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/ 16 November 2009
A UN summit on food security vowed on Monday to take ”urgent action” to eliminate hunger affecting more than one billion people worldwide.
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/ 5 November 2009
An Italian judge convicted 23 United States and two Italian secret agents for the CIA’s kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003.
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/ 4 November 2009
Italian leaders of left and right united on Wednesday to condemn a court ruling that crucifixes displayed in schools are a breach of human rights.
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/ 28 October 2009
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has attacked the country’s judicial system as overrun by ”communists” out to destroy him.
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/ 15 October 2009
Italy denied a report on Thursday that it paid off Taliban commanders and Afghan warlords, potentially costing the lives of French troops.
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/ 12 October 2009
Italy scraped a draw against the Republic of Ireland to join Germany, Denmark and Serbia as the latest European teams to secure 2010 World Cup places.
Footballing superpowers Italy and Germany can seal their places at the 2010 World Cup on Saturday as qualifying for South Africa enters the home strai
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday dismissed suggestions that he should step down for the good of Italy’s image.
Silvio Berlusconi vowed to battle on as Italy’s prime minister despite facing corruption trials after he was stripped of immunity from prosecution.
Italy’s top court rules this week on whether a law granting immunity to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi violates the Constitution.
Tens of thousands of Italians demonstrated in Rome on Saturday against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s grip on the media.
The call girl at the centre of a sex scandal dogging Silvio Berlusconi is claiming that he knowingly entertained prostitutes at his Rome residence.
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/ 23 September 2009
Italy’s opposition attacked Silvio Berlusconi’s government on Wednesday over an amnesty that would wipe the slate clean on offences.
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/ 21 September 2009
The EU should demand that Italy stop forcing African migrant boats back to Libya, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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/ 14 September 2009
A beaming Rubens Barrichello made it clear on Sunday that he will push his Brawn GP teammate Jenson Button all the way to win this year’s title race.
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/ 11 September 2009
Renault have launched criminal proceedings against Nelson Piquet junior and Nelson Piquet senior after claims that the team fixed the Singapore GP.
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/ 11 September 2009
Fernando Alonso says allegations that his Renault team staged an accident to help him win last year’s Singapore GP surprised him as much as anyone.
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/ 10 September 2009
Silvio Berlusconi declared on Thursday that he was ”by far the best” Italian prime minister of the last 150 years.
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/ 10 September 2009
Ferrari boss Stefanco Domenicali was keen to play down any expectations at Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix following Finn Kimi Raikkonen’s win in Belgium.
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/ 9 September 2009
Reports that some women who attended parties hosted by Silvio Berlusconi were paid to have sex with guests have added to the Italian leader’s problems
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/ 9 September 2009
Formula One’s in-season testing ban has made life difficult for the sport’s big teams, McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen said this week.
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/ 7 September 2009
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi denied on Monday that scandals over his private life had caused a rift with the powerful Catholic Church.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Friday he had ”nothing to apologise for” over the sex scandals surrounding him and did not fear blackmail.
Italy’s drug regulation agency on Thursday authorised the use of the abortion pill despite protests from the Roman Catholic Church.
SA’s Cameron van der Burgh broke his own world record to take gold in the men’s 50m breaststroke final at the world championships on Wednesday.
A call girl at the centre of allegations over Silvio Berlusconi’s sex life on Friday denied having been paid by journalists to sully his reputation.
Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, facing a snowballing call-girl scandal, on Wednesday urged his detractors to understand that he is no saint.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private life was back in the spotlight on Monday.
Like previous summits, the G8 summit in Italy this week was tinged by the host’s culture and personal taste.
The world’s most powerful leaders warned on Wednesday that the global economy is still in peril.
Pressure was building on Italian authorities on Wednesday to determine who was to blame for an explosion of a freight train.
Juventus have apologised over the racist chanting directed at Inter Milan’s teenage striker Mario Balotelli at Turin’s Stadio Olimpico on Saturday.