Community of Sant'Egidio airport welcome for refugees

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ROME – The Community of Sant’Egidio will be holding a press conference and welcoming party for 114 refugees arriving from Ethiopia but originally from a number of countries across the Horn of Africa on Tuesday at Fiumicino airport.

 The arrivals have been facilitated by a protocol of understanding between the Sant’Egidio Community and the Episcopal Conference of Italy (CEI), acting alongside Italian Caritas and Migrants Foundation.

 The CEI has funded the endeavour with 8,000 euros that will facilitate the arrival of 500 refugees over the course of two years.

World, Italy
23 Feb 2018
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Mayor arrested in Sicily corruption sting

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 PALERMO – The Mayor of Acireale, Roberto Barbagallo, is one of the eight people arrested by the Finance Guard in Sicily on corruption charges, investigators announced on Friday.

 Barbagallo, 42, was first elected to the Commune of Acireale in the city of Catania in 2014 with the support of the centre-left. He is a civil-engineering graduate of the University of Studies in Catania and first elected to the Acireale council in 2009.

Italy
23 Feb 2018
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Six police agents injured in anti-fascist protest

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TURIN - Authorities were counting the cost Friday after police clashed with anti-fascist demonstrators as they attempted to storm a hotel in Turin where a neo-Fascist Forza Nuova candidate, Simone di Stefano, was due for an electoral appointment, police said.

 The anti-fascist demonstrators protested against the candidate by throwing bottles and paper bombs containing nails, and were met by fire hydrants spraying water and teargas.

Italy
23 Feb 2018
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OSCE observers arrive for Italy elections

Gianfranco Nitti
ROME - The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is deploying a mission of 42 international observers, including 33 parliamentarians from 22 countries, to Italy for the 4 March parliamentary elections. The observers arrive in Rome next week for two days of briefings before deploying for election day observation around the country.
 
Italy
23 Feb 2018
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Matteo Renzi's wife, Agnese Landini gifted a free car pass

Daisy Raichura

 FLORENCE- Former mayor of the Tuscan Capital, and  ex Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Renzi, has been launched back into the spotlight after it emerged his wife, Agnese Landini has been granted a super car pass, allowing her to travel and park anywhere in Florence, including the use of pedestrian areas and preferential lanes. The current mayor of Florence, Dario Nardella, has declined to comment on the matter since he believes it to be “stuff that does not deserve to be commented on,” however by law, as Monday arrives he will be obligated to answer in the

Culture, Italy
23 Feb 2018
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Roma undone by second half Shakhtar display

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ROME – AS Roma threw away a lead in the OSK Metalist Stadion in Kharkiv, succumbing to a 2-1 defeat away at Shakhtar Donetsk that leaves them needing a win on the return leg to stay in the Champions League.

 Roma have now failed to keep an away clean sheet in 26 Champions League fixtures and will be frustrated at the end result after having created a number of chances in the first half.

Sport
22 Feb 2018
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Electoral violence rocks Italy

Eleanor Hartland

ROME - Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti has warned violence will not be tolerated in the campaign for the upcoming elections after bloody incidents marred electoral rallies in Palermo and Perugia. 

 His remarks came after police arrested two left-wing activists in Palermo for beating up Massimo ­­­Ursino, an official of the neo-Fascist Forza Nuova party. Giovanni Marco Codraro, aged 26 and Carlo Mancuso, aged 28 have been arrested and a further four are being investigated for their involvement in the crime.

Italy
22 Feb 2018
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Old or new left? Potere al Popolo

Tim Wade

ROME – Italian politics in the last 20 years has leant itself to the formation of new parties. As the stranglehold of the country’s traditional parties broke down in the 1990s in the wake of the “Clean Hands” scandal, new political forces, from Forza Italia in 1993 (and re-branded in 2013) to the more recent Five Star Movement (M5S) in 2009 have successfully sprung onto the political scene, helped in no small part by the necessity of coalition-building for the formation of governments.

Italy
22 Feb 2018
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Salvini lashes out at Berlusconi

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ROME - Populist League leader Matteo Salvini has lashed out at Silvio Berlusconi for offering to adopt rebel parliamentary candidates of the radical Five Star Movement.

 Berlusconi expressed his willingness to adopt the rebels who fell out with their leaders in the Italian electoral campaign, saying they would “keep their entire parliamentary allowance.” The rebels include Freemason candidates and those who broke party repayment rules.

Italy
22 Feb 2018
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