2 weeks before election, right-wing parties seen taking 46% of votes, far ahead of leftist rivals with 28.5%; Meloni, who heads post-fascist party, would be country's 1st female PM

PD candidate resigns over 2014 post questioning existence of Jewish state, while party chairman reiterates support for Israel ahead of parliamentary vote next month

Giorgia Meloni may become Italy's first female premier almost exactly 100 years after Adolf Hitler's ally Benito Mussolini became country's dictator

Roberto Gualtieri elected mayor of capital, the main prize in Italy local vote that saw right parties lose out in other key cities

Some medical officials decry decision to go through with vote which will test center-left government, due to concerns over pandemic

In interview with Israeli daily, head of popular right-wing euroskeptic party lashes the left for what he says is anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bias

Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, whose League party leads in EU parliament elections, accused of tolerating -- and even encouraging -- neo-fascist politics