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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative government won a confidence vote in parliament Tuesday over a security package that includes measures to fight crime and a contested proposal to suspend some trials.The lower house passed the proposal...
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Italy’s national airline Alitalia says it has filed for bankruptcy protection, taking the first step in reshaping what has been a failing company.
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An art museum in northern Italy said Thursday it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and...
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The Italian government was considering ordering more troops on to the streets Tuesday after two brutal attacks on tourists within three days during an already tough...
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An Italian priest and theologian said Sunday he is organizing an online beauty pageant for nuns to give them more visibility within the Catholic Church and to fight the...
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Italian police say a gang of men badly beat a Dutch couple and raped the woman while they camped in an isolated field outside Rome during a cycling tour of Europe.
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Trying to keep the Michael Phelps glow, NBC has agreed to televise next year’s World Swimming Championships from Rome along with the 2010 and 2011 national...
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A U.N.-backed movie on poverty made of eight segments by directors including Jane Campion and Wim Wenders will make its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival later...
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The Beijing bishop appointed by China’s state-controlled Catholic Church said in an interview Wednesday that he hopes Pope Benedict XVI will visit his country and...
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One of Italy’s most-wanted criminals was extradited from Canada on Wednesday and locked in an Italian high-security prison, the Justice Ministry said.
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An Italian judge has ordered the country’s Internet service providers to block access to The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, as part of a probe into...
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A U.N. agency rolled out a $214 million program Tuesday to help 16 needy places hit hard by high prices for food and oil, amid a crisis already making it hard for aid...
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The U.N. will provide $214 million in food assistance to 16 impoverished areas to help ease the effects of high food and oil prices, its food agency said Tuesday.
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Police broke up a suspected terror cell Saturday and arrested five North Africans, including the alleged leader who Italian officials said recruited Islamic extremists...
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Silvio Berlusconi is sparing no effort to solve the garbage crisis in Naples _ even picking up a broom himself.
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Think of it this way: if there was one place you could visit before you die where would it be? I put the question to myself & couldn’t decide. I asked around...
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Two Italians kidnapped in Somalia have been released, Italy’s foreign minister said Tuesday, months after men armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled...
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Nicola Rescigno, the co-founder of the Dallas Opera and one of Maria Callas’ favorite conductors, has died at a hospital in Italy, officials said Tuesday. He was...
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The Defense Ministry says hundreds of soldiers have been deployed in cities across Italy as part of government measures to fight street crime.
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Mediaset, the media empire founded by Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, said Wednesday it was seeking at least 500 million euros ($779 million) in damages against...
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Mediaset, the media empire founded by Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, said Wednesday it was seeking at least 500 million euros ($779 million) in damages against...
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Silvio Berlusconi is sparing no effort to solve the garbage crisis in Naples _ even picking up a broom himself.
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Even before he starts his third stint as premier, Silvio Berlusconi was trying Wednesday to defuse his latest gaffe _ a suggestion that Spain has too many women in...
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NAME: Silvio Berlusconi.BORN: Milan, Sept. 29, 1936, a banker’s son.CAREER: After stints as a tour guide and cruise ship crooner, goes into real estate, then...
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At 71, Silvio Berlusconi has a pacemaker and his perma-tanned face is pinched by plastic surgery.He has been plagued by criminal trials, conflict of interest...
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Can’t make ends meet? Marry a millionaire, says Italy’s former prime minister.That piece of advice was given by billionaire media mogul and conservative...
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A court Monday threw out a charge of false accounting against former Premier Silvio Berlusconi filed last month in connection with his Mediaset empire’s purchase...
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Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi holds up a broom during his visit in Naples, southern Italy, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008. Berlusconi is sparing no effort to solve the garbage crisis in Naples _ even picking up a broom himself. The Italian premier started...
