Italian foreign minister resigns

Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi announced that he was resigning from office because he did not agree with last week's decision to send two marines back to India to face trial for murder.

"I can no longer be part of this government and I announce my resignation," Terzi said in a statement he read in parliament this afternoon.

"My reservations about sending the marines back to India were not listened to."

Prime Minister Mario Monti's caretaker government last Friday reversed a March 11 decision not to send the marines back to face trial for the murder of two Indian fisherman during anti-piracy duty on a commercial tanker in February 2012.