Donald Trump’s narrowed eyes and belligerent posture make him appear like Italian wartime dictator Benito Mussolini in a wig, Bernard Ingham has said.

Trust the American people, says avowed liberal John Lloyd, who believes the US Constitution is one of the reasons why the new administration won’t be as bad as feared

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Alice Barry’s play tells the true story of an Irish woman who tried to kill Mussolini, writes Colette Sheridan

Italy’s highest court gave the green light to a referendum that Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says will guarantee political stability and on which he has staked his future.

Yanis Varoufakis sees two blocs lining up to battle each other for the idealogical heart of the West. But despite their claims, they are accomplices, not foes.

Donald Trump would force Mexico to pay for a border wall by cutting off billions of dollars in remittances sent by immigrants living in the US.

It’s an image that has sparked outrage across the water, but children much closer to home were just as rehearsed in the gesture.

SWISS CHAIN SORRY FOR ‘UNFORGIVABLE’ PACKAGING

THE new political season kicked off in earnest yesterday, after Taoiseach Enda Kenny firmly rejected a stinging attack from Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin who accused Mr Kenny of operating an “uno duce, una voce” dictatorial style of leadership.

The Taoiseach has said he is not a dictator.

The Dean of Durham has written an open letter to new Sunderland manager Paolo di Canio calling on the Italian to publicly renounce fascism or risk being associated with “toxic far-right tendencies”.

Italy is going to the polls today and tomorrow for a watershed parliamentary election that could shape the future of one of Europe’s biggest economies.

Dr Michael Pravica is right when he reminds all of us of “the fact that Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and other fascist WWII dictators, left a devastating legacy of racism, hatred, and evil in their wake” (Letters, Feb 4).

Considering the untold human sacrifice and financial and material expenditure that was required to defeat fascism in Europe and elsewhere during WWII, it is a tragedy that there are efforts by megalomaniacs such as Silvio Berlusconi to sanitise, rehabilitate and resurrect this evil menace.

Seventy years ago today Hitler’s armies at Stalingrad surrendered after 200 days of the most savage fighting. Geoffrey Roberts on the moment the long, crooked and twisted journey to today’s democratic Europe began

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi praised Benito Mussolini for “having done good” despite the Fascist dictator’s anti-Jewish laws, immediately sparking expressions of outrage as Europe yesterday held Holocaust remembrances.

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says Benito Mussolini did much good despite his regime’s anti-Jewish laws.

The city of Rome has inaugurated a revamped statue of Pope John Paul II after the first one was pilloried by the public and the Vatican.

The birthplace of democracy has gotten used to turmoil, says Ryle Dwyer

VACILLATION and the Vatican make for uncomfortable bed fellows.

The Government’s decision to shut down its embassy to the Holy See is political not religious, writes TP O’Mahony

ONCE NATO gave military support to those Libyans who wished to depose Col Muammar Gaddafi, the tyrant who had run that country as a plaything for 42 years, his fate was sealed.

US preacher Harold Camping is again preaching the world is about to end. After miscalculating in 1994, this time around, he’s predicting Doomsday for tea time next Saturday.

A collection of previously unseen photographs of Adolf Hitler sold at auction for £30,000 (€35,600), an auctioneer said today.

ALTHOUGH it has become somewhat trendy to denigrate the leadership of Éamon de Valera, he led by magnificent example both at home and on the world stage in the 1930s.

The Woman who shot Mussolini

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen and his party certainly did not distinguish themselves with the cabinet reshuffle during the week, but the contortions of Leo Varadkar helped to take some of the spotlight off the Government.

HE has emerged from the fringes of a neo-Fascist party to position himself as the heir apparent to Premier Silvio Berlusconi.

AT the end of June 1938 the world was moving inexorably towards war.

McCreevy explained he was objecting to Haughey’s leadership because there had been a lowering of political standards, mishandling of the economy, as well as the party’s failure to secure a majority in two successive general elections.

An Italian prosecutor said today he would not accept a request by a grandson of Italian wartime dictator Benito Mussolini to exhume the Fascist leader’s body, the Italian news agency ANSA said.

A grandson of Italian wartime dictator Benito Mussolini has requested that the Fascist leader’s body be exhumed, a lawyer said today.

MADONNA has shrugged off a storm of protest and accusations of blasphemy from the Catholic Church to stage a mock crucifixion in Rome.

Italians have soundly rejected massive changes to the country’s post-war constitution that proponents had argued would increase political stability and modernise the country.

Italians voted against a package of sweeping changes to their country’s post-war constitution, partial returns indicated today.

Victor Emmanuel, son of Italy’s last king, was sent to a prison in southern Italy today after his arrest as part of an investigation into prostitution and corruption.

THE new president of the Garda Representative Association, John Egan, exhibited incredible insensitivity in essentially issuing a threat to his political bosses. “We are waiting in the long grass for them,” he warned.

The granddaughter of wartime Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini today said she is running to be mayor of Rome in elections next month.

Romano Mussolini, a jazz musician and painter who was a son of Italy’s World War II dictator Benito Mussolini, has died, his daughter said today.

Paolo Di Canio will contest a one-match ban imposed for giving a stiff-arm salute on the grounds that he admits to being fascist but denies being racist, according to Italian news reports.