Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi canceled his trip to attend this week's United Nations General Assembly so he can personally follow the crisis involving national air carrier Alitalia, senior government officials said Tuesday.
Bankrupt Alitalia canceled 40 flights on Wednesday after a small union called a four-hour strike to protest layoffs and other tough measures in a rescue plan by potential investors.
Hundreds of soldiers were deployed Monday in cities across Italy as part of government measures to fight street crime
A minister's obscene gesture, aimed at the national anthem, could threaten Berlusconi's coalition government
For years, it's been a national embarrassment. Over the past year, it's spiraled into a crisis damaging Italy's image all over the world: the heaps of garbage lining the streets of Naples.
The Italian prime minister plans to declare Friday that the worst part of a garbage crisis in Naples is over, even though a visit to one neighborhood found residents still living amid huge piles of trash.
Italian opposition parties are planning to demonstrate Tuesday against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's attempt to pass legislation that critics say would protect him in an ongoing court case.
Italy's leader joins other prominent divorced and remarried Catholics in asking the Pope to reconsider the ban on their taking the sacrament
There is often an air of theatrical unreality about EU summits. This one seems to be the Keystone Cops Meets Othello, or any other tragedy you care to name.
U.S. President George W. Bush's farewell tour of Europe took him to Rome on Thursday, where he met with his friend and ally, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi canceled his trip to attend this week's United Nations General Assembly so he can personally follow the crisis involving national air carrier Alitalia, senior government officials said Tuesday.
Bankrupt Alitalia canceled 40 flights on Wednesday after a small union called a four-hour strike to protest layoffs and other tough measures in a rescue plan by potential investors.
Hundreds of soldiers were deployed Monday in cities across Italy as part of government measures to fight street crime
A minister's obscene gesture, aimed at the national anthem, could threaten Berlusconi's coalition government
For years, it's been a national embarrassment. Over the past year, it's spiraled into a crisis damaging Italy's image all over the world: the heaps of garbage lining the streets of Naples.
The Italian prime minister plans to declare Friday that the worst part of a garbage crisis in Naples is over, even though a visit to one neighborhood found residents still living amid huge piles of trash.
Italian opposition parties are planning to demonstrate Tuesday against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's attempt to pass legislation that critics say would protect him in an ongoing court case.
Italy's leader joins other prominent divorced and remarried Catholics in asking the Pope to reconsider the ban on their taking the sacrament
There is often an air of theatrical unreality about EU summits. This one seems to be the Keystone Cops Meets Othello, or any other tragedy you care to name.
U.S. President George W. Bush's farewell tour of Europe took him to Rome on Thursday, where he met with his friend and ally, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced Wednesday that he has appointed a new "garbage czar" to combat a crisis that has left the streets of Naples awash with trash.
Berlusconi holds his first cabinet meeting in the troubled city, where the problems range from uncollected trash to organized crime
An Italian judge ruled Wednesday that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may be called as a witness at the trial of 26 Americans, mostly CIA agents, in connection with the alleged kidnapping of a Muslim cleric, a Milan court official said.
Italian prime minister-elect Silvio Berlusconi believes Italian investors are ready to bid for ailing airline Alitalia -- but also warned that workers for the national airline faced job cuts, agencies report local media as saying.
Billionaire conservative former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is on track to become Italy's next leader after his center-left rival Walter Veltroni Monday conceded general election defeat.
A third election as prime minister vindicates the often controversial Italian politician, but this time, there's little euphoria among his supporters
Italians began voting Sunday in snap general elections that could bring the return of a familiar face in Italian politics: former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Italians will go to the polls Sunday and Monday for general elections that could bring the return of a familiar face in Italian politics: former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Unable to form a new government, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved parliament Wednesday, paving the way for new elections that could see a return to power by former premier Silvio Berlusconi.
I know, news of yet another Italian political crisis is not very exciting, certainly not easy to explain and in the end chances are that the next prime minister will keep his job for a year or two, and then the circus will start again.
The Italian Parliament is expected to be dissolved, with national elections scheduled in April
Italian opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi has told Italy's president that only early elections can end the political crisis sparked by the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi last week.
With spumante and melodrama spilling out among legislators, Prime Minister Roman Prodi submits his resignation
"Mamma mia, dotto', che sta succedendo?"
Prime Minister Romano Prodi no longer has a working majority in the Italian Senate. Does it spell the end for him?
Roman Abramovich has a long way to go before he can even come within a mile of the achievements and status of Silvio Berlusconi.
Italy's president Giorgio Napolitano is holding crisis talks with political leaders to see if Romano Prodi, who resigned as prime minister after nine months in power, can continue to lead a government or must be replaced.
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on Wednesday offered his resignation to President Giorgio Napolitano.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has taken back the position of president of AC Milan.
AC Milan's Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko wants to leave the Serie A club and move to England, club owner Silvio Berlusconi has revealed.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has handed in his resignation, but with his elected successor facing an extended wait before forming a new government, the country's policital uncertainty was far from over.
Silvio Berlusconi's allies seem ready to cede victory to Romano Prodi in the Italian election, even if the outgoing prime minister does not.
A top Italian court has confirmed center-left leader Romano Prodi's narrow victory in last week's general election, but Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition is not conceding defeat.
Several ballot boxes have been found in Rome, officials said, a day after Premier Silvio Berlusconi rejected the center-left's victory claim and demanded a recount.
Italian opposition leader Romano Prodi has said he is on the brink of choosing his new government, shrugging off Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's refusal to concede defeat.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has refused to concede in the country's elections, despite official results showing opposition leader Romano Prodi's center-left coalition taking control of both houses of Parliament.
Italian opposition leader Romano Prodi claimed victory Tuesday for his center-left coalition in parliamentary elections, but Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was contesting the claim.
Italians began voting Sunday in parliamentary elections following an often-volatile political campaign by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his opponent, Romano Prodi.
One evening this winter the Italian talk-show host Enrico Mentana played a clip for his guest, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in which Oscar-winning actor Roberto Benigni mocked Berlusconi's fiv...
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a staunch U.S. ally on the war with Iraq, says he tried to steer U.S. President George W. Bush away from war with Iraq, saying he was "never convinced that war was the best way to succeed in bringing democracy to a country."
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has told the United States to respect Italian sovereignty following the alleged CIA kidnapping of a Muslim terrorism suspect in Milan in 2003.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has told Parliament that he disagreed with some of the U.S. military's conclusions into the shooting death of an Italian agent by American soldiers in Iraq.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and U.S. President George W. Bush had a "long and cordial" telephone conversation about the killing of an Italian intelligence agent by American soldiers in Iraq, according to Berlusconi's office.
Pressure is mounting on the Italian government from its own supporters to reconsider the country's military presence in Iraq after conflicting reports on the killing of an Italian agent by U.S. soldiers.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has won parliamentary approval for a new government, ending a week-long political crisis that followed an embarrassing defeat in regional elections.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has won a confidence vote in the lower house of Italian parliament.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Tuesday disputed a report that an investigation into the shooting death of an Italian security agent and the wounding of a former hostage in Iraq had exonerated U.S. troops.
A U.S. military investigation has cleared American troops of any wrongdoing in the shooting death last month of an Italian security agent in Baghdad, according to a senior Pentagon official.
Silvio Berlusconi, who resigned from the Italian prime ministership three days ago, was sworn in Saturday as the next leader of a new government.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said the country's president has asked him to form a new government.
Italy's acting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said he expects to have a new cabinet list ready by Friday although some problems remain.
Caught in a political crisis and facing a vote of no confidence in the Senate, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has handed in his resignation to Italian President Carlo Ciampi after telling senators he planned to form a new government with different coalition partners.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government will face a vote of confidence Thursday in the Senate to determine whether it continues in power or falls, Italian parliament sources told CNN.
Two Italian political parties have withdrawn from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's coalition government after a stinging defeat in regional elections last week.
U.S. President George W. Bush has again expressed regrets to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over the shooting death of an Italian security agent in Iraq in March.
Italy's center-left opposition has hailed Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's announcement that Italian troops could start pulling out of Iraq in September.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who says his country's troops will start leaving Iraq in September, has stressed that a pullout will be gradual, agreed with allies and designed not to jeopardise Iraq's stability.
Italy will begin a partial withdrawal of its roughly 3,000 troops from Iraq in September, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday, making it the latest member of the U.S.-led coalition to announce plans to leave.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says the intelligence agent shot dead by the U.S. military told them he would be escorting a newly released hostage to the airport -- contrary to U.S. claims.
The body of an Italian security officer killed at a U.S. checkpoint in Iraq has arrived back in Rome.
Italians are celebrating the return of a reporter held captive by Iraqi insurgents for a month, but grieving over the killing by U.S. forces of a security officer who helped negotiate her release.
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he has asked the United States for answers about the shooting death of an Italian intelligence officer in Iraq, who was killed while escorting a freed Italian hostage to the airport.
U.S. soldiers attempted to warn the occupants of a car carrying a freed Italian journalist before troops opened fire, killing a bodyguard and wounding the reporter, multinational officials said Friday night.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has quit as president of AC Milan to comply with recently-introduced conflict of interest laws.
A three-judge panel in Milan has quashed corruption charges against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, ending a four-year trial that had threatened his political career.
A panel of three judges is considering its verdict in the corruption trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
An EU committee's rejection of an Italian nominee with conservative views on homosexuality has drawn a sharp condemnation by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Controversy continues to surround reports that the Italian government paid a ransom to free two female aid workers held hostage in Iraq for three weeks.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has called a crisis meeting and urged a united front in the face of the kidnapping of two Italian women working for an aid organization in Iraq.
Police say they have defused an explosive device near a Sardinian villa where Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had been entertaining his British counterpart Tony Blair, news reports said.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has survived yet another a vote of confidence in his government, successfully gambling on a bid to bring his bickering coalition into line.
U.S. President George W. Bush, in Europe to honor the dead of World War II, says that 60 years on, the war against terror is now "the challenge of our time."
The Italian government is working to free the four Italian citizens held in Iraq, according to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has made a surprise Easter visit to Italian troops in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya.
Italian politicians on Monday claimed the rioting that led to the abandonment of Sunday's clash between Roman rivals Roma and Lazio was pre-organized by hardcore supporters from both sides.
ROME (Reuters) - The old adage that behind every successful man stands a woman appears to be true even for Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who says his wife persuaded him to have cosmetic surgery around the eyes.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has had a facelift to prepare for this summer's European elections, Italian media reports.
Italy's Constitutional Court has thrown out a law giving legal immunity to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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