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The Italian prosecutor's office in Milan has asked for 22 CIA operatives to be extradited to Italy to face charges for the alleged kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Abu Omar in 2003, according to an Italian prosecutor...

An Italian court began hearings on Friday to decide if Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will stand trial for fraud in connection with his business holdings . Berlusconi has previously been cleared of...

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for Russian billionaire and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, recently imprisoned for tax fraud after a long and politically-controversial trial, says his client's case is a call to the West to...

Milan Prosecutor Armando Spataro announced Friday the approval of three new arrest warrants in connection for purported CIA operatives with the kidnapping of a radical Muslim in 2003 in Milan. A total of 22 purported CIA...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was acquitted of false accounting charges by an Italian court Monday. Prosecutors had charged the leader and media empire mogul with numerous counts of false accounting, including false bookkeeping charges, in connection...

Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Vatican's health department, said Sunday that Italian proposals to give legal status to unmarried couples are a threat to traditional families. A "traditional" family is held by the Vatican to be a...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, in the strongest statement so far by a European governmental body, the German Bundestag has called on the German government to take several strong steps against the administration of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced Friday at the G8 summit that his country will begin withdrawing 300 of its 3,000 troops from Iraq as early as September, depending on security conditions. The announcement comes amid concerns...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi took the remarkable step Friday of demanding in an official statement delivered to summoned US ambassador Mel Sembler that the US government exhibit "full respect" for Italian sovereignty in the...

The World Tribunal on Iraq on Friday accused the US of committing war crimes during the invasion of Iraq and claimed the United States has caused more deaths in Iraq than former dictator Saddam Hussein. The tribunal,...