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CHARLESTON, S.C. — The 36th edition of the Spoleto Festival USA is open in Charleston.The festival got under way at noon Friday with a peal of church bells, a brass fanfare, confetti floating from the air and a round of speeches.
Nero, the ancient Roman emperor, realised his number was up when he dreamt of being suffocated by a swarm of flying ants.
May 25 (Reuters) - A letter purporting to be from Italy's radical left-wing Red Brigades called on Friday for new attacks against politicians, bankers and reporters, just days after the president warned the country risked a return to the political violence of the 1970s.
ROME — Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appears to be angling for the role of Italian president — with enhanced powers.
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said that Italy risked a wave of violence reminiscent of past decades but that it was not intimidated by mafia or terrorist acts on Wednesday, the 20th anniversary of anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone's death.
Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi said Wednesday he would not seek the office again. "I am excluding another candidacy for premier," he said.
Italy’s Foreign Minister, Guilio Terzi, fresh off the NATO summit in Chicago, was Tuesday’s guest on Amanpour. And he suggested, for the first time, that NATO’s patience in Syria is finite and that a clock is ticking for the ceasefire: “I don’t know when the negotiations would be arrived at,” he said, “But over the next four or five weeks that would be possible. At least starting in that direction.”
(AGI) New York- Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi deems the Italian marines' situation in India "unacceptable". He said as much during a meeting with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
UNITED NATIONS - Italy on Wednesday reaffirmed its support for the growing group of euro zone countries that believe there should be a shift away from austerity towards economic growth.
UNITED NATIONS, May 23 . Can murder be mediated? At the UN on Wednesday Inner City Press asked Italian foreign minister Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata about the alleged killing of two Indian fishermen by Italian marines who are now in jail in India.