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Organizers of the Venice Film Festival waited to announce “Khastegi (Tedium)” by first-time Iranian director Bahman Motamedian until the last minute to avoid alerting authorities to its sensitive subject: transsexuals in modern-day Iran.
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Unicredit Chief Executive Alessandro Profumo acknowledged Monday that Italy’s largest bank had underestimated the significant market changes since the collapse of...
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Pope Benedict XVI has warned that modern culture is pushing God out of people’s lives, causing nations once rich in religious faith to lose their identities.
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Italian troops manned checkpoints and checked vehicles as they deployed Saturday in a crime-ridden, mob-plagued southern area of the country where six Africans were...
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Leaders of France, Britain, Germany and Italy will seek at a summit in Paris Saturday to reassure investors and markets jittery about a growing financial and economic...
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The global financial crisis is forcing the leaders of France, Germany, Britain and Italy to come together for an emergency summit this weekend, but differences on how...
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Italy’s top criminal court on Thursday upheld the conviction on international terrorism charges of an Egyptian jailed as one of the chief suspects in the 2004...
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A top Vatican official said Tuesday that the world’s financial crisis is the result of the search for short-term profits as a goal in itself _ and an example of...
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Qualifier Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine rallied to upset 15th-ranked Flavia Pennetta of Italy 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 Tuesday at the Porsche Grand Prix.
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Italian police made sweeping arrests against the mob Tuesday, targeting a powerful clan as well as three suspects linked to a recent gangland-style slaying of six...
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Italian police arrested scores of suspected mobsters Tuesday, including three top fugitives believed linked to the gangland-style slaying of six African immigrants near...
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Italian news reports are quoting the foreign minister as saying 11 Europeans and eight Egyptians kidnapped in a distant corner of Egypt’s desert have been freed.
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Alitalia’s pilots unions, the most vocal opponents of a rescue package for the bankrupt airline, have finally backed the deal after a group of investors agreed to...
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Pope Benedict XVI has urged tourists to respect the environment and local cultures, touching again on a theme that has earned him a reputation as the “green...
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A 500-year-old group of chalk, metalpoint and ink drawings from Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks were on display Friday at the Birmingham Museum of Art, some 5,000...
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An American student and her former Italian boyfriend suspected in the 2007 stabbing death of a young British woman saw each other for the first time in months Friday at...
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“Grin and bear it,” seems to be the message coming off the Milan runway as Fashion Week for next summer comes to an end.
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Shoes are contemporary jewelry, designer Donatella Versace once said, and in recent years they have become an integral part of a designer’s fashion statement.
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Aviation authorities on Thursday allowed bankrupt Alitalia to keep flying for now after Italy’s biggest union agreed to an investor rescue plan, although pilots...
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Alitalia’s four major union confederations signed off on a resurrected rescue plan Thursday to keep the bankrupt Alitalia airline aloft, signaling a possible...
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Alitalia’s four major union confederations have signed off on a rescue plan for the bankrupt Alitalia airline, signaling a possible breakthrough.
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With more than 4,000 years of recorded history Hijras have a supposedly sanctioned place in Indian life, but they’ve faced severe harassment. Are things...
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