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Austrian tourist's night of terror at sea
ROME - An Austrian tourist spent an entire night desperately clinging to a buoy after being swept out to sea on the coast of Siniscola, Sardinia, during a windsurfing trip.
Convicts for quake reconstruction
ROME - In a controversial move, Italian Justice Minister Paola Severino is to give prisoners being held in the Emilia-Romagna region the chance to assist in the earthquake rebuilding effort.
Mourning as quake nightmare continues
ROME-- A 5.1 quake struck Modena last night, followed by at least three smaller tremors this morning. Residents escaped injury, but historic buildings suffered damage.
Hogan Lovells expands Italy service
Small and medium businesses get boost
Marines released on bail
Italy annuls compensation orders for Nazi war crimes
Call for European unity to tackle crisis
Italy "bridge to Arab world" -- Kuwaiti Ambassador interview
ROME– Kuwait is optimistic the Arab Spring will usher in political democracy throughout the Middle East with many countries following the Kuwaiti example of a parliamentary constitution and freedom
Petrol prices increased to help fund quake recovery
ROME -- The government has announced several measures to help deal with the emergency in the centre-north of Italy following two devastating earthquakes that killed 24 and left 15,000 homeless.
Rome International School supports Haiti
Syrian envoy expelled after massacre
ROME– Italy, along with other major Western nations, has expelled the Syrian embassy.
Woman strangled for "wearing Western clothes"
ROME – Days after the discovery of the body of a pregnant Indian woman in the river Po, the victim’s husband has admitted to strangling her for “wearing Western clothes.”
Thousands homeless as quake kills 17
ROME -- Another earthquake, magnitude 5.8, has hit the centre-north of Italy, killing 17 people, more deadly than the 5.9 earthquake which claimed seven lives in the region nine d
Match-fixing arrests strike at heart of Italian football
Fiat suspends sales to Iran
Builders probed over earthquake deaths
ROME-- Investigators are questioning nine people regarding the deaths of four workers killed in building collapses in the earthquake that hit North Italy at the weekend.
Beach suicide stuns seaside town
Napolitano praises police, warns of further dangers
Giovanni Falcone, Capaci 20 years on
Taxes "intolerable" says industry chief
ROME-- The new head of employers’ union Confindustria, Giorgio Squinzi, has called the “tax burden” in Italy “intolerable” and questioned the current programme of reforms.
Lawyer's murder was "Mafia warning"
ROME – One of Italy’s top criminal lawyers, Enzo Fragala, was brutally beaten to death by the Mafia as a warning to MPs who fail to carry out Cosa Nostra orders, a senior magistrate has disclosed.
Two shot in Camorra violence
ROME-- Two people, one of them a 15-year-old boy, have been shot and killed and another wounded in a bloody night of violence in the southern city of Naples, police say.
Hunt for bomber seen on CCTV
ROME-- The Brindisi school which was the scene of the bombing which killed one girl and wounded more reopened as police hunt the killer using video footage of the attack.