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Starting with 1870 and the capture of Rome, which was the final stage of the Risorgimento, Italian unification expressed itself culturally, political, and economically in the development of Rome as an important industrial center.

“Every single day,” he mused in an interview, “is a day less that I am going to be able to serve in the Senate.”

other than being president, that he ever wanted: chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, overseer of the American military and the nation’s defense policy

He said that Mr. Obama’s decision not to send more American troops to Iraq to thwart the Islamic State had put America at risk. “That attack you saw in Paris? You’ll see an attack in the United States,” Mr. McCain said in an interview last Thursday. He repeated his frequent assessment that the president’s foreign policy is “a disaster” and “delusional.” He said “of course” he would have made a better commander in chief.

Death threats circulated online against the surviving staff members of the newspaper, Charlie Hebdo.

Survivors of the attack had said they would proceed with their next issue and again depict Muhammad.

It shows Muhammad displaying the slogan that has become the symbol of resistance to Islamic militants: “Je Suis Charlie,” or, “I am Charlie.” He is shown weeping under a headline that reads: “All is forgiven.”