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WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 15, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi has warned of "difficult months ahead" after winning Italy's general election. Mr Berlusconi, who is due to return to Rome from his home in northern Italy on Tuesday, won control of both the senate and lower house.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Mar 28, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

BBC News -- The murder of a man in southern Italy has fuelled concern about an escalation of a blood feud among the Calabrian mafia or 'Ndrangheta. Police say the victim, Francesco Capicchiano, 33, was carrying a pistol but did not even have time to draw it as two.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Nov 8, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- A U.S. Blackhawk helicopter crashed on Thursday in northern Italy with 10 people on board, killing at least two of them, police said. The crash took place in a rural area outside the northern Italian city of Treviso, along the bank of the Piave river,.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Tue May 8, 2007 @ 12:19pm neoform

Alter Net -- The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest U.S. military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen. The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest US mil.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Feb 24, 2007 @ 2:25pm neoform

Reuters -- Italy's president asked Romano Prodi to stay on as prime minister on Saturday, but he now faces a confidence vote in parliament to prove he has enough support to govern. Prodi resigned on Wednesday after he was defeated on foreign policy in the upper h.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Feb 3, 2007 @ 12:01pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Italy is becoming a nation of cocaine users, according to a senior government minister... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jan 26, 2007 @ 9:46am mrmdc

Times Online -- Nearly 800 people, said to be part of a network that smuggled women into Italy and forced them to work as prostitutes, have been arrested in a crackdown on the country’s sex-slave trade... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 5:28am neoform

BBC News -- Italy will campaign at the United Nations for a global ban on the death penalty, Prime Minister Romano Prodi has said... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Nov 6, 2006 @ 10:24am mrmdc

EU Observer -- 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... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu May 1, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jan 29, 2008 @ 8:05am neoform

CNN -- Italian opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi has told Italy's president that only early elections can end the political crisis sparked by the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi last week. Berlusconi, a former prime minister, on Tuesday rejected the possib.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Nov 8, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- A U.S. military helicopter crashed Thursday in northern Italy, killing five people on board and wounding several others, Treviso police said. Police said it was unclear whether those killed were crew members or passengers. The helicopter crashed in.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Nov 5, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

BBC News -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Oct 23, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform

BBC News -- Italy's retailers have denounced the growth of Mafia extortion rackets which they say now affect big companies as well as smaller ones. The Mafia has turned into one of Italy's biggest business enterprises with a turnover of more than $120bn a year, a.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Aug 30, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- Police in southern Italy say they are arresting dozens of suspected members of rival Mafia gangs linked to the killing of six Italian men in Germany. Authorities are investigating family vendetta killings which have been going on for at least a decade.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 3:45pm neoform

CNN -- 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.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 4:12pm neoform

BBC News -- An alleged mafia boss suspected of four murders in Italy has been extradited from the UK, according to City of Westminster Magistrates' Court. Gennaro Panzuto, 32, was arrested in Garstang near Preston, Lancs, by the UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue May 22, 2007 @ 4:57pm neoform

BBC News -- Thousands of passengers across Europe have been stranded because of a strike by air traffic controllers and flight attendants in Italy. British Airways, Lufthansa, Iberia and other airlines said they had cancelled dozens of flights to and from Italy... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 9:26pm neoform

BBC News -- Two women have been detained in Italy over the killing of a young commuter who was stabbed in the eye with an umbrella tip at Rome's main station. Vanessa Russo, 22, died from wounds suffered in the stabbing at Termini station on Thursday morning. T.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 12:37pm neoform

CNN -- Leftist fugitive-turned-writer Cesare Battisti, wanted in Italy for two murders in the 1970s, was arrested early Sunday near Brazil's famed Copacabana Beach, French police said. Battisti had lived quietly in France until Paris decided to extradite him.. Read More