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Images of the billionaire owner of X and Tesla, Elon Musk, arriving to take part in Italian Prime minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party political rally in Rome, Italy, holding his son in his arms. British Prime minister Rishi Sunak and Albanian Prime minister Edi Rama are also set to attend the event, organised to discuss the fight against illegal immigration, a subject at the heart of the recent rapprochement between London and Rome, Downing Street announced before the weekend. IMAGES
Spain's King Felipe VI meets with the country's party leaders in a bid to break an impasse over the formation of a new government following inconclusive elections last month. Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has headed a caretaker government with reduced powers since a July 23 general election produced a hung parliament, in which a ruling majority cannot easily be formed. While his Socialist party finished second behind the conservative Popular Party (PP), it is better positioned as it has more potential partners. IMAGES
Rome (Italy), Feb 4 (EFE), (Camera: Álvaro Padilla).- The outgoing Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte said he was confident that the former president of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi would be able to form a political government rather that one formed by technocrats.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF GIUSEPPE CONTE:"Yesterday I met with the person in charge of forming the (new) government, Mario Draghi. It was a long and very open meeting. At the end of it, I wished him a good job.""I expect a political government that is solid and has enough cohesion to take political decisions because the urgencies of the country require political actions."
The nationalist pro-Irish Irish party Sinn Fein says the installing of a nationalist first minister in North Ireland, after the main pro-UK party agreed to endorse a deal with London, will be "a moment of very great significance". Speaking in Belfast, Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald says it will mark "the extent of change that has occurred here in the north and indeed right across Ireland". The The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP agreement with London -- approved on January 30 in an internal vote at a closed-door meeting in Lisburn, near Belfast -- formed a basis to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, that has been paralysed for nearly two years. SOUNDBITE
After Giorgia Meloni formally took over as Italy's first woman prime minister during a handover bell ceremony at Rome's Chigi Palace, outgoing PM Mario Draghi leaves the palace. IMAGES
At Rome's Chigi Palace, during a handover bell ceremony, Giorgia Meloni formally takes over as Italy's first woman prime minister, a day after being sworn in as the leader of the country's most right-wing government since World War II. IMAGES