Silvio Berlusconi News Archives

Lebanon believes the Israeli army has it in its sights, and is preparing a major attack on its soil.

It is a tangled tale of sex, greed, ambition and blackmail in Silvio Berlusconi's celebrity-obsessed Italy.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak cancelled his scheduled visit to Madrid on Friday as tension grows between Israel and Spain due to a disagreement over the command of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon .

Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel are not terribly enthusiastic. Silvio Berlusconi remains his strongest backer.

Though the life of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been plagued by sex scandals in recent years, it was a leading member of the opposition who has given in and resigned.

THE Milan motorcycle show used to be a bi-annual affair, alternating with Germany's Cologne event.

Silvio Berlusconi often declares that he is passionate about the opposite sex, but for many Italian women the feeling is very far from being reciprocated.

A petition against the Italian prime minister's chauvinistic quips and saloon bar repartee has attracted more than 100,000 signatures and thousands of captioned self-portraits.

The grass-roots rebellion was prompted by an insult thrown by Mr. Berlusconi recently at a female political opponent.

During a national television debate about a pair of corruption trials he is facing the 73-year-old premier found himself in an argument with a matronly, bespectacled opposition member of parliament, Rosy Bindi.

Italy has slipped to 72nd in a global league table measuring gender equality, putting it behind countries including Kazakhstan.

Date : Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:20:04 +0400 RUSSIAN ENVOY TO TURKEY BACKS ARMENIAN, KURDISH OVERTURES Radikal Oct 24 2009 Turkey [Report by Murat Yetkin on an interview with Russian Ambassador to Turkey Vladimir Ivanovsky: "The Russian Ambassador: We Support Armenian, Kurdish Overtures"] Vladimir Ivanovsky, Russian Federation ambassador to Turkey, has ...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gave a foretaste of how he may defend himself when he goes back on trial for corruption next month, attacking the judicial system as overrun by "communists" out to destroy him.

The office for Piero Marrazzo said Tuesday that he had resigned as governor of the Lazio region.

An appeals court in Milan has upheld the conviction of British lawyer David Mills for accepting a bribe to lie in court to protect Silvio Berlusconi.

Tensions in the Italian government that almost led to the resignation of Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti last week resurfaced brusquely yesterday as a party in the ruling coalition said Tremonti should be given more power.

Flamboyant entrepreneur Silvio Berlusconi is one of Italy's most recognizable faces.

Bridge from the Italian mainland to Sicily will be a symbol of shining modernity, a gleaming steel thread arcing over one of the most picturesque stretches of the Mediterranean.

A S THE sharemarket gears up for more than $4 billion of listings in the next 12 months, billionaire media mogul Bruce Gordon is believed to be assessing the appetite of the market for media stocks, with a view to listing his private media empire, the WIN Corporation, next year.

Supporters of Italy's main opposition party voted Sunday to select a new leader in a nationwide primary overshadowed by a scandal that has engulfed a prominent leftist politician.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi this week avoided official condemnation by the European Parliament, highlighting divisions among MEPs over what some see as a purely national issue.

Italy requested to give $10 billion credit line to Italian investors KARACHI: Pakistan has requested Italy to give $10 billion credit line to its investors intending to invest in Pakistan.

Relations between the Italian government and the powerful Roman Catholic Church soured yesterday after a newspaper owned by the family of Silvio Berlusconi ran a scathing report on the editor of a Church newspaper.

Part seven: Reforming a broken system Canada's gathering pension storm Discarded placards overflow from a garbage bin on Parliament Hill following a demonstration in support of Nortel pensioners on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday October 21, 2009.

'Sacrifice': Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says he does not enjoy his job but does it as a sense of duty Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he governs Italy out of a sense of duty and sacrifice, not because he enjoys the job.

Saturday, October 17, 2009 SAINT-DENIS DE LA REUNION, France: France's defence minister reacted with disbelief on Friday to the idea that an army might pay Taliban insurgents not to attack, after a British newspaper accused Italy of the practice.

HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at the inauguration of the Adriatic LNG terminal in Venice .

More than 100,000 women have signed a petition saying they are offended by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - an initiative launched by a newspaper after the premier made a sexist remark to an opposition politician.

Their Majesties King Abdullah and Queen Rania on Wednesday visited the municipality of Rome, where they were received by Mayor Gianni Alemanno and his wife Isabella Rauti.

On 20 October, Reporters Without Borders published the 2009 edition of its annual country-by-country press freedom rankings, reflecting the situation between September 2008 and 1 September 2009.

ST. PETERSBURG, October 21 - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrived in Russia on Wednesday to discuss bilateral investment projects, trade and economic relations and energy projects with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

About 100 000 women joined a protest against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, accusing him of "offending" women, the daily La Repubblica reported Wednesday.

Italy adopted a tough law against illegal immigration on Thursday, including a measure allowing citizens to mount their own patrols, despite fierce criticism from rights groups and the Vatican.

The media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has released its annual press freedom index.

Allegations that Italy paid the Taliban not to attack its troops in a region of Afghanistan have caused outrage.

Silvio Berlusconi's cutting remark about a female rival's lack of beauty has stirred a rare public backlash from thousands of Italian women who had largely kept silent about the prime minister's womanising and sex scandals.

Silvio Berlusconi, the embattled Italian Prime Minister, has been warned to avoid "spontaneous" public walkabouts after alleged death threats.

With American-style capitalism pitched into the bonfire by the 2008 market collapse, who could have predicted that it was Europe's socialists and leftist parties that would be the victims at the polls? That's been the electoral result in Europe for the old left and even for the "modernized" Labour Party in Britain, which is officially no longer a ...

Pakistanis angry over mobile companies using fake IDs to issue SIM cards Pakistani cell phone users have expressed resentment against telephone companies for issuing SIM cards to people who produced fake documents to get new connections.

The Italian judiciary and opposition parties reacted furiously after a TV channel owned by Silvio Berlusconi secretly filmed a judge who ruled against him in a bribery case.

New allegations come as Newsweek urges Italy to dump 'playboy-in-chief' By Jack Bremer F IRST P OSTED O CTOBER 16, 2009 B oth Silvio Berlusconi and his predecessor Romano Prodi have issued denials following the report in the Times yesterday that 10 French servicemen died in Afghanistan last year because their superiors did not realise the Italians ...

Photos of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the presence of young topless women may soon reach Israel as part of a campaign promoting hotels and restaurants in the Tel Aviv area, Haaretz has learned.

Silvio Berlusconi backed it as a celebration of northern Italian pride. The leader of Italy's most outspoken anti-immigrant political party appeared in it.

KARACHI: Italian government has agreed to provide a credit line equivalent to $10 billion for Italian investors willing to invest in Pakistan.

Comment about "Italian judge "shadowing" scandal sparks outrage " Phone Name Comment 0 Saturday, 17th October 2009 - 17:35CET Italian judge "shadowing" scandal sparks outrage Deepa Babington, Reuters Italian magistrates and the opposition are up in arms after a television channel owned by Silvio Berlusconi shadowed and secretly filmed a judge who ...

Tens of thousands of anti-racism demonstrators took to the streets of Rome on Saturday to denounce a new law passed by Silvio Berlusconi's government which makes illegal immigration a criminal offence.

The US Government acknowledged for the first time yesterday that payment of protection money to the Taleban by Italian forces in Afghanistan was discussed by American officials and their Italian counterparts last year.

Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi an dhis Bulgarian counterpart, Boyko Borisov during the official ceremony to great Berlusconi in Sofia.

Silvio Berlusconi yesterday announced a sweeping reform of Italy's legal system, which he insists is waging a witch-hunt against him and his business interests.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov became a bearer of the Cavalier of the Grand Cross for having achieved "great contributions to the Italian Republic", a Bulgarian Government media statement said on October 15 2009.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi's office called the report in the Times of London "completely groundless." The Italian defense minister denounced it as "rubbish" and said he wanted to sue the newspaper.

ITALIANS who hold undeclared funds in Switzerland, Montecarlo and San Marino must repatriate them to be covered by a new tax amnesty, unlike other countries and the EU, the Italian tax agency said on Saturday.

Amici ... Mr Berlusconi welcomes Mr Blair in Rome in 2004. LONDON: Silvio Berlusconi, seemingly oblivious to the possibility that his support might be counterproductive, has enthusiastically backed Tony Blair for first president of Europe.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says he has no intention of selling AC Milan and hopes David Beckham returns to the club.

The Italian government denied a newspaper report Thursday that its secret services paid the Taliban thousands of dollars to keep an area in Afghanistan controlled by the Italians safe.

Police clashed with demonstrators in Naples on Friday night after the Italian government vowed to force open rubbish dumps against locals' wishes in a determined effort to end the city's chronic trash problem.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has endorsed Tony Blair as his preferred candidate to be president of the European Union.

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Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of bribery, tax evasion, corruption, and subversion of the press.

ROME: Dissatisfied with his direct and indirect control over most of Italy's media, the Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has devised a campaign to stop the world's press sniping at him over his sex life and legal woes.

CONTROVERSY over Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's media interests sparked angry debate and walkouts in the European Parliament overnight, with deputies calling for tough new media ownership laws.

French Culture minister Frederic Mitterrand speaks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy as they wait for the arrival of Turkish President Abdullah Gul on October 9, 2009 at the Grand ... Rallying to the defence of director Roman Polanski after his arrest in Switzerland, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand declared the situation ...

Their prime minister also makes fun of US President Obama's skin color In Italy, a cleaning woman is often called "Filippina," says an article in the October 1 issue of Time magazine, an indication of Italian society's backwardness when it comes to the issue of race, the writer says.

Silvio Berlusconi seems determined to take Italy's institutions down with him as he sinks slowly into a swamp of lawsuits and scandal.

"We are not racist and we have nothing against Muslims but the law must be equal for everyone," the Northern League's Roberto Cota was quoted as saying in the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

The eldest daughter of the embattled Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has accused his opponents of leading a "manhunt" against him.

He made his first fortune in the construction business but worked a number of odd jobs earlier in his career, including selling vacuums and crooning on a cruise ship.

Italy's prime minister shrugs it off when a high court overturns a law protecting him from corruption charges Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlusconi It was "a bad day for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi," said The New York Times in an editorial , when Italy's highest court on Wednesday "overturned an outrageous law" granting Berlusconi immunity ...

Silvio Berlusconi scoffs as huge crowds gather to protest about the state of the media, but the threat to democracy is clear After last week's press freedom rally was hailed both as a "farce" and as a "necessary measure to take", it's hard to deny that Italy suffers from acase of contrasting perspectives.

People's shadows are cast against a wall displaying a banner reading 'that's how they want us,' showing a picture of a man and his dog wearing a muzzle, in Rome's Piazza del Popolo.

Critics of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's domination of the Italian media claim the situation is stifling free speech in the country.

The U.N. Security Council will discuss a report next week that says war crimes were committed by both sides during last winter's Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.

New Berlusconi outburst: 'I am the most persecuted man in the entire history of the world' By Mail Foreign Service and Nick Pisa Last updated at 1:39 AM on 10th October 2009 Silvio Berlusconi claimed yesterday that he was the most persecuted man ever.

The e-mail that went to a wide group of White House staff from the Situation Room at 5:09 a.m. carried a mundane subject line: a oeItem of Interest.a What followed was word that the Nobel Peace Prize committee in Oslo selected President Barack Obama as the recipient of the award for 2009.

Campaigners at the Colosseum during a gay pride march. Italy has seen a rise in hate crime since rightwingers won power.

Tens of thousands of people, including journalists and media rights activists, gathered in a Rome square today to defend press freedom, accusing premier Silvio Berlusconi of trying to silence critical voices.

The European Parliament will vote on the issue of press freedom in Italy at its next plenary session, after strong pressure from Italian opposition parties to address the dangers posed by the control over the media exercised by the country's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was expected to visit Sicily, where there were fears the death toll from torrential rains could rise to 50 as search and rescue efforts resumed.

Comment about "Woman says Berlusconi knew she was a prostitute" Phone Name Comment 0 Woman says Berlusconi knew she was a prostitute Reuters Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

YANGON: Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi held a rare meeting with a minister of the ruling junta on Saturday, a day after a court rejected her appeal against her extended house arrest.

Take the art works of Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tintoretto and Caravaggio, the operas of Verdi and Puccini, the cinema of Federico Fellini, add the architecture of Venice, Florence and Rome and you have just a fraction of Italy's treasures from over the centuries.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi waves to journalists as he leaves Palazzo Grazioli on Oct.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday in Rome in an attempt to boost support for re-launching peace talks in the Middle East.

Albanian oil magnate Rezart Taci claims he would have "no problem" in shelling out 700 million euros to buy AC Milan if owner Silvio Berlusconi decided to sell the club.

Comment about "Italya TMs top court debates Berlusconi immunity law" Phone Name Comment 0 Italya TMs top court debates Berlusconi immunity law Silvia Aloisi, Reuters Niccolo Ghedini , lawyer for Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, chats with Glauco Nori, statea TMs lawyer for the premiera TMs office, in Italya TMs constitutional court in Rome, ...

Italy's Constitutional Court on Tuesday began mulling whether to strip Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of immunity from prosecution on pending corruption charges.

Foreign Minister Roumyana Zheleva will be Bulgaria's nominee for European Union energy commissioner, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on October 6 2009, according to Bulgaria's Focus News Agency.

Italy's embattled prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, could face a raft of new prosecutions when the country's highest court rules on Tuesday whether a law which shields him from criminal prosecution should be repealed.

A leading French actor who backs immigrants' rights has said she was shocked to discover that her latest film, an Italian historical epic, is being used as a propaganda tool by Italy's xenophobic Northern League party, an ally of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

The debate over press freedom in Italy is growing as thousands of Italians rallied in Rome on Saturday and the European Parliament gears up for a discussion of the issue in a plenary session this Wednesday.

TENS of thousands of people, including journalists and media rights activists, yesterday gathered in a Rome square to defend press freedom, accusing premier Silvio Berlusconi of trying to silence critical voices.

Silvio Berlusconi's media empire has been ordered to pay 690 million compensation to a business rival after being convicted of bribing a judge during a takeover.

Maltese journalists were in solidarity with their Italian counterparts who on Saturday will be holding a demonstration for press freedom and freedom of information against incessant attacks by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the Institute of Maltese Journalists declared.

Tens of thousands of people, including journalists and media rights activists, gathered in a Rome square today to defend press freedom, accusing premier Silvio Berlusconi of trying to silence critical voices.

A rally to protest at the grip which Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has on the press has attracted tens of thousands of demonstrators.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was expected to visit Sicily, where there were fears the death toll from torrential rains could rise to 50 as search and rescue efforts resumed.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will pay an official visit to Belarus in October.

Italy's Fincantieri shipbuilders find themselves back in the running on a contract to supply the Algerian navy with four advanced stealth frigates in competition, a deal potentially worth $11.6 billion.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's official residence was a 'harem', an escort girl claimed in a new interview.

An extraordinary protest in support of press freedom will mark growing concern over Silvio Berlusconi's grip on the media Roberto Saviano Anyone in Italy today who criticises the Government or the Prime Minister knows what to expect in return - not a contrary opinion, but a campaign aimed at discrediting him.

Italian fashionistas on Wednesday hit back at foreign media reports that their latest creations were for "bimbos" inspired by the sex scandals surrounding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's private life.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi shares a light moment with President Asif Ali Zardari during a meeting at the Chigi Palace on Wednesday.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has called Barack Obama 'tanned' again despite coming under fire for using the term before to describe the first black US president.