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We have started to collect the most important news related to Italy in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
Italian police arrest six people accused of kidnapping the accountant of ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi and attempting to extort money.
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Rome Film Festival presents two awards to Italy's And They Call It Summer, a title booed by critics.
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Milan's main cathedral puts its gargoyles up for adoption, as it seeks to raise funds for renovation amid budget cuts by the Italian government.
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SpainVodafone writes off £5.9bn from the value of its units in Spain and Italy, pushing the firm into a half-year loss.
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Heavy flooding in Italy kills four people in Tuscany, reports say, as downpours cause power cuts and transport disruptions.
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Many people have been evacuated by helicopter from the Italian region of Tuscany as floodwaters rise following heavy rains.
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Heavy rains combined with strong winds have caused flooding in several areas across Italy, with the problem particularly severe in Venice.
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Italian police arrest nine cardiologists over allegations of carrying out unauthorised treatments and embezzlement.
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Italian police seize assets worth more than $200m (£125m) from a suspected gold smuggling ring, including a villa allegedly used to stash ingots.
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Italian school teaches online human rights protest tactics
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There's growing pressure on a Roman cat sanctuary to leave its home in the heart of the ancient city.
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The party of former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi suffers a major blow, apparently losing elections in its former stronghold of Sicily.
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Italy's Silvio Berlusconi threatens to bring down Mario Monti's technocratic government, a day after receiving a jail sentence for tax fraud.
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Italy's Silvio Berlusconi says he feels "obliged" stay in politics, but will not run for PM - a day after receiving a jail sentence for tax fraud.
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Lawyers for former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are to appeal against his jail sentence for tax fraud, media reports say.
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Lawyers for former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are to appeal against his jail sentence for tax fraud, media reports say.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been handed a jail sentence and barred from office after being found guilty of tax fraud.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is sentenced to four years in prison - later reduced to one year - for tax fraud, but is expected to appeal.
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The Italian Football Federation is investigating allegations of match-fixing at Serie A club Napoli.
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Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he has no intention of standing for office at next year's election, after his resignation last year.
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The head of Italy's disaster body, Luciano Maiani, steps down after seven colleagues faced jail for their role before the L'Aquila earthquake.
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An Italian court has sentenced six scientists and a government official to six years each in prison over the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake.
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Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official are sentenced to six years in prison over the deadly 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila.
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The trial of the captain of the Italian cruise ship which crashed into rocks in January has moved a step closer.
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Italian ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi tells his trial in Milan that he never had "intimate" ties with an underage prostitute he faces charges about.
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Only "the hand of God" prevented far greater loss of life in the sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which hit rocks off the Italian coast in January, a hearing is told.
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Brazil's Felipe Massa will race for Ferrari in 2013 after signing a one-year contract extension with the Italian outfit.
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The captain of a cruise ship that sunk off the coast of Tuscany, killing 32 people, has appeared before an Italian court.
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The captain of a cruise ship that sunk off the coast of Tuscany, killing 32 people, has appeared before an Italian court.
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The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which sank off the Italian coast killing 32 people, appears at an inquiry into the disaster.
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Ferrari will retain Felipe Massa next season in what is planned to be a stop-gap deal before the arrival of Sebastian Vettel.
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Police conduct raids in Reggio Calabria in southern Italy after the city council was sacked over alleged links to the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate.
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The entire council of the city of Reggio Calabria in southern Italy is dismissed to stop it from being taken over by the mafia, officials say.
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FranceItalian director Bernardo Bertolucci, of Last Tango in Paris fame, will receive a lifetime achievement honour at the European Film Awards in December.
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Mexico, 
RussiaA Sukhoi Superjet 100 arrives in Italy to be customised for service in Mexico, under a contract seen as vital for Russia's new airliner.
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Italian police say they have broken a prostitution ring which brought transsexuals from Latin America into the country.
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Holy See (Vatican City)A man ends his protest atop St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, where he was demonstrating against EU measures he alleges penalise small businesses.
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Andrea Masiello admits to a deliberate own goal in a 2011 Serie A match and is given a 22-month suspended prison sentence.
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GermanyEuro crisis raises tensions in Italy's South Tyrol
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GermanyItaly's government has asked a prosperous German speaking province to pay more revenue to help the country out of its financial crisis.
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More bicycles than cars were sold in Italy last year for the first time in decades, local media report, a trend attributed largely to the economic crisis.
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GermanyGerman prosecutors drop a decade-long investigation into 17 former Nazi soldiers accused of a wartime massacre in Italy, citing lack of evidence.
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FranceZinedine Zidane's famous head-butt on Italy's Marco Materazzi is immortalised with a five-metre high statue in Paris.
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Football freestylers from 53 countries have been showing off their skills at the Street Style 2012 world final in Lecce, Italy.
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Police in Italy have arrested a man caught posing as an airline pilot after he allegedly tricked his way into riding in the cockpit of at least one airplane.
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Italian carmaker finds greener power gives soaring sales
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Police in the Italian city of Turin arrest a jobless man who posed as an airline pilot, tricking his way into riding in the cockpit of at least one jet.
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A giraffe escapes from an Italian circus in Imola, and goes on the run through the streets of the northern town before being captured and dying.
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Italy's highest appeals court upholds guilty verdicts on 23 Americans, all but one of them CIA agents, accused of kidnapping a Muslim cleric in 2003.
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The EU plans to give a record 670m euros in aid to the Emilia Romagna region in northern Italy, hit by earthquakes in May.
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