Italy: Ex-premier gives thumbs-down to revived coalition

ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi has given a thumbs-down to prospects for reviving Italy’s collapsed government with a revamped coalition. Renzi tweeted that he and his tiny Italy Alive party concluded there was a “rupture” in the efforts to bridge policy differences with the other partner parties in Premier Giuseppe Conte’s government. Conte resigned last week after Renzi yanked his ministers to protest what he said was the premier’s clumsy han