President Vladimir Putin put his stamp on a new government that kept his most trusted allies in charge of finance while leaving tested veterans at the helm of foreign affairs and defence. Duration: 00:30.
President Vladimir Putin put his stamp on a new government that kept his most trusted allies in charge of finance while leaving tested veterans at the helm of foreign affairs and defence. Duration: 00:30.
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Italian director Paolo Sorrentino has presented a lush portrait of decadence and excess in contemporary Rome at Cannes in a film reviewers said echoed the classic "La Dolce Vita".
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Franco-Italian director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi -- the only female director in competition for this year's Palme d'Or -- has relived a painful chapter of her family history in a film presented at Cannes in which she cast her real-life mother as well as her ex-lover.
Protester unfurls banner on St. Peter's Basilica dome
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An Italian small business owner climbed onto the dome of St Peter's Basilica on Monday and unfurled a banner protesting against the social "massacre" going on in recession-stricken Italy.