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Man held for sexually assaulting girlfriend in Italy


Police in the central Italian city of Perugia Monday arrested a 22-year-old Congolese migrant on sus...

Thousands protest in Rome against austerity cuts


Thousands of protesters on Saturday took to the streets of the Italian capital Rome calling for an e...

No plea bargain for captain in Italian shipwreck


Captain Francesco Schettino is accused of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship befo...

`Ruby was a prostitute, had sex with Berlusconi`


There is "no doubt" that former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi paid for sex with a Morocca...

Berlusconi sex trial: Prosecutors want six-year jail for ex-PM


Prosecutors have urged a Milan court to hand a six-year prison sentence and life ban from office to ...

CBI gets phone transcripts from Italy in VVIP chopper scam


CBI has received transcripts of telephone conversations between Italian middlemen and officials of a...

VVIP chopper deal: CBI to get phone transcripts from Italy


CBI is likely to get transcripts of phone conversations of Italian middlemen involved in VVIP helico...

Defence Ministry issues multi-crore tender for 56 new aircraft


Defence Ministry has issued a tender expected to be worth over Rs 12,000 crore to replace IAF`s Avro...

Italian journalist untraced in Syria


The Italian government has no information on 62-year-old war reporter Domenico Quirico, who vanished...

Doctor held in Italy for selling teenager`s baby


A gynaecologist has been arrested in a southern Italian city for allegedly selling a teenaged girl`s...

Italian court upholds Berlusconi`s fraud conviction


An appeal court in Italy`s Milan city upheld former premier Silvio Berlusconi`s four-year conviction...

Fishermen killing row: Italian FM hopes for `fair solution` for marines


Italy`s new Foreign Minister Emma Bonino on Tuesday said she hopes the case of two Italian marines a...

Italy`s ex-premier Giulio Andreotti dies at 94


Giulio Andreotti was one of postwar Italy`s most powerful men: He helped draft the country`s constit...

Italian woman minister quits after gay remarks


A woman junior equal opportunities minister in Italy has resigned after allegedly saying that gay pe...

VVIP chopper scam: Trial to begin from June 19 in Italy


`Instant trial` against ex-CEO of Italian firm Finmeccanica Giuseppe Orsi and Agusta Westland’s CEO ...

‘NRIs, tourists being harassed in Italy’


Two Italian marines who had shot and killed two Indian fishermen from a cargo vessel off Kerala coas...

Italy`s new government wins first confidence vote


Italy`s new government has easily won a confidence vote of confirmation in the lower house of Parlia...

MHA allows NIA not to invoke law providing for death against Italian marines


NIA has been allowed to probe killing of 2 Indian fishermen in which 2 Italian marines are accused ...

Two injured in shooting as new Italy government sworn in


Two people were wounded Sunday during a shooting outside Italian government offices while the countr...

Enrico Letta formally sworn in as Italian PM


Italy prepared to swear in a new coalition government Sunday, bringing fresh hope to a country mired...

Italy forms new government after 2-month stalemate


Coalition of Silvio Berlusconi`s forces and centre-left rivals forged a new Italian govt, unusual al...

No question of death penalty in Italian marines case: India


Amid concerns by Italy on the possibility of death sentence being imposed on its two marines accused...

Italy poised to get new government


Italy appeared poised today to finally get a new government, a broad coalition which brings media mo...

Italian legal expert slams India`s Supreme Court ruling on marines


An Italian legal expert has criticised India`s SC ruling that a national anti-terror body will conti...

Put aside doubts on marines` trial: Khurshid to Italy


Seeking to re-assure Italy, India said any doubts on Italian marines being put on trial for committi...

Italy`s Enrico Letta begins tricky coalition talks


Italian moderate leftist Enrico Letta begins complex talks on forming a new coalition govt aimed at ...

Italian leftist Enrico Letta to be country`s PM


Italian leftist Enrico Letta was nominated to be the new prime minister, bringing to an end a bitter...

Italy`s re-elected President calls for reforms


Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, sworn in Monday for an unprecedented second term in the countr...

Italian president slams politicians at swearing-in ceremony


Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Monday urged political parties to strike a deal on a new gov...

Napolitano mulls Italy government as he takes oath


President Giorgio Napolitano begins his unprecedented second term with the daunting task of trying t...

Italian president Giorgio Napolitano wins election for second term


Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Saturday won election for a second mandate in a move to solv...

Italy president re-elected to tackle deadlock


Italy`s 87-year-old President Giorgio Napolitano was re-elected by lawmakers on Saturday in a desper...

Italian in disarray as lawmakers vote for Prez


Voting in Italy`s Parliament to pick a president entered a chaotic third day on Saturday, with the l...

Italy centre-left leader Bersani to resign


Italy`s centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani on Friday told members of his party he would step down...

No Italian president after third round of voting


Italy`s Parliament on Friday failed for a third time to elect a successor to President Giorgio Napol...

Italy`s parties deadlocked on presidential vote


Italy`s Parliament failed to elect a new president during a second round of voting.

Italy`s Monti condemns US blasts as `cowardly act`


Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Tuesday sent a message to US President Barack Obama condemning...

Italian marines’ case: Italian govt questions NIA`s jurisdiction


Italy questioned in SC NIA`s jurisdiction to probe the case against its two marines for allegedly ki...

Cruise ship disaster pre-trial hearings begin in Italy


Indictment hearings against six suspects in the Costa Concordia luxury liner disaster began in Italy...

Cruise ship disaster pre-trial hearings due in Italy


The deadly Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster returns to court in Italy with the start of a long s...

Anarchist groups claim sending bomb to Italian daily


Two anarchist outfits have claimed responsibility for a parcel bomb delivered to the offices of the ...

Bicycle-riding serial rapist jailed in Italy


An Italian judge also fined immigrant Sameh El Melegy for stealing some of his victims` handbags and...

Italy party says `hacker attack` on presidential poll


An Italian protest party said its website had come under a "hacker attack" that would force it to ho...

Italy returns ex-president`s yacht to Tunisia


A court in Italy has authorised the return of a yacht belonging to the family of ousted Tunisian pre...

Italian protest party holds online vote for president


An Italian protest party held an online vote to select candidates to be the crisis-hit country`s nex...

Parcel bomb sent to Italian daily`s office


Media outlets in Italy have been put on high alert after a parcel bomb was sent to the offices of le...

Italian PM calls up Manmohan, discusses marines issue


Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told his Italian counterpart Mario Monti that a view on specific aspec...

Indian confesses to killing wife, daughter in Italy


An Indian labourer has confessed to stabbing to death his Italian wife and her teenage daughter sout...

India to honour assurance given to Italy on marines: Home Secy


India will honour the assurance given to Italy that the two of its marines who had allegedly killed ...

Italy pardons US officer, hopes India will grant clemency to marines


Italy pardoned US air force officer involved in CIA abduction of Egyptian terror suspect, hoping Ind...