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Italian tensions in focus as emerging markets steady

YoopyaAug 26, 2013April 21, 20240

(Reuters) – Domestic political tensions drove Italian shares and bonds lower on Monday, while a steady dollar and lower U.S. debt yields gave battered emerging

Italy’s Letta says problems threatening government can be overcome

YoopyaAug 21, 2013April 21, 20240

(Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said on Wednesday he was confident that problems threatening his fragile coalition government, which is struggling to meet

Berlusconi’s political fate in hands of high court

YoopyaJul 30, 2013June 16, 20240

ROME (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi’s political fate is in the hands of Italy’s highest court, which was hearing arguments Tuesday in the former premier’s challenge

Italian bus crash kills 38; second European transport disaster in five days

YoopyaJul 29, 2013June 16, 20240

(Reuters) – Thirty-eight people were killed and 10 injured when a bus plunged off a viaduct in southern Italy in one of the country’s worst

Italy court finds Berlusconi guilty on sex charges

YoopyaJun 24, 2013January 23, 20230

A Milan court sentenced Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday to seven years in prison after convicting him of paying for sex with

Actor James Gandolfini, 51, dies of cardiac arrest

YoopyaJun 20, 2013August 16, 20240

LOS ANGELES (AP) — James Gandolfini’s lumbering, brutish mob boss with the tortured psyche will endure as one of TV’s indelible characters. But his portrayal

Pope proclaims first saints, says Christians still persecuted

YoopyaMay 12, 2013September 2, 20240

(Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday proclaimed as saints some 800 Italians killed in the 15th century for refusing to convert to Islam, and said

Italy deaths as Genoa ship hits control tower

YoopyaMay 8, 2013September 5, 20240

At least five people have died and four are missing after a container ship crashed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa,

Ex-Italian PM Giulio Andreotti dies

YoopyaMay 6, 2013September 5, 20240

Giulio Andreotti, one of the most prominent political figures of post-war Italy, has died aged 94. Mr Andreotti was Italian prime minister seven times between

Rome Alitalia baggage handlers arrested over thefts

YoopyaMay 3, 2013November 10, 20240

Italian police have arrested 19 baggage handlers working for Alitalia at Rome’s Fiumicino airport as part of a probe into suitcase theft, reports say. The