Alessandra Mussolini, a member of the European Parliament and the granddaughter of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, takes part in a parliament session in Strasbourg, France, last month. (Vincent ...

2005-04-19 04:00:00 PDT Axum, Ethiopia-- Abebe Alemyehu was 12 when he watched Mussolini's army storm into his northern Ethiopian hometown of Axum to carry off its ancient obelisk. Today, the 81 ...

That he should be so, retorted Italian Government officials next day, caused them to be “surprised” and there the matter rested, except that Benito Mussolini gave one of his now extremely rare ...

Italy’s World War II dictator, Benito Mussolini, ... So in 1937, after his troops had invaded Ethiopia, Mussolini ordered them to bring back a 1,700-year-old obelisk from Axum, ...

A full million men, the greatest European army since 1919, moved last week at Benito Mussolini’s orders, 500,000 on Italy’s Austrian frontier, 300,000 training for action against Ethiopia ...

One hundred years after Benito Mussolini grabbed power in Rome, his photograph still hangs in the prime minister's official residence, striking evidence that Italy has yet to shake off its fascist ...

In accordance with the personally-expressed wish of Premier Benito Mussolini, the Jewish hero of the Ethiopian war, Lieut. Bruno Jesi, will soon leave for Ethiopia to launch the activities of a ...

The 1,000-year-old obelisk of Axum, which was brought to Italy after fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s 1937 invasion of Ethiopia, stands upright in the heart of downtown Rome, on July 21, 2001.

Ethiopia telegraphed the League of Nations charging that four Italian planes had bombed the Red Cross Hospital at Aduwa. ... Benito Mussolini's son-in-law.

But unbeknown to many is that the popular sovereign spent many years campaigning against Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from his West Country home in Bath, between 1936 to 1940.