JERUSALEM (AFP) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Italian mediation had been key to Israel's acceptance of a plan to withdraw its forces from a disputed village on the Lebanese border.
Netanyahu singled out the role of Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, who was in Israel on a four-day visit to the region aimed at pushing forward the stalled Middle East peace [...]
ROME (AFP) - Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini will fly to Baghdad to try to stop the execution of former Saddam aide Tareq Aziz, who was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court last week, his office said Monday.
A foreign ministry statement announced Frattini's "intention to go to Baghdad soon to encourage the search for a solution which can avoid the death sentence against Tareq Aziz and [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - Ansaldo Energia, a unit of Italy's Finmecannica, and Greece's Metka, part of Mytilineos Holdings, are to build a gas-powered electricity generating plant in Syria, the press reported on Friday.
The 750-megawatt facility, costing some 700 million euros (973 million dollars), is to be built in the northeastern province of Deir-Ezzor.
Around 80 percent of the project is to [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States said Thursday that energy giants Total of France, Anglo-Dutch Shell, Norway's Statoil and Italy's Eni have pledged to end their investments in Iran.
The pledges fall in line with tough new energy and financial measures the US Congress imposed on Iran in June, which came atop UN Security Council sanctions imposed earlier the same month to curb Iran's nuclear [...]
ROME (AFP) - Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's visit to Rome to mark the second anniversary of a friendship treaty with former coloniser Italy stumbled into controversy Monday after he said Europe should convert to Islam.
Kadhafi made the comments on Sunday during a lecture to a group of 500 young women hired and paid by an agency to attend his lecture.
"Islam should become the religion of all of [...]
ROME (AFP) - Italy drew initial support from Palestinian and European leaders as it prepares to lead a European ministerial delegation to the Hamas-run Gaza enclave, the Italian foreign ministry said on Thursday.
Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini "had the chance to gather the initial, positive reactions from the Palestinian side" during a phone call with Palestinian prime minister [...]
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