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Cielo, News Corp.�s new Italo digital terrestrial TV channel, has suffered a double blow, with red tape blocking this week�s launch and the Italian government questioning whether the channel breaks competition law. Cielo execs announced the channel would...
Tags: Cielo, News Corp., Silvio Berlusconi, Italian, Italy, Milan
Prosecutors in the southern Italian city of Bari are investigating a young conservative MP with suspected links to local mafia. Elvira Savino, 33-year-old from the ruling conservative People of Freedom party, is among 129 people under investigation in...
Tags: Elvira Savino, Bari, Michele Labellarte, Italy, Money laundering, Mafia, Silvio Berlusconi, Sicily, Law Crime
Italy's interior minister Roberto Maroni on Wednesday said he had "no objections" to a referendum proposing a ban on mosque minarets in the country. "Someone has proposed carrying out a referendum here: I have no objections," said Maroni. Maroni is a...
Tags: Northern League, Italy, Roberto Maroni, Rome, Lega Nord, Silvio Berlusconi, Politics, Referendum, Minaret, Religion Belief, Roberto Calderoli, Roberto Castelli
There are no signs of a European thaw towards Belarus, either. But, Berlusconi’s reputation will hardly suffer from a meeting with the “last dictator of Europe”, even on Belarusian turf. And it seems that it was not the Berlusconi-politician, but rather...
Tags: Alexander Lukashenko Belarusian, Silvio Berlusconi, Minsk, Burkina Faso, Lon, Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, A.C. Milan
A curious lack of loyalty from the Dragon's Den star Peter Jones, who appears in advertisements for the price comparison website moneysupermarket.com . Though that company also owns the website travelsupermarket.com , Jones had no worries about telling...
Tags: FRC, United Kingdom, London, Silvio Berlusconi, Mediaset, Rupert Murdoch, Financial Reporting Council, A.C. Milan, Silvio, Moneysupermarket.com
Italian politicians close to Silvio Berlusconi demanded on Wednesday that his main ally explain his comments about the premier acting like an "absolute monarch" and that Mafia allegations against him were an "atom bomb." Gianfranco Fini, Berlusconi's...
Tags: Silvio Berlusconi, Gianfranco Fini, Berlusconi's Freedom People, prime minister, Rome, Politics, A.C. Milan, National Alliance, The People of Freedom, Fini, Maurizio Gasparri, Forza Italia, Italian general election
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,...
Tags: Belgium, Brussels, European Council, European Union, Treaty of Lisbon, Silvio Berlusconi, Politics, Frontex, Van Rompuy I Government, Herman Van Rompuy
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 construction...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, Italy, U.S. Justice Department, France, Hungary, Gitmo, Cuba, terrorism charges, Sabir Lahmar, guantanamo prisoners, Rome, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Sabir Mahfouz Lahmar, Algerian people, Internments, Algerian Six, Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy, Law Crime, Human rights abuses, Politics, Lakhdar Boumediene, Silvio Berlusconi, Adil Mabrouk Bin Hamida, Afghan captives in Guantanamo, Bensayah Belkacem, Counter-terrorism, Barack Obama, Minaret, Freedom of religion, Referendum, Religion Belief
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 as Europe's...
Tags: Belarusian, Silvio Berlusconi, visits belarus, Belarus, Minsk, Alexander Lukashenko, Politics of Belarus, A.C. Milan, Belarusian presidential election
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 "legitimate...
Tags: Silvio Berlusconi, Italy, Milan, Trials involving Silvio Berlusconi, David Mills, Cesare Previti, A.C. Milan, Law Crime