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The election result marked a comprehensive rejection of the years of austerity demanded by the EU and IMF in return for the €240-billion bailout.
Another boat carrying African migrants sank on Friday near the south of Sicily, with more than 30 people found dead.
Two SA families who were on board the cruise ship that met disaster off the coast of Italy are in good health after being evacuated safely.
Italian rescue workers have been searching for almost 40 people still missing a day after a cruise ship capsized just off Italy’s west coast.
Italy’s head of state began talks on Sunday to appoint an emergency government to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has repeated promises of economic reform as Italian bonds come under renewed attack in the eurozone crisis.
Italy’s chaotic efforts to pass a new austerity plan have already included disputed figures, policy U-turns and cabinet rows.
A pro-Palestinian flotilla hopes to leave Greece early next week to challenge Israel’s sea blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Europe and the US stepped up pressure on Muammar Gaddafi to quit, while on the ground his forces used their strength to press their advantage.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won a confidence motion in the Senate as expected on Tuesday.
The Cannes film festival marks a first on Wednesday when it opens with Up, an animation comedy that may lift some of the recessionary gloom.
Oscar-winning French composer Maurice Jarre, who wrote the scores for Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, has died aged 84.
The director of Entre les Murs, the French classroom drama that won the main Cannes film prize said on Sunday he had been deeply moved by the applause that met the film when it…
France’s last surviving veteran of World War I, an Italian immigrant who fought in the trenches with the Foreign Legion, has died at the age of 110, the president’s office said…
A nine-day transport strike that has crippled the French rail network appeared to be drawing to a close on Thursday as many local union committees voted to suspend their stoppage…
French conservative Nicolas Sarkozy is clear favourite to win Sunday’s presidential election after he outshone his Socialist rival Ségolène Royal in a televised debate, an…
Right-wing former interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Ségolène Royal meet face to face on Wednesday for a television debate that could decide Sunday’s French…
France’s presidential election on Sunday looks set to be a traditional contest between the main right and left parties as a bid by a centrist candidate to mount a challenge loses…
