Newcomer struggles to give Italy 1st populist government
(WorldNews Italy)

ROME (AP) - The law professor tapped to try to form Italy`s first populist government spent a second day in talks Friday, a possible indication the political novice was finding tough going in assembling a Cabinet that could keep rival forces together in a coalition. Giuseppe Conte returned on Friday evening to the presidential palace, some 48 hours after President Sergio Mattarella gave him the mandate in hopes of breaking a political impasse that resulted from inconclusive elections on March 4. Neither Conte, who left by a palace back door, nor the presidential...