Politics

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Italian Army's lieutenant Barbara Balanzoni poses with animal right activists as she leaves the military court in Rome, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, where she is facing a trial where she is charged with gross insubordination for helping the cat Agata in a difficult birth, while on patrol as a medical officer at a NATO base in Kosovo in 2011. Balanzoni is being represented by Italy's National Agency for Animal Protection. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)