World IN BRIEF : ITALY : Trial of Ex-Premier Must Start Over
A judge halted the 7-month-old trial of former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on Mafia charges and ordered that it start again from scratch May 15. The ruling by Francesco Ingargiola, the judge presiding at the trial in the Sicilian capital, Palermo, arose from the continued illness of one of two associates who sit with him on the bench. Her absence because of a detached retina had halted proceedings since Jan. 10. Andreotti, 77, denies charges that he served as the Mafia’s chief political protector in Rome’s corridors of power.
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