Four Corners Scotland's Most in-Depth Foreign News Coverage

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ITALY It has been a political roller coaster of a week for the Italian prime minister Romano Prodi, who found himself in and out of office as fast as the proverbial fiddler's elbow. It was a crucial senate vote on foreign policy that triggered last week's crisis, which, despite Prodi's return to office yesterday, remains far from over. Philip Willan examines the political machinations of the past few days against the backdrop of a much wider and deeper political malaise that Italy seems unable to shake off.

RUSSIA He is married to former president Boris Yeltsin's step- granddaughter, has a degree in nuclear physics and survived Russia's so called "aluminum wars". Now officially Russia's richest man - having GBP102 million more than his chum Roman Abramovich - Oleg Deripaska is a man to watch. Andrew Osborn runs the rule over the farmer's boy with GBP10.7 billion in his piggy bank.

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Four Corners Scotland's Most in-Depth Foreign News Coverage

UNITED STATES "Let the ass-kicking...

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