"Da Vinci" obscenity case dropped in Italy
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ROME  - An Italian town has dropped its obscenity investigation into the blockbuster movie "The Da Vinci Code" a day after the probe was launched, an official said Tuesday.
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Knife reported to fit victim's fatal wound recovered as Italian police declare the case closed.
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Libel charges against a Kenyan journalist are dropped, after his lawyers said they were an attack on press freedom.
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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, Dec 10 - An Italian court dropped a key corruption charge against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, invoking a statute of limitations that meant time had run out to press a conviction.
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An Italian court on Thursday threw out the case against a U.S. soldier charged in the 2005 killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq.
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A court in Milan today cleared the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, of corruption charges, but dropped a key corruption charge against him because time had run out.
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A lawsuit against Elizabeth Taylor over a Van Gogh painting claimed to have been stolen by Nazis is dismissed.
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Child pornography charges against a former suspect in the killing of US child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey are dropped.
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Prosecutors on Thursday dropped their investigation of three German soldiers who posed for photos with a skull they found in Afghanistan.Comment
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An Italian court dropped a key corruption charge against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, invoking a statute of limitations that meant time had run out to convict him of allegations he bribed a judge.
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Closing arguments have completed in a trial aimed at overturning a 1998 law aimed at curbing pornography. While proponents of the law saw it is necessary to prevent children from viewing objectionable material, opponents say it hurts free speech.
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A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit filed by former CIA officer Valerie Plame  and her husband against Vice President Cheney and other top  officials over the Bush administration's disclosure of Plame's name and covert status to the media.
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Media & professional: Prosecutors drop one count of money-laundering against tycoon.
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An Italian prosecutor said on Friday he expects to appeal a Rome court's decision to drop a murder case against a U.S. soldier who killed an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq.
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A court on Thursday threw out the case against a U.S. soldier charged in the 2005 shooting of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq, a killing that infuriated Italians and soured relations with Washington.
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An Italian court dropped a murder case against a U.S. soldier who killed an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint in Iraq on the grounds that it did not have jurisdiction, lawyers said on Thursday.