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Now, Italy Must Gird for the Repercussions Over CIA Convictions: La Stampa of Italy

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 10:45:48 +0000

Judge Oscar Magi: Repercussions over his decision to convict 23 CIA agents of kidnapping on Italian soil are already being felt. Italians today may be proud that their system of justice hasn’t spared intelligence agents of the world’s mightiest power, but the children of ...

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Firebrand Tancredo puts policy over party line

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:12:45 +0000

Courtesy Rep. Tom Tancredo Tom Tancredo's Life in Photos Photo 1: Undated photo of Tancredo as a baby. Photo 2: Tancredo, age 4. Photo 3: Undated photo of Tancredo as a boy. Photo 4: Undated family photo. Photo 5: A studio photo from a campaign brochure for Tancredo's first state legislature ...

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Qaeda allies 'may carry out attacks'

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:55:00 +0000

Rome, 6 Nov. (AKI) - Italy was susceptible to terror attacks by allies of the Al-Qaeda network, the interior minister Roberto Maroni said on Friday. Maroni warned there were terror cells that identified with Al-Qaeda and they had "authorisation" to carry out attacks in Italy. "Al-Qaeda is not ...

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Eurocourt Bans Crucifixes in Italy

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 10:36:00 +0000

Sometimes it seems liberal Euroweenies are deliberately testing to see just how much totalitarian moonbattery they can ram down people's throats before encountering significant resistance. In the latest outrage against liberty and national sovereignty, bureaucrats of the European Court of Human ...

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Italy Convicts 23 Americans for C.I.A. Renditions

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 22:30:53 +0000

Italy Convicts 23 Americans for C.I.A. Renditions

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Italy, Vatican in uproar over court crucifix ruling

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:35:03 +0000

ROME (Reuters) The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that crucifixes should be removed from Italian classrooms, prompting Vatican anger and sparking uproar in Italy , where such icons are embedded in the national psyche."The ruling of the European court was received in the Vatican ...

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Italy Convicts Twenty-three CIA Agents in Absentia

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:13:22 +0000

Unfortunately, I don’t have time to say anything substantive about this now, but AP reports on the conviction of twenty-three CIA agents in absentia in Italy in a trial over an extraordinary rendition. The AP story is unusually detailed for a wire story and bears reading. I am in the middle ...

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Human rights ruling against classroom crucifixes angers Italy | World news | The Guardian

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 10:18:00 +0000

A crucifix on a classroom wall in Rome A crucifix on a classroom wall in Rome. Photograph: Tony Gentile/Reuters

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NO CROSSES IN SCHOOLS, EUROPEAN COURT SAYS

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:21:00 +0000

(ANSA) - Strasbourg, November 3 - In a legal landmark that sparked a storm in Italy, the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled that crucifixes in Italian classrooms were a violation of parents' rights to educate their kids according to their principles. Upholding a plea from a Finnish ...

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Italy school crucifixes 'barred'

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 19:20:00 +0000

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in classrooms in Italy. It said the practice violated the right of parents to educate their children as they saw fit, and ran counter to the child's right to freedom of religion. The case was brought by an Italian mother, ...

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Update: Major Republican Donor Plans to Fund Liz Cheney’s New Organization

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:56:32 +0000

Former U.S. Ambassador to Italy and GOP donor Mel Sembler (Alessandra Tarantino / AP) One of the Republican Party's biggest fundraisers confirmed Friday that he plans to help bankroll Keep America Safe, the new political advocacy group started by Liz Cheney to attack President Obama's ...

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Justices, Law Enforcement Officials Pay Tribute to Assassinated Italian Judge

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:14:35 +0000

A high-level gathering at the Supreme Court paid tribute on Thursday to Giovanni Falcone, an iconic Italian judge who was assassinated in 1992 as he waged legal war against the Mafia. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., along with Justices Antonin...

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EU: Court rejects crucifix display in Italian schools

Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:17:24 +0000

Strasbourg, 3 Nov. (AKI) - The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ruled in favour of an Italian woman who opposed the display of a Catholic crucifix at her children's school. Soile Lautsi, from Abano Terme, a small town outside the northern city of Padua, had lodged a the case to protest ...

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