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ROME – Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has strongly denied reports that Italy will intervene with their special forces in Libya, following many days of violence in Tripoli, political officials said Tuesday.

4 Sep 2018
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TRIPOLI - Rebel troops loyal to renegade general Khalifa Haftar launched an assault on Libyan capital on Monday to try and oust the Italian and UN-backed government of Fayez al Sarraj, leaving over 200 dead, military sources said on Monday.

3 Sep 2018
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ROME - A migrant, 16, residing in an asylum seeker community for unaccompanied minors in Raffadali in Sicily, has been the latest victim of a racial attack, police said on Monday.

The attackers yelled “Go back to your country” while beating him with their fists and feet. The youngster was promptly hospitalised at the S. Giovanni di Dio in Agrigento on Sunday afternoon.

3 Sep 2018
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ROME – Just two weeks after the end of the notorious Palio race in Siena, districts have been given the chance to put themselves to the test once again; this time, in November and to celebrate one hundred years since the end of the First World War, local authorities said on Monday.

3 Sep 2018
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ROME - Tension is rising between the Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli and the local committee in Venice who claim the new government is not working quickly enough to ban huge cruise liners which dock in the city’s lagoon, local sources said on Friday.

31 Aug 2018
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ROME - Autostrade has presented their plan on how to demolish the bridge in 30 days which will include the loss of 150 flats and they are also further compensating those effected, according to an official statement by the Benetton-owned company.

31 Aug 2018
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ROME - A part of the outer wall of the Roman Forum has collapsed, no one has been reported as injured so far, report local firefighters.

 Right before the eyes of disbelieving tourists, part of the Roman Forum crumbled just before 3pm. The outer wall which backs onto Via Monte Tarpeo was the site of the incident, and the stones which dislodged landed right next to the police hut on the street. 

31 Aug 2018
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ROME - Lucrezia Odescalchi, a 61-year-old princess descending from the Italian Como family, was arrested after allegedly attempting to shoplift a duvet and a suitcase before she preceded to attack the salesman in charge with a hairbrush, police said Thursday.

 The princess, belonging to a family from whom a pope, three cardinals and two bishops have been elected, was arrested and charged with theft.

30 Aug 2018
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ROME – The Vatican has censored a comment by Pope Francis in which he suggested that parents should seek psychiatric help for children who show ‘homosexual tendencies’, sources said on Thursday.

30 Aug 2018

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