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	<title>Breaking News &#187; Sardinia</title>
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		<title>Italy hands over 1st new houses to survivors of April 6 quake as temblors strike Tuscany</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Premier Silvio Berlusconi handed out keys Monday to some of the first new homes for survivors of the April 6 earthquake that devastated parts of central Italy.

&#8220;May this be a nest of love for a new life, to look ahead, thinking of a future with serenity and hope,&#8221; Berlusconi told a young mother, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italian police recovers most of the jewelry stolen from Saudi princess in Sardinia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Italian police say they have recovered most of the jewelry that was stolen from the hotel room of a Saudi princess in Sardinia last month.

Carabinieri police in Olbia said Tuesday the jewels were found last week on the island. They declined to give details, saying the investigation was continuing.
Burglars in August stole €11 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy to hand over first new houses to victims of April 6 quake as temblors strike Tuscany</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — The government is handing over dozens of new homes to victims of the April 6 earthquake that devastated parts of central Italy.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi will preside over the inauguration ceremony Tuesday for the first new homes in Onna, a tiny hamlet that was leveled by the magnitude 6.3-magnitude temblor. Some 40 of Onna&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>€11 million in Saudi princess&#8217; cash, jewelry stolen from hotel room in glitzy Italian resort</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME —Italian police said Monday they are hunting for burglars who stole euro11 million ($15.5 million) in cash and jewelry from the hotel room of a Saudi princess.

Police said the princess was not in her room at the luxury Colonna Pevero Hotel in Porto Cervo, a glitzy resort on the island of Sardinia, when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italian  TV  actress  with &#8220;SB&#8221; tattoo  takes  centre  stage  in Berlusconi row</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/italian-tv-actress-with-sb-tattoo-takes-centre-stage-in-berlusconi-row-123980/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ani</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON - A TV actress, who is known as the  &#8216;Queen Bee&#8217; and has a tattoo dedicated to &#8220;SB&#8221; on her ankle, has  become the latest star of the &#8216;Silvio Berlusconi saga&#8217;.

Sabina  Began, 35, is said to have introduced Berlusconi, 72,  to Giampaolo Tarantini - the man who hired girls, including [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spain on maximum wildfire alert; heat wave blazes across southern Europe</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/spain-on-maximum-wildfire-alert-heat-wave-blazes-across-southern-europe-120077/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harold Heckle</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MADRID — Spain was placed on maximum wildfire alert Friday as authorities elsewhere in the Mediterranean also battled blazes and braced for a weekend heat wave.

Eight large fires raged in eastern Spain. A firefighter died in the hospital Friday, bringing the number to have died from forest fires this week to six.
Around 1,500 people were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama sets out to reshape US relations in Russia, meet Pope Benedict XVI, make mark in Africa</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/obama-sets-out-to-reshape-us-relations-in-russia-meet-pope-benedict-xvi-make-mark-in-africa-99682/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Feller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, his father&#8217;s birthplace.

And when in Rome? Obama will go to the Vatican to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama sets out to reshape US relations in Russia, meet the Pope, make a mark in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Feller</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Determined to change the way the world views the United States, Barack Obama is onto his next foreign mission: rebuilding relations with Russia, proving to global leaders that America is serious about climate change, and outlining his vision for Africa, his father&#8217;s birthplace.

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		<title>Berlusconi&#8217;s estranged wife says her dignity has been besmirched</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor L. Simpson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi&#8217;s estranged wife believes her dignity has been besmirched in the fallout from a scandal that began with her suggestions that her husband had an inappropriate relationship with an 18-year-old model.

&#8220;What is true is that I have always loved him and planned my life in function of my marriage and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy&#8217;s vote for EU Parliament a virtual referendum on scandal-plagued Berlusconi</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/italys-vote-for-eu-parliament-a-virtual-referendum-on-scandal-plagued-berlusconi-74052/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariel David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Italians voted Saturday in European Parliament elections that have become a virtual barometer of Premier Silvio Berlusconi&#8217;s ability to weather a scandal over his attention to young women.

The three-time conservative premier has bounced back in the past from corruption probes or international gaffes. Now Italians can weigh in on whether he has finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italians vote for EU Parliament in election turned into referendum on scandal-plagued premier</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariel David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has weathered corruption probes and public outrage at his tasteless quips — emerging each time with his popularity intact.

On Saturday, Italians can weigh in on whether the conservative leader has finally gone too far.
The country is picking its members of the European Parliament against a backdrop of accusations that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Berlusconi: I&#8217;ll resign if lied about teen; moves to sue Spanish paper over topless photos</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/berlusconi-ill-resign-if-lied-about-teen-moves-to-sue-spanish-paper-over-topless-photos-72966/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Winfield</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday he would resign immediately if he were shown to have lied about his relationship with an 18-year-old model at the heart of a scandal that has titillated Italy for weeks.

His lawyer, meanwhile, moved to sue Spanish newspaper El Pais for having published photographs of topless women and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy&#8217;s Berlusconi probed over use of gov&#8217;t plane, premier calls accusations political ploy</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/italys-berlusconi-probed-over-use-of-govt-plane-premier-calls-accusations-political-ploy-72265/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Prosecutors are investigating Premier Silvio Berlusconi for alleged improper use of a government plane, a charge the Italian leader dismissed Thursday as politically motivated.

Prosecutors in Rome opened an investigation after photos surfaced showing friends, entertainers and starlets flown in with a government plane for parties at Berlusconi&#8217;s vacation villa in Sardinia.
In a complaint [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italians follow spectacle of Berlusconi defending himself against wife&#8217;s fury</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/italians-follow-spectacle-of-berlusconi-defending-himself-against-wifes-fury-70753/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor L. Simpson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Just weeks ago Silvio Berlusconi appeared to have an ironclad grip on power. Now the Italian premier is looking suddenly vulnerable, with the heat coming from something almost unheard of in freewheeling Italy: a sex scandal.

Opposition politicians and newspapers kept up the pressure Wednesday on Berlusconi, who has spent most of the past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy seeks to move G-8 summit to quake-hit L&#8217;Aquila, approves reconstruction plan</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/italy-seeks-to-move-g-8-summit-to-quake-hit-laquila-approves-reconstruction-plan-35422/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ariel David</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Italy&#8217;s government wants to move this summer&#8217;s Group of Eight summit from Sardinia to earthquake-stricken L&#8217;Aquila — both to save money and to give the devastated central region an economic boost.

Premier Silvio Berlusconi told a news conference Thursday after a Cabinet meeting in L&#8217;Aquila that the cost of holding the July 8-10 summit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Italy seeks to move G-8 summit to quake-hit L&#8217;Aquila</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/italy-seeks-to-move-g-8-summit-to-quake-hit-laquila-35271/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:12:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says he wants to move this summer&#8217;s Group of Eight summit to earthquake-stricken L&#8217;Aquila from Sardinia to both save money and provide the region with an economic boost.

Berlusconi told a news conference after a Cabinet meeting in L&#8217;Aquila that the security costs of holding the July 8-10 summit in [...]]]></description>
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