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MODENA, Italy — As far-right leader Giorgia Meloni ’s push to become Italy’s first female premier gathers momentum, the country’s fractured left is offering voters a contrasting style of feminist politics. Schlein is now taking on Meloni, bringing a thoughtful, policy-packed voice to the Italian left’s national campaign in a bid to prevent what opinion polls suggest is an inevitable …

Francesco Bagnaia claimed pole position for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on Saturday in a Ducati front row lockout to keep his title hopes alive as championship leader Fabio Quartararo of Yamaha failed to make the second qualifying session. Quartararo failed to qualify for Q2 for the first time in his Moto GP career and a yellow flag infringement led …

Six times world champion Lewis Hamilton waxed lyrical about Imola’s beautiful surroundings on Saturday but predicted few thrills for Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at the Italian circuit. Championship leader Hamilton qualified second on an all-Mercedes front row with team mate Valtteri Bottas on pole position for a race set to seal the team’s seventh successive constructors’ title. “What is …

Valtteri Bottas took pole position for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola on Saturday with Mercedes teammate and Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton lamenting a poor lap and qualifying second. Read: Sunday's race will be the first grand prix at Imola since 2006, with the track returning to flesh out a calendar ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the …

Yamaha's Maverick Vinales claimed his first win of the season in the Emilia Romagna MotoGP at Misano World Circuit on Sunday, after race leader Francesco Bagnaia of Pramac Racing crashed with seven laps remaining. Pole-sitter Vinales got off to a slow start but finished strongly to clock a time of 41 minutes, 55.846 seconds and beat fellow Spaniard Joan Mir …

MILAN — Right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini’s attempt to destabilize Italy’s national government by forcing the left out of power in a key northern region appeared to founder Sunday. With 20% of precincts reporting in Emilia-Romagna, Democratic Party incumbent Stefano Bonaccini was leading with 50% of the votes in the regional president’s race, against 45% for the candidate of Salvini’s …