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State surveillance on 14000 in Italy
ROME-- As many as 14,000 people are under surveillance in Italy, Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri has disclosed.
Olympic designers go for gold
Gaddafi properties seized
Romanian prostitutes “branded” and awarded as “prizes"
Red Brigades: “Right moment” for revolution
ROME -- “Long live the revolution, bring on the revolution – this is the right moment,” Alfredo Davanzo, member of the leftist terrorist group the New Red Brigades shouted in court.
A quarter of Italian children at risk of poverty
ROME – Almost one quarter of Italian children are at risk of poverty according to record figures announced by Save the Children.
Woman jumps to death from Tower of Pisa
PISA – Yet again, suicide has hit the headlines in Italy after a 40-year-old woman jumped to her death from the fourth storey of the Tower of Pisa.
Schoolgirl 'killer' tomb exhumed
Rome gets its first 'March for Life'
Anarchists claim responsibility for Genoa shooting
ROME-- An anarchist group has claimed responsibility for the kneecapping of a nuclear boss in Genoa last week, and threatened further attacks.
Young European musicians bound for prestigious festival
Violent scenes at Naples protest
ROME-- Several people have been injured in a confrontation between protestors against tax collection agency Equitalia and riot police.
Man killed in Camorra hit
ROME-- A 32 year-old man was murdered and two others wounded in a Camorra assassination ten miles north of Naples.
World's oldest bank probed
Costa bookings rise as it cruises out of disaster
Berlusconi girls “mimed oral sex” on statue
ROME -- A woman who claims to have attended one of Berlusconi’s infamous “bunga bunga” parties told the court of the sex games that took place there including the simulation of oral sex on a statue
Nuclear boss kneecapped, Red Brigades under suspicion
ROME-- The managing director of power company Ansaldo Nucleare was injured in an attack which has been linked to anarchist terror group Brigate Rosse.
Italian-born children "should be considered Italian"
ROME-- A Piedmontese town has been praised by President Giorgio Napolitano for its decision to confer honorary citizenship on 450 children born in Italy to foreign parents
Cutting edge mine hunter delivered to Finnish navy
"Recession widows" stage street protest
ROME-- Hundreds of so-called ‘recession widows’ and their supporters marched in Bologna to draw attention to the spate of suicides precipitated by the financial crisis.
Trends: Macho, Italian style
WFP fires 17 for fraud and theft
Andreotti stable, jokes with family
ROME-- Doctors report that ex-prime minister Giulio Andreotti has passed a "peaceful" night in hospital, where he was admitted with heart problems.