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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…
Italians ‘turned their backs’ on Berlusconi
ROME (AFP) – A trouncing in referendums that have wiped out Italy’s plans to return to nuclear power after a shock local election defeat mean Silvio Berlusconi has lost his magic, Italian newspapers said on Tuesday. “The magic flute is broken. After 20 years, Italians have stopped following Berlusconi’s music,”…
Italians vote on plan to restart nuclear power program
ROME — Italians began voting on Sunday in referendums on plans to return to nuclear power and on a law granting Silvio Berlusconi immunity in what is seen as a vital test for the embattled premier. The nuclear vote will be an important marker of popular opinion on atomic energy…
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…
Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi to stand trial for underage prostitute
MILAN (Reuters) – An Italian judge ordered Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial on Tuesday on charges that include paying an underage girl for sex. Following weeks of scandal that have shaken his struggling center-right government, trial has now been set to start in a criminal court in Milan…
Thousands of Italy’s women rally against Berlusconi
ROME (AFP) – Thousands of women took to the streets of Italian cities Sunday calling for “dignity” and greater rights after a series of lurid prostitution scandals involving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. “We are defending the dignity of women,” read a placard held up at one of the rallies in…
Prosecutors to seek sex trial for Berlusconi
MILAN – Italian prosecutors will on Wednesday seek an immediate trial for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, accused of paying for sex with an under-age girl and intervening improperly to have her released from police custody. Once the request is submitted by Milan prosecutors, who believe they have enough evidence to…
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…
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Would have thought this would be right up her alley. Last week, Silvio Berlusconi’s new rightwing Italian administration announced plans to carry out a national registration of all the country’s estimated 150,000 Gypsies – Roma and Sinti people – whether Italian-born or migrants. Interior minister and leading light of the…
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