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'After Mubarak, Berlusconi', Italy protests

Rome: A group of Italian protesters, who call themselves the Purple People, organized a weekend of demonstrations in several cities against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, demanding his resi

Disgusted Italian women protest

Rome: Thousands of Italian women are to demonstrate on Sunday in protest at 'degrading' media coverage of the recent sex scandals surrounding Silvio Berlusconi - and attitudes to women in general.

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Italy PM's 'sex girls' backed by parents

Rome: Sordid details of the grasping ambition of parents of young girls caught up in Italy's latest sex scandal emerged on Thursday as excerpts from wire-taps were splashed over the country's papers.

Berlusconi hit by latest sex scandal

Rome: Evidence that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hooked up with prostitutes he kept in rent-free luxury apartments has weakened the government and damaged the country's image abroad, experts say.

Rome alert after anarchists' bombs

Rome - Rome was on high alert on Christmas Eve after parcel bomb blasts left two staffers at the Chilean and Swiss embassies in the Italian capital badly injured in an attack claimed by anarchists.

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Facebook saves woman from sex-slavery

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Messina: A message posted to the social networking site Facebook helped save a young woman from sex slavery in southern Italy and led to the arrests of three men.

The 23-year-old woman was forced to

'Berlusconi gave me diamond necklace, £70K car'

London: A 17-year-old Moroccan model, Karima Keyek, who is involved in the sex scandal with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has claimed he gave her 6,000 pounds in euros, a diamond necklace

Italian PM slams media for 'teenage girl' link

London: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has denounced a growing controversy over his links with a teenage Moroccan girl as ‘media trash’.

"I am a person with a heart, and so I take an inter

Italy airport closes after migrant riot

Italian news reports say a military airport in Sardinia has been closed following a riot by illegal migrants at a holding centre.

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