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A Milan court ruled on Saturday that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should be barred from holding public office for two years following a conviction for tax fraud.
A Milan appeals court has set Italian ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi's political ban in his tax fraud conviction at two years.
The man with a handgun has released the remaining two hostages and surrendered to the police, none was hurt during the incident, the police on the spot said on Friday.
Russia's top crude producer OAO Rosneft has agreed to cede a share of its oil riches to China, the world's top oil importer, signing a memorandum on Friday for the joint development of East Siberian deposits.
Former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden says he did not take any secret NSA documents to Russia and that intelligence officials in China as well as Russia could not get access to the documents he had obtained before leaving the United States.
China and the European Commission are expected to launch negotiations on a long-awaited pact on investment at the November leaders' summit.
The Ministers of the Foreign Affairs Council (Trade) adopted mandates which will allow the European Commission (EC) to negotiate investment agreements with China and ASEAN, an EC statement said Friday.
A deal signed with London this week to help tackle air pollution in Beijing is the latest in a string of moves to solve pollution problems through international cooperation.
The government of the United Kingdom welcomes Chinese investment — possibly including majority stakes — in the next generation of nuclear power plants, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said on Thursday.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson spoke optimistically of the involvement of British companies in the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone on Wednesday while posing atop a bicycle on a vertiginous 30th-floor balcony overlooking local landmark the Bund.
British police have charged a man with trespass and possession of a bladed article after an arrest on Monday at Buckingham Palace, just a month after another security incident at the London residence of Queen Elizabeth.
Norwegian King Harald V accepted on Monday the resignation of the government led by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.