Read more Italy stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1885/italy.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:44:33 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74608/call-girl-attacked-after-belusconi-tattle.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA call girl was attacked and threatened after she revealed she slept with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, she reveals in a new book. Soon after she tattled, a mystery car tried to ram Patrizia D'Addario as she drove near her home, she writes. "It was a miracle I survived,...http://www.newser.com/story/74608/call-girl-attacked-after-belusconi-tattle.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 23 Nov 2009 2:33:22 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74559/amanda-knox-murder-charges-pure-fantasy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmanda Knox dismissed the idea that she killed roommate Meredith Kercher as "pure fantasy" in court today. Speaking in fluent Italian after prosecutors rested their case and asked for a life sentence, Knox declared that "Meredith was my friend. I didn't hate her." Fighting tears, she added, "Everything that has...http://www.newser.com/story/74559/amanda-knox-murder-charges-pure-fantasy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 21 Nov 2009 13:05:21 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74553/2-arrested-in-italy-for-aiding-mumbai-attackers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagItalian police today arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and provide logistical support for last year's terrorist attacks in Mumbai. The two were arrested in an early morning raid in Brescia, where they managed a money transfer agency. The day before the attacks began, last Nov....http://www.newser.com/story/74553/2-arrested-in-italy-for-aiding-mumbai-attackers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 21 Nov 2009 7:57:36 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74530/knox-acted-out-of-hatred-prosecutor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagItalian prosecutors pulled out all the stops in closing arguments at the Amanda Knox murder trial, telling the court that the American exchange student killed Meredith Kercher in "an unstoppable crescendo of violence." The chief prosecutor restated his argument that Knox murdered her roommate out of spite because Kercher disapproved...http://www.newser.com/story/74530/knox-acted-out-of-hatred-prosecutor.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 14:57:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74156/gadhafi-hires-200-hot-italian-women-tries-to-convert-them.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMoammar Gadhafi hired a couple of hundred attractive Italian women for the night, headed to the Libyan ambassador's place in Rome, shepherded them into a room, and ... tried to convert them to Islam. The Libyan dictator offered $75 for the evening, causing most of the women to assume they’d be...http://www.newser.com/story/74156/gadhafi-hires-200-hot-italian-women-tries-to-convert-them.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 14:23:06 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73499/2-american-nato-troops-missing-in-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTwo NATO soldiers have been missing in Western Afghanistan since Wednesday after a routine supply mission went awry. “We continue exhaustive search and rescue operations to locate our missing service members,” a NATO spokesperson tells the BBC . “We are doing everything we can to find them.” That part of Afghanistan...http://www.newser.com/story/73499/2-american-nato-troops-missing-in-afghanistan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 11:44:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73337/cia-officer-we-broke-the-law-with-kidnapping.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOne of the CIA agents convicted in Italy today of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in 2003 says the mission "broke the law" and that she feels "abandoned and betrayed" by the US government. The case involving ex-officer Sabrina DeSousa and 22 other Americans is the first challenge to the US...http://www.newser.com/story/73337/cia-officer-we-broke-the-law-with-kidnapping.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Nov 2009 18:30:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73317/italy-convicts-cia-agents-of-kidnapping.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Italian judge today convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism. Judge Oscar Magi acquitted three other Americans, citing diplomatic immunity. Former Milan CIA station chief Robert...http://www.newser.com/story/73317/italy-convicts-cia-agents-of-kidnapping.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Nov 2009 11:12:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73221/court-bans-crucifixes-in-italian-classrooms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA European court has ruled that the presence of crucifixes in Italian classrooms violates religious freedom. In a decision denounced by Italian politicians, the court said the compulsory display of the crucifix prevents parents from raising kids with the religion of their choice and restricts the "right of children to...http://www.newser.com/story/73221/court-bans-crucifixes-in-italian-classrooms.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Nov 2009 15:32:23 CST