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A brawl broke out in Italy’s Parliament when officials came to blows over a proposal to expand regional autonomy from the national government — sending an opposition lawmaker to the hospital for emergency treatment. Five Star Movement party member Leonardo Donno, who opposes the plan, sparked the fight in the lower house by approaching regional foreign affairs minister Roberto Calderoni and trying to hand him an Italian flag. A video recording showed two men rush over and grab Donno, prompting a huge fracas in which lawmakers pushed and punched each other in the Chamber of Deputies in Rome on …

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