Remains of exiled Italian king buried in Alexandria to be returned to Italy

Topping coverage of Egypt in the foreign press is the return of the remains of exiled Italian King Victor Emmanuel III to be buried a family mausoleum near Turin, The Associated Press reports. Victor Emmanuel ruled Italy from 1900 to 1946 and died in 1947 in Alexandria, Egypt, where his remains had been buried until they were returned to Italy on Saturday, the Wall Street Journal reports. “Italy’s post-World War II constitution barred male descendants of the royal House of Savoy from Italian soil as punishment for the family’s support of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The ban was lifted in 2002, and moves to bring royal remains back to Italy began in earnest in 2011.”