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BBC News
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The French agriculture ministry has told shops to withdraw some Italian mozzarella cheese from sale amid a scare over dioxin contamination.
The affected cheese is made from buffalo milk in the Campania region, near Naples.
Dioxins, which can cause c..
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BBC News
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has dissolved parliament, paving the way for snap elections.
The move comes after the country's leaders held unsuccessful talks to form an interim government.
The political crisis was triggered by last month's resign..
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CNN
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Italian Premier Romano Prodi sought support for his teetering government in Parliament on Tuesday and said he would seek votes of confidence in both chambers after a coalition ally withdrew support. A loss in either chamber would force Prodi to resign...
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FOX News
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Italian TV stations on Sunday repeatedly showed videos of two women sought in the slaying of a young woman who was fatally stabbed in the eye with an umbrella on the subway platform of Rome's main train station.
News programs played video from surveill..
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News.com.au
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AN Italian journalist kidnapped in Afghanistan has been handed over to embassy officials after two weeks in captivity and days after his driver was executed, an Afghani news agency said.
Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah said Daniele Mastrogia..
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Malta Star
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An Italian judge ordered a 13 year old girl from Torino to abort her unborn child because her parents were opposed to the baby. Italian legislation states that a minor is not allowed to decide whether to abort or not and the 'decision' falls entirely..
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EU Observer
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Italian president Romano Prodi has suggested there should be a central EU energy authority following energy blackouts over the weekend affecting millions of people in Germany, France, Spain and Italy...
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SF Gate
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President Bush can look forward to a hearty welcome from his old friend, the charismatic Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Rome. That's not what was found on the streets, however, where anti-Bush sentiment..
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BBC News
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There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian's declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet.
The tax authority's website was inundated by people curious to know how much their neighbours, celebrities..
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BBC News
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Embattled Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi is to risk a confidence vote in the Senate despite calls for him to resign.
Mr Prodi had been advised by President Giorgio Napolitano to avoid the vote, which the PM is in danger of losing.
Mr Prodi held..
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CNN
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The Italian army was called in early Monday to help clear piles of trash that went uncollected for more than two weeks in the Naples area, while residents in a city suburb set up roadblocks to protest the reopening of a garbage dump. Before dawn, army eng..
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CNN
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A fourth suspect in the killing of a 21-year-old British woman in Italy has been arrested in Germany, Italian police confirmed Tuesday. Rudy Hermann Guede, 21, of Ivory Coast, was identified after police found a bloody fingerprint on a pillow at the scene..
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CNN
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Italian police have found DNA traces of a slain British student and of her American roommate -- jailed as a suspect in the case -- on a knife that may have been the murder weapon, lawyers said. Police seized the kitchen knife in the house of Raffaele Soll..
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BBC News
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Italian authorities have started deporting Romanian immigrants with criminal records under a controversial new law to tackle crime.
The move was prompted by the murder of a woman in Rome, allegedly by a Romanian illegal immigrant.
Italy's government..
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Time
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In a provocative article, an Italian medical professor argues that Pope John Paul II didn't just simply slip away as his weakness and illness overtook him in April 2005. Intensive care specialist Dr. Lina Pavanelli has concluded that the ailing Pope's Apr..
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Al Jazeera
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Giuliano Amato, the Italian interior minister, said the shootings appeared to be the latest chapter in a long-running dispute between involved two mafia clans in Calabria, home to the 'Ndrangheta organised crime group.
Shots heard
Police found the..
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BBC News
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Six Italian men have been shot dead near a train station in Duisburg, western Germany, an attack reports say could be linked to a criminal feud.
Five bodies were found in two cars outside an Italian restaurant, while a sixth man died on the way to hosp..
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BBC News
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Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni, who died on Monday at the age of 94.
The square outside Ferrara's San Giorgio cathedral in northern Italy was filled with local residents.
His widow Enri..
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CNN
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The Getty Museum has reached a compromise with Italy after a bitter dispute over antiquities in its collection that Rome says were looted, the Italian Culture Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The museum will return 40 artifacts to Italy, fewer t..
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FOX News
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A Vatican court for the first time has issued a drug conviction, giving a former employee of the Holy See a four-month suspended sentence for cocaine use, Italian news reports said Sunday.
The man worked in a Holy See administrative office and was rece..
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