Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has pointed to the possibility of calling in the army to deal with the violent protests in the country over the government’s economic policies. Monti raised alert levels on Sunday at some sensitive sites across Italy to handle the recent violence that has hit the country. Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri also said on... 

Nine former SS men were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a Rome military court on Saturday for allegedly massacring more than 350 civilians in Tuscany in 1944, as the Nazis fled from the advancing Allies. The nine men are all aged between 84 and 90, and they are therefore unlikely to serve their sentences. A tenth defendant was acquitted and another died during the trial. In cases of...