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Bersani asked to form new Government
ROME – Italian President Giorgio Napolitano gave centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani a mandate Friday to try and form a Government, the Quirinal Palace said.
Playing Chicken with a Country
ROME-- Until yesterday, it looked very much as if Italy’s elected representatives were playing chicken with their country. In the original version of the game, two drivers drive at each on a straight road and the one that blinks and swerves is chicken. If neither yield, both die.
Boldrini woos Italian, foreign media
ROME – Italy’s new Parliament speaker Laura Boldrini has won legions of admirers, including foreign correspondents hoping she may follow the example of her predecessor Luciano Violante.
Argentine Bergoglio elected Pope Francis
L'Espresso: Grillo implicated in offshore dealings
ROME- Beppe Grillo has fiercely dismissed an Espresso report disclosing his links to 13 offshore accounts in Costa Rica.
Mystification and Populism – the genius of Silvio Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo
ROME-- Yesterday a group of about 150 parliamentarians demonstrated outside the Palace of Justice in Milan. They then moved into the building to the office of prosecutor Ilda Boccassini.
MPS media chief jumps to death
ROME-- David Rossi, the communications wizard at troubled Monte dei Paschi plunged to his death from the window of his office at the bank’s medieval headquarters in Siena.
Huge blaze destroys much of Naples 'City of Science'
ROME -- A fierce fire has destroyed much of the 'City of Science', one of Naples' most important cultural gems, leaving
Wärtsilä supplies engines to remote heating plant in San Donato
The painful ways out of the Italian maze
BENEDICT XVI ENDS PONTIFICATE
The Chocolate Factory: Is Italy getting ready for cultural industries?
Berlusconi considers deal with Italy's left
Rome Foreign Press club "set to disappear?"
Comment: Who will rid me of those meddlesome magistrates?
Electionwatch 11: Tactics, polls and alliances.
New major cycling event for Rome
European Investment Fund and Emil Banca help quake-struck microbusinesses in Emilia Romagna
Memory and forgetting on the Italian-Yugoslav border
ROME - 10 Feb was the “Day of Remembrance” (Giorno del ricordo) in which Italy remembers the Italians either killed or forced to leave Yugoslavia at the end of World War II.