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Aristotle Onassis' heir 'sells' island where he married Jackie Kennedy
- 1 month ago
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Pope Benedict's health is deteriorating, says Vatican
- 1 month ago
Paloma Gomez Borerro, a veteran Vatican correspondent from Spain, claimed that "Benedict is in a very bad way. In the last 15 days he has undergone a tremendous physical deterioration."
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Argentine president in plea to Pope over Falklands
- 1 month ago
Cristina Kirchner became the first foreign head of state to meet Pope Francis, a fellow Argentine, when she was granted a private audience in the Vatican a day before his papacy is formally inaugurated.
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Pope's family emigrated to flee Mussolini, reveals sister
- 2 months ago
The sister of Pope Francis has disclosed that their family fled Italy and emigrated to Argentina in the 1920s to escape the Fascist regime of Mussolini.
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The two faces of Italian politics
- 3 months ago
A sober, cigar-smoking former Communist is giving billionaire Berlusconi a run for his money.
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Politics imitates comic art as Berlusconi returns to the fray
- 5 months ago
Berlusconi's dramatic return to the forefront of Italian politics rattled international markets, prompted fearful warnings of disaster from Brussels to Berlin, and threw austerity-weary Italians into fresh confusion.
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PM-aspirer Berlusconi has new diva by his side as Ruby surfaces in Mexico
- 5 months ago
Berlusconi's prospects of returning to power at elections expected in February suffered a blow on Wednesday when his former allies in the Northern League said they would not enter into a fresh coalition if he led his party into the campaign.
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Berlusconi flexing political muscle triggers chaos
- 5 months ago
The former prime minister flexed his political muscle after claiming his supporters were clamouring for him to fight the next election, scheduled for March.
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It's beautiful to be old, says Pope
- 6 months ago
Age brought challenges and difficulties with which he himself was familiar. 'I know well the difficulties, the problems and the limits of this age, and I know that these difficulties are aggravated for many people by the economic crisis,' he said.
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Silvio Berlusconi 'still paying showgirls'
- 6 months ago
Miriam Loddo, an actress and model alleged to have attended Berlusconi's so-called 'bunga bunga' parties, told the court that he pays her 2,500 euros a month.