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Italy’s main trade union calls general strike
ROME — Italy’s biggest trade union, the CGIL, on Sunday called for a general strike against the government’s new austerity plans. Union chief Susanna Camusso, speaking in the daily La Repubblica newspaper, said the CGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour) would hold a meeting on August 23 to fix a…
Italy approves draft law banning burqas
ROME — An Italian parliamentary commission approved a draft law on Tuesday which would ban women from wearing the veils that cover their faces in public, if passed by parliament in September. The draft law would forbid women from wearing a burqa or naqib, but also prohibit anyone from covering…
Hundreds of thousands march for Pride in Rome, await Lady Gaga
ROME (AFP) – Hundreds of thousands of people paraded through central Rome in a gay pride parade on Saturday, with many criticising Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s government for failing to grant same-sex rights. “I want to tell the world, Europe and above all Italy, which is a bit closed, that…
Italian PM Berlusconi laughs off sex crime trial
MILAN — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday accused Italy’s judges of being out to get him and laughed off his ongoing sex crime trial as he returned to court on fraud charges in a separate trial. “The prosecutors are working against the country,” Berlusconi told reporters in the courtroom,…
Italian PM Berlusconi makes first court appearance in 8 years
MILAN, Italy (AFP) – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi attended a legal hearing on Monday for the first time in eight years, over allegations of fiscal fraud and breach of trust in his business interests. The hearing in judges’ chambers in Milan was part of a process to decide whether…
New docs could mean end of line for Berlusconi
ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faced more pressure to resign on Thursday after magistrates issued new documents with fresh details of erotic parties, some with under-age girls, and of his gifts to participants. The center-left opposition said the new documents made his position “untenable” and said he should…
Libya’s Kadhafi under siege as cities overrun
TRIPOLI – Protesters on Monday overran several Libyan cities and Tripoli was rocked by violence some residents said was a “massacre,” as the pillars of Moamer Kadhafi’s hardline four-decade rule began to crumble. A suggestion in Brussels by British Foreign Secretary William Hague that Kadhafi may have left the country…
Berlusconi to stand trial for underage sex
ROME – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will go on trial in April over allegations that he paid a 17-year-old girl for sex and used his status to spring her from police custody, a judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Cristina Di Censo scheduled the first hearing for April 6, in a…
Youth more radically opposed to present government than tea parties, poll finds
Partisan news missing the point: Youth, poor have greater reason for dissatisfaction than tea parties Predictions of a youth uprising sweeping the United States in 2011 appear to be turning increasingly true, according to a recent poll. Figures supporting that hypothesis, produced by the left-leaning Public Policy Polling (PPP) for…
Berlusconi ‘weakened by latest sex scandal’
ROME — Allegations that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hooked up with prostitutes he kept in rent-free luxury apartments have weakened the government and damaged the country’s image abroad, experts say. Italian magistrates on Friday announced an enquiry into the relationship between Berlusconi and an underage girl, known as Ruby, as…
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