Statement suggests dialogue with Islamic representatives may be cut if leaders fail to denounce crimes in name of religion
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Iran puts support behind Maliki’s successor as Iraqi prime minister
Move aligns Tehran with US, Saudi Arabia and Nato in formally backing Haider al-Abadi as new premier
Pope Francis: Isis violence against minorities in Iraq must be stopped
Vatican says world must halt attacks against Christians and others, as Francis sends emissary to Iraq
Puccini’s Italian tragic love affair house up for sale
Property south of Lake Como where composer famously escaped with married lover in 1886 has price tag of €400,000
High-class errand boys
Parliamentary workers are facing a cut in their generous pay
Australian family’s car begins Italian job on the steps of Bari
Holidaymakers using GPS navigator make wrong turn and end up precariously perched on steep steps of south Italian town
Shrinking again
Italy slips back into recession
Costa Concordia captain’s seminar sparks row at Italy’s biggest university
Sapienza University says it condemns action of professor who invited Francesco Schettino, who is on trial charged with manslaughter
Pope reinstates revolutionary priest from Nicaragua’s Sandinistas
Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann was banned from ministries in 1985 as part of crackdown on ‘Marxist thought’ in Catholic church
Police chase hijacked water bus in Venice lagoon
Man arrested on suspicion of theft after taking vaporetto for early-hours joyride when he found out last service had departed