Here are your top stories for this Monday, November 14, 2011: – Occupy protesters clear Portland streets – Italy’s premier-designate promises fiscal healing – NTSB sends crew to investigate Mexico helicopter crash – MLB player Ramos says he didn’t think he’d survive kidnapping

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Keeping true to his word, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi resigned from his post today as Handel’s “Alleluia Chorus” rang out, closing the book on a 17-year political career.  Berlusconi hopes his resignation will help Italy find its way back from the brink of financial collapse. President Giorgio Napolitano will hold meetings tomorrow morning with each [...]

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Here are your top stories for this Thursday, November 10, 2011: – Penn State football coach Joe Paterno to retire – Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi pledges to resign – Iran vows nuclear program progress – Toyota recalls 550,000 cars

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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said today that he would resign as soon as parliament passes economic reforms demanded by the European Union, capping a 20-year political career that has ended with Italy on the verge of being drawn into Europe’s widening debt crisis. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano met with Berlusconi for about an hour after the [...]

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Well, here’s something you certainly don’t see every day. Three demonstrators from the Ukrainian women’s rights movement FEMEN held a protest at the Vatican in Italy yesterday, just after Pope Benedict XVI‘s weekly Sunday address. One of the protesters sneaked into St. Peter’s square and removed her coat, revealing a transparent top. The demonstrator held [...]

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The devil is in the details…literally. Art restorers in Italy have stumbled upon the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. The devil was apparently hidden in the details of some clouds located at the top of [...]

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Here are your top stories for this Sunday, November 6, 2011: – Greek bailout in doubt once again – Protests take place in Rome – Sex abuse charges rock Penn State – Andy Rooney dies at 92

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What was initially meant to be a peaceful Occupy Rome protest turned into a violent demonstration in the Italian capital as riots broke out. Police reportedly had to use tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds of angry Italian citizens. Protesters wearing masks and helmets threw rocks, bottles and other objects at police in [...]

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Amanda Knox now claims she was sexually harassed by a prison official in Italy during her four-year stay behind bars, according to a TV program to be aired on CBS this weekend. Knox, who has returned home to Seattle after being acquitted of murder and sexual assault, said the “high-ranking prison administrator” ordered her into [...]

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Amanda Knox is heading home to Seattle as the family of murder victim Meredith Kercher tries to come to grips with yesterday’s court ruling. Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were acquitted of the murder on Monday, in a stunning jury ruling that left Knox sobbing. The decision shocked members of Kercher’s family, who were visibly [...]

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In a stunning development this afternoon in Italy, Amanda Knox‘s conviction was overturned as she was found not guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher. It has been ordered that Knox will be freed immediately.  She will now allowed to leave the country and return home to the U.S. A mix of shocked cries and [...]

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She’s not bad, she’s just drawn that way. How’s that for a legal defense?  A lawyer told an Italian court today that Amanda Knox, the student convicted of killing her British roommate Meredith Kercher, isn’t a manipulating, sex-obsessed “femme fatale” as her accusers claim, but she’s rather like the movie character Jessica Rabbit…just drawn that [...]

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