ROME — Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement said on Sunday the government would fall unless its coalition partner the League agreed to the sacking of a junior minister caught up in a corruption case.
Relations between 5-Star and the far-right (...)
WHEN a handful of European leaders met Barack Obama in Berlin this month to say their goodbyes, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi informed the group that he may well lose power before the US president.
While Obama leaves office on Jan. 20, Renzi (...)
HAVING pegged his political future to a referendum on constitutional reform, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called up President Barack Obama's communications maestro Jim Messina for advice on how to win the do-or-die vote.
Messina, who led Obama's (...)
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MILITARILY strong, Israel is battling a diplomatic storm as Arab uprisings upset once-stable relationships and worsen its isolation in its conflict with the Palestinians.
Domestic political pressures are exacerbating the problems, as is (...)
Sports fans around the world have been swindled by an international Internet scam which offered thousands of bogus tickets for the Beijing Games, Olympic officials said, Monday.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced it was taking (...)
If China thought hosting the Olympics would win it friends abroad, it probably miscalculated.
Certainly in Europe, the approach of the Beijing Games has exacerbated relations between the two trading partners, with rows about human rights and Tibet (...)
