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Italian prosecutors have appealed the 2004 acquittal of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges that he bribed judges to block competing industrialist Carlo De Benedetti from buying a state-owned food conglomerate. In 1985, judges...

An Italian court has sent five members of left-wing extremist group the Red Brigades to prison for life for involvement in the 2002 murder of Marco Biagi , an economic advisor to the government of Prime...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi emerged victorious Tuesday after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that EU law could not overrule an Italian law partially decriminalizing false accounting crimes. The...

Italian prosecutors in Milan Tuesday asked a judge to order Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and 12 others to stand trial on corruption charges relating to alleged fraud, tax evasion and money laundering in connection with a TV rights...

The Italian Senate Wednesday approved a broad constitutional reform bill that will increase the prime minister's executive authority, minimize the risk that governments will collapse mid-term, redistribute power between the houses of parliament, and...

Italian prosecutors have questioned Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who was wounded late Friday by US forces after she was released by her kidnappers at the end of a month-long hostage ordeal. An Italian security agent was killed...

journalist Giuliana Sgrena to safety after she had been released from her Iraqi captors. The attack wounded Sgrena and killed an Italian secret...

In Wednesday's international brief, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens says that no prosecutions will proceed against the four Britons released from Guantanamo Bay based on material gathered by UK MI5 investigators who made...

In a rare political move, 84-year old Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has refused to sign a justice bill sponsored by the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, sending it back to Italy's parliament for revision. The President's office...

AP is reporting that an Italian court has cleared Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges.12:45 PM ET - Berlusconi was cleared of one charge on grounds that the statute of limitations had run out, although the judges...