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Italian Premier Mario Monti, left, shakes hands with head of civil protection Franco Gabrielli during a visit to the area hit by a quake in Sant'Agostino, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Italian Premier Mario Monti has promised to help small-scale businesses, especially factories and farms, in the region of northern Italy struck by quake. Monti's visit to the Emilia Romagna region included a stop at a ceramics factory where two workers died after it collapsed. In all, the quake claimed seven lives. (AP Photo/Gianfilippo Oggioni, Lapresse)