VENICE, Italy, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- An investigation of an Italian politician who made an obscene gesture while citing the country's national anthem has been shelved, a prosecutor's office said.

ROME, May 24 (UPI) -- The head of the Northern League, a key player in returning Silvio Berlusconi to power in Italy, is pushing an anti-immigrant drive, a published report said.

ROME, May 8 (UPI) -- Silvio Berlusconi is loading his new Italian government with familiar faces from his previous administrations.

ROME, April 26 (UPI) -- Veronica Lario, wife of Silvio Berlusconi, the former and future Italian prime minister, recommends partitioning the country.

ROME, July 10 (UPI) -- The son of one of Italy's political leaders has asked his father to let him participate in a celebrity reality television show. Ricardo Bossi, 25, son of Northern League's Umberto Bossi, told Chi magazine he was "dying" to get on "L'Isola dei Famosi," an

VARESE, Italy, March 12 (UPI) -- Italy's controversial minister for reform and leader of the Northern League party, Umberto Bossi, was recovering Friday from a heart attack.

ROME, March 2 (UPI) -- An ultra-nationalist Italian politician with close ties to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has rocked the country by mocking Pope John Paul II.

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