Giulio Terzi

• Lights out at Colosseum in Rome on Wednesday to protest Italian marines case

  The Supreme Court lifted on Tuesday a three-week order banning Italy's ambassador from leaving the country after Italy sent two marines back to India to face trial over the deaths of two Indian fishermen.

• We risked getting isolated: Italian PM on marines' issue

  Outlining the reasons for sending back to India the two marines accused of killing Indian fishermen, Italy's outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti said Rome faced serious risk of being isolated internationally and could have opened a crisis of "serious proportions" with New Delhi.

• Italy PM Monti says he 'can't wait' to leave office

  Caretaker Prime Minister Mario Monti, looking tired and distraught, said on Wednesday he was ready to leave office a day after a prominent member of his government resigned over the handling of a dispute with India.

• Marines row: Italian PM wants rapid solution

  Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti addressed his country's parliament on Wednesday, a day after Italy's foreign minister resigned to protest against his government's decision to send two marines back to India to face trial in the deaths of two fishermen.

• What led to Italian foreign minister's resignation?

  As Italy's Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi resigned in protest over the sending back of two marines to face murder charges in India, it brought to fore serious differences within the government over an issue that has sparked a furore in the country.

• Italy foreign minister resigns over return of marines to India

  Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi said Tuesday he was resigning in protest after two Italian marines were ordered to return to India to face murder charges.

• Marines' return to India stirs anger in Italy

  A decision to return two Italian marines accused of murdering fishermen to stand trial in India stirred anger in Italy on Friday and calls for Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi to resign.

• Italian hostage held by Al-Qaeda freed after 14 months

  An Italian hostage kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in February last year in Southern Algeria was released on Tuesday and is in a hotel in Burkina Faso, officials said. "Maria Sandra Mariani is free. I have just informed her relatives. I join them in their great satisfaction and relief at this magnificent news," Foreign Minister Giulio...

• Italy brands India shootings case illegitimate

  Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi today summoned India's ambassador to Rome to condemn the imprisonment of two Italian marines accused of shooting dead two Indian fishermen as illegitimate. Terzi told ambassador Debabrata Saha that the incarceration of the two soldiers in a prison in Thiruvananthapuram in the southern state of Kerala ordered by...

• Fishermen deaths loom over Italy, India; senior ministers meet in Delhi

  Italy's foreign minister Giulio Terzi met with SM Krishna, India's External Affairs minister this morning in Delhi. Mr Terzi expressed his regret over the deaths, but underscored that Italy wants the matter to be resolved using the laws of international waters - Italian officials say this means the marines should be tried at home. But India says i...

• Italy sends top diplomat to India in shootings row

  Italy has sent a top diplomat to India and said Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi will visit next week amid an escalating row over two Italian soldiers arrested for killing two Indian fishermen. Junior Foreign Minister Staffan De Mistura will "continue on a political level the action so far carried out by a delegation of experts from the Italian foreig...