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The coffin of Pope Francis is carried in front of dignitaries, including President Donald Trump, center, during his funeral in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Photos of notable attendees at the funeral of Pope Francis at the Vatican

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis was mourned at his funeral Saturday as a humble pastor to those on the global margins.
 
In this image released by Vatican Media, Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla meet Pope Francis at The Vatican, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)

Pope Francis meets privately with King Charles and Queen Camilla during his Vatican convalescence

 
King Charles III, left, and Queen Camilla stand in front of the Colosseum, in Rome, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

UK royals meet Italy’s president and enjoy a special tour of Rome’s Colosseum

 
People pray for Pope Francis in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Wednesday, March 19, 2025, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Vatican says Pope Francis no longer needs mechanical help to breathe as his health improves

 
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk from Marine One as they arrive back at the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Biden cancels trip to Italy, meant as final foreign visit of presidency, as fires rage in California

 

King Charles III delivers historic speech to Italian parliament

King Charles III addressed Italian lawmakers on Wednesday in a historic moment, becoming the first British monarch and fourth foreign leader to address a joint session of the Italian parliament.

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King Charles III and Queen Camilla visit Rome’s Colosseum

Zelenskyy visits Rome and the Vatican

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Pro-Russian hackers attack Italian websites after president compares invasion of Ukraine to Nazis

 
This image released Friday Dec. 27, 2024 by Chora Media shows Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained on Dec. 19 as she was reporting in Iran, Italy's foreign ministry said. ( Chora Media via Ap )

Italy-Iran diplomatic tangle escalates over detained citizens as US seeks man over drone attack

 
President Joe Biden speaks during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

White House says Biden will visit Pope Francis, Meloni in final international trip of his presidency

 
An inside view of Milan's Opera House La Scala, Italy, prior to the start of the opening of the 2024-25 season featuring Giuseppe Verdi's 'La Forza del destino', Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

La Scala’s gala season premiere vanquished bad-luck vibes around long-absent Verdi opera

 
FILE - Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk listens as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Italy’s president sharply rebukes Elon Musk over comments on X about migration court rulings

 
Members of the Indian community in Italy protest in Latina, some 60 kilometers south of Rome, Saturday, June 22, 2024, asking justice for Satnam Singh, an Indian laborer, bled to death after his arm got stuck in a nylon-wrapping machine and was wrenched off. Police on Tuesday arrested Antonello Lovato, a farm owner on suspicion of homicide after he allegedly refused entreaties by Singh's wife, who also worked at the farm, to call an ambulance, claiming he was already dead. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Italian landowner is arrested after an Indian worker bled to death in accident with farm equipment

 
FILE - Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy, right, addresses journalists at the end of the Arraiolos Group meeting in Porto, Portugal, Oct. 6, 2023. Italy’s president told the General Assembly on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can’t be solved by rewarding its aggression and peace can only come when Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are restored. (AP Photo/Miguel Angelo Pereira, File)

Italy’s president says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can’t be solved by rewarding Moscow’s aggression

 
Italian President Sergio Mattarella delivers his speech in Rome Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Italy’s president has denounced the rise in antisemitism and delivered a powerful speech in support of the Jewish people. President Sergio Mattarella commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day, which has been overshadowed by Israel’s military campaign in Gaza and a rise in anti-Israel acts in Italy. (Paolo Giandotti/Italian Presidency via AP)

Italy’s leader denounces antisemitism; pro-Palestinian rally is moved from Holocaust Remembrance Day

 
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni arrives to attend La Scala’s gala premiere in Milan, Wednesday Dec. 7, 2022. Italy’s most famous opera house, Teatro alla Scala, opens its new season Wednesday with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov,” a selection that sparked Ukrainian protests of the cultural event serving as a propaganda win for the Kremlin against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Gian Mattia D'Alberto/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s La Scala opens season to Ukrainian protests

 
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni waves to cameras as she leaves after swearing in at Quirinal presidential palace, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. Giorgia Meloni on Friday formed Italy's new ruling coalition, assembling the country's first far-right-led government since the end of World War II and becoming the first woman to obtain the premiership. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni installed as Italy’s premier

 
Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni, center, flanked by Forza Italia's leader Silvio Berlusconi, left, and The League's leader Matteo Salvini, speaks to the press at the Quirinale Presidential Palace after talks with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022, who will appoint a new Italian premier after Sept. 25 political elections. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Italy’s far-right leader Meloni forms new government

 
President of the Italian Senate Ignazio La Russa leaves the Quirinale Presidential Palace after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella as part of a round of consultations with party leaders to try and form a new government, in Rome, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. (Roberto Monaldo/ Lapresse vis AP)

Italy’s feuding right-wing leaders aim somehow to govern

 
Italian President Sergio Mattarella, left, is welcomed by North Macedonia's President Stevo Pendarovski, at the presidential palace in Skopje, North Macedonia, on Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. Italian President Mattarella is on a two-day official visit to North Macedonia. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

Italian president backs North Macedonia’s EU membership bid

 
Italian President Sergio Mattarella speaks at the Quirinale Presidential palace in Rome, Thursday, July 21, 2022. Italy’s president says he has dissolved Parliament after Premier Mario Draghi’s coalition fell apart. No date was set for a new election, but President Sergio Mattarella said it must be held within 70 days under Italy’s Constitution. Mattarella said he decided on early elections because the lack of support for Draghi also indicated there was no possibility of forming another government that could carry a majority of lawmakers. (Giuseppe Lami, Pool Photo via AP)

Italy’s president: Strong democracy crucial against fascism

 
FILE - The League leader Matteo Salvini, right, is flanked by Silvio Berlusconi as he addresses a rally in Rome, on Oct. 19, 2019. The ink had barely dried on the presidential decree putting a premature end to Parliament after Italian Premier Mario Draghi's government collapsed, but politicians, including coalition allies who helped topple him, were already rushing into campaign mode on Friday. Perhaps the quickest was Matteo Salvini, the right-wing leader, who teamed up with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi to desert a confidence vote that Draghi sought this week to revive his struggling 17-month-old coalition, (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

With Italy’s Draghi toppled, populists campaign in fast gear

 
Italian Premier Mario Draghi waves to lawmakers at the end of his address at the Parliament in Rome, Thursday, July 21, 2022. Premier Mario Draghi's national unity government headed for collapse Thursday after key coalition allies boycotted a confidence vote, signaling the likelihood of early elections and a renewed period of uncertainty for Italy and Europe at a critical time. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy heads to early election after Draghi’s coalition fails

 
Italian Premier Mario Draghi, center, flanked by Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, left, and Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini, delivers his speech at the Senate in Rome, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Draghi was deciding Wednesday whether to confirm his resignation or reconsider appeals to rebuild his parliamentary majority after the populist 5-Star Movement triggered a crisis in the government by withholding its support. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italian PM Draghi wins vote but unity coalition unravels

 
FILE - Italy's President Sergio Mattarella, left, greets Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021, ahead of the French President visit. Draghi met Monday, July 11, 2022 with Italy’s president to discuss the future of his government amid simmering tensions with coalition member 5-Star Movement. (Alberto Pizzoli/Pool photo via AP, File)

Italy’s Draghi meets with president amid 5-Star tensions

 
FILE - In this file photo, military trucks moving coffins of deceased people line up on the highway next to Ponte Oglio, near Bergamo, one of the areas worst hit by the coronavirus infection, on their way from Bergamo cemetery to a crematory in some other location as the local crematory exceeded its maximum capacity. Italy on Friday marked the second anniversary of a tragic milestone of the coronavirus pandemic, the day when a convoy of army trucks had to transport the dead out of hard-hit Bergamo because the city’s cemeteries and crematoria were full. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

Italy marks 2nd anniversary of haunting COVID-19 milestone

 
Newly re-elected Italian President Sergio Mattarella stands during his swearing-in ceremony in the Italian parliament in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022. (Filippo Monteforte/Pool photo via AP)

Italy’s 80-year-old president sworn in for a second term

 
FILE - Italian President Sergio Mattarella speaks during a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at Quirinale Palace in Rome, Monday, June 28, 2021. Mattarella has been elected to a second seven-year term as the country’s head of state, ending days of political impasse as party leaders struggled to pick his successor. Earlier on Saturday, lawmakers entreated Mattarella, 80, who had said he didn’t want a second mandate, to change his mind and agree to reelection by lawmakers in Parliament and regional delegates. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool, File)

Italy’s president, 80, is recruited to stay on for 2nd term

 
President of the Italian Senate Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, left, and President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Roberto Fico count ballots during a voting session in the Italian parliament, in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. The first rounds of voting in Italy's Parliament for the country's next president yielded an avalanche of blank ballots, as lawmakers and special regional electors failed to deliver a winner amid a political stalemate. (Remo Casilli/Pool photo via AP)

New Italy president still elusive after 4th round of voting

 
Ballots are counted in the Italian parliament in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. The first two rounds of voting in Italy's Parliament for the country's next president yielded an avalanche of blank ballots, as lawmakers and special regional electors failed to deliver a winner amid a political stalemate. (Alberto Pizzoli/Pool photo via AP)

No result in 3rd round of vote for new Italian president

 
Senator Emma Bonino casts her ballot during the first round of votes in the Italian parliament, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. The first round of voting for Italy’s next president opens Monday without a clear slate of candidates. Political parties held internal meetings over the weekend, but were keeping the names of possible candidates close to their vests. ( Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

1st round of vote for Italian president fails amid stalemate

 
The coffin of late EU Parliament President David Sassoli leaves at the end of the state funerals at Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica in Rome, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. David Sassoli, an Italian journalist who worked his way up in politics while defending the downtrodden and oppressed to become president of the European Union's parliament, died in an Italian hospital on Tuesday at 65. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

EU flag drapes coffin of Sassoli, head of bloc’s parliament

 
FILE - Former and present Italian Premiers Silvio Berlusconi, left, and Mario Draghi, right, are seen during a press conference at Chigi Palace,in Rome, on Oct. 8, 2008. Italy’s lower chamber of parliament on Tuesday set Jan. 24 as the start date to begin voting for a new Italian president, officially kicking off a campaign that is expected to see Premier Mario Draghi and ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi vie for the prestigious job. The victor, who is chosen by around 1,000 “big electors" among lawmakers and regional representatives, will replace President Sergio Mattarella, whose seven-year term ends Feb. 3. The voting is expected to last several rounds over several days. (AP Photo/Sandro Pace)

Italy sets Jan 24 to start voting for new president

 
Italian Premier Mario Draghi attends the traditional year-end press conference in Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Draghi says he’s done his job, as he eyes Italian presidency

 
Italian esthetic surgeon Dvora Ancona arrives for the premiere of Verdi's Macbeth at La Scala opera house in Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. The Macbeth opens the 2021/2021 lyric season of one of the most storied opera house in the world. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Masked Milanese fill La Scala for gala premiere of ‘Macbeth’

 
From left, baritone Luca Salsi, bass Ildar Abdrazakov, Russian soprano Anna Netrebko and director Davide Livermore pose for photographers prior to the start of a news conference to present Giuseppe Verdi's 'Macbeth', directed by Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly, who will open the opera season at the La Scala opera house next, Dec.7, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Despite pandemic, famed Italian theater opens season

 
U.S. President Joe Biden shares a light moment with the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix Tshisekedi during the family photo of the G20 summit at the La Nuvola conference center, in Rome, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. The two-day Group of 20 summit is the first in-person gathering of leaders of the world's biggest economies since the COVID-19 pandemic started. (Erin Schaff/Pool Photo via AP)

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