And in Europe, Italian parliament member Fiamma Nirenstein responded to the anti-Israel manifesto with a counter petition.
Rocco Girlanda, a member of the Italian parliament who became an advocate for Knox, confirmed that Knox was inside.
He's been criticized for interfering with private business and is slated to appear before the Italian parliament to answer questions.
From 1993 until 2001 he was the mayor of Trieste, and in 2001 he was elected a member of the Italian Parliament.
The new Italian parliament has met for the first time since inconclusive elections, with parties deadlocked over the formation of a new government.
Mr Andreotti entered the Italian parliament in 1946 and remained there for more than 60 years, before seeing out his days as a senator-for-life.
Italy's FTSE MIB index climbed 1.7% after the Italian Parliament's vote to give Giorgio Napolitano another term as president provided a sense of political stability.
He will watch the Italian parliament vote on the 2010 budget on Tuesday, which seems to be his day of reckoning for support in his own government.
FORBES: Outlook For A Weaker Euro As Concern Moves Toward Rome
Markets also rallied too much Monday and Tuesday as Silvio Berlusconi lost his majority in Italian parliament and agreed to resign pending the success of a looming budget vote.
And, for what it's worth, if you believe that the austerity measures that the Italian parliament has just approved will be effective, then Italy would have no deficit at all in 2013.
"Unimaginable and shameful cases of embezzlement and corruption are multiplying, " President Napolitano said on Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to pass anticorruption measures that have stalled in the Senate, the upper house of the Italian Parliament.
In one of its last acts before the election in April, the Italian parliament has passed a bill sponsored by Gaetano Pecorella, Mr Berlusconi's lawyer, who is also a deputy for his political party, Forza Italia.
The issue is that, under the constitution, the Italian president cannot dissolve parliament and call for new elections in the last 6 months of his mandate.
The issue has been that, under the constitution, the Italian president cannot dissolve Parliament and call for new elections in the last six months of his mandate.
Other presidential candidate names mentioned by members of parliament in interviews with the Italian press include Monti and respected Radical Party leader and former European Union Member of Parliament Emma Bonino.
Italian party leaders earlier urged parliament to "show unity" in re-electing widely-respected Mr Napolitano.
The new Italian bankruptcy law rushed through Parliament on December 23rd has not mollified these concerns.
In a statement to parliament Mr Khurshid said that Italian requests "for diplomatic or expert level meetings" to consider the issue of jurisdiction in the case - "or whether it can be referred to arbitration or any other judicial mechanism cannot be accepted".
After a court had published the damning reasons for its earlier conviction and 11-year sentence on an associate of Silvio Berlusconi , for bribing judges, supporters of the Italian prime minister hit back: let parliament set up an inquiry into political use of the courts.
Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, in a statement to Parliament Friday, said his government informed Italian officials that capital punishment is not applicable in this case.
Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, in a statement to Parliament Friday, said the government informed Italian officials that capital punishment is not applicable in this case.
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has offered to recall parliament to discuss the growing scandal and President Giorgio Napolitano said that he had full faith in the country's central bank.
Parliament cannot technically single out a single commissioner for rejection, but the threat of rejecting all 27 commissioners is more than enough to have problem candidates withdrawn: as the parliament showed in 2004 when it rejected an Italian candidate.
Opening the debate, the Parliament's rapporteur on the agreement - Italian social democrat Francesca Balzani - said the agreement was a "good compromise", but said that ACP and banana producing regions of the EU could not be allowed to be exposed to "unfettered competition".
The Parliament's lead negotiator on the budget, Italian social democrat Francesca Balzani said the EU needed to invest more in lifelong learning and research.
The European Parliament's chief negotiator on the budget, Italian centre-right MEP Giovanni La Via, said the budget needed to promote "more integration and common instruments".
One of the parliament's lead negotiators on the 2013 budget, Italian MEP Giovanni La Via said it was impossible to continue talks on next year's budget until the accounts for 2012 were fully closed.
One snag is that Mr Monti has said repeatedly that he will step down at the end of this parliament's term (he may have his eye on the Italian presidency or a senior European job).
Since the ECB started buying Italian debt, Berlusconi has played fast and loose with the austerity programme he seeks parliament to approve.
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