority of people recover from the new virus. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

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Daily life near standstill as nations try to halt pandemic

by Frances DEmilio Associated Press, and Joseph Wilson Associated PressMarch 15, 2020

Women wearing face masks disinfect their hands in central Piazza Venezia, in Rome, Sunday.

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Italy quarantines north in bid to slow virus spread

by Frances DEmilio Associated Press, and Angela Charlton Associated PressMarch 8, 2020

A policeman wearing a sanitary masks controls with a metal detector a reveler in Venice, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020. Italian authorities have announced they are shutting down Venice's famed carnival events in a bid to stop the spread of the novel virus, as numbers of infected persons in the country have soared to at least 133, the largest amount of cases outside Asia. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)

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Italy rushes to contain Europe’s first major virus outbreak

by Luca Bruno Associated Press, and Frances DEmilio Associated PressFebruary 23, 2020

FILE - In this Monday, April 18, 2005 file photo, U.S. Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick attends a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. On Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019 the Vatican announced Pope Francis defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing Confession. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, files)

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Vatican defrocks former US cardinal McCarrick for sex abuse

by Frances DEmilio Associated Press, Nicole Winfield Associated Press, and Trisha Thomas Associated PressFebruary 18, 2019

North Korea’s acting ambassador to Italy, Jo Song Gil, second from right, holds a model of “Bell of Peace of Rovereto” during a cultural event on the occasion of a visit of the North Korean delegation to the Veneto region, in San Pietro di Feletto, near Treviso, northern Italy.

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N. Korean envoy to Italy goes into hiding

by Frances DEmilio Associated Press, and Kim Tong-Hyung Associated PressJanuary 3, 2019

Migrants aboard the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti talk as they await decisions in the port of Catania, Italy, Friday, Aug. 24 2018. An Italian lawmaker says rescued migrants stuck aboard an Italian coast guard ship are starting a hunger strike. Rescued on Aug. 16 in the Mediterranean Sea, 150 migrants are still on the ship after minors and the sick were allowed off in recent days. (Orietta Scardino/ANSA via AP)

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Migrants aboard Italian coast guard ship begin hunger strike

by Frances DEmilio Associated PressAugust 24, 2018

A view of the Morandi highway bridge that collapsed in Genoa, northern Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018. A bridge on a main highway linking Italy with France collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa during a sudden, violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 90 meters (nearly 300 feet) into a heap of rubble below. (Luca Zennaro/ANSA via AP)

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Italy hunts for blame in bridge collapse that killed 39

by Frances DEmilio Associated Press, Colleen Barry Associated Press, and Paolo Santalucia Associated PressAugust 15, 2018

In this photo released by the Italian firefighters, rescue teams work among the rubble of the collapsed Morando highway bridge in Genoa, northern Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018. A bridge on a main highway linking Italy with France collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa during a sudden, violent storm, sending vehicles plunging 90 meters (nearly 300 feet) into a heap of rubble below.

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Death toll hits 39 in Italy bridge collapse; blame begins

by Frances DEmilio Associated Press, and Paolo Santalucia Associated PressAugust 15, 2018

New premier-designate Carlo Cottarelli, right, addresses the media after meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, at the Quirinale Presidential Palace, in Rome, Monday, May 28, 2018. Italy's president has formally asked economist Cottarelli to try to form a government after quashing the hopes of the euroskeptic 5-Star Movement and the League to form Western Europe's first populist government. (Alessandro Di Meo/ANSA via AP)

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Populists thwarted, new election looms for Italy

by Frances DEmilio Associated PressMay 28, 2018