MILAN -- Public funds from Italy's business capital have been drained as the company A2A disastrously invested huge sums into the Balkan energy provider EPCG with shady links to a Montenegrin bank with alleged dealings in Balkan drug money, the IRPI centre for investigative journalism reported Wednesday.
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ROME -- A Romanian couple have been arrested on charges of theft, caught stealing luxury bags from various boutiques of the Eternal City’s famous Via dei Condotti, police sources say Tuesday.
15 Nov 2016
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ROME -- An HIV-positive man has been indicted after contaminating 30 women in the capital by having unprotected sex, despite being aware of his virus, judicial sources said Tuesday.
Valentino Talluto, aged 32 and HIV-positive, is accused of having given 30 women AIDS despite knowing he had the infection. He has been indicted as decided by the Judge for Preliminary Hearings Massimo Battistini, who accepted the request from the public prosecutor Francesco Scavo.
15 Nov 2016
Samantha Wernham
ROME – A notable boom in the marriage rate for Italy has been noted as the first increase in eight years says Istat, the national institute of statistics.
15 Nov 2016
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MILAN -- The mayor of this Lombard city has asked for Italian soldiers to be deployed in the business capital to curb violent street crime, particularly after the shooting of a 37-year-old man in the suburbs, government sources said Tuesday.
15 Nov 2016
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CATANIA -- Yet another makeshift boat packed with migrants was found shipwrecked in the treacherous voyage to reach Italian shores Monday evening arriving from the Libyan coast, maritime sources say.
Whilst 15 have been rescued, tens of people are still feared lost at sea.
15 Nov 2016
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NICOSIA -- “There is no possibility of success” for the negotiations between the Greek-Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades and his Turkish-Cypriot counterpart Mastafa Akinci about the reunification of the island within a single federal state, the Turkish-Cypriot foreign affairs minister Tashin Ertugruloglu told foreign journalists visiting Nicosia.
15 Nov 2016
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LATINA -- Police have arrested 16 people in this Lazio commune, including the ex-mayor Giovanni Di Giorgi, for crimes against public administration, police sources said Monday.
Orders of pre-trial detention have been given out to 16 people in Latina -- eight in prison and eight under house arrest, for crimes against public administration in an investigation by the competent magistrate Mara Mattioli, Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.
14 Nov 2016
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ROME -- The iconic elephant of Piazza della Minerva of the Eternal City, crafted by the Italian artistic mastermind Bernini, has been "irreversibly damaged" as a tusk has been broken.
Yet another wound to the artistic and cultural heart of Rome -- Bernini’s famous elephant sculpture, one of the well-known symbols of the historic city centre, was vandalised at some time between Sunday night and Monday morning.
14 Nov 2016