IT is nearly a decade since Italy's top appeals court caused a furore by ruling that a woman wearing tight jeans cannot by definition be raped or sexually molested because the removal of the garment r
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By Phil Stewart
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian parliament approved a law on Tuesday giving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution, a victory for the conservative billionaire who has l
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Valentino Rossi's 66th career victory finally conquered one of the two tracks he had yet to win on in MotoGP.
ROME _ An Italian parliamentary panel gave initial approval Wednesday to a plan fingerprint everyone in the country, a move that could defuse criticism over a mandatory program to fingerprint Gypsies.
President Dmitry Medvedev said humanitarian cooperation was developing actively between Russia and Italy.
A man beat his 4-year-old daughter's head against the stone base of a Rome monument in front of tourists and a police officer, leaving the child in a coma, police said Sunday.
Carabinieri Lt. Col. Anto
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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 tr
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Nine soldiers from eight states were killed in an insurgent raid that penetrated an American outpost in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.
