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A new panel of judges will formally open Premier Silvio Berlusconi's bribery trial on Dec. 4, more than a year after it was frozen by a now-defunct immunity law.
He's Italian premier, media mogul and one of the country's richest men. Now Silvio Berlusconi can add "Rockstar of the Year" to his caps.
The trial of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on a tax fraud charge reopened Monday after a year, but was immediately adjourned until January to allow the premier to attend.
Italy's parliament was considering a controversial bill Thursday that would limit the length of trials, with critics saying it was drafted to help Premier Silvio Berlusconi with his legal problems.
Italian news reports say Premier Silvio Berlusconi is seeking to postpone the resumption of his fraud trial in Milan.
With fraud and corruption trials looming, Premier Silvio Berlusconi is sparring with Italy's magistrates, who threatened on Thursday to go on strike to protest his branding them as communists targeting a billionaire.
A long-running battle between Silvio Berlusconi and the Italian judiciary flared up again Thursday as the main magistrates' association held protests in courtrooms to denounce the premier's latest attack on prosecutors and judges.
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says he has no intention of selling AC Milan and hopes David Beckham returns to the club.
The appeals trial of a British lawyer who has been convicted in a corruption case involving Silvio Berlusconi opened Friday in Milan, with defense lawyers saying they want the Italian premier to testify.
From cruise-ship crooner to billionaire media mogul to Italy's dominant political figure, Premier Silvio Berlusconi has achieved an improbable rise to power.
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday he will go on TV and appear in courtrooms to prove that corruption and tax fraud charges in two trials against him are false.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi is still talking about President Barack Obama's "tan," and this time the gaffe-prone Italian leader has made a wisecrack about Michelle Obama's skin color as well.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi had his first meeting Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI since the Italian leader was implicated in a sex scandal that broke last spring.
Italian news reports say a businessman involved in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal has been placed under house arrest as part of a drug probe.
The state lawyer's office has urged the Constitutional Court to uphold an immunity law that shields Silvio Berlusconi from prosecution in a corruption case, saying that without it the Italian premier might resign, news reports said Thursday.
Thirty women. Eighteen parties. Guests willing to supply sex "if the need arises."
Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday gave his full support to the Italian Catholic Church after it was dragged into a media row linked to Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex scandal.
Allies of the Italian government have pledged to patch up ties with the Catholic church, after a newspaper in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's media family attacked a Catholic editor who had demanded he answer allegations in a sex scandal over young women.
The estranged wife of Premier Silvio Berlusconi says in a book published Wednesday that it was her husband's alleged lies that pushed her to file for divorce at the outset of the sex scandal involving the Italian conservative leader.
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi made one of his strongest denials yet in a scandal over alleged relationships with young women, insisting on Friday he has nothing to hide and nothing to apologize for.
An Italian magazine released more tapes Thursday of purported conversations between Silvio Berlusconi and a high-class prostitute, keeping up the pressure in the sex scandal engulfing the Italian premier.
President Barack Obama heaped lavish praise on Italy's largely ceremonial president Wednesday, lauding his "integrity" and describing him as a "great leader."
Premier Silvio Berlusconi will bask in his role as host of the Group of Eight summit of industrialized nations — a break from the barrage of attacks from a starlet scandal that has engulfed him at home.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi is steeped in a new scandal over a dinner he had at the home of a constitutional court judge who will rule on a key decision whether to grant him immunity from prosecution while in office.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi is expanding his presence on the world stage leading into next week's Group of Eight summit with a flurry of diplomacy aimed, at least in part, at diverting attention from the starlet scandal that has engulfed him at home.
Silvio Berlusconi's wife makes 43m euros divorce claimThe estranged wife of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is seeking 43m euros (£39m) a year in her divorce case, according to a media report. Veronica Lario filed for divorce in May, angered by a reported liaison with an 18-year-old aspiring model.
'He lied' - Berlusconi turns his guns on Pope BenedictThe Italian newspaper Il Giornale, owned by the family of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, carries a headline today dominated by the words “Ha mentito” - “he lied”, referring Pope Benedict XVI. The paper is busy stirring up trouble over the claims by S …
Berlusconi prepared to go to court to testify that claims he is impotent are falseAs part of a counter-attack against his increasingly vociferous critics at home and abroad, Silvio Berlusconi is suing an Italian newspaper, L'Unita, for two million euros for libel after the paper ran articles claiming he suffered from erectile dysfunction and used Viagra.
Italian Women Rise UpMANY outside Italy seem to assume that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gets away with his sexist behavior because Italian men condone it and the women at least tolerate it. But this is no longer true. Today there are two Italys: one Italy has soaked up Mr.
Italians still at odds over unification 150 years on - Plans for official anniversary of union see old wounds reopeneIT WAS the Austrian statesman Prince Klemens von Metternich who famously observed: "Italy is a geographical expression". That was in a letter written in 1849, 12 years before Italy emerged as a unified state.
Does Berlusconi sense the end is near?When Berlusconi attacked media outlet TG3 for simply reporting the news, he managed to unite the opposition – why did he do it?
I don't owe my family any apology, says defiant Silvio BerlusconiThe Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, insisted yesterday that he had nothing to apologise for despite facing criticism from his daughter this week over his relationships with teenage girls and prostitutes.
This is how Italy functions, says call girlElevated from call girl to parliamentary candidate but then ostracised by those who feared she would reveal her secrets, Patrizia D'Addario's story as the escort who went public about her night with Silvio Berlusconi has aspects of a soap opera.
Former ally says Silvio Berlusconi has 'whoring attitude' to womenA former senator from Silvio Berlusconi's party has publicly branded the Italian prime minister "a real pig" with a "whoring attitude of contempt towards women"
Berlusconi's daughter lashes out over moralsThe daughter of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said she was amazed by the attention her father lavished on a teenage model, in a rare criticism of the scandal-hit leader by one of his children.
Vatican to cast out doctors, women for use of 'abortion pill'Two articles on the topic. A brief one from the Times of India: Vatican to cast out doctors, women for abortion pill useAs Italy authorised the use of the abortion pill Mifepristone, the Vatican threatened to excommunicate doctors who prescribe it and women who take the pill.
Is Italy's Berlusconi In Bed With The Mafia?If that document proves to be genuine, it would suggest that Berlusconi was a plausible Mafia interlocutor during that murderous season. It's a scenario so chilling that it has never been told, except in a novel.
Italy's problems do not end with BerlusconiThe now daily revelations about Silvio Berlusconi's sex life suggest to many a leader unfit to govern.
Silvio Berlusconi minister alleges call girl was paid to lieSilvio Berlusconi's foreign minister has alleged Patrizia D'Addario, the call girl at the centre of sex allegation against the Italian prime minister, has been paid to invent her story.
Italians like Berlusconi just the way he isSilvio Berlusconi continues to enjoy approval ratings that most leaders would die for, says Tobias Jones.
'Silvio's sex life: why Italians don't care'First of all, one might reply, the majority of Italians know nothing about the scrapes their leader has got himself into in the past few days. I think the English know more about his troubles than the Italians, for example, and come to mention it the Spanish and Germans too.
Peter Popham: Berlusconi, king of the bimbo jungleItaly was galvanised again this week by the baroque sex life of its extraordinary Prime Minister, with the release of tapes surreptitiously recorded by a high-class prostitute called Patrizia D'Addario, who spent an apparently exhausting and sleepless night with Mr Berlusconi las …
New embarrassment for Berlusconi as latest 'sex tapes' are airedThe Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, faced further – and even more excruciating – embarrassment today when the weekly news magazine L'Espresso posted a recording on its website apparently made soon after he had finished having sex with a prostitute.
'We didn't sleep a wink': escort releases recording of her night with BerlusconiThe escort, Patrizia D'Addario, claims the tapes relate to the night of 4 November last year, when the leaders of the world were holding their breath, waiting to see if Americans would elect their first black president.
My night with Berlusconi: escort girl releases her tapeAudio tapes and transcripts of Silvio Berlusconi's alleged encounter with an escort girl were posted on the internet yesterday, rekindling the scandal over the Prime Minister's private life.
Blame the Italians for BerlusconiA preview of an article author and professor of semiotics, Umberto Eco, has written for an Italian periodical. He questions why anyone would blame Berlusconi for being Berlusconi? Italy elected him and he hasn't changed his stripes - he's always been a cad.
Gaddafi no-show angers Italians Col Gaddafi has prompted a number of controversies on his first visit to Italy, Libya's former colonial ruler. He and his 200-member entourage arrived to a red-carpet welcome on Wednesday hosted by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Libya's Moammar Gadhafi welcomes 'new era' in relations with ItalyROME AP â Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has hailed a "new era" in relations with Italy during his first visit to his country s former colonial ruler.
Berlusconi fury over naked photosItalian PM Silvio Berlusconi has reacted angrily to the publication in Spain of photographs showing topless women and a naked man at his villa. He has threatened to sue Spain's El Pais newspaper, calling the photos an invasion of privacy.
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