Italy's senate backs bill ending Berlusconi trials

2010/01/20 15:27:49 @Reuters: World News

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's parliament gave its first nod on Wednesday to a draft law drastically cutting the duration of trials, a measure critics say is tailor-made to stop pending court cases against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=CZ2xy_uvtFw:29BtYhIjk6I:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=CZ2xy_uvtFw:29BtYhIjk6I:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=CZ2xy_uvtFw:29BtYhIjk6I:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=CZ2xy_uvtFw:29BtYhIjk6I:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=CZ2xy_uvtFw:29BtYhIjk6I:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/CZ2xy_uvtFw" height="1" width="1"/
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