Italian minister bows to pressure to resign
18/02/2006 - 15:07:06Italian Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli has resigned after his wearing of a T-shirt featuring Prophet Mohammad cartoons sparked a riot in Benghazi in Libya in which 10 people died.
He said he was resigning to "stop the shameful exploitation which in these hours has been directed against me."
Libya condemned the attack on embassy property which was part of the riot and broadcast pictures of the violence.
The death toll was reported to be higher than that of any other riot against the caricatures during the past two weeks of demonstrations across the Muslim world.
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