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ROME (AP) — The head of Rome’s Jewish community joined the Vatican newspaper and others Tuesday in sharply rebuking Premier Silvio Berlusconi for a joke about Jews, money and the Holocaust which was caught on videotape. (more)

VATICAN CITY — A cardinal under investigation in a sprawling corruption scandal denied wrongdoing and insisted yesterday that he acted for the good of the church while handling real estate transactions for the Vatican office that funds missionary work abroad. (more)

LONDON (AP) — Europe’s governments are struggling to deal with a mountain of debt made worse by the past three years of global financial and economic turmoil. (more)

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Economic recovery in the world’s richest countries is accelerating thanks to a “substantial” rebound in trade and growth in Asia, but austerity measures are needed to reduce deficits, as Europe’s debt crisis proves, said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. (more)

The Roman Catholic Church prohibits divorcees who remarry from taking communion, but Mr Berlusconi was accorded the privilege at the funeral of a well-known Italian television celebrity in Milan. (more)

For Italians, the medium is changing the message. Social-networking websites have emerged as an alternative to an information industry long tied to the government, political parties and industrialists. (more)

The governor made off to a monastery after having affairs with transsexuals, but not before the cops videotaped a tryst, all flesh and white powder, and offered to sell copies to a magazine owned by the prime minister, who, at the time, was rumored to be entangled with an underage Neapolitan model. (more)

Silvio Berlusconi vented his fury at the “amateurs and idiots” surrounding him after his ruling party was disqualified yesterday from two of this month’s crucial regional polls for failing to submit valid electoral lists in time. (more)

“The Sopranos” and other television shows about the mafia are damaging Italy’s reputation abroad, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said today. (more)

MILAN (AP) — Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s corruption trial was suspended Friday pending the final appeal by his co-defendant, who was convicted of accepting a bribe in exchange for lying in court to protect the premier’s business interests. (more)

ROME (AP) — Premier Silvio Berlusconi returned to a busy political schedule Monday after a monthlong recovery from an attack that broke his nose and two teeth. (more)

ROME (AP) — Bloody clashes between African migrants and residents in one of Italy’s poorest regions over the last few days brought home a national dilemma Saturday: Many Italians don’t want to pick crops in the south or toil in the north’s factories, but resent the desperate foreigners who will work for a pittance. (more)