Autore: Stefano Pitrelli
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Italian politics shaken up by crew of new legislators
By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report
The 27-year-old elevator salesman without a single day of experience in political office arrived in the Italian capital this month with 162 other freshman legislators from the Five Star Movement — a Web-based force whose success in recent elections has the newcomers suddenly bidding arrivederci to politics as usual in Italy.
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In Pope Francis, other faiths see a friend
By Nick Miroff and Anthony Faiola / Faiola reported from Vatican City. Julie Tate in Washington and Stefano Pitrelli in Rome contributed to this report.
Buenos Aires — Nearly every July 18, the bitter anniversary of the 1994 truck bombing that ripped apart a Jewish community here, Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio would arrive to pay tribute at a memorial to the 85 victims.