News Source: Ansa
| about 2 hours ago
A proposal from the right-wing Northern League for a referendum banning Islamic minarets in Italy was rejected on Tuesday by allies in the center-right government. Seizing on the vote in Switzerland this weekend, which came out favor of banning the
News Source: The New York Observer
| about 2 hours ago
This is typically the time of year when I, Mr. Retail, embark upon the laborious task of writing a holiday gift guide for you, the ordinary woman in the street...I was, in point of fact, unable to find one single person who liked them, is prompted to
News Source: Ansa
| about 4 hours ago
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday met for the first time with the European Union's new president, Herman Van Rompuy. Topping the agenda in their talks were next week's European Council meeting, this month's climate conference in Copenhagen,
News Source: Kuwait Times
| about 15 hours ago
Kuwait is in dire need of opening up to the world as it did in the past, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah said yesterday, adding the country should beef up its international relations to preserve Kuwait's strategic interests.
News Source: Seattle Times
| 1 day ago
Belarus — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has become the first Western leader to visit Belarus in 15 years, as the authoritarian former Soviet state takes small steps toward reform. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, often characterized
News Source: Ansa
| 1 day ago
A constitutional referendum to ban the building of Islamic minarets in Italy is soon to appear before parliament, Simplification Minister Roberto Calderoli announced on Monday. Taking the lead from Switzerland, which drew widespread international
News Source: CNN
| 1 day ago
President Obama has informed several top diplomatic and military officials about his decision regarding new U.S. strategy and troop levels in Afghanistan, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday. Obama called Secretary of State Hillary
News Source: Ansa
| 1 day ago
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi will miss the first hearing in a revived bribery trial in Milan on December 4 because he has to cut a ribbon on a southern Italian motorway, his lawyer said Monday. Previously, lawyers for the premier had said his "