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The DRC government on Friday demanded a stronger mandate for the peacekeeping force in the country after the UN voted to send extra troops.
As a character, he has been rocketing across our screens for half a century, but few remember that the original Superman, George Reeves, died in mysterious circumstances in the…
Italy’s new Prime Minister Romano Prodi unveiled a new centre-left government on Wednesday, ending weeks of political stalemate and pledging to rebuild solidarity after bitterly…
Former communist Giorgio Napolitano (80) was elected Italy’s new president on Wednesday, gaining an absolute majority in a Parliamentary vote that underlined the country’s…
Italy’s political leaders must move quickly to resolve the country’s post-election gridlock if poll winner Romano Prodi is to kick-start the stagnant economy, analysts warned on…
Italy’s centre-left opposition on Monday ousted Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi after an acrimonious election campaign, exit polls showed, ending the tycoon’s flamboyant…
Italy reacted coolly on Friday to threats from Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi of further attacks on Italians if Tripoli’s historic compensation claim for decades of colonisation…
A prominent United States museum curator appeared in court in Rome on Wednesday in a trial designed to assert Italy’s ownership of a large part of the J Paul Getty antiquities…
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe denounced United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as ”the two unholy men of our millennium” at the United…
The United States has expressed ”amazement” at a United Nations invitation to Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe to address a conference in Rome to mark the 60th anniversary of…
Critics and public at the Venice film festival have made the George Clooney directed Good Night, and Good Luck the clear favourite to win the two-week event’s prestigious Golden…
A popular clamour for Pope John Paul II to be quickly canonized as a Catholic saint erupted in St. Peter’s Square on Friday toward the end of the funeral mass for the pontiff.…
John Paul II revolutionised the papacy with his formidable energy and intellectual abilities but his most lasting memorial was to be achieved in the field of politics: the…
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) warned on Tuesday over the effects of an oil and gas project on the ”critically endangered” western grey whale. The IWC adopted a…
