Italy’s interior minister says investigators believe anarchists may have been behind the package bombs that exploded at the Swiss and Chilean embassies. The ANSA news agency quoted Minister Roberto Maroni as saying the bombings Thursday, which injured the two people who opened the packages, were similar to the mail bombs sent to 14 embassies in [...]
At least 50 police and 40 protesters have been injured as hundreds of students clashed with police near the residence of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy’s capital on Tuesday. The riots came as parliament decided on the prime minister’s future. Berlusconi secured a comfortable victory in the no-confidence vote at the senate, but survived a similar [...]
Silvio Berlusconi is fighting for his political life as he faces two no-confidence votes that could bring down his government and pitch Italy into an acute political crisis. Just 2-1/2 years into his five-year term as the Italian prime minister, the media tycoon has spent the last week maneuvering to ensure he has the numbers [...]
Posted by uspostU.S.Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
US President Barack Obama arrived in Seoul on Wednesday ahead of a Group of 20 (G20) summit due to start the following day in the South Korean capital. Obama left Indonesia, one of his stops on his 10-day tour of Asia, several hours earlier than scheduled because of fears that ash from the erupting Mount [...]
Over the next few weeks, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s libidinous prime minister, is to play a role little seen in his testosterone-fuelled repertoire to date: the penitent. Faced with a drip-feed of ever more lurid revelations about his private life, he has undertaken a mission to finesse his tainted image. The hope is to show Italians [...]