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VVIP chopper scam: CBI gets phone transcripts from Italy
CBI has received transcripts of telephone conversations between Italian middlemen, officials of a defence firm - in which the Italy government has 30 percent stake - and others, in connection with the VVIP helicopter scam. #CBI #Italy #defence ministry #Finmeccanica #AgustaWestland #Chopper deal #VVIP
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Italy's Berlusconi attacks judges but backs Letta government
ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi launched a fierce attack on magistrates at a stormy political rally on Saturday, accusing them of trying to eliminate him politically but he pledged to keep supporting the fragile coalition of centre-left Prime Minister Enrico Letta. The leader of Italy's centre right, whose appeal against a tax fraud conviction was rejected this week and who still faces trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor, repeated his longstanding accusations against prosecutors. "Anyone who is not caught up by political factionalism can see clearly that there are politically motivated magistrates who are blinded by hate and prejudice towards me," he said #facebook #China #Brazil #Technology #climate change #Russia #Government #Italy #United Kingdom #Entertainment #opinion #political
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Syrian rebels free U.N. peacekeepers held in Golan
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian rebels on Sunday freed four Filipino U.N. peacekeepers whom they had captured on the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights last week. The rebels from the Yarmouk Martyrs' Brigade had said they were holding the soldiers for their own safety after clashes with Syrian government forces had put them in danger #Business #Syria #Technology #Arabic #Russia #Israel #Italy #Entertainment #lifestyle
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15th century Italians who rejected conversion to Islam proclaimed saints
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday proclaimed as saints some 800 Italians killed in the 15th century for refusing to convert to Islam, and said many Christians were still being persecuted for their faith. The Vatican seemed at pains not to allow the first canonisations of Francis' two-month-old papacy to be interpreted as anti-Islamic, saying the deaths of the 'Otranto Marytrs' must be understood in their historical context #facebook #United States #India #China #Japan #Islam #Technology #Italy #Argentina #United Kingdom
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Some 800,000 people to need food aid in Niger- UN
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Some 800,000 people will require food aid in Niger in the coming months despite a good harvest last year due to problems supplying cereals to markets, which have pushed up prices, and an influx of Malian refugees, the United Nations said. The U.N. office for humanitarian coordination (OCHA) said they would need food from now until the start of the rainy season, which is usually in July, July and August #facebook #China #Pakistan #Arabic #Italy #United Kingdom #Entertainment #Mexico #lifestyle
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Italy's Pirlo to retire after World Cup 2014
He hinted that he could go into management inspired by Juventus head coach Antonio Conte. #Italy #KickingAround #World Cup 2014 #Andrea Pirlo
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New Italian government confirmed by Senate
Italian Premier Enrico Letta's cross-party government won a final vote of confidence vote in Parliament today, giving life to a grand coalition that aims to put aside decades of animosity to return the eurozone's third-largest economy to growth. #World #NewsTracker #Angela Merkel #European Union #Italy #Enrico Letta
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Trapped in South Korea, veteran spies still believe in the North
SEOUL (Reuters) - Park Hee-sung, a 78-year-old North Korean former agent who has been held in the enemy South for close to half a century, remains staunchly loyal to his homeland, the ruling Kim family and its Juche ideology of economic self-reliance. A trim, neat man, Park is one of around two dozen North Korean operatives trapped in exile in affluent South Korea. #India #Japan #Brazil #NewsTracker #Health #Italy #Latin America #Entertainment #lifestyle #article
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Car bomb blasts kill 18 in Iraqi Shi'ite provinces
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Car bombs in busy Shi'ite Muslim areas of southern Iraq killed at least 18 people on Monday, medics and police sources said, taking the week's death toll to nearly 200 as sectarian violence intensifies. #facebook #China #Technology #Russia #markets #Italy #Argentina #Latin America #Entertainment #opinion
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The maze behind EU "treaty change"
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - If there are two words that tense the jaws of European policymakers and prompt a concerned sucking of teeth, they are treaty change. Like a nervous driver being told mid-route that he needs a different map if he's going to get where he's going, no one is sure whether the outcome will be road rage, a car crash or a smoother, if longer, journey. So when German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble spoke his mind during a meeting in Dublin on April 13 and said a change to the EU's treaty was necessary if Europe was to build a fully-fledged banking union, there was more than a little angst in the corridors of Brussels #Legal #Economy #China #Japan #Brazil #Italy #european #opinion