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Missing Italian reporter "believed held by Assad forces"
Meissen® Italia launches a new brand
GIULIO ANDREOTTI DIES
ROME -- Former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti died at his home in the Italian capital Monday, his family said. He was 94.
Grillo "has no real platform" UKIP leader Nigel Farage tells Insider
Italian discrimination against UK lecturers "unacceptable" -- British Ambassador
LONDON – Italy’s continuing “illegal” discrimination against British lecturers working in Italian universities is “wholly unacceptable” the UK Foreign Office says.
The Ferramonti Foundation and Memory Policies in Italy
ROME-- On Wednesday the Pitigliani Centre in Rome hosted a conference “For Ferramonti. Memoria 70x25” organised by Anna Longo from the RAI and Teresa Grande from the University of Calabria.
Letta’s Government – Unsettled Spring Weather
ROME --True to his promises, Enrico Letta produced his government in three days prompting Beppe Grillo to say that it wasn’t Christ who had risen but Barabbas.
Can Enrico Letta forge a working Government?
ROME -- These last few days as Enrico Letta became the favourite for prime minister, the question from all but serious political nerds was “Who is Letta?
Cross party government "will be short-lived"
ROME– Silvio Berlusconi’s “dauphin” Angelino Alfano was named interior minister in Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s cabinet Sunday, Radical stalwart Emma Bonino is foreign minister and ex central bank
Shots fired at Palazzo Chigi
GRILLO LAMBASTS "BUNGA BUNGA GOVERNMENT"
ROME - Prime Minister delegate Enrico Letta conferred with President Napolitano Saturday over his cabinet as horsetrading between the Democratic Party and Freedom Alliance over key jobs continued.
IFAD link to confessed kidnapper of Emanuela Orlandi
ROME– A self-syled secret agent who claims he helped kidnap Vatican schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi was convicted for killing in 1983 the son of a Uruguayan official at the UN food agency IFAD, police
Calabria: more than just a seaside destination
The last Maestro of Sicilian puppetry
The Equivocal Calm Between Storms
ROME-- For a brief moment, the helterskelter is in a trough, calm and waiting for the next climb to be followed inevitably by another downward hurtle.
Napolitano elected to second term as president, Grillo denounces "coup d'etat"
ROME -- Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was re-elected for a second term as head of state Saturday, becoming the first politician to serve twice leading the republic at the Quirinal Palace.
Milan City Marathon: Stepping up to the challenge
Italian horse racing faces foreign boycott
Prodi fails to win election as President
Body or Soul: Italy's search for a president
Commission must punish Italy for lecturers' race law -- European Parliament
77 warrants issued as new Falcone probe gets underway
ROME-- New information is emerging about the Capaci massacre which killed Judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesa Morvillo and three bodyguards as the Anti-Mafia Investigation launches a fresh series of probes and searches.
Faites vos jeux – if you dare
ROME-- One of the plagues afflicting Italy at the moment is a dramatic increase in betting – scratch cards, the lottery and on line Texas Hold’em. But despite the national gambling obsession, no one is putting any money on who is going to form the next government, or when it will be formed.
Radio pranksters aggravate Italy's political instability
ROME-- Italy’s delicately poised political crisis faces an unexpected and destabilizing new threat: the comic incursions of radio impersonators.