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Italy premier-designate short of securing support
Italy's premier-designate, Enrico Letta, said candidly Thursday he is still short of securing support for a ruling coalition after Silvio Berlusconi's ...
Enrico Letta appointed Italian premier-designate
Italy's president appointed Enrico Letta as premier-designate Wednesday, asking him to form a coalition government representing Italy's main parties ...
Italian president seeks end to political paralysis
President Giorgio Napolitano opened his unprecedented second term with around-the-clock consultations Tuesday aimed at finding a candidate to form a ...
Italian president chastises country's politicians
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, sworn in Monday for an unprecedented second term at the age of 87, chastised lawmakers for their inadequate ...
Napolitano re-elected Italy's president
Italy's Parliament on Saturday re-elected Giorgio Napolitano to an unprecedented second term as president, after party leaders persuaded the ...
Italy parliament fails again to tap president
Italy's polarized Parliament failed in a second day of balloting Friday to elect a president, as the high-profile candidacy of ex-Premier Romano Prodi ...
Woman in Berlusconi sex trial denounces tactics
The Moroccan woman at the center of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex-for-hire trial held an unusual protest Thursday in front of Milan's courthouse, ...
Italy's 10 'sages' try to help form government
Ten "wise men" will try to do what Italy's bickering politicians haven't been able to accomplish since inconclusive elections in late February — ...
Italy's center-left leader fails to form govt
Italy remained in political gridlock Thursday after the center-left leader announced he had failed to form a government. Pier Luigi Bersani, who has ...
Italy's Bersani fails to win over 5 Star Movement
Italian center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani says he'll take another 48 hours to seek support for a new government after failing to persuade the ...
Knox case puts Italian justice under scrutiny
When crooked American financier Bernie Madoff was sentenced in New York, the leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published a front-page ...
Ford India apologizes over Berlusconi bondage ad
The Indian unit of Ford Motor Co. has apologized for advertisements decried as demeaning to women, including one depicting Italy's former Prime ...
Italy's Bersani opens talks on forming government
Italy's center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani has begun the arduous task of trying to form a government following Italy's inconclusive elections, ...
Italy's Bersani tapped to form new government
Italy's center-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, was given the tough task Friday to form a new and viable government, which is badly needed to steer ...
Debt-laden Italy struggles to find stable govt
Trying to break through weeks of political gridlock, Italy's president began sounding out parliamentary leaders Wednesday to see if they can form a ...
Italy judge: Berlusconi trial won't be accelerated
A judge in Naples has denied prosecutors' request for an accelerated trial against former Premier Silvio Berlusconi on charges of corruption.
Italian Parliament elects center-left leaders
Italian lawmakers on Saturday elected center-left leaders for both chambers of Parliament, paving the way for difficult talks to form a new government ...
Italy's Parliament convenes, faces stalemate
Italy's newly elected Parliament was locked in political gridlock as it convened Friday for the first time after elections gave no party a clear ...
Berlusconi's lawyers seek to move Milan trials
Silvio Berlusconi's lawyers have filed motions to change the jurisdiction of two trials nearing verdicts in Milan. Berlusconi's lawyers claim the ...
Court delays Berlusconi's sex-for-hire trial
A Milan court on Wednesday delayed former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex-for-hire trial after receiving new medical documents confirming that an eye ...