Italy's president names new PM
In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. Populist parties reject a former IMF economist nominated as Italy's new prime minister.
As a former official at the International Monetary Fund agrees to become Italy's interim Prime Minister, the parties that thought they'd won the right to govern lash out at the country's President. Is the European Union's reluctance to change colliding, again, with what many voters want?
It was on, then off, and now it is on again. IF President Trump and Kim Jong Un do shake hands, what does a deal, meeting in the middle, actually look like?
He's atheist and gay in a Catholic, conservative country. We meet the provincial Polish leader being touted as a future president.
(Picture: PM designate Carlo Cottarelli leaves he presidential palace in Rome Credit: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty images).
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