Italian president to ask caretaker PM Conte to form M5S-PD coalition gov't

Italian former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks at the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome, Italy, on Aug. 28, 2019. Italian president Sergio Mattarella will summon outgoing Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Thursday in order to ask him to try to form a new coalition government. (Photo by Alberto Lingria/Xinhua)