Slovenian President Borut Pahor and Italian President Sergio Mattarella, left, hold hands in Basovizza, near Trieste, Italy, Monday, July 13, 2020. The presidents of Italy and Slovenia met a several ceremonies on Monday linked to sorrowful incidents in their nations history and aimed at reinforcing reconciliation. In the area of Trieste, a port city near Italy’s border with Slovenia, Italy’s Sergio Mattarella and Slovenia’s Borut Pahor held hands and observed a minute of silence at a monument to four anti-Fascist Slovenes, who were executed by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s regime in 1930. The four became symbols the Slovene minority's resistance to Italian Fascism. (Francesco Ammendola, Italian Presidency via AP)
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