News: Italy

We have started to collect the most important news related to Italy in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

World news related to Italy – overview

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• December 11th 2009 – November 7th 2009
• November 4th 2009 – October 3rd 2009
• October 2nd 2009 – August 29th 2009
• August 28th 2009 – July 23rd 2009
• July 22nd 2009 – June 10th 2009
• June 9th 2009 – May 5th 2009
• May 4th 2009 – April 12th 2009
• April 11th 2009 – March 4th 2009
• March 2nd 2009 – February 4th 2009
• February 4th 2009 – December 21st 2008
• December 20th 2008 – November 3rd 2008
• November 2nd 2008 – September 25th 2008
• September 24th 2008 – August 20th 2008
• August 17th 2008 – July 10th 2008
• July 10th 2008 – June 6th 2008
• June 5th 2008 – April 30th 2008
• April 28th 2008 – February 19th 2008
• February 16th 2008 – January 8th 2008
• January 7th 2008 – November 12th 2007
• November 12th 2007 – September 9th 2007
• September 8th 2007 – July 10th 2007
• July 5th 2007 – May 18th 2007
• May 12th 2007 – March 20th 2007
• March 20th 2007 – February 20th 2007
• February 17th 2007 – January 5th 2007
• January 2nd 2007 – November 13th 2006
• November 9th 2006 – October 2nd 2006
• September 24th 2006 – August 7th 2006
• August 7th 2006 – June 28th 2006
• June 26th 2006 – May 15th 2006
• May 14th 2006 – April 14th 2006
• April 13th 2006 – February 17th 2006
• February 16th 2006 – December 26th 2005
• December 23rd 2005 – November 11th 2005

Italy: news

EU rules warning on Alitalia deal

Sunday, November 2nd 2008, 12:12

The rescue deal for Alitalia must not breach European Union competition rules, the airliner's bankruptcy official warns.
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UK extradits Tunisians to Italy

Sunday, November 2nd 2008, 0:43
related countries: Tunisia, United Kingdom

Three Tunisian men wanted in Italy for alleged terrorist offences have been extradited from Britain, police say.
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It's quiz time!

Thursday, October 30th 2008, 17:48

How did an Italian thief get his mitts on the diamonds?
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Italian streets hit by protests

Thursday, October 30th 2008, 16:07

Thousands of teachers, students and parents hold big protests in Italian cities against the government's school reforms.
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Protests over Italy school reform

Wednesday, October 29th 2008, 18:01
related places: Rome

A school reform law sparks big protests by students and teachers across Italy, including a clash in Rome.
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Ivorian guilty of student murder

Wednesday, October 29th 2008, 0:52
related countries: United Kingdom

An Italian judge jails a man from Ivory Coast for 30 years for murdering UK student Meredith Kercher in Italy.
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Crowds rally against Italy's PM

Saturday, October 25th 2008, 22:13
related places: Rome

Hundreds of thousands march through Rome to protest against the right-wing government of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi.
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'Window cleaner' scoops $1m mid-day heist in Milan

Saturday, October 25th 2008, 14:08
related places: Milan

Police in Milan investigate an unusual $1m (£628,420) robbery in the heart of the Italian fashion capital.
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Sicilian town goes wild over 100m-euro lottery win

Friday, October 24th 2008, 15:43

One of the world's biggest ever lottery jackpots has been won in Italy.
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Eight die in Italian helicopter

Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 16:48
related countries: France

Eight passengers are killed as an Italian military helicopter crashes in eastern France, officials say.
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Comic 'inspired' Kercher murder

Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 8:53
related countries: Japan, United Kingdom

A Japanese vampire comic inspired a suspect in the murder of UK student Meredith Kercher, an Italian prosecutor says.
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Ex-Bank of Italy chief on trial

Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 1:38

The former boss of Italy's central bank is to go on trial accused of market manipulation in a banking takeover in 2005.
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Beckham to join AC Milan on loan

Wednesday, October 22nd 2008, 13:41

David Beckham agrees to move to AC Milan on loan in January, the Italian club tells BBC Sport.
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Bid to end Italy's lotto fever

Tuesday, October 21st 2008, 18:54

Italy's main consumer rights group launches a bid to have a record lotto prize seized, saying it is stoking gambling fever.
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Life term call at Kercher hearing

Saturday, October 18th 2008, 20:45
related countries: United Kingdom

Italian prosecutors call for a life sentence for one of three people accused of killing British student Meredith Kercher.
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Green revolution

Saturday, October 18th 2008, 0:11

Italy to launch pioneering carbon-neutral farm
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'Gladiator' character tomb discovered in Rome

Friday, October 17th 2008, 12:05
related places: Rome

The tomb of an ancient Roman general, thought to have been an inspiration for the film Gladiator, is discovered in Rome.
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Italians say bye, bye, baby

Friday, October 17th 2008, 9:47
related places: Marche

In the Marche region of Italy, Matthew Gwyther discovers why changing lifestyles mean the country could be facing a baby crisis.
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Italy proposes immigrant classes

Wednesday, October 15th 2008, 21:56

The lower house of Italy's parliament approves a controversial scheme to create mandatory classes for the children of immigrants.
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Mafia author vows to flee Italy

Wednesday, October 15th 2008, 12:30

Roberto Saviano, author of an expose of the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, says he wants to quit Italy amid death threats.
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India gets its first woman saint

Sunday, October 12th 2008, 15:27
related countries: India
related places: Rome

A Catholic nun, Sister Alphonsa, becomes India's first female saint, canonised by Pope Benedict XVI in Rome.
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Nun, 106, to back Obama after not voting since 1952

Sunday, October 12th 2008, 11:00
related countries: United States
related places: Rome

A 106-year-old American nun living in a convent in Rome could well be the oldest person to vote in the 2008 US Presidential election and says she will support Barack Obama.
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Italy pupils ditch books for PCs

Wednesday, October 8th 2008, 13:27

Pupils at an Italian school replace all their text books with computers - in what is described as a unique experiment.
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Wine gushes from taps into homes during an Italian grape festival

Wednesday, October 8th 2008, 11:20

Wine gushes from taps into homes during an Italian grape festival but it emerges it is no miracle but bad plumbing.
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Tour rocked by new positive tests

Monday, October 6th 2008, 20:49
related countries: France, Germany

Two Tour de France stage winners - Italy's Leonardo Piepoli and Germany's Stefan Schumacher - test positive for an advanced blood doping product.
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'Mobsters' held in Naples raids

Tuesday, September 30th 2008, 12:45
related places: Naples

Italian police arrest some 30 alleged gangsters in the Naples area, in what is described as a "war" with the mafia.
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Freed Western tourists back home

Tuesday, September 30th 2008, 9:47
related countries: Germany

Eleven Western tourists - who spent 10 days as hostages in the Sahara Desert - return to Italy and Germany.
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Delayed mummy money will finally be paid out in Italy

Monday, September 29th 2008, 23:22

Italian officials agree to pay a 150,000 euros finders' fee for the 5,300-year-old "Iceman" Oetzi after 17 years of wrangling.
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Unions backing Alitalia rescue

Monday, September 29th 2008, 15:25

A 1bn-euro bail-out of Italian airline Alitalia wins the support of the last two unions who had been opposing the deal.
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Alitalia gets temporary reprieve

Thursday, September 25th 2008, 19:13

Alitalia, the Italian airline which is struggling to survive, is given a temporary reprieve by the civil aviation authority.
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Italian inquiry into India murder

Thursday, September 25th 2008, 16:26
related countries: India

An Italian company whose boss in India was allegedly beaten to death by sacked workers says it is to investigate his killing.
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Camorra 'declares war on Italy'

Thursday, September 25th 2008, 8:32

The local mafia in southern Italy has declared a "war on the state", Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni warns.
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