While his tenure has as prime minister has been marred by repeated personal scandals, and a troubling roll back in press freedom, the end cause Silvio Berlusconi’s downfall may actually end up being political — though he wouldn’t be Il Cavaliere if the story didn’t come with a sordid twist.  Berlusconi has been the bain [...]

    At least 10 people died Saturday and hundreds of polling stations never opened during voting for Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections, according to The New York Times. The vote came a year after the highly flawed reelection of President Hamid Karzai, and people were choosing among more than 2,500 candidates to fill 249 seats in [...]