Italy calls for calm after execution claim
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The purported execution of the two women, both aid workers abducted more than two weeks ago in Baghdad along with two Iraqi colleagues, caused consternation in Italy, with Italian TV and radio running special bulletins through the night.
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The Italian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it is investigating a report that an Italian citizen was killed in Iraq after being taken captive by a militant group.
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Rome - A defiant Italy said on Friday it would not give in to &quot;terrorist blackmail&quot; after the execution of a kidnapped journalist in Iraq by insurgents who demanded that Rome withdraw its troops from the country.
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ROME : Italy was in shock at the killing of a kidnapped journalist in Iraq, described by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as a return &quot;to the dark times of barbarism,&quot; but he pledged Italian troops would stay.
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Italy insisted on Friday that the killing of an Italian journalist in Iraq by Islamist kidnappers would not shake its resolve to keep troops in Iraq.
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Italy's players and club officials have reacted with dismay to the decision to declare all bar six venues closed to supporters on security grounds.Comment
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The Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged the United States to cooperate on judicial matters after a court indicted a U.S. soldier for the fatal shooting of an Italian intelligence agent at a checkpoint in Baghdad.
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ROME -- Italy's president asked Romano Prodi on Saturday to stay on as premier and put his center-left government to a new vote of confidence in Parliament, seeking a swift end to the political crisis prompted by the cabinet's resignation days ago.
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Italy has raised the stakes in a spat with the United States over the killing by a U.S. soldier of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq, saying Washington must set things right by assuming responsibility for the death.
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A British hostage in Iraq pleaded for his life on Wednesday, but two Italian women held by another group were reported to have been killed.
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National joy in Italy at the safe return  of two aid workers held hostage in Iraq gave way in some  quarters on Wednesday to concern that Rome had paid a ransom  for the women's freedom.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini  appealed to Arab countries Monday to help win the release of  two Italian hostages as an apparent deadline to kill them drew  near.
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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini appealed to Arab countries on Monday to help win the release of two Italian hostages as an apparent deadline to kill them drew near.
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Italian authorities said Thursday they had no information allowing them to confirm the execution of two Italian hostages being held in Iraq.
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ROME - Italy&#39;s prime minister vowed his country&#39;s troops would not leave Iraq, as the country mourned the slaying of an Italian journalist.
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ROME, Italy -- Italy reacted with horror at the killing of hostage Enzo Baldoni in Iraq, with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi insisting that Italian troops would not leave.
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Italian authorities responded cautiously to reports that an Italian national may have been taken hostage and killed in Iraq.