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Saint’s body to go to Vatican for Jubilee
Eleven arrested as mafia boss manhunt continues
ROME- On Monday, police in Palermo, Sicily, arrested 11 supporters of Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who still remains at large.
Heavy rain plunges Florence into state of emergency
ROME- A heavy downpour on Saturday afternoon has wreaked havoc in Florence, with officials declaring the city and its surrounding area in a state of emergency.
Housing protests cause mass disruption in Eternal City
Naomi Campbell convicted for Sicily assault
ROME- British model Naomi Campbell was sentenced to a six-month suspended prison term on Friday, guilty of scratching the eye of a paparazzi photographer in 2009.
Meridiana & Moët bring lap of luxury to short-haul flight
ROME- Flight carrier Meridiana and champagne producer Moët & Chandon have teamed up to provide an exclusive, high-quality service for passengers: from July 24 to September 18, the Rome Fiumicin
Senator escapes house arrest in committee vote
ROME- Senator of the Italian Nuovo Centra Destra party (New Centre Right party)Antonio Azzollini was spared house arrest on Wednesday when the Senate voted against a request for his arrest.
Delays persist at Rome airport after fire
Rome council reshuffled in hope of change
Tourists flee Sardinia forest fires
ROME- Tourists and locals have been forced to flee to beaches as forest fires have wreaked havoc this week
Slovenian-inspired exhibition opens in Venice
obit: American writer Donald Ogden Stewart Jr.
Brescia bombers convicted 41 years after attack
ROME - A series of investigations and inconclusive trials spanning 41 years finally came to a historic close when Carlo Maria Maggi and Maurizio Tramonte were given life sentences for killing eigh
Days left to visit Venice Finnish glass exhibition
Italians forever loyal to Vienna
Flights cancelled as pilot strike looms
ROME- l’ANPAC, a pilot and flight attendant trade union, are to protest planned redundancies with a nationwide 24-hour strike on Friday, officials say.
People smugglers abducted Italians in Libya
Orrechiette festival hails ‘little ears’ pasta
ISIS-linked arrests in Lombardy following Twitter threats
Byron talk to be held at Keats-Shelley House
New exhibitions for Palazzo Cini’s autumn season
Vatican assets increase by 1 billion, finances still in red
Sicily governor 'suspension' amid wiretap scandal
ROME- Governor of Sicily Rosario Crocetta suspended himself from office on Thursday over a tapped telephone call conversation between him and his doctor, Matteo Tutino, in which he did not actively
Disability fraud operation shut down in Sicily
ROME- The Carabinieri, the Italian gendarmerie, have shut down an operation that has allowed one hundred people to claim pensions and assistance through disability fraud in Palermo on Thursday.