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		<title>Trial for Captain in Deadly Shipwreck in Italy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ROME) &#8212; A judge in Italy has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia to stand trial in the shipwreck of the cruise liner, which struck a reef off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people. Francesco Schettino will be the only defendant in the trial, which begins on July 9 in the Tuscan town of Grosseto. The indictment was announced on Wednesday. Five other defendants successfully sought plea bargains in their cases, which are now being handled separately. Schettino is charged with manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship while many of the 4,200 passengers and crew were still aboard. He denies the charges. The Concordia ran aground off the tiny island of Giglio. Schettino&#8217;s lawyer says he faces as much as 20 years in prison if convicted. PHOTOS: Italy&#8217;s Stricken Costa Concordia<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=87232&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Woman Describes Berlusconi&#8217;s &#8216;Bunga Bunga&#8217; Parties</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 18:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Colleen Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MILAN) — Silvio Berlusconi&#8216;s private disco featured not only aspiring show girls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but also dressed as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the scandal. Karima el-Mahroug&#8217;s testimony Friday at the trial of three former Berlusconi aides accused with procuring her and other women for prostitution confirms a sexually charged atmosphere at the &#8220;bunga bunga&#8221; parties of the then-sitting premier. The trial is separate from the one in which Berlusconi is charged with paying for sex with a minor — el-Mahroug when she was 17 — and trying to cover it up. El-Mahroug, now 20, said she attended about a half-dozen parties, using her nickname Ruby, and that after each, Berlusconi handed her an envelope with up to 3,000 euros ($3,900) in denominations of 500. She said she later received 30,000 euros cash from the then-premier paid through an intermediary — money that she told Berlusconi she wanted to use to open a beautician salon despite having no formal training. (MORE: Top 10 Worst Silvio Berlusconi Gaffes) But she denied that Berlusconi had ever given her 5 million euros ($6.43 million). She said she told acquaintances and even her father that she was going to receive such a large sum &#8220;as a boast,&#8221; but that it was a lie to make her seem more important. The three Berlusconi aides — Emilio Fede, an executive in Berlusconi&#8217;s media empire; Nicole Minetti, a former dental hygienist, showgirl and local politician, and talent agent Dario &#8220;Lele&#8221; Mora — are accused of recruiting women for prostitution at the parties and abetting prostitution, including of a minor. They deny the charges. El-Mahroug has made carefully orchestrated statements to the media since the scandal broke, but has never publicly given sworn testimony. Both she and Berlusconi deny having had sex. Dressed soberly with her hair pulled back, El-Mahroug said she first made<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86828&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For First Time, the Vatican Enters Prestigious Venice Biennale</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Faris / Rome</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing visitors will see when they enter the Vatican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale—an art show dedicated to the modern and cutting edge—will be a nod to the past: a three-paneled triptych on which the 20th-century Italian artist Tano Festa reproduced details from Michelangelo&#8217;s Sistine Chapel. The paintings, in tones of tan and ocher, serve two functions. They remind viewers of the Vatican&#8217;s past importance as a sponsor of art, and they serve as a frame for the rest of the show inside. The theme for the pavilion, the Holy See&#8217;s first at the Biennale, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 24, is the same subject Michelangelo depicted in his famous ceiling: the opening chapters of Genesis. Spanning the history of biblical creation, from “Darkness on upon the face of the deep” through the collapse of the Tower of Babel, the events include the forming of the earth and the animals, the stories of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel and Noah&#8217;s flood. (MORE: Venice Biennale &#8211; Summer Entertainment Preview 2011) Gianfranco Ravasi, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, who has been leading the effort, is careful to stress that the works are not liturgical—meaning they aren&#8217;t meant to be used as part of on altarpiece or otherwise be used in a religious ceremony. But it&#8217;s clear that he sees the art as serving a religious function, if only to offer a counterbalance to blasphemous iconic works of contemporary art like Andres Serrano&#8217;s Piss Christ or the Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka&#8217;s depiction of the Last Supper as a gay bacchanal—works that Ravasi argues demonstrate the continued power of religious symbols. “They found it necessary to attack them, to try to rub them out,” he says. The Biennale itself is no stranger to controversial works. In 1990, the American artist collective Gran Fury exhibited a piece titled &#8220;The Pope and the Penis,&#8221; a critique of the Vatican&#8217;s approach to AIDS. The 1991 sculpture by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was even more direct, depicting Pope John<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=86636&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A multimedia presentation inspired by Genesis</media:title>
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		<title>Italy Court Upholds Berlusconi Tax Fraud Verdict</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/08/italy-court-upholds-berlusconi-tax-fraud-verdict/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 02:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / COLLEEN BARRY</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(MILAN) — Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi&#8216;s tax fraud conviction and four-year prison sentence were upheld on the first appeal Wednesday in a case that could see him barred from public office for five years. In Italy, defendants are legally considered innocent until all appeals are exhausted, and Berlusconi&#8217;s lawyers are expected to appeal the case to the nation&#8217;s highest Court of Cassation once the reasoning for the decision is published. Still, the ruling, which comes just days before prosecutors wrap up closing arguments in his sensational sex-for-hire trial, raises the question of whether Berlusconi&#8217;s days as a political force are numbered. (More: Silvio Berlusconi and the Politics of Sex) His center-right forces are allied with the Democratic Party in a grand coalition, and although Berlusconi holds no governmental posts he remains influential. It was his decision to head the center-right coalition, after initially saying he would move aside for younger leaders, that gave a boost to his forces in February&#8217;s election campaign, finishing a close second to the center-left. &#8220;My opinion is that a personality who had such a relevant role in Italy for 20 years — absolutely controversial, evidently, but relevant — cannot be eliminated by judicial means, but by political means,&#8221; Stefano Folli, a political commentator for il Sole 24 Ore newspaper said on La7 private TV. If the high court upholds the guilty verdict and ban, &#8220;it&#8217;s clear he would exit from the scene&#8221; and lose his seat in Parliament. The 5 Star Movement party founded by comic-turned-political leader Beppe Grillo already is pressing to apply the judicial ban on public office immediately. Italian media reported that cheers went up in a party meeting when the verdict was announced. Indeed, the case already is tightly tied to Berlusconi&#8217;s political fortunes. He announced he was stepping aside just two days before the October lower court verdict convicting him in a scheme that involved inflating the price his Mediaset media empire paid for TV rights to U.S. movies and pocketing the difference. Shortly after the guilty verdict, he renewed his<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85732&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Cargo Ship Slams into Genoa Port, Kills 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 08:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ROME) — A cargo ship slammed into a control tower in the port in Genoa, toppling it into the harbor and killing at least three people, rescue officials said Wednesday. Four others were hospitalized and a half-dozen people remained unaccounted for, including some feared trapped inside the submerged elevator of the control tower, officials said. Genoa police chief Massimo Maria Mazza confirmed three bodies had been extracted from the wreckage. The crash occurred at around 11 p.m. (2100 GMT) Tuesday, during a shift change, making the accounting of personnel more difficult. By Wednesday morning, all that was left of the control tower was the mangled exterior staircase, tilted to its side. The tower itself — which was located on the very edge of a dock jutting out into the harbor — was either in the water or in a heap of wreckage on the dock. Andrea Furgani, an ambulance doctor and one of the first rescuers, said crews initially brought four injured to area hospitals in Genoa. &#8220;The conditions were critical. They mainly suffered wounds caused by compression, broken bones and wounds on the chest,&#8221; he told The Associated Press. The ship was the Jolly Nero of the Ignazio Messina &#38; C. SpA Italian shipping line. According to its website, the Genoa-based Messina Line has a fleet of 14 cargo ships, with the Italian-flagged Jolly Nero listed at being 239 meters (784 feet) long and 30 meters (98 feet) wide. The ANSA news agency quoted a tearful company official Stefano Messina as saying nothing like this had ever happened before to the company, which was founded in 1921. &#8220;We are devastated,&#8221; he was quoted as saying. The Genoa port, located on Italy&#8217;s Ligurian coast, is Italy&#8217;s busiest in terms of overall handling of cargo, according to the port authority website.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85541&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In New Job, Italy&#8217;s First Black Minister Confronts Culture of Casual Racism</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/06/italys-first-black-minister/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 18:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Faris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s first black government minister, proposes a law that would give citizenship to the children of immigrants if they are born on Italian soil. Under the current legislation, Italian nationality is passed on most commonly by blood, meaning the grandchildren of an Italian who has never set foot in the country has more rights to citizenship than someone who was born in Rome to foreign parents. But even if Kyenge, 48, is unable to push a single piece of legislation through Parliament, she will already have secured an important legacy. Her April 27 appointment as Minister for Integration in Italy&#8217;s newly formed government has kicked off a much-needed discussion on race and immigration in a country that still struggles to come to terms with its rapid transformation. That discussion has taken some brutal turns. &#8220;Kyenge wants to impose her tribal traditions from the Congo,&#8221; said Mario Borghezio, a member of the European Parliament for Italy&#8217;s anti-immigration Northern League in an April 30 radio interview. &#8220;She seems like a great housekeeper,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But not a government minister.&#8221; Even in Italy, a country all too often permeated by casual bigotry, Borghezio&#8217;s words were a step too far. An online petition calling for him to be sanctioned or evicted from his post has gathered more than 75,000 signatures, and the Northern League&#8217;s leader, Roberto Maroni, a former Interior Minister, has come under pressure to denounce him. Maroni himself reacted with hostility to Kyenge, voicing opposition to her proposal on citizenship. (MORE: All the Old, Familiar Faces) Meanwhile, the Italian government has launched an investigation into neo-fascist websites, on which Kyenge has been denigrated as a &#8220;Congolese monkey&#8221; and &#8220;the black anti-Italian.&#8221; In a press conference on May 3, Kyenge, an eye surgeon living in Modena, denounced the attacks as representative of a minority opinion and called for the public at large to respond. &#8220;I&#8217;m black and I&#8217;m proud of it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s important to underline that.&#8221; Born in the Congo, Kyenge moved to Italy in the 1980s to study medicine<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85297&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti, 94, Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 12:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Colleen Barry and Nicole Winfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ROME) — Giulio Andreotti, Italy&#8216;s former seven-time premier and a symbol of post-war Italy, died Monday at his home in Rome, Italian officials said. He was 94. In announcing the death, Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno called Andreotti &#8220;the most representative politician&#8221; Italy had known in its recent history. At his prime, Andreotti was one of Italy&#8217;s most powerful men: He helped draft the country&#8217;s constitution after World War II, sat in parliament for 60 years and served as premier seven times. Until his death, he remained a senator-for-life. But the Christian Democrat who was friends with popes and cardinals was also a controversial figure who survived corruption scandals and allegations of aiding the Mafia. He was accused of exchanging a &#8220;kiss of honor&#8221; with the mob&#8217;s longtime No. 1 boss and indicted in what was called &#8220;the trial of the century&#8221; in Palermo. He was eventually cleared. (MORE: Italian Statesman Accused of Mafia Activities) Andreotti was as known for his political acumen as for his subtle humor and witty allusions. With sharp eyes, thin lips and a stooped figure, he was immediately recognizable to generations of Italians. Friends and foes alike admired his intellectual agility and grasp of the issues. &#8220;Power wears out &#8230; those who don&#8217;t have it,&#8221; he once famously said. Andreotti&#8217;s rise in the Italian political scene mirrored the rise of Italy, which was then emerging from two decades of Fascist dictatorship under Benito Mussolini. He joined the conservative Christian Democrats, was part of the Constituent Assembly that wrote the constitution and was elected to parliament in 1948. He remained ever since. He held a series of Cabinet positions after the war, until he became premier for the first time in 1972. Twenty years later, he finished his last stint as premier. Although staunchly pro-American and a firm supporter of Italy&#8217;s NATO membership, Andreotti was the first Christian Democrat to accept Communist support, even if indirect, in one of his governments. The Cabinet that was formed after big Communist gains in the 1976 general election needed the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=85290&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Benedict XVI Returns to Vatican for First Time</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/05/02/benedict-xvi-returns-to-vatican-for-first-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 02:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / NICOLE WINFIELD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(VATICAN CITY)  — Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI came home to the Vatican on Thursday for the first time since he resigned Feb. 28, beginning an unprecedented era for the Catholic Church of having a retired pontiff living alongside a reigning one. Pope Francis welcomed Benedict outside his new retirement home — a converted monastery on the edge of the Vatican gardens — and the two immediately went into the adjoining chapel to pray together, the Vatican said. (More: Pope Francis: A Prime Example of Jesuit Virtue) The Vatican said Benedict, 86, was pleased to be back and that he would — as he himself has said — &#8220;dedicate himself to the service of the church above all with prayer.&#8221; Francis, the statement said, welcomed him with &#8220;brotherly cordiality.&#8221; A photo released by the Vatican showed the two men, arms clasped and both smiling, standing inside the doorway of Benedict&#8217;s new home as Benedict&#8217;s secretary looks on. Unlike the live, door-to-door Vatican-provided television coverage that accompanied Benedict&#8217;s emotional farewell in February, the Vatican provided no television images of his return Thursday. The low-key approach followed the remarkable yet somewhat alarming images transmitted on March 23 when Francis went to visit Benedict at the papal retreat in Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, where Benedict was living. In that footage, Benedict appeared visibly more frail and thinner only three weeks after resigning. Some Vatican officials questioned whether those images should have been released, given how frail Benedict appeared. Thursday&#8217;s photo showed no obvious signs of further decline. The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, has acknowledged Benedict&#8217;s post-retirement decline but has insisted the 86-year-old German isn&#8217;t suffering from any specific ailment and is just old. &#8220;He is a man who is not young: He is old and his strength is slowly ebbing,&#8221; Lombardi said this week. &#8220;However, there is no special illness. He is an old man who is healthy.&#8221; Benedict chose to leave the Vatican immediately after his resignation to physically remove himself from the process of electing his successor and from Pope<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84938&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italy&#8217;s New Government Wins 1st Confidence Vote</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/29/italys-new-government-wins-1st-confidence-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Colleen Barry and Frances D&#039;Emilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ROME) — Italy&#8216;s new government easily passed its first confirmation vote Monday in Parliament after Premier Enrico Letta made concessions to his uneasy coalition allies, promising to ease part of a slate of austerity measures that have weighed on Italians impatient at the slow pace of economic recovery. While pledging the country will do what the eurozone wants to improve its public finances and debt problem, the center-left leader has to placate his tense two-day-old coalition, including former premier Silvio Berlusconi&#8216;s conservatives, whose support he needs for confirmation. The lower house of Parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, approved his fledgling government by a vote of 453 to 153. The government faces the second mandatory confidence vote of confirmation in the Senate on Tuesday afternoon. (MORE: Italy’s Compromise Government Faces Uncertain Future, Plays Into Berlusconi’s Hands) Bending in part to a key Berlusconi campaign promise, Letta said his government will immediately suspend an unpopular tax on primary residences due in June and make it fairer to less affluent taxpayers. He also pledged not to raise the sales tax and to reduce some payroll taxes. &#8220;Reducing taxes is a priority,&#8221; Letta said, promising he would &#8220;pinpoint a strategy to revive growth without interfering with the process to heal finances.&#8221; The European Union has insisted on rigorous austerity to heal Italy&#8217;s finances, but the public&#8217;s patience has been tried by spending cuts and higher taxes. Voters across the continent have been rebelling against governments that have imposed such measures. While Letta stressed the urgency of reducing the tax burden on homeowners, consumers and businesses, he didn&#8217;t say how he planned to make up for the reduced revenues. He might have to resort to more spending cuts, which could ultimately sharpen an already harsh part of the austerity agendas. Markets appeared pleased over Letta&#8217;s brand new government. Italy&#8217;s stock market was trading up some 2.2 percent at the market&#8217;s close, while the country&#8217;s borrowing costs on its 10-year bonds dropped below 4 percent for the first time since 2010. The failure of Letta&#8217;s party to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84370&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italian Policemen Shot Near New Government Swearing-in</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/28/2-police-shot-outside-italian-premiers-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Frances D&#039;meilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ROME) — In the very moments Italy&#8217;s new coalition government was being sworn in, ending months of political paralysis in a country hoping to revive a bleak economy, a middle-aged unemployed bricklayer opened fire Sunday in the square outside the premier&#8217;s office, seriously wounding two policemen, authorities said. The alleged gunman from Calabria, a southern region plagued by joblessness and organized crime, told investigators he wanted to shoot politicians. But finding none in the square, he instead shot at Carabinieri paramilitary police. A bullet pierced one of the policemen in the neck, passing through his spinal column, doctors said, adding it wasn&#8217;t yet known if the 50-year-old officer would have any paralysis. The other one was shot in the leg and suffered a fracture. The newly sworn in interior minister, Angelino Alfano, said a preliminary investigation indicated the shooting, which also slightly injured a pregnant bystander, amounted to a &#8220;tragic criminal gesture of a 49-year-old unemployed&#8221; man. But the shooting was also a violent expression of social tensions in Italy, where unemployment is soaring, an increasing number of businesses are shutting their doors permanently and new political corruption scandals make headlines nearly every day. (MORE: Italy’s Compromise Government Faces Uncertain Future, Plays Into Berlusconi’s Hands) Politicians described the attack as a disturbing call to fix Italy&#8217;s economy. &#8220;From what we understand, it&#8217;s mainly personal problems, work, personal debts&#8221; that fueled the gunman&#8217;s attack, said Guglielmo Epifani, a top official in Premier Enrico Letta&#8217;s center-left Democratic Party. Epifani said in a state TV interview that while the financial crisis has caused some to commit suicide, &#8220;this is the first time someone shoots to kill&#8221; someone else &#8220;in a place filled with innocent people.&#8221; &#8220;The symbolism is there,&#8221; he said. The political world &#8220;must highlight its responsibility during the crisis before the country,&#8221; he said. In brief comments to reporters after paying a hospital visit to the more seriously wounded policeman, Letta said, &#8220;it is a moment in which each must do one&#8217;s own duty.&#8221; The 46-year-old Letta will speak to Parliament<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84142&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italy Forms New Government After 2-Month Stalemate</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/27/italy-forms-new-government-after-2-month-stalemate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP / Frances D&#039;Emilio</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ROME) — A coalition of Silvio Berlusconi&#8217;s forces and center-left rivals forged a new Italian government Saturday, an unusual alliance that broke a two-month deadlock following inconclusive elections in the recession-mired country. The daunting achievement was pulled off by Enrico Letta, a center-left leader who will be sworn in as premier along with the new Cabinet on Sunday at the presidential Quirinal Palace. Letta, 46, is a moderate with a reputation as a political bridge-builder. He is also the nephew of former premier Berlusconi&#8217;s longtime adviser, Gianni Letta, a relationship seen as smoothing over often nasty interaction between the two main coalition partners. Serving as deputy premier and interior minister will be Berlusconi&#8217;s top political aide, Angelino Alfano. He is a former justice minister who was the architect of legislation that critics say was tailor-made to help media mogul Berlusconi in his many judicial woes. The creation of the coalition capped the latest political comeback for Berlusconi, who was forced to resign in 2011 as Italy slid deeper in to the eurozone&#8217;s sovereign debt crisis. Berlusconi, a fervent anti-Communist, views Italy&#8217;s left as a personal nemesis, and Letta&#8217;s Democratic Party has some of its roots in what was the West&#8217;s largest Communist Party. The new premier, Letta, expressed &#8220;sober satisfaction over the team we put together and its willingness&#8221; to form a coalition. President Giorgio Napolitano, who tasked Letta with creating a government out of bitter rivals, called upon the coalition partners to work &#8220;in a spirit of absolute, indispensable cohesion&#8221; as they work for sorely needed political and economic reforms. &#8220;I hope there is maximum cohesion,&#8221; Napolitano, sounding almost breathless as he expressed confidence the rivals could work together for the good of the country. Napolitano said: &#8220;It was and is the only possible government,&#8221; adding there was no room for &#8220;delay, in our country&#8217;s and Europe&#8217;s interests.&#8221; Napolitano, 87, reluctantly agreed to be re-elected by Parliament earlier this month for another seven-year term because of the political instability.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=84119&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Italy&#8217;s Compromise Government Faces Uncertain Future, Plays Into Berlusconi&#8217;s Hands</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/25/italys-compromise-government-faces-uncertain-future-plays-into-berlusconis-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Faris / Rome</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a solution that came after all other avenues were exhausted. On April 29, more than two months after the Italian elections, the country&#8217;s Parliament is expected to give life to a coalition government. Led by Enrico Letta, a high-ranking member of the center-left Democratic Party, Italy’s new administration will be dependent on support from former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a man many in Letta&#8217;s party regard as the enemy. Indeed, the deal comes only after efforts to find another solution exposed deep rifts in the Democratic Party. After an election in which no party was able to secure a clear victory, Pier Luigi Bersani, the party&#8217;s leader during the elections, fervently opposed any compromise with the sex-scandal-plagued media mogul, only to resign his position last week after repeatedly trying and failing to get his parliamentarians to vote for his candidates for the Italian presidency. “On any issue of relevance, the party is split,” says Roberto D&#8217;Alimonte, a professor of political science at Rome&#8217;s LUISS University. “Letta might get more support from Berlusconi than his own party. That&#8217;s the paradox.” The deal follows weeks of political brinkmanship in which the Democratic Party struggled to strike a deal with the Five Star Movement, a surging protest party headed by the angry comedian Beppe Grillo, who doggedly rebuffed efforts by Bersani to draw him into a coalition. Grillo, who doesn&#8217;t hold elected office, has condemned the government-forming deal as a corrupt pact between unpopular political parties, one that plays into Berlusconi&#8217;s hands. His parliamentarians have pledged to stay in the opposition — positioning themselves as an alternative in future elections. (MORE: Beppe Grillo — Italy&#8217;s Comedian Turned Kingmaker) In the meantime, the pact yields a new government that will only survive through compromise. With the Democratic Party having proved that it is incapable of holding the line, Berlusconi will be able to easily claim to control the government&#8217;s largest block of support. Recent opinion polls put Berlusconi&#8217;s party well ahead of his opponents, so there&#8217;s little question that Letta&#8217;s government will be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83871&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enrico Letta Appointed Italian Premier</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/24/enrico-letta-appointed-italian-premier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(ROME) &#8212; Italy&#8217;s president has appointed Enrico Letta as premier, asking him to try to form a government to end Italy&#8217;s political paralysis and set the country back on the path of reform and economic growth. Letta, a 46-year-old longtime center-left lawmaker, told reporters Wednesday he accepted the job knowing it&#8217;s an enormous responsibility and that Italy&#8217;s political class &#8220;has lost all credibility.&#8221; He must now form a cabinet that can win broad, cross-party support and win a vote of confidence in Parliament. Letta&#8217;s improbable candidacy came after the chief of his Democratic Party, Pier Luigi Bersani, resigned after failing to form a government following inconclusive February elections and then failing to unite the party behind a candidate for president. MORE: Split Vote Yields No Clear Winner and an &#8216;Unholy Mess&#8217;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=83624&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>French Soccer Clubs Aren&#8217;t Safe From François Hollande&#8217;s 75% Tax on the Rich</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/04/02/french-soccer-clubs-arent-safe-from-francois-hollandes-75-tax-on-the-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even people who hate soccer (especially people who hate soccer) may want to consider how the beautiful game has become a battleground political clash over France’s financial future. Because as TIME’s Michael Schuman demonstrates in his excellent story titled &#8220;Marx’s Revenge: How Class Struggle Is Shaping the World,&#8221; surging class conflict is increasingly shaping political priorities across the world — and now even staging an unusual pitch invasion in French football. On April 2, France’s leftist government issued a denial that the country’s soccer elite will be protected from Socialist President François Hollande’s decision to hit the country’s top salaries with a 75% income tax. The previous day, the head of the French Football Federation, Noël Le Graet, played an unintentional April Fools&#8217; gag by telling the daily Le Parisien he’d gotten government assurances that France soccer stars and their clubs would be spared from a revamped 75% income tax scheme Hollande revealed March 28. Unlike the initial proposal applicable to people earning over of $1.28 million annually, Hollande’s new plan will leave large companies paying those salaries on the hook for the 75% tax. (MORE: France’s 75% Income Tax on the Rich Overturned as Unconstitutional) Yet on Monday, Le Graet claimed that pro soccer clubs — which he defined as medium-sized businesses despite their employment of sweaty multimillionaires — would be exempt from the measure. Clearly not amused, the government promptly disabused Le Graet and the public of that idea. As a result, team owners, pundits and fans alike are asking whether those new costs — coming atop heavy taxes all French businesses and employees already pay — won’t further handicap the nation’s notoriously modest pro clubs struggling to compete with their financially flush English, Spanish and Italian rivals. (The one exception at the moment in France is table-topping Paris St.-Germain, which is bankrolled by investors from Qatar.) As a lifelong soccer fan and weekend player himself, Hollande had been expected by some observers — Le Graet first among them — to provide French football an umbrella from his<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=79240&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Pope Shows Eye for Symbolism</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/16/new-pope-shows-eye-for-symbolism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Faris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Cardinal, Jorge Mario Bergoglio didn&#8217;t always have the smoothest relations with the press. Said to be shy, he gave few interviews, preferring to address his congregation directly. Journalists in his native Argentina accused him of silent complicity during the country&#8217;s so-called Dirty War — charges he denounces as &#8220;slander.&#8221; In an interview with La Stampa’s Vatican Insider shortly before his election to the papacy, Bergoglio bemoaned the media&#8217;s focus on negativity and scandal. “Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia,&#8221; he said then. Yet when he addressed a group of several thousand journalists and their families on Saturday as Pope Francis, he opened with the words, &#8220;My dear friends.&#8221; Seated on a chair on stage in an audience hall next to St Peter&#8217;s Basilica, the Pope was greeted by the assembled journalists with applause and a few cries of &#8220;Viva.&#8221; Whether performing mass or giving an address, Francis&#8217; speaking style is more like that of an actor than a preacher: his tone is intimate, with touches of humor and folksiness, but he never loses command of his audience. In his delivery, if there&#8217;s a politician he resembles, it&#8217;s Ronald Reagan. During one passage in his address thanking the media for their &#8220;service&#8221; covering the conclave, Francis broke from the text, looked up and said with a smile: &#8220;You&#8217;ve worked, eh? You&#8217;ve really worked.&#8221; (MORE: The New Pope and Argentina’s ‘Disappeared’ of the Dirty War) There&#8217;s every indication that the new Pope knows how to work the media himself. When, a few days after the election, questions about his role during Argentina&#8217;s bloody military dictatorship threatened to derail the narrative of renewal, the Vatican responded with uncharacteristic speed and force, releasing a statement that described the accusations as slanderous, defamatory and motivated by leftist anticlericalism. &#8220;That was his first communications crisis, his first bump in the road,” says Dennis Redmont, a professor of international media at the University of Perugia in Rome, who covered three papacies as a journalist for the Associated Press. &#8220;When someone makes an accusation, it dangles. And in the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75817&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pope Francis Criticized Britain over Falkland Islands</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/14/pope-francis-criticized-britain-over-falkland-islands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sorcha Pollak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today signals the first day of Pope Francis’ reign as the new leader of the Catholic Church, and already the pontiff is faced with a challenge.  As Argentines and Catholics across the globe celebrate the election of the first ever Latin American pope, comments made by the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio regarding the Falkland Islands dispute have emerged. Last April, at a memorial mass in Buenos Aires marking the 30th anniversary of the 1982 Falkland Islands conflict, Cardinal Bergoglio told his followers that they had come together to “pray for those who have fallen, the sons of our homeland who went out to defend their mother country, to reclaim what is theirs of the homeland, that which was usurped from them.” He also spoke of the many young Argentines who never returned from the war, while others “came back but were never able to forget,” writes AciPrensa. Whether or not they fought in the battleground, these young people were scared for life, the Cardinal said. Three years earlier, Cardinal Bergoglio told families of Argentine soldiers killed in the conflict to “go and kiss this land which is ours, and seem to us far away,” notes the Independent. (MORE: Pope of the Americas) His words echo those of Cristina Fernández Kirchner, President of Argentina, who in January sent an open letter to the British Prime Minister David Cameron calling on him to honor a United Nations resolution that dates back to 1960 and “end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations,” writes the Guardian. She wrote in the letter that the “Malvinas” (as the islands are known in Argentina) are 8,600 miles away from London and claimed that the Royal Navy had expelled Argentines living on the islands and replaced them with British settlers, a move that, she says, was a “blatant exercise in nineteenth-century colonialism.” Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the Falkland Islands have expressed surprise at the election of Pope Francis. Monsignor Michael McPartland from St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Stanley admitted this morning that he had never actually heard of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio until his election as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75358&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pope of the Americas</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/13/pope-of-the-americas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Chua-Eoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Habemus Papam Franciscum came the tweet, the first official word from the @Pontifex account, after the white smoke curled from the copper chimney watched by hundreds of thousands in St. Peter’s Square, by millions and millions on every imaginable 21st century technology around the world. And there it was, old and new, past and present, the arrival of a Pope who for the first time hails from “the most unequal part of the world,” as he once called Latin America, who cooked his own dinners and rode the bus and took his regnal name from the sainted champion of the least among us. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, brings to the throne of St. Peter a concern about the “spiritual sickness” that can afflict a church if it seems to care more for its priests than its people. “I want you to bless me,” he told the crowd, before it was his turn to bless them. He noted that his brother Cardinals had gone “to the end of the earth” to find the new Bishop of Rome. But there was a kind of subtle, rounded—perhaps divine—justice to it all. And by the time his brief debut was over, it was already clear that a profound change had occurred in an institution famously resistant to it. The accession of a new Pope is always cause for wonderment—if only because the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church has managed to survive more trials than almost any other kingdom in history. No other institution can claim to have withstood Attila the Hun, the ambitions of the Habsburgs, the Ottoman Turks, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler, in addition to Stalin and his successors. Every new Pope faces fresh crisis and challenges. And in the 21st century, he does so at the head of a spiritual empire that touches more than 1.2 billion souls and whose influence crosses borders and contends with other great powers. Stefano Dal Pozzolo / Contrasto / Redux (PHOTOS: Pope and Circumstance: the Road to the Papacy) Francis, the first New<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=75116&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pope and Circumstance: the Road to the Papacy</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/13/pope-and-circumstance-the-road-to-the-papacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mikko Takkunen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scenes from St. Peter&#8217;s Square at the Vatican. (MORE: Habemus Papam: Francis, the First Pope from the Western Hemisphere) (MORE: Pope of the Americas) (PHOTOS: The Rise of Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio) (PHOTOS: Catholics in Latin America Rejoice Pope Francis)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=74883&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notorious Cardinals: A Rogue&#8217;s Gallery of Powerful Prelates</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/13/notorious-cardinals-a-rogues-gallery-of-powerful-prelates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ishaan Tharoor</dc:creator>
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		<title>Popeology 101: How to Interpret the Sistine Chapel Results</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/12/popeology-101-how-to-interpret-the-sistine-chapel-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Chua-Eoan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: March 13, 2013, 2:15 p.m. EDT When a plume of white smoke emerged from the Vatican&#8217;s chimney around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday evening, the masses gathered in St. Peter&#8217;s Square erupted in cheers. But what happens now? Once the new Pope is elected, he will be led to the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, just above the main door of Baroque architectural masterpiece. On that so-called Loggia of the Blessings, Cardinal Proto-Deacon Jean-Louis Tauran of France will announce in Latin: “Habemus Papam!”, pronounce the given name of the elected Pontiff and declare the name he has chosen under which to reign. The Vicar of Christ and the leader of the Roman Catholic Church will then emerge and give his first traditional Urbi et Orbi — the papal blessing saluting and praying for the city of Rome and the wider world. The personality of the Pope and his biography will be paramount in judging what to expect from his rule over a spiritual empire that touches more than 1 billion souls and whose influence crosses borders and contends against other principalities and powers. But there is much to be gleaned about how the new Pope will administer his kingdom from what went into the Sistine Chapel with the 115 Cardinal electors charged with discerning God’s will for the leadership of the church. As the absolute ruler of the Roman Catholic Church, a Pope can do as he pleases. Yet, the ideological and political position he occupied among his fellow princes of the church will stamp his reign from the get-go. The ideology may have already been preordained since, before his abdication, Pope Benedict XVI basically packed the College of Cardinals with prelates who apparently agreed with his conservative agenda. As Pope Emeritus, his presence will also be a constant reminder to the new Pontiff not to stray too far from the Benedictine prescriptions — if only not to embarrass the retired ruler of the church living in the Vatican garden. (MORE: Benedict XVI&#8217;s Second Act) Still, the politics of the Holy<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=74428&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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