KOCHI, India (Reuters) - Two Italian marines charged with killing two fishermen off the coast of India will likely be allowed to spend Christmas in Italy, after an Indian court on Thursday accepted the sailors' plea to go home for the holiday season.
The sailors are awaiting trial in connection with the shooting deaths in February, and the case has soured relations between New Delhi and Rome. Italy has challenged India's right to try the men, arguing in the New Delhi Supreme Court that the shootings took place in international waters.
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