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Former Italian president Napolitano dies aged 98

FILE PHOTO: Former Italian President and senator Giorgio Napolitano speaks following a talk with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace in Rome, Italy, April 13, 2018. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) -Former Italian president Giorgio Napolitano, a onetime communist who helped to steer his country through a debt crisis in 2011, died on Friday aged 98.

Condolences poured in from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's office, other politicians, the Vatican and beyond.

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