Former Italian president Giorgio Napolitano has died aged 98 after being treated in a Rome hospital for weeks.
Napolitano served from 2006 to 2015 and was the first person to be elected twice to the seven-year post, but he stepped down in 2015, citing his advancing age.
Having first entered parliament in 1953, Napolitano became a life member of the Italian Senate after his presidency and remained politically active in the years that followed. (QNA)
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