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Italy-FAO Expo aid to IPS puzzles donors

JAN FILIPOWICZ

20 December 2013

JAN FILIPOWICZ

20 December 2013

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ROME – As IPS agency chief Mario Lubetkin prepares to head FAO’s byzantine communications division, Italy has pledged dlrs 250,000 to the UN agency to commission articles from IPS about Expo Milan

EU lambasts Italy over migrants’ “concentration camp” video

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19 December 2013

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19 December 2013

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MILAN– The EU has warned Italy it may face infringement proceedings over harsh treatment of migrants as disclosed in tv footage of naked Africans being s

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Italian Christmas pets often abandoned

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18 December 2013

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18 December 2013

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MILAN - At Christmas many parents to please their children place under the tree a pet but often do not realize the responsibility of owning an animal.

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Nearly half of pensioners struggle financially

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13 December 2013

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13 December 2013

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ROME - Nearly one half of Italian pensioners face troubles making ends meet each month, often being forced to borrow money or postpone paying bills, according to a new survey released on Friday.

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Lettori progress creeps along

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13 December 2013

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13 December 2013

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ROME - After receiving considerable pressure from the UK, the EU Commission is slowly making progress in the case of Italian discrimination against foreign lecturers.

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Rome beefs up security against "pitchforkers"

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11 December 2013

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11 December 2013

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ROME - The anti-tax "Pitchfork" protests headed into their fourth day on Thursday, continuing to rage through Italy as officials in Rome have begun preparing the city for a massive demonstration

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Authorities crack down on illegal factories

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11 December 2013

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11 December 2013

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MILAN - After a Chinese factory dormitory caught fire in November, killing seven people, the Guardia di Finanza has moved to crack down on other sweatshop factories conducting illegal operations

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Ecomafia arrest inspires “Land of Fires”

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10 December 2013

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10 December 2013

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ROME-The arrest of ecomafia don Cipriano "Garbage King" Chianese offers hope to the mob-ravaged “Land of Fires” area, Italy watchers say.

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"Pitchfork Movement" protests rock Italy

ANDREW GARGANO

10 December 2013

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10 December 2013

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ROME - Tens of thousands of farmers, students, truck drivers, and jobless across Italy continued to protest against high taxes and mismanaged government on Tuesday as part of the "Pitchfork Movem

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Renzi offers change to Italy

ANDREW GARGANO

9 December 2013

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9 December 2013

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ROME - Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi has ushered in a youthful transition to Italian politics after being elected leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) in a landslide vote.

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Italy ratifies controversial TAP treaty

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6 December 2013

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6 December 2013

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ROME - Italy has formally ratified the controversial Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) treaty after the Chamber of Deputies approved the project which has already been ratified by Greece and Albania.

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American white supremacist ordered to leave Italy

ANDREW GARGANO

5 December 2013

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5 December 2013

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ROME - Italian authorities have ordered American white supremacist David Duke to leave northern Italy, citing that he is "socially dangerous" and "risks forming a hate group."

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Police bust Prato immigration ring

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5 December 2013

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5 December 2013

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PRATO - Police have detained 11 people in connection to an immigration ring in Prato, where seven people died last weekend after a garment factory caught fire.

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Berlusconi: Pardon would be "wise" choice

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5 December 2013

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5 December 2013

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ROME - After being ejected from the Senate last week, Silvio Berlusconi now has said that President Giorgio Napolitano should pardon him from his community service sentence.

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Italy celebrates British Parachute Regiment

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4 December 2013

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4 December 2013

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ROME - Italy honoured the British Parachute Regiment for the first time during a celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Italian Maiella Brigade.

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UK helps Italy fight mafia racketeering

ANDREW GARGANO

4 December 2013

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4 December 2013

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ROME - The UK has joined Italy in the fight against organised crime, with the British Embassy in Rome having successfully translated into English an anti-racket guide for consumers.

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Mussolini on the road to Sainthood

JAMES WALSTON

4 December 2013

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4 December 2013

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ROME - Rome provides unlikely images and stories which have delighted travellers and resident observers for centuries -In his “Roma” (1972), Fellini was more the poet than the documentarist but h

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Italy requests release of Lazio fans in Poland

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3 December 2013

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3 December 2013

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ROME - Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino has formally requested that Poland release the 22 Italians still detained in Warsaw who took part in a riot during the Lazio-Legia football match.

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Police to experiment with pepper spray

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3 December 2013

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3 December 2013

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ROME - Beginning in January, police and carabinieri in Rome, Milan, and Naples will be supplied with pepper spray as an experimental use weapon.

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Probe launched after sweatshop fire

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2 December 2013

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2 December 2013

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PRATO - Prosecutors in the Tuscan town of Prato have begun a manslaughter investigation after a fire at a Chinese-owned garment factory killed at least seven people.

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Flooding in Pescara forces evacuations

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2 December 2013

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2 December 2013

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PESCARA - After incessant rains flooded the central-eastern city of Pescara, one person has died and 1,500 people have been evacuated from their homes.

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Russia grants Italy sole adoption rights

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2 December 2013

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2 December 2013

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ROME - Italy is the only country that is able to adopt children from Russia because it rejects same-sex marriages, a Kremlin official has said.

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Green Chemistry: The future of our planet

ANDREW GARGANO

29 November 2013

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29 November 2013

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BOLOGNA - A group of leading researchers, businessmen, and environmental activists believes that Green Chemistry holds the key to creating a more sustainable p

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Lidington vows justice for lettori

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29 November 2013

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29 November 2013

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LONDON - The UK has vowed to pursue Italy until justice is done in the case of Italy's discrimination against university lettori, the UK minister for Europe David Lidington said when he met with

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Berlusconi expelled from Parliament

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27 November 2013

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27 November 2013

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ROME -- The Italian Senate approved the expulsion of Silvio Berlusconi from parliament Wednesday following his conviction and sentence for tax fraud, officials said.

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