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

Mafia glamour

Friday, November 21st 2008, 5:36

Trying to undermine the appeal of Italy's Camorra
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Government agrees Alitalia sale

Wednesday, November 19th 2008, 19:47

The Italian government agrees to sell the bankrupt airline Alitalia to a business consortium, paving the way for a relaunch.
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Government agrees Alitalia sale

Wednesday, November 19th 2008, 19:47

The Italian government agrees to sell the bankrupt airline Alitalia to a business consortium, paving the way for a relaunch.
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Berlusconi 'plays hide and seek' with German chancellor

Tuesday, November 18th 2008, 17:46
related countries: Germany
related places: Trieste

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi surprises German Chancellor Angela Merkel by hiding behind a column in Trieste.
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Italian anger

Tuesday, November 18th 2008, 12:09

Students protest but is education system failing Italy?
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Sicily medics claim cash for dead

Sunday, November 16th 2008, 16:01

Doctors in Sicily have claimed state money for thousands of deceased patients still on their medical lists, Italian media says.
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Top Italy G8 riot police cleared

Friday, November 14th 2008, 0:21

The top police officials charged in connection with the handling of G8 summit riots in Italy in 2001 are cleared.
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Italy man wins life support plea

Thursday, November 13th 2008, 20:30

Italy's top court says a man can disconnect the feeding tube that has kept his comatose daughter alive for 16 years.
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Ancient Rome revived in 3D

Wednesday, November 12th 2008, 20:48
related places: Rome

Millions of internet users get the chance to explore ancient Rome, recreated in 3D by Google Earth.
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Alitalia ordered to pay back loan

Wednesday, November 12th 2008, 12:57

The European Commission told bankrupt Alitalia airline to repay a 300m euro rescue loan to the Italian government.
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Mafia 'boosted' by credit crisis

Wednesday, November 12th 2008, 11:18

The mafia, Italy's organised crime network, is making a profit out of the global economic downturn, a report suggests.
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Alitalia hit by 24-hour stoppage

Tuesday, November 11th 2008, 0:58
related places: Rome

A 24-hour strike by pilots and cabin crew of Italy's bankrupt airline, Alitalia, causes widespread disruption in Rome.
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Bird-hit jet in emergency landing

Monday, November 10th 2008, 18:36
related places: Ciampino, Rome

Rome's Ciampino airport is temporarily closed after birds caused a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing.
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Italian nuns kidnapped in Kenya

Monday, November 10th 2008, 14:51
related countries: Kenya, Somalia

Suspected Somali gunmen kidnap two Italian nuns in Kenya and take them to Somalia, officials and witnesses say.
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Miriam Makeba dies: Your reaction

Monday, November 10th 2008, 8:27

Singing legend Miriam Makeba has died aged 76 in southern Italy. Did her music change your life?
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S African icon Miriam Makeba dies

Monday, November 10th 2008, 7:06
related countries: South Africa

South African singing legend Miriam Makeba dies aged 76, after being taken ill following a concert in southern Italy.
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Wallabies rule out Barnes & Tahu

Sunday, November 9th 2008, 20:51

Australia backs Berrick Barnes and Timana Tahu will miss the rest of the Wallabies' European tour after picking up injuries in the win over Italy.
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Berlusconi criticised for saying Obama is 'tanned'

Saturday, November 8th 2008, 2:38

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi defends his description of Barack Obama as "young, handsome, and tanned".
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'Mobster' held in surgery sting

Friday, November 7th 2008, 17:29

A suspected Italian mobster is caught by under-cover police as he comes round from a liposuction operation.
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It's quiz time!

Thursday, November 6th 2008, 9:38

How do antelopes demonstrate sexual prowess?
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Deco off as Chelsea lose in Rome

Tuesday, November 4th 2008, 21:38
related places: Rome

Chelsea's Champions League hopes are left up in the air after they suffer a night to forget in Rome, seeing Deco red-carded during a 3-1 defeat.
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Rome hosts Vatican-Muslim summit

Tuesday, November 4th 2008, 8:58
related places: Rome

Leading Muslim and Vatican officials hold historic talks in Rome to try to defuse tension between the two religions.
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Materazzi wins Daily Mail damages

Monday, November 3rd 2008, 12:45
related countries: United Kingdom

Italian footballer Marco Materazzi accepts damages from Britain's Daily Mail over claims he racially abused Zinedine Zidane.
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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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