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Emma Bonino, radical Italian politician who stood up to Vatican, dies aged 78

Emma Bonino smiles while holding a European Union flag amid a crowd of people
Bonino also served as a European commissioner. After a cancer diagnosis in 2015, she appeared in public wearing colourful headscarves. Photograph: Max Rossi/Reuters

Emma Bonino, the radical Italian politician who led campaigns to legalise abortion and divorce against the objections of the Vatican, has died aged 78.

“Today we lose not only our leader but also one of the most clear-sighted, courageous and free figures in the political history of our country,” the small party she founded, More Europe, said on Facebook on Friday.

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