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Prokopis Pavlopoulos, who was nominated for the Greek presidency on Tuesday, is a high-profile politician whose career has been tainted by controversy. The 65-year...
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday named former conservative minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos as his party’s candidate for president, a move calculated to speed...
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Sergio Mattarella, a Sicilian constitutional court judge closely associated with the fight against organised crime, was sworn in on Tuesday as Italy’s new president....
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Italy’s new president is a white-haired Sicilian who might never have got anywhere near the corridors of power but for the Mafia killing of...
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Richard von Weizsaecker, who died Saturday aged 94, was the first president of a reunited Germany and played a leading role in helping the...
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Italy’s presidential election will go into a fourth and likely decisive round on Saturday more after two more inconclusive votes on Friday. Under constitutional...
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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Thursday backed a little-known Constitutional Court judge, whose brother was slain by the mafia, to be Italy’s next...
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Italy’s parliament meets Thursday to begin selecting a new president with the race apparently wide open and much at stake for Prime Minister Matteo...
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The Obamas were away on an overseas trip and were not at the White House on Monday at dawn, when the drone was found...
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is to step down “within hours,” well before the 2020 expiry of his term, Italy’s Premier Matteo Renzi said Tuesday,...