Rome, Jan 31, 2026 (AFP) - I'm no angel, Italy's PM says amid church fresco row

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Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, joked on Saturday she does not look like an angel, after a row blew up in the media over a restored fresco in a Rome church. Some of Italy's press have been asking whether the premier served as inspiration for a cherub painted in a chapel in the San Lorenzo in Lucina basilica, located a few metres (yards) from the main building of the Italian government. The newspaper La Repubblica noted that, following rec......

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