Italy

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A man checks a monitor with stock exchange data as a flower seller approaches him in Milan, Italy, on Dec. 10, 2012. (Associated Press)

**FILE** Italian premier Mario Monti looks down Oct. 24, 2012, during a joint press conference with Austrian chancellor Werner Faymann at Chigi palace at the Premier's office in Rome on Oct. 24, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Italian Premier Mario Monti listens to a question during a press conference at the end of a cabinet meeting at Chigi Palace government's office in Rome on Dec. 6, 2012. (Associated Press)

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A tax police officer squats Oct. 24, 2012, next to a confiscated Ferrari at the Guardia di Finanza quarters in Pescara, Italy. (Associated Press/Courtesy of the Guardia di Finanza)

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**FILE** German Chancellor Angela Merkel (center) speaks June 29, 2012, with European Central Bank President Mario Draghi (left) and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti during a round-table meeting at a EU Summit in Brussels. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Lady Gaga arrives Oct. 1, 2012, at the Versace atelier in Milan, Italy. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this photo released on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012, former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi tapes a video message where he announces he will not run for a fourth term as premier in spring elections. (AP Photo/Livio Anticoli, Berlusconi press office)

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Defendants Claudio Eva (center) and Bernardo De Bernardinis (third from right) listen to the verdict at the court in L'Aquila, Italy, on Monday, Oct. 22, 2012. The two were among seven scientists and experts convicted of manslaughter for failing to adequately warn citizens before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people. (AP Photo/Raniero Pizzi)

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In this image taken Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, sunbathers sit in front of the wreck of Costa Concordia outside the port of Isola del Giglio in Tuscany, Italy. (AP Photo, Giacomo Aprili)

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In this image taken Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012, and provided Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012 by Giglionews.it, ongoing operations continue to remove the wreck of Costa Concordia from the coast of Giglio Island, outside the port of Isola del Giglio island in Tuscany, Italy. (AP Photo, Giglionews.it, ho)

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** FILE ** Tourists take pictures of the Costa Concordia wreckage as they arrive on a ferry to the Giglio Island, Italy, Thursday, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Lawyer John Arthur Eaves, representing a group of Costa Concordia survivors, is interviewed outside Teatro Moderno theater where the first hearing of the trial for the Jan. 13, 2012 tragedy, where 32 people died after the luxury cruise Costa Concordia was forced to evacuate some 4,200 passengers after it hit a rock while passing too close to the Giglio Island, is taking place, in Grosseto, Italy, Monday Oct. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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** FILE ** Francesco Schettino (right), the former captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia, leaves the Teatro Moderno theater where the first hearing of the trial for the Jan. 13, 2012, shipwreck which left 32 people dead, is taking place, in Grosseto, Italy, on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)