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In Easter Message, Pope Urges Diplomacy in Libya
By not in system - AOL NewsVATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI offered an Easter prayer Sunday for diplomacy to prevail over warfare in Libya and for citizens of the Middle East to build a new society based on respect. He also called on Europeans to welcome refugees from North Africa. "In heaven, all is peace and gladness. But, alas, all is not so on earth!" the pope lamented as he delivered the traditional "Urbi et Orbi" message from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to a crowd of more than 100,000 that overflowed from St. Peter's Square. "In the current conflict in Libya, may diplomacy and dialogue ...
US to Give Libyan Rebels Non-Lethal Aid
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration plans to give the Libyan opposition $25 million in non-lethal assistance in the first direct U.S. aid to the rebels after weeks of assessing their capabilities and intentions, officials said Wednesday. Amid a debate over whether to offer the rebels broader assistance, including cash and possibly weapons and ammunition, the administration has informed Congress that President Barack Obama intends to use his so-called "drawdown authority" to give the opposition, led by the Transitional National Council in Benghazi, up to $25 million in surplus American ...
France to Italy: We Don't Want Your Tunisian Immigrants
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsMENTON, France -- Simmering tensions between Italy and France over the influx of thousands of Tunisian immigrants reached the boiling point after French riot police blocked trains carrying North Africans bound for the French Riviera from southern Italy. More than 20,000 Tunisian immigrants have arrived in Italy since the January revolution in their country. Rome granted them residence permits of six months so they can join "friends and family" in France and elsewhere in Europe -- a move that has infuriated France. On Sunday, about 350 mostly Italian activists supporting the Tunisian ...
Italian Judicial Reform May End Berlusconi Trial [VIDEO]
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Berlusconi Admits Paying Ruby $87K -- for Beauty Parlor Equipment
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsFor the first time, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has admitted to paying a teenage erotic dancer $87,000, but insists the whopping payment wasn't for sex but to save her from a life of prostitution. Mired in a sex scandal that threatens to end his political career, Berlusconi acknowledged that he gave Moroccan-born Karima El Mahroug, aka "Ruby the Heart Stealer," a huge sum of money. But he said it was to pay for laser hair removal equipment for a beauty parlor the 17-year-old dreamed of opening with a friend. Berlusconi, 74, told reporters Monday that he suspected that Mahroug ...
Silvio Berlusconi's Prostitution Trial Adjourned [VIDEO]
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Boat With Libyan Immigrants Capsizes Off Italy; 250 Missing
By not in system - AOL NewsROME -- A boat carrying as many as 300 migrants from Libya capsized in rough seas off the Italian coast early Wednesday, leaving 250 people unaccounted for. Survivors told of desperately trying to reach rescue boats as those unable to swim screamed in the darkness and pulled one another under the water. If the number of dead is confirmed, it would prove the deadliest crossing to Italy in recent memory, and the worst refugee disaster since a wave of migrants began arriving on Italian shores in January following popular revolts in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. The Italian coast guard rescued ...
Berlusconi Sex Trial Adjourned Just After Start [VIDEO]
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Italy Recognizes Rebels as Legitimate Libyan Voice
By not in system - AOL NewsBREGA, Libya -- Italy recognized opponents of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as the country's only legitimate voice on Monday as the rebels advanced on a war-battered oil town and a Gadhafi envoy pressed other European countries for help in ending the crisis. Italy is only the third country, after France and Qatar, to recognize the rebel-led Libyan National Transitional Council as North Africa nation's only legitimate governing body. After speaking with the council's foreign envoy, Ali al-Essawi, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini announced the decision and said the only way to resolve ...
A Severed Pig's Head, a Friend's Dead Body and Other Things Not to Bring to a Soccer Game
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsYou can add the dead guy at a pro game in Colombia last weekend to a list of crazy behavior by soccer fans at games. In the now infamous story, fans in Colombia stole the body of a murdered friend from a funeral home and took his corpse to the stadium to cheer on their favorite team -- a whole new twist on Pro Zombie Soccer. Christopher Jacome, 17, was shot and killed on Saturday while playing soccer in his local park. The following day, friends took his coffin and carried it into the 42,000-capacity General Santander Stadium in Cucuta for a match between Cucuta Deportivo and Envigado. It ...
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