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

'Mafiosi' held in US and Sicily

Thursday, February 7th 2008, 20:35
related countries: United States
related places: Sicily

Dozens of people are held by US and Italian authorities targeting an alleged drug-trafficking racket.
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Salami and sausages the traditional way

Thursday, February 7th 2008, 14:02

Emma Wallis visits an Italian family keeping the old butchering traditions alive.
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Italy to hold snap April election

Wednesday, February 6th 2008, 13:48

Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano dissolves parliament, paving the way for early elections on 13-14 April.
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Italy leader 'to call snap polls'

Wednesday, February 6th 2008, 6:59

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is to dissolve parliament, reports say, paving the way for early elections.
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Berlusconi spurns coalition bid

Monday, February 4th 2008, 22:16

Italy's opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi demands elections, jeopardising efforts to form an interim government.
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As it happened - Six Nations

Saturday, February 2nd 2008, 12:39
related countries: United Kingdom

An inspired second-half peformance sees Wales beat England 26-19 at Twickenham.
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Italy heads for interim rule

Wednesday, January 30th 2008, 17:51

The president backs the formation of an interim government after the fall of Romano Prodi's administration.
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EU leaders call for transparency

Tuesday, January 29th 2008, 21:23
related countries: France, Germany
related places: Eu

The leaders of Europe's biggest economies call on financial institutions to be more open.
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'Neighbour rage' case grips Italy

Tuesday, January 29th 2008, 16:00
related places: Milan

Italians are gripped by the Milan trial of a middle-aged couple accused of killing four neighbours.
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Italy's ex-PM urges snap election

Tuesday, January 29th 2008, 12:30

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi calls for early elections to end the country's political crisis.
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Talks to end Italian crisis begin

Friday, January 25th 2008, 18:31

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano begins talks with political leaders after PM Romano Prodi's resignation.
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Prodi resigns after losing vote

Thursday, January 24th 2008, 22:17

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns after losing a confidence vote in the Senate.
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Italy's Prodi risks Senate vote

Thursday, January 24th 2008, 17:35

Italian PM Romano Prodi calls for support as he faces a key Senate confidence vote that he is in danger of losing.
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Embattled Italy PM backed by MPs

Wednesday, January 23rd 2008, 18:17

Italian PM Romano Prodi wins a vote of confidence in parliament but his coalition looks set to fall in the Senate.
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Italy PM faces confidence votes

Tuesday, January 22nd 2008, 13:55

Italian PM Romano Prodi will face votes of confidence in parliament after a key coalition ally resigned.
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Prodi to speak on cabinet crisis

Tuesday, January 22nd 2008, 1:30

Italy's Romano Prodi is to address MPs on Tuesday as the departure of an ally threatens his ruling coalition.
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Italy PM in cabinet crisis talks

Monday, January 21st 2008, 21:45

Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi holds crisis talks as the departure of an ally threatens his governing coalition.
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Italian ex-minister in poll call

Monday, January 21st 2008, 19:13

Italy's ex-justice minister confirms he will not rejoin the governing coalition and calls for early elections.
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Rebel priest publishes life story

Friday, January 18th 2008, 7:51
related countries: Zambia
related places: Rome

A Zambian archbishop thrown out of the Catholic Church for marrying returns to Rome to launch his autobiography.
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Italy's ruling coalition weakened

Thursday, January 17th 2008, 16:03

Italy's former justice minister, who resigned over a corruption probe, withdraws his party from the ruling coalition.
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Disease risk to mozzarella output

Thursday, January 17th 2008, 15:22

A contagious infection sweeping through herds of Italian water buffalo threatens mozzarella production.
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Pope publishes cancelled speech

Thursday, January 17th 2008, 1:48

The Vatican releases the text of a speech that the Pope was due to have at a visit to Rome University.
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Italian justice minister resigns

Wednesday, January 16th 2008, 18:33

Italy's justice minister says he is stepping down after prosecutors said they were planning to arrest his wife.
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Scholars scupper papal visit

Tuesday, January 15th 2008, 18:42
related places: Rome

The Pope cancels a visit to a top Rome university after protests against his views on Galileo.
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Italy police smash Nigerian gang

Tuesday, January 15th 2008, 15:10
related countries: Nigeria

Italy arrests dozens of alleged members of a gang trafficking Nigerians to work as prostitutes and drug couriers.
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Arrests in Sardinia waste clashes

Saturday, January 12th 2008, 15:14

Italian police arrest six Sardinian protesters after clashes over the delivery of 500 tonnes of rubbish there.
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The putrid problem of Italian politics

Saturday, January 12th 2008, 12:10
related places: Naples

The rubbish littering the streets of Naples is symptomatic of a deeper problem at the heart of Italian politics, says David Willey.
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'Trash tsar' to clear Naples dirt

Tuesday, January 8th 2008, 17:11
related places: Naples

Italy's PM names a former police chief to tackle a waste disposal crisis in Naples and promises incinerators.
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Plan to dig up Padre Pio attacked

Monday, January 7th 2008, 22:06

Plans to exhume Padre Pio - one of Italy's most popular saints - are attacked by his relatives and followers.
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Soldiers bulldoze Naples rubbish

Monday, January 7th 2008, 12:39
related places: Naples

The Italian army battles against huge piles of rubbish clogging the streets of Naples.
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Italian trawler seized by Croatia

Friday, January 4th 2008, 8:12
related countries: Croatia

The Croatian navy begins enforcing a controversial protected fishing zone in the Adriatic Sea.
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Milan introduces traffic charge

Wednesday, January 2nd 2008, 16:30
related places: Milan

Italy's first traffic charge is launched in Milan in an attempt to reduce congestion and pollution levels.
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Italy-Libya in immigration deal

Saturday, December 29th 2007, 18:35
related countries: Libya

Italy and Libya agree to mount joint patrols in the Mediterranean Sea to stop crossings by illegal immigrants.
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Pope calls for end to conflicts

Tuesday, December 25th 2007, 13:21
related places: Rome

Pope Benedict XVI appeals for just solutions to conflicts around the world in his annual Christmas message.
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Italy seeks Condor plot suspects

Monday, December 24th 2007, 21:36
related countries: United States
related places: Condor

Prosecutors in Italy issue 140 arrest warrants over the decades-old South American plot Operation Condor.
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Firm quits Sicily to spurn Mafia

Monday, December 24th 2007, 16:44

An Italian cement firm says it is pulling out of Sicily as a sign of its refusal to submit to Mafia extortion.
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Parmalat in 327m euro settlement

Sunday, December 23rd 2007, 17:24

Parmalat agrees a settlement with Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo over the bankruptcy of the dairy group in 2003.
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Italy's Prodi visits Afghanistan

Sunday, December 23rd 2007, 12:59
related countries: Afghanistan

Italy's PM, Romano Prodi, visits Afghanistan for talks with President Karzai and an inspection of Italian troops.
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Europe arrests over mafia killing

Tuesday, December 18th 2007, 10:17
related countries: Germany
related places: Duisburg

Police in Germany and Italy arrest four people over a mafia shooting in the German city of Duisburg in August.
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Rome 'umbrella killer' sentenced

Monday, December 17th 2007, 22:21
related countries: Romania

A Romanian woman is jailed for killing an Italian woman with an umbrella in a case that pressured bilateral ties.
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Air France details Alitalia bid

Monday, December 17th 2007, 10:45

Air France-KLM reveals that its offer for the Italian airline Alitalia is to be structured as a share swap.
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Italian football scandal hearing

Saturday, December 15th 2007, 16:09

A judge in Italy holds the first hearing in the case of last year's match-fixing scandal, centring on Luciano Moggi.
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Italy 'mafia boss' held in Naples

Saturday, December 15th 2007, 15:01
related places: Naples

One of Italy's most dangerous mafia bosses is arrested in Naples after seven years on the run, police say.
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Football: Capello gets England job

Friday, December 14th 2007, 17:09
related countries: Spain, United Kingdom
related places: Roma

Italian Fabio Capello signs a four-and-a-half year deal to become the new England manager.
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Italy truck strike causes chaos

Wednesday, December 12th 2007, 11:49

A third day of protests by Italy's truck drivers over working conditions leads to fuel and food shortages.
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Italian Senate backs deportation

Thursday, December 6th 2007, 22:08

The Italian government survives a confidence vote on a controversial decree over deporting EU citizens.
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Spain and Italy discuss migration

Wednesday, December 5th 2007, 12:24
related countries: Spain

The PMs of Spain and Italy discuss migration, as the number of deaths in sea crossings from Africa rises.
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China installs Rome-backed bishop

Tuesday, December 4th 2007, 9:44
related countries: China
related places: Beijing, Guangzhou, Rome

China installs a Vatican-backed bishop in Guangzhou, amid signs of improving ties between Beijing and Rome
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Big trio in tough Euro 2008 group

Sunday, December 2nd 2007, 12:20
related countries: France

Italy, Holland and France are all drawn in the same group for the Euro 2008 finals.
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Live - Euro 2008 finals draw

Sunday, December 2nd 2007, 10:35
related countries: France

Italy, Holland and France are all drawn in the same group for the Euro 2008 finals.
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