Italy's Prodi quits after foreign policy defeat
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned on Wednesday, just nine months after winning the closest election in Italy's modern history, when his centre-left coalition suffered a Senate defeat on foreign policy.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi lost a confidence vote in the Senate on Thursday and will have to resign after a turbulent 20 months in office.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's government is "inclined to" present its resignation to the president following a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy, a center-left political source said on Wednesday.
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Italy's Romano Prodi holds a special cabinet session after his fragile coalition loses a key foreign policy vote.
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The Christian Science Monitor - The resignation of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi underscores the difficulty in Europe of governments trying to support US foreign policy on terror while at the same time pleasing their own publics.
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Italian PM Romano Prodi has resigned, following a defeat in the Senate over the deployment of Italian troops in Afghanistan, and plans to expand a US airbase in northern Italy; several members of Prodi's ...Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi lost a confidence vote in the Senate on Thursday and went to hand his resignation to the president, prompting opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi to demand immediate elections.
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An ally of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi dealt his government a potentially fatal blow on Monday by withdrawing support for his coalition, but the premier resisted calls to resign despite losing his Senate majority.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will submit his resignation to the president after a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy on Wednesday, a minister said.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will submit his resignation to the president after suffering a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy, Infrastructure Minister Antonio Di Pietro said on Wednesday.
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Troop deployments have split Mr Prodi's coalition Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is to begin crisis talks following the resignation of the prime minister, Romano Prodi.Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on Wednesday faces a crunch vote of confidence in his leadership, a week after he was forced to resign over a humiliating foreign policy defeat in parliament.
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Italy's president will decide on Saturday who should now lead Italy's government after the shock resignation of Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
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Italy's president accepted Prime Minister  Romano Prodi's resignation on Wednesday following the  government's defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi tendered his resignation on Thursday to President Giorgio Napolitano after losing a confidence vote in the Senate, the ANSA news agency reported.
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Romano Prodi resigned after his ruling coalition lost a key vote on foreign policy in the Senate.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned on Thursday after his centre-left government lost a confidence vote in the Senate, prompting opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi to demand immediate elections.