In Italy, a judge has delayed a hearing to determine whether a U.S. soldier should stand trial for killing Italian intelligence agent Nicola Calipari. Calipari was was escorting the kidnapped reporter Giuliana Sgrena out of Iraq after her kidnapping. The soldier, Mario Lozano of the U.S. Army’s 69th Infantry Regiment in New York, is accused of “voluntary homicide.” The hearing has been put off until February.

Giuliana Sgrena: “The fact of delaying so much a case that caused an enormous outcry at the time it happened and that now seems to have lost it seems to me one more element in order to lower the attention on the Calipari case.”