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Italy premier: mayor election wins boost coalition
Italian Premier Enrico Letta savored a sorely-needed boost Monday for his fragile coalition, vowing to press ahead with his efforts to revive the ...
Rome mayor race tests Berlusconi effect on voters
Italian voters were choosing mayors in Rome and other municipalities Sunday in balloting, whose results will be interpreted as a test of ex-Premier ...
Woman in "bunga bunga" scandal loved Berlusconi
The former Italian dental hygienist charged with recruiting prostitutes to attend Silvio Berlusconi's infamous "bunga bunga" parties told a court ...
Defense denies erotic dinners at Berlusconi villa
Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's defense denied Monday that there were any erotic escapades at dinners at the media mogul's villa near Milan, and ...
Conservative Rome mayor trails in re-election bid
Rome's conservative mayor was trailing badly in his re-election bid Monday and appeared headed toward a runoff with a center-left challenger, ...
Berlusconi looms large in Rome mayor election
Silvio Berlusconi's figure looms large over Rome's mayoral elections this weekend, even though the former premier isn't among the 19 candidates ...
Woman in Berlusconi case denies her own statements
The woman who prosecutors allege had sex with Silvio Berlusconi while he was Italy's premier in exchange for money spent her second day on the witness ...
Woman in Berlusconi trial denies own statements
The woman who prosecutors allege had sex with Silvio Berlusconi while he was Italy's premier in exchange for money spent her second day on the witness ...
Appellate court: Berlusconi ran illegal scheme
Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday called "surreal" the judicial reasoning behind an appellate court's decision to uphold his guilty ...
Woman describes Berlusconi's 'bunga bunga' parties
Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up ...
Italian Cabinet passes first economic measures
Italy's new cross-party government has adopted its first measures to help the economy. They include suspending a tax on primary residences and ...
Milan prosecutors demand 6 years for Berlusconi
Milan prosecutors on Monday demanded a prison sentence of six years and a lifetime ban from public office for former Premier Silvio Berlusconi in his ...
Pro-Berlusconi rally in Italy draws cheers, jeers
Thousands of supporters of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi rallied in a northern Italian city Saturday to protest the media mogul's recent conviction ...
Immigrant in Italy kills 1 in pickaxe rampage
An immigrant illegally living in Italy went on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan at dawn Saturday, killing a passer-by and wounding four others in an ...
Berlusconi to lead Italy protest over conviction
Silvio Berlusconi will lead his political party in a rally to protest his tax fraud conviction, which carries a prison sentence and a ban from public ...
Italy court upholds Berlusconi tax fraud verdict
Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence were upheld on the first appeal Wednesday in a case that could ...
Italy's ex-premier Giulio Andreotti dies at 94
Giulio Andreotti personified the nation he helped shape, the good and the bad. One of Italy's most important postwar figures, he helped draft the ...
Court: Berlusconi trials stay in Milan
Italy's highest court has denied a defense motion to move Silvio Berlusconi's sex-for-hire trial and tax fraud appeal away from Milan. The ruling ...
Italy race problems seen with black gov't minister
It was hailed as a giant step forward for racial integration in a country that has long been ill at ease with its growing immigrant classes.
New Italian premier urges EU to focus on growth
Italy's new prime minister called Tuesday for European countries to prioritize economic growth over debt reduction, adding his government believes ...
Italy's new government wins 1st confidence vote
Italy's new government easily passed its first confirmation vote Monday in Parliament after Premier Enrico Letta made concessions to his uneasy ...
Italian policemen shot near new gov't swearing-in
In the very moments Italy's new coalition government was being sworn in, ending months of political paralysis in a country hoping to revive a bleak ...
Italy forms new government after 2-month stalemate
Center-left leader Enrico Letta forged a new Italian government Saturday in a coalition with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives, an ...
Berlusconi predicts success in Italian talks
Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi predicted Friday that Italy would succeed in forming a governing coalition out of bitterly rival blocs ...
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 ...