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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.

 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 -- Commonwealth Day was celebrated in the Eternal City with a panel discussion between high profile diplomats and members of the Commonwealth Club of Rome.

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ROME -- The Angelicum Pontifical University of Saint Aquinas is to launch an innovative undergraduate programme in philosophy and finance in September 2012.

ROME -- Following a rash of bribery claims and reports that police commander Angelo Giuliani will resign, steps have been taken to salvage the reputation of the capital's vigili urbani.

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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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VATICAN CITY – A collection of some of the world’s oldest religious texts is being exhibited in a museum off St Peter’s Square this month.

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 -- This was a surprisingly fresh performance of one of Shakespeare’s most staged plays.

ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti reaffirmed support for the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), pledging a 10 percent increase in donations to the agency, despite I

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ROME -- For the first time, from Feb.

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ROME -- A new exhibition, ‘Azerbaijan, the land of fires on the Silk Road,’ was inaugurated this week at the Museum of Roman Civilization.

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