Giorgio Napolitano, elder statesman of Italian politics, dies at 98

Giorgio Napolitano, the long-serving Italian president and a pillar of stability in the hurly-burly of his country’s politics, most notably in 2011 when he helped guide the nation out of economic crisis and beyond the turbulence of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s years in power, died Sept. 22 at a clinic in Rome. He was 98. … Read more