Conviction on Mafia charges for Italian leader's ally embarrassment
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ROME  - A close political ally of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of ties with the Sicilian Mafia on Saturday and sentenced to nine years in prison in a fresh embarrassment to Italy's right-wing government.
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Italy's top court Friday definitively cleared former prime minister Giulio Andreotti of charges that he had links to the Mafia.
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An Italian judge - s decision to drop terrorism charges against five Islamic militants prompted indignation and outrage among government politicians on Tuesday as the country buried its latest soldier killed in ...
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MILAN, Italy -- A court cleared Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges in his long-running trial today, sparing Italy the embarrassment of having its leader convicted of bribing judges.
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The acting boss of the Columbo crime family pleaded guilty in a mistaken mob hit on a 78-year-old judge whose son, a former prosecutor, was the intended target.
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An Italian man has his conviction upheld as a court finds that unwanted physical contact amounts to sexual violence.
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Italy's top court on Friday definitively  cleared former prime minister Giulio Andreotti of charges that  he had been the Mafia's political godfather in the corridors of  power.
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The Italian government on Wednesday sped up parliamentary approval of a law that could overturn the corruption convictions of a close friend of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, sparking fury among opposition politicians.
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An Italian prosecutor asked a court on  Friday to sentence Silvio Berlusconi to eight years in jail for  bribing judges as the prime minister's four-year corruption  trial reached its closing stages.
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PROSECUTORS trying the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, for bribery yesterday recommended he be given an eight-year jail term.
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Italy&#39;s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was last night cleared of the most serious corruption charge hanging over him when a court in Milan ruled that a key accusation - that of bribing a judge with almost $500,000 (Â£260,000) - was &quot;out of time&quot;.
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MILAN, Italy  - A court cleared Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges in his long-running trial Friday, sparing Italy the embarrassment of having its leader convicted of bribing judges.
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An Italian court has sentenced a close political ally of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to nine years in prison for working with the mafia.
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The former head of Hollinger International was found guilty of taking illegal payments from the company.
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Italy's highest criminal court acquitted former Premier Giulio Andreotti Friday of charges he colluded with the Mafia during a long political career, the final judgment in a decade-long case that had gripped ...
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Two Italian mobsters, a bodyguard, a  financier and his girlfriend were acquitted on Wednesday of the  1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, found hanging from a London  bridge and known as &quot;God&#39;s banker&quot; for his Vatican links.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could be convicted of corruption with judges in his five-year trial considering their verdict.