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Italy stories: 310 news summaries

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(Newser) - Besieged Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is “a national joke,” Michael Wolff writes in Vanity Fair. He’s also immensely popular. In the midst of his most recent sex scandal, he and his party were handily reelected. What’s the deal? To begin with, “he controls... More »

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politics • sex scandal • Italy • corruption • prime minister • Silvio Berlusconi • Michael Wolff • Veronica Berlusconi

(Newser) - Thieves made off with $16 million in cash and jewels from the safe of a Saudi princess in Sardinia, the BBC reports. Investigators believe the burglars used a master key to gain access to her room in a chic resort and rip the safe from the wall. The theft sparked... More »

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Saudi Arabia • theft • Italy • burglary • Sardinia • Royal Family

 Fear Saved Helicopter Mom 


Aug 10, 09 4:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Italian mom too frightened to take a helicopter tour of Manhattan saved her life—but lost most of her family as the copter collided with a plane over the Hudson River, reports the New York Daily News. Silvia Rigamonti got cold feet at the last minute. The tour was... More »

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New Jersey • Manhattan • Italy • plane crash • helicopter • Hudson River • helicopter crash • Bologna • Hoboken

(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi's antics with models and call girls have threatened to derail his government, but the woman at the center of the sex-and-corruption scandal says she's seen it all before. "This is how Italy always works," Patrizia D’Addario tells the Financial Times. The hooker says she came... More »

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prostitution • Italy • corruption • Silvio Berlusconi • prostitute • call girl • European Parliament • Veronica Lario • Patrizia D'Addario

Daughter 'Astounded' by Berlusconi's Indiscretions

And says pols can't expect much private life

Aug 4, 09 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi’s daughter says she was “astounded” by allegations that the Italian premier consorted with model Noemi Letizia before she turned 18, Bloomberg reports. “I never hung out with elderly men,” Barbara Berlusconi, 25 and the mom of two, tells the Italian edition of Vanity Fair.... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • Silvio Berlusconi • interview • Noemi Letizia • Barbara Berlusconi

(Newser) - Italy has legalized the abortion drug RU-486, drawing the ire of the Vatican, which threatened to excommunicate doctors who prescribe the medication and women who take it. A church official said using the pill is "a sin in a moral and juridical sense," but a politician who is... More »

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abortion • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Italy • Vatican • morning after pill • mifepristone • abortion pill • Roman Catholic Church • abortion pills • RU-486

 Swimmer Makes Ass of Himself 


Jul 29, 09 3:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Champion US swimmer Ricky Berens got that sinking feeling when his high-tech suit split down the back an instant before he sailed into the water for his leg of a relay at the FINA Swimming World Championship in Rome. The result was a flash of muscly derrière transmitted on... More »

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Italy • Rome • swimming • wardrobe malfunction • gold medal • swimming pool • USA Swimming • swimsuit • gold medalist • Ricky Berens

Ex-Hooker: Berlusconi Offered Me a Parliament Seat

Says he gave escorts acting, political roles

Jul 27, 09 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Patrizia D’Addario, the prostitute who brought the world what she says are audiotapes of her having sex with Silvio Belusconi, says the Italian PM offered her a seat in the European Parliament, the Times of London reports. He offered her the position in lieu of paying for sex,... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • sex tape • Silvio Berlusconi • prostitute • Patrizia D'Addario

(Newser) - A newly released audio tape apparently captures Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a graphic sexual conversation with a female escort, reports the Daily Telegraph. Two voices on the tape discuss orgasm and a just-ended satisfying sexual encounter, with the man recommending that the woman "touch" herself "often.... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • sex scandal • Italy • Vatican • escort • Silvio Berlusconi • Patrizia D'Addario

(Newser) - Italian authorities believe they have torpedoed Kim Jong-Il's hopes of acquiring a pair of new luxury yachts, the Financial Times reports. The sale of the $18 million yachts, which would have violated international sanctions, was blocked after investigators traced the contract to North Korea. Authorities say they have no proof... More »

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North Korea • Italy • sanctions • Kim Jong Il • yachts • international sanctions

Berlusconi Admits He's
'No Saint'

Italian PM shrugs off call-girl scandal as 'low-level stuff'

Jul 22, 09 3:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi appeared unconcerned about the recent disclosure of tapes of an alleged intimate conversation between him and a prostitute, the Telegraph reports. “There are a lot of pretty girls about. I am no saint but you know that,” the Italian PM said today in his first public... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • prime minister • Silvio Berlusconi • prostitute • call girl • Freedom Party

(Newser) - A 23-year-old mother of two has overcome a grueling entrance exam and 900 years of taboos to become the first female gondolier in Venetian history, the Los Angeles Times reports. Giorgia Boscolo's entry into the profession has caused waves among the city's close-knit fraternity of gondoliers, with some fearing she... More »

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Italy • sexism • Venice • gondola • Giorgia Boscolo

Italian Paper Releases 'Tapes'
of Berlusconi Escort Tryst

Man instructs woman to wait 'in Putin's bed'

Jul 20, 09 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi’s prostitution scandal flared anew today as Italian newspaper L’Espresso released audio recordings made by the woman who claims she was paid to attend a party with the Italian PM, the BBC reports. On the recordings, a voice said to be Berlusconi’s says: “I’m... More »

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prostitution • newspaper • Italy • affair • prime minister • Silvio Berlusconi • scandal • Patrizia D%u2019Addario

updated

Pope Slips
on Vacation, Breaks Wrist

Injury is 'nothing serious,' says pontiff spokesman

Jul 17, 09 3:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI broke his wrist today after slipping and falling in his room during a vacation in the Italian Alps,  reports the New York Times. "It's nothing serious," said a Vatican spokesman. Benedict, who even celebrated Mass before going to the hospital by car, is expected... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Italy • injury • accident

(Newser) - If Amanda Knox gets off for the murder of Meredith Kercher, it'll be despite her family—who have caused an uproar in Italy for appearing on the cover of a women's magazine. As Newsweek reports, one photo features Knox's two sisters, Deanna, 20, and Ashley, 14, posing in short shorts... More »

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Italy • murder trial • Perugia • Meredith Kercher • Amanda Knox

(Newser) - A wedding bouquet in Italy failed to predict the next bride-to-be, but it did succeed in downing a small plane, the Guardian reports. Hoping to spice up the proceedings, the wedding party entrusted the bouquet to a man who flew overhead in an ultra-light aircraft. When he attempted to... More »

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Italy • wedding • plane crash • airplane • bouquet • Pisa • ultra-light aircraft

analysis

Five Leaders Who Liked Bush Better


Jul 11, 09 5:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Not all foreign leaders prefer Barack Obama to George W. Bush. Joshua Keating of Foreign Policy lists five heads of state who probably miss Dubya:
  • Silvio Berlusconi. "The conservative Christian from Texas and the lecherous billionaire" were good buddies; Bush hosted the Italian president often at his
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Barack Obama • Israel • Venezuela • Poland • Italy • Colombia • Benjamin Netanyahu • missile defense system • Lech Kaczynski • Hugo Chávez • Silvio Berlusconi • Alvaro Uribe • George W. Bush • Obama administration

(Newser) - President Obama met with Pope Benedict for the first time today at the Vatican, the AP reports. The White House press secretary predicted a “frank discussion. I think that there's a lot that they agree on that they'll get a chance to discuss,” said Robert Gibbs. Though the... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Italy • G8 summit • Vatican • Obama administration • President Obama • meeting • state visit

(Newser) - Angry Italian winemakers say a product that changes water into wine is more insulting than miraculous, Der Spiegel reports. The vintners complain that the "wine powder," made by a Swiss company that caters to hikers, is a "terrible copy" of Italy's Chianti and gives the entire... More »

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Italy • wine • red wine • wine industry • powder

Berlusconi's Skeevy Love Life Vs. the G8

Italians worry sex scandals will tarnish country's image

Jul 8, 09 7:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is playing host to world leaders at the G8 meeting but many Italians fear his penchant for hosting teenage girls and escorts at his villa will overshadow and hurt the summit, the Los Angeles Times reports. Sex scandals have dogged the PM for months, trying... More »

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sex scandal • Italy • G8 summit • Group of Eight • sex • Silvio Berlusconi

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