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ROME -- The historic Villa Olmo in Como is hosting a new exhibition to celebrate art works from the Finnish Brueghel Dynasty.

 ROME -- Walking home after dinner with friends, we noticed that someone else was still partying.

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ROME -- “Extreme Wines” might just as well be called “Miracle Wines.” Against all odds, a handful of wine producers succeed in cultivating vines in difficult and often dangerous conditions.

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ROME -- The European Commission has proposed to allocate an amount of EUR 18.06 million from the EU Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to Italy following the severe flooding in Liguria and Tuscany in October 2

ROME – Young Italian cancer patients are to be trained to give a karate kick to their disease as part of the international Kids Kicking Cancer (KKC) campaign which has just arrived in the capital.

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ROME -- Italy has closed its embassy to Syria and withdrawn all diplomatic staff from the country.

 ROME– Franco-Italian photographer Thierry Bruneau has died on the Indian island of Goa at age 33, local authorities and the Italian Consulate said.

ROME – A stir has been caused in the art world following the discovery of what is believed to be a long-lost painting by Leonardo Da Vinci.

  ROME -- Not following the rules is fine as long as you succeed but when an operation fails, especially a military operation where lives are at stake, then there is inevitably a double blame – for

ROME – A video of the murdered Italian hostage, Franco Lamolinara, was shown to his wife just a few days before the military raid led by British and Nigerian special forces which led to his death,

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ROME -- American artist Mark Kostabi has donated a painting to be auctioned off in the capital next month to help raise funds for war-devastated Darfur in South Sudan.

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ROME -- Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has summoned the Indian Ambassador to the Ministry following the Indian court decision yesterday to place two Italian marines in jail.

ROME -- Four months after the kidnap of Sardinian aid worker Rossella Urru in Algeria, hopes for her release have been nourished by persistent reports of a negotiation between Al-Qaeda and the Alge

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ROME --  Within its broader programme of revisiting those artists that have made Italy’s art history great and unique throughout the world, on Feb.

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ROME -- No Tav leader Luca Abba is in intensive care after climbing an electricity pylon and Italian police used water cannons to disperse protesters.

ROME -- An investigation by Indian magistrates into suspected corruption in multi-million euro defence and aviation deals between India and Italy is expected to complicate the plight of two Italian