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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.

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Italy: news

Football: Italian grounds to open

Thursday, February 8th 2007, 13:41

The Italian government will allow six stadiums to restart staging matches in front of supporters this weekend.
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The politics of football in Italy

Thursday, February 8th 2007, 13:20

The violence that led to the death of an Italian police officer at a football match on Friday surprised no-one, Christian Fraser reports.
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US soldier on Italy murder charge

Wednesday, February 7th 2007, 15:09
related countries: Iraq Iraq, United States United States
related places: Baghdad

An Italian judge orders a US soldier to face trial over the death of an Italian agent at a checkpoint in Baghdad.
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Italian football may make return

Tuesday, February 6th 2007, 14:03

Italian football could restart on Sunday, according to the commissioner of the Italian Federation.
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Italian fans face stadium lockout

Monday, February 5th 2007, 21:02

Italy's football stadiums will not re-open to fans until safety standards are met, the interior minister says.
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Italy buries football riot victim

Monday, February 5th 2007, 16:15

Italy buries a policeman who died in riots after a football match, as officials debate the future of the game.
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Italy to debate football future

Monday, February 5th 2007, 4:25

The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) will meet the government on Monday to decide when Italian football resumes.
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Rugby: France thrash Italy

Saturday, February 3rd 2007, 15:22
related countries: France France
related places: Rome

France open the defence of their Six Nations title with a five-try win over a disappointing Italy at the Stadio Flaminio.
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Italian league halted by violence

Friday, February 2nd 2007, 21:55
related places: Catania

All Italian football matches are called off indefinitely after a policeman dies during violence at a Catania-Palermo match.
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Violence could halt Italian football

Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 18:28

The president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) could halt all league football in the country after a weekend of violence.
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Italy smashes prostitution ring

Wednesday, January 24th 2007, 15:16

Italian police dismantle a people-trafficking and prostitution network, making almost 800 arrests.
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Genoa riot evidence 'disappears'

Friday, January 19th 2007, 14:33

Key evidence vanishes in the trial of Italian policemen over violence at the G8 summit in 2001, police say.
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Foreign workers freed in Nigeria

Thursday, January 18th 2007, 5:34
related countries: Niger Niger, Nigeria Nigeria

Five Chinese workers and an Italian kidnapped in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region are freed.
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Deadly ferry collision in Italy

Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 0:51
related places: Messina

A hydrofoil and a cargo ship collide near Messina in Italy, killing at least four people and injuring dozens.
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Berlusconi gets partial reprieve

Monday, January 15th 2007, 11:39
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

An Italian judge drops some of the fraud charges against former PM Silvio Berlusconi and UK lawyer David Mills.
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Italy convicts Nazis of massacre

Saturday, January 13th 2007, 21:25

Italy sentences 10 former SS officers to life imprisonment in absentia for the worst World War II massacre in Italy.
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Italian film producer Ponti dies

Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 11:53
related places: Ponti

Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, the husband of actress Sophia Loren, dies in Geneva at the age of 94.
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Uranium 'killing Italian troops'

Wednesday, January 10th 2007, 9:59
related countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina
related places: Kosovo

Italian soldiers are still dying following exposure to depleted uranium in Bosnia and Kosovo, their relatives say.
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Colosseum lit over death penalty

Saturday, January 6th 2007, 21:52
related places: Rome

Rome lights up the Colosseum as Italy urges a global ban on the death penalty in the wake of Saddam Hussein's hanging.
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Steep rise of Italy's Cinque Terre

Saturday, January 6th 2007, 12:02
related places: Genoa, La Spezia

Christian Fraser finds the Cinque Terre, on the coast between Genoa and La Spezia has been transformed by its National Park status.
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Italy to monitor mosque funding

Friday, January 5th 2007, 18:17

Italian authorities plan to introduce a new system to monitor foreign funding for the construction of new mosques.
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Italy urges global execution ban

Tuesday, January 2nd 2007, 22:52

Italy is to lobby at the UN for a global ban on the death penalty, its Prime Minister Romano Prodi says.
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Italian director quits Turin post

Sunday, December 31st 2006, 16:56
related places: Turin

Director Nanni Moretti steps down as artistic director of the Turin Film Festival, two days after accepting the job.
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January deadline for Alitalia bid

Friday, December 29th 2006, 10:52

Italian ministers set a deadline for potential buyers to express interest in a 30% stake in struggling Alitalia.
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Pontiff celebrates Christmas Mass

Monday, December 25th 2006, 3:08
related places: Rome

At Christmas midnight Mass in Rome, the Pope delivers a sermon focusing on children who are suffering.
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Dead spy's Italy contact arrested

Sunday, December 24th 2006, 15:16

Police arrest an Italian man who met ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko the day he was poisoned.
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Hundreds attend Italian's funeral

Sunday, December 24th 2006, 13:43

Hundreds of people attended a civil funeral for an Italian man whose fight to die sparked a euthanasia debate.
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Church denies funeral for Italian

Friday, December 22nd 2006, 22:19

Church officials rule out a Catholic funeral for a man at the centre of a right-to-die controversy in Italy.
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Doctor 'helps Italian man to die'

Thursday, December 21st 2006, 14:32

An Italian doctor says he assisted the death of a terminally ill man who had lost a legal battle for euthanasia.
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Berlusconi to leave hospital soon

Wednesday, December 20th 2006, 12:08
related countries: United States United States

A US clinic says it fitted ex-Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi with a pacemaker and he should be released this week.
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Fifa: Cannavaro wins Fifa crown

Monday, December 18th 2006, 20:49

Italy's World Cup-winning captain Fabio Cannavaro is named Fifa World Player of the Year.
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Berlusconi in US for heart checks

Monday, December 18th 2006, 9:14
related countries: United States United States

Italy's ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi has gone to the US for medical tests, after collapsing last month.
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Italy court snubs euthanasia plea

Saturday, December 16th 2006, 17:09

A court rejects a terminally ill man's request to die in a landmark case which has sparked fierce debate in Italy.
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