Archive - Feb 21, 2007

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ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS
Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned today shortly after some
of his government's key foreign policy measures failed to secure the
approval of the Italian Senate. Among the measures that failed to
pass - funding for the Italian operation in Afghanistan. In addition
to Rome's participation in the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan,
many Italians have been galvanized against militarization domestically
by unpopular plans to expand a US base in the northern Italian city of
Vicenza. The Italian president is now responsible for deciding how to
replace the prime minister.

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