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Highway Executive Given 12-Year Sentence Over Deadly Bridge Collapse in Italy

Giovanni Castellucci oversaw a company that managed the Morandi Bridge in Genoa when it fell down in 2018, killing 43 people.

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Giovanni Castellucci at a news briefing in Madrid in 2018. The collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa became a source of national embarrassment, raising alarms about Italy’s aging infrastructure.
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Rebel Catholics Defy Vatican’s Calls to Return to Mainstream Church

The Vatican has excommunicated the priesthood of a rebel Catholic faction. Many of the priests’ followers have refused to renounce them.

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A procession on Wednesday by the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X in Écône, Switzerland.
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