THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India — Italy's Defense Minister Giampaolo Di Paolo on Sunday visited two Italian marines accused of killing two fishermen off the coast of southern India, stepping up pressure to allow the men home for Christmas after the case flared into a diplomatic spat. The sailors, members of a military security team protecting the cargo ship Enrica Lexie from pirate attacks, open fired on a fishing boat they mistook for a pirate craft off the southern state of Kerala in February. The killings of the unarmed fishermen triggered outrage in India. — Reuters