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Woman jailed in Italy for dumping baby in toilet
A court in Rome Tuesday sentenced a young Romanian woman to four years in prison on attempted murder charges after she abandoned her newborn baby inside a toilet in a restaurant. Andreia Grancea, 21, gave birth to the baby in the restaurant in Rome in December last year. She fled the scene, and the baby was rescued by two girls who entered the toilet minutes later. The case is similar to the ...
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Italian jihadist killed in Syria
A young Italian who converted to Islam and joined rebels seeking to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been killed in Syria, an Italian daily said. Citing intelligence and interior ministry sources, the Il Giornale daily named the youth as 20-year-old Giuliano Delnevo from the northwestern port city of Genoa. He took the name Ibrahim on converting to Islam, but his family had no ...
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Pray for people youre angry with Pope
Pope Francis has urged Catholics to turn the other cheek. "Are you angry with someone? Pray for that person. That is what Christian love is," he said. The Argentine pontiff has over six million followers on his @Pontifex account on microblogging website Twitter. His tweets are published in nine languages. Francis said that the first priority for "true" Christians was to "allow the Lord to open ...
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Coaching in China big challenge for Eriksson
It certainly recalled the memory of Sven-Goran Eriksson from the 'good old days' in Italy and England, when he was surrounded by journalists and fans. "This will be one of the biggest challenges in my coaching career," Eriksson, who took rein of the Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Fuli 12 days ago, made his debut speech here Monday, reports Xinhua. "I've learnt that football is very ...
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UAE Italy discuss bilateral relations
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Italy have held talks over ways to strengthen bilateral ties for economic and trade cooperation. The meet was held between UAE's Minister for Economy Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri and the Italian Minister for Economic Development, Italian Flavio Zanonato, and his accompanying ...
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Italy U21 2-4 Spain U21 Dazzling Rojita claim another European title
Fabio Borini 's attempts to cause an upset in Jerusalem. The scoreline heavily favored the Italians, who were dealt a harsh lesson in possession play.The Spaniards showed their intent earliest, and it was aptly rewarded when a fine interchange between Isco and Alvaro Morata down the left flank resulted in the Real Madrid striker crossing the ball onto the head of an unmarked Thiago in the ...
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California prosecutors Man threw ex-wife off cruise ship in Italy
By Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News A man was arraigned on indictment for murder on Monday by a California grand jury for throwing his ex-wife over the side of a cruise ship, according to the Orange County District Attorney.The indictment against Lonnie Loren Kocontes, 55, includes one felony count of murder for financial ...
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Soccer-Kagawa the dangerman for Japan says Italys De Rossi
Daniele De Rossi picked out Japan's Shinji Kagawa as the dangerman for his side ahead of their Confederations Cup match on Wednesday. "I only know three or four Japanese players and the most talked about is the one that plays for Manchester United, Kagawa, he is the star," De Rossi told reporters on Tuesday. "I think they are well organised and I think that means they ...
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Spain beats Italy to win Euro Under-21 final
Alex Grimm/Getty Images JERUSALEM -- Thiago Alcantara scored a first-half hat trick as Spain turned on the style to beat Italy 4-2 on Tuesday and win the European Under-21 championship for a second consecutive time. Italy started as the brighter side at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium but the Spanish players, captained by Thiago, soon gained control and took the lead after just six ...
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Italian court on reason for Knox retrial Evidence neglected
Amanda Knox spent four years in jail because of murder charges in the death of her roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. She and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in 2009 to 25 years in prison (Sollecito got 26 years). The conviction was overturned in 2011. Here's a look at the characters in Knox's ...
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Italian school bomber gets life
A 69-year-old man who placed a bomb in a waste bin outside a school in southern Italy last year, killing a teenage girl and wounding nine other children, has been given a life sentence by a court in Brindisi. Giovanni Vantaggiato gave no motive for the attack, which shocked the country and put security services on high ...
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Italys highest court says Amanda Knox acquittal was flawed
Amanda Knox speaks with her legal team in Perugia's Court of Appeal during the first session of her appeal against her murder conviction on November 24, 2010 in Perugia, Italy. (Oli Scarff, Getty ...
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First Italian jihadi killed in Syria
An Italian fighting with rebels in Syria has been killed. 20 year-old Giuliano Ibrahim Delnevo from Genoa was a convert to Islam from a Catholic family, and is believed to be the first Italian jihadi to die in combat. He was under investigation for terrorist recruitment in Genoa at the time of his ...
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Thirteen arrested in Italian plant-smuggling operation
Thirteen people have been arrested in northern Italy after they tried to smuggle thousands of protected and hallucinogenic plants, police said Tuesday. The suspects face charges including drug smuggling, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Forest guards seized 1,700 protected cactus plants and 600 peyote plants in the arrest, investigators said. Peyote is known to induce hallucinations. ...
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Italys special group gave everything says Verratti
Italy midfielder Marco Verratti hailed a "truly special group" and could not fault his team-mates who "gave everything" but came up short against a superior Spain in the ...
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Meredith Kercher killed by more than one person in sex game gone wrong
Meredith Kercher was killed by more than one person in what may have been a group sex game that spiralled out of control, Italy's highest court ruled on ...
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Spain doubles up Italy to win U-21 European championship
Thiago Alcantara scored a first-half hat trick as Spain turned on the style to beat Italy 4-2 on Tuesday and win the European Under-21 championship for a second consecutive time. Italy started as the brighter side at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium but Spain, captained by Thiago, soon gained control and took the lead after just six minutes. Real Madrid striker Alvaro Morata stormed past the ...
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Vodafone Eyes Italian Asset Fastweb
Vodafone Group Plc. ( ), the second-largest wireless carrier in the world, is considering to acquire Italian fixed line operator, Fastweb S.P.A. The move is viewed as an attempt by the company to bolster its landline and internet assets. Fastweb, a unit of Swisscom AG, is Italy's third-largest retail broadband operator and is reported to have 1.9 million customers. This is the third ...
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Italy court sentences man for school bomb murder
A portrait of 16-year-old Melissa Bassi, who was killed by a bomb that exploded in front of her school before classes on Saturday, hangs beside an Italy flag ahead of her funeral service in Mesagne, near Brindisi May 21, ...
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Italian beachgoers ignore dead bodies on shores
Sunny skies, the sound of waves rolling into the shore and dead bodies. Just another day at the beach for some people in Italy. Two foreigners died Monday on beaches in Italy, but beachgoers appeared unfazed at the sight of the dead bodies, which were covered with sheets before being taken by emergency services, The Telegraph reports. In the resort region of Formia, outside Naples, ...
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Spain close on Italy in all-time Under-21 rankings
Spain's 4-2 triumph in Israel, their fourth UEFA European Under-21 Championship title, took them within one of opponents Italy's record haul of ...
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Knox murder acquittal had inconsistencies Italian court
American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend contained "shortcomings, contradictions and inconsistencies". Knox and Italian Raffaele Sollecito were initially found guilty of killing the 21-year-old Leeds University student in 2007 during a drug-fuelled sexual assault, but both were cleared on appeal in 2011. In March this year, Italy's top appeals court overturned that acquittal and ...
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Spain Under-21s 4 Italy Under-21s 2 match report Thiago Alcantaras hat-trick seals European Championship for Spanish youngsters
Even on another night of glorious combination football from Spain, it was the individual triumph of Thiago Alcantara which won their second consecutive European Under-21 ...
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Christian minority must bring hope to a suffering society Pope tells Roman faithful
Faithful Christians today must reach out to a society in desperate need, Pope Francis told the people of the Rome diocese on June 18. Speaking at the opening of an Ecclesial Congress for the Rome diocese, the Pope spoke about the urgent spiritual need of many people living in the ...
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Italy top court cites erotic game hypothesis in Knox case
ROME Italy's high court on Tuesday faulted the appeals court that acquitted American student Amanda Knox of murdering her roommate, saying its ruling was full of "deficiencies, contradictions and illogical" conclusions and ordering the new appeals court to look at all the evidence to determine whether Knox helped kill the teen. In March, the Court of Cassation overturned ...
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Italy heavily involved in multi billion euro South Stream project
Italy’s natural gas company ENI is a major investor in the South Stream natural gas pipeline project, but the infrastructure development is being held up by a number of trans-national issues, which the Italian government believes is detrimental to the country’s energy security.
South Stream is the name of the transit pipeline that is intended to transport natural gas from Russia to Southern Europe, bypassing Belarus and the Ukraine. It has been highlighted by Prime Minister Berlusconi as important for the energy needs of Italy as it will eliminate the so-called ‘middle man’ and enhance the security of our energy supply, an issue that was underscored in 2005 when ongoing business disputes between Russia and the Ukraine spilled over into trans-national political issues. Read more
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