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Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi called Italy's judiciary “the disease of our democracy” in a weekend TV interview, promising changes to the judicial system as he himself faces the possibility of a new trial before...

Prosecutors in Milan announced Friday that after an investigation they have formally asked a judge to issue an indictment against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his former lawyer, British barrister David Mills,...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, a bill passed by the out-going Fatah party in the Palestinian Authority which granted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas greater presidential powers, including the power to set up a constitutional court staffed...

Italian Justice Minister Roberto Castelli has accused Milan prosecutors of unlawfully pressuring him to request the extradition from the US of 22 CIA agents allegedly responsible for the 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition [JURIST...

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi , facing possible indictment for allegedly bribing his former lawyer to give false testimony in two criminal cases, told supporters at a campaign rally in Verona Saturday that the...

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office announced Friday that it has begun an investigation of newspaper editor Anna Smirnova whose newspaper Nash Region reprinted controversial caricatures of Muhammad this week as...

The conservative Italian government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has pushed through new legislation putting marijuana (cannabis) on par with cocaine and heroine and ending the legal distinction between 'soft' and 'hard' drugs, effectively recriminalizing marijuana use in...

Thousands of women marched in Milan Saturday, demanding that Italy keep a 1978 law that legalized abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. Police estimated that 50,000 people joined in the march to keep abortion...

Prosecutors are once again investigating Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , this time on charges that he bribed his former lawyer to give false testimony in two criminal cases, according to a report Thursday in...

The Italian Senate on Wednesday approved a constitutional amendment that grants increased powers to both the prime minister and to regional governments within Italy . Legislators approved the changes by a 170-132 vote,...