Source: Chicago Tribune
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Paolo Gabriele was always a reserved, almost shy man, as his position required. He had access to the most private rooms in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace - Pope Benedict's apartment. But what could have prompted the pope's but ...
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Source: Sault Star
Vatican magistrates formally charged Pope Benedict’s butler with illegal possession of secret documents on Saturday and said a wider investigation would take place to see if he had any accomplices who helped him leak them. Paolo Gabriele ...
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Source: Russia Today
The identity of the man who leaked dozens of confidential documents that have embarrassed the Vatican in recent months appears to have been uncovered, after Pope Benedict’s butler was arrested. But the Vatileaks scandal ...
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Source: Reuters.co.uk
MILAN May 25 (Reuters) - Italian loss-making publisher RCS MediaGroup picked Pietro Scott Jovane, the head of Microsoft Italy, to become its chief executive and lead the business turnaround, the company sai ...
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Source: The New York Times
ROME — After months out of the spotlight, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy made a rare public appearance on Friday to call for an overhaul of the country’s Constitution that would allow Italians to directly elect the nation’s president, ...
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Source: The Business Insider
An Italian diplomat who was filmed performing on stage in a fascist rock band last year has been recalled from his post in Osaka, Japan, Corriere della Sera reports. In the video, Mario Vattani (whose stage name is “Katanga” ...
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Source: National Catholic Register
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s law enforcement bureau arrested Pope Benedict XVI’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, on suspicion of leaking a series of confidential Vatican documents and letters to the media. The Holy See Press ...
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Source: France 24
AFP - Aniello Arena, the winsome Neapolitan in the running for best actor award at Cannes, is a former mafia hitman serving a life sentence who got his lucky break in a prison theatre company. Arena, 44, has won over critics with h ...
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Source: France 24
AFP - It won't be size that matters any more for Italian soldiers and policeman but their strength, according to a draft law soon to be adopted by parliament, the Corriere della Sera said Wednesday. A pair of Sardi ...
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