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Berlusconi expelled from Parliament
ROME -- The Italian Senate approved the expulsion of Silvio Berlusconi from parliament Wednesday following his conviction and sentence for tax fraud, officials said.
UK warns expats of drug offence dangers
"Real progress” on Lettori – Lidington
MILAN – Italy at last has agreed to seek a solution to long-running discrimination against foreign lecturers in Italy's universities in what UK Europe Minister David Lidington calls “real progress,
Commissioners mull Cameron Lettori plea
Turkish integration requires EU to "embrace multiculturalism"
Lettori: Open letter to Enrico Letta
Dear Mr Letta-This month I testify to the European Parliament Petitions Committee and meet UK Europe Minister David Lidington in London.
Rome remembers Commonwealth fallen soldiers
ROME -- Senior representatives from the military, Christian, Jewish and Muslim establishments and Commonwealth Embassies gathered to mark Remembrance Day 2013.
Cameron urges EU to annul Gelmini law
Turkey vows long term aid to Arab Spring
ROME – Ankara will give “long-term” support for Arab Spring movements until “democratic expectations and aspirations” prevail in Syria and Egypt, the Turkish Ambassador to Italy, Hakki Akil, says.
Special Arabic and spook talk
ROME- The office dealing with the prying and spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel
Security increased at US embassy amid Datagate backlash
Books: Pope Francis's controversial past
ROME-Pope Francis's embryonic papacy has been fresh air for many Catholics-The enthusiastic extrovert, impatient of formality, eager to preach and practice the essential message of God’s untiring f
The unaddressed immigration questions
Datagate Scandal: Britain spied on Italy too
EU addresses immigration as another boat of migrants is rescued
San Marino and Turkey
Sex charge rocks UN agencies
ROME --The rise of an influential Asian clan at the UN food agencies has snagged with the suspension of a top IFAD official over a sexual harassment complaint, UN sources say.
FAO jobs saved by Insider
ROME–FAO’s CIO chief Florentin Albu, bowing to pressure, has agreed to re-deploy four axed staffers to new posts, following Italian Insider’s disclosing his plans to dump them in violation of labou
Letta: Peace in the Middle East is our objective
Job cuts "vendetta" revealed at FAO
ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organisation's ambitious CIO division director, Florentin Albu, has turned abolition of posts at the UN agency into a “personal vendetta,” FAO sources charge.