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...cameras to capture the images, which the Berlusconi-owned TG5 news program broadcast live, and replayed the morning after. All of the hoopla came with just a minuscule margin of victory in the Lower House, and the race for the vital control of the Senate in a virtual deadlock-awaiting the final six seats to be determined by votes to be counted of Italians living abroad (it appeared later Tuesday that with support of those outside of Italy the center-left had clinched the Senate by two votes). Prodi?s appearance "in piazza" was a media moment that the center...
...Whether this bitterly fought election battle turns into a protracted political deadlock or signals the last chapter in Berlusconi?s unlikely political career remains to be seen. But whatever the final result, the story for now is still all about Silvio. The Prime Minister?s shoot-from-the-hip style of politics and oversized presence on the public stage managed to make up ground in the final weeks after polls had suggested he was headed toward a humiliating defeat. Though he has largely failed to deliver on promises to remake his country's outdated economic system, Berlusconi?s real victory...
...normalize relations with the regime, in order to remove any incentive it might have for creating a nuclear deterrent. The conflict in strategies was visible this week when administration officials rebuffed the suggestion by Germany, backed by Britain, that Washington hold direct talks with Tehran to break the nuclear deadlock...
There lies the deadlock. The U.S. and Iran have shown a faint willingness to lower the temperature, by agreeing to hold talks over Iranian interference in Iraq. But it's unclear whether Tehran hopes to use the talks over Iraq as a way to open the subject of nukes--or to distract the West's attention from it. Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, told TIME that the regime may be open to compromise on the nuclear issue. "If there is a proposal that the rights of Iran can be secured to some extent for the present time...
...holds a security summit in Australia with her counterparts from that country and Japan. Yet those headlines, together with the ones announcing closer economic ties and strategic ties during President Putin's visit to Beijing, hint at how Sino-Russian concerns over U.S. policy elsewhere may prolong the Iran deadlock...