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This 2-picture combo shows the 14th century Cathedral of St. Benedict (San Benedetto) with its bell tower in the background on Aug. 21, 2016, left, and collapsed after an earthquake on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Another powerful earthquake shook central Italy on Sunday, sending panicked residents running into piazzas, raining boulders onto highways and toppling a Benedictine cathedral and other historic edifices that had withstood several recent quakes. (AP Photo)

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Powerful quake destroys landmarks in central Italy

by Colleen Barry Associated Press, Vanessa Gera Associated Press, and Gregorio Borgia Associated PressOctober 30, 2016

Polish women shout slogans while raising a hanger, the symbol of illegal abortion, during a nationwide strike and demonstration to protest a legislative proposal for a total ban on abortion in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. Polish women are waging a nationwide strike to protest a legislative proposal for a total ban on abortion, with workers and students boycotting their jobs and classes and housewives refusing to do housework. Some businesses and restaurants are also closed on what is being called "Black Monday," an expression of outrage against a proposal to further restrict an abortion law that is already one of the most limited in Europe. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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Women in Poland strike over abortion bill

by Vanessa Gera Associated PressOctober 3, 2016

Firefighters work in Amatrice, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016. Bulldozers with huge claws pulled down dangerously overhanging ledges Sunday in Italy's quake-devastated town of Amatrice as investigators worked to figure out if negligence or fraud in building codes had added to the quake's high death toll. (Roberto Salomone/ANSA via AP)

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Italy probes possible role of negligence in quake toll

by Vanessa Gera Associated Press, Frances DEmilio Associated Press, and Hakan Kaplan Associated PressAugust 28, 2016

Italian Premier Matteo Renzi, left, comforts a woman at the end of the state funeral service for some of the victims of the earthquake that hit central Italy last Wednesday, in Ascoli Piceno, Italy, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016. Italians bid farewell Saturday to victims of the devastating earthquake that struck a mountainous region of central Italy this week. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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Grief erupts in Italy as quake dead honored, buried

by Trisha Thomas Associated Press, and Vanessa Gera Associated PressAugust 27, 2016

Pope Francis, background, is framed by a barbed wire as he prays in front of the Memorial at the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, Poland, Friday, July 29, 2016. Pope Francis paid a somber visit to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau Friday, becoming the third consecutive pontiff to make the pilgrimage to the place where Adolf Hitler's forces killed more than 1 million people, most of them Jews. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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At Auschwitz, Pope reflects on cruelty

by Frances DEmilio Associated Press, and Vanessa Gera Associated PressJuly 29, 2016