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Berlusconi at centre of massive tax fraud says court
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi played a key role in a "massive" fraud by his media group, appeals judges in Milan have said. The 76-year-old Berlusconi had appealed against his four-year conviction and a five-year ban from politics for tax fraud in a film-rights case involving his Mediaset television company. Explaining why the court upheld his four-year prison term, the ...
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Man held in Italy for exploiting prostitute
A man was arrested in the southern Italian city of Naples on suspicion that he was "exploiting" a Romanian prostitute on the pretext of regularly driving her to work. In exchange for the lift to the eastern Poggioreale district, the 28-year-old Romanian woman allegedly had to pay the man a "fare" of 20 euros and also have sex with him, police said. The 30-year-old man was previously known to ...
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Cruise liner captain to stand trial over shipwreck
The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that hit rocks and sank off Tuscany last year, killing 32 people, will go on trial in July. Francesco Schettino faces criminal charges including multiple manslaughter and abandoning ship before all the 4,229 passengers had been evacuated. The trial will open July 9 in Grosseto, the city nearest to the site of the wreck. Schettino is accused of ...
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Italian envoy terms visit to Amritsar as successful
Italy's Ambassador to India Daniele Mancini has described his recent visit to Amritsar, and particularly to the Golden Temple, as a unique experience, and added that a place of spirituality in India affects people of any religion or belief. Ambassador Mancini, who was accompanied by his family, visited Harmandir Sahib, popularly known as the Golden Temple, on the invitation of Giani Gurbachan ...
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Captain of ill-fated Costa Concordia to face trial for manslaughter
The captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which ran aground off the Italian coast last year, killing 32 people, will face trial for manslaughter, an Italian judge has ruled. Captain Francesco Schettino left the ship before all the crew and passengers had been taken ashore. According to the Independent, a judge in the Tuscan city of Grosseto ordered Schettino to be tried for multiple ...
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Italy has lowest graduate share in Europe
Italy has the lowest graduation rates in Europe with just one-fifth of people aged 30-34 holding a university degree, according to a study. A total of 31 percent of Italian families cannot afford to pay for their children's university studies, and must take out loans or have their offspring seek jobs to help fund tuition and living costs, said the report by charity Save the Children. It said ...
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Policeman shoots wife dead commits suicide
A policeman allegedly shot his wife dead at their home in the northern Italian town of Cadoneghe and then turned the handgun on himself, officials said. The policeman's colleagues became concerned after he failed to arrive for work. They went to his apartment, where they found the couple's lifeless bodies inside, lying in a pool of blood. The alleged murder-suicide is believed to have been a ...
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US tourist stabbed in Italy loses kidney
A 68-year-old American tourist underwent emergency surgery to remove a kidney after he was stabbed in Italy's Florence city. The tourist, who was not named, was attacked near the famous Duomo cathedral. Doctors at the Santa Maria Nuova hospital said the man suffered knife wounds to a kidney and a lung but was no longer critical, and was conscious and breathing unaided. Police arrested a ...
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Travel Challenge The Italian Riviera
Each week we invite three companies to offer ustheir best deal for a specific break. Today: a coastal escape to the northern Italian region of Liguria. Prices are per person, based on two sharing. Each package includes a week's accommodation and flights from Gatwick in ...
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Plea to Fiat not to abandon Italy
The Italian Industry Minister, Flavio Zanonato, has asked Fiat to stay in Italy following its planned merger with Chrysler, which has led labour unions to fear that the car maker plans to move its headquarters to the United ...
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Germans Snap Up Italys Luxury Real Estate
International buyers of Tuscan palazzi orvillas on the Adriatic have rarely had it so good. A two-year recession coupled with a 42 percent plunge in mortgage lending has shut many Italians out of the market. Uncertainty surrounding a new tax on primary residences has also caused some localsto put off purchases. The result: Residential sales in Italy dropped almost 26percentlast year. Yet sales ...
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Experience Art and Designs Italian Subsidiary Chiurazzi and Geoffrey M. Curley Associates to Co ...
Experience Art and Design's (OTCQB:EXAD) Italian Subsidiary Chiurazzi and Geoffrey M. Curley & Associates to Co-Develop Museum Exhibition of Italian Sculptures - Video Posted on ...
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Giro dItalia Commanding Vincenzo Nibali closes in on victory
Home favourite Vincenzo Nibali strengthened his grip on the Giro d'Italia race lead with a commanding victory in the stage 18 mountain time-trial in the ...
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Pope confirms Cardinal Vallini as vicar for Rome
Pope Francis has formally confirmed Cardinal Agostino Vallini as his vicar for the Rome diocese. Cardinal Vallini was named as vicar general of Rome by Pope Benedict XVI in 2008. As with all major officials of the Roman Curia, his appointment lapsed with the resignation of Benedict XVI. Pope Francis announced on March 16 that he was renewing the appointments of all curial officials ...
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Lawyer who defended former Italian militant Battisti appointed to Brazils Supreme Court
BRASILIA, Brazil - The lawyer who successfully defended former Italian militant Cesare Battisti against extradition has been named to Brazil's Supreme Court. President Dilma Rousseff appointed Luis Roberto Barroso to the high court on Thursday. Barroso represented Battisti in 2011 when the Supreme Court convened to decide whether to extradite him to Italy to be tried for four political ...
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Cadel Evans left behind as Nibali extends Giro dItalia lead
Italy Vincenzo Nibali took a giant step towards his maiden Giro d'Italia triumph by smashing his rivals on his way to winning a rain-soaked 18th stage uphill time trial from Mori to Polsa on Thursday.Australian Cadel Evans began the day only one minute, 26 seconds behind the Italian, but the 2011 Tour de France champion flattered to deceive on his way to a 25th place at 2:36 ...
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Italian job looks beyond Cadel
SPORTS FIX: CADEL Evans' bid for one more Grand Tour seems to be fading fast, with Vincenzo Nibali winning a mountain time trial in the Giro d'Italia to extend his overall ...
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Pepperoncini brings unique Italian tastes to West Eagle Road in Haverford
At Pepperoncini Italian Market and Catering you can get Extra Virgin Olive Oil imported from Italy and even refills. But that’s not their only specialty.According to Tom DeFruscio, one of three owners of the new market, you won’t find Roast Pork sandwiches or meatballs in homemade Marina sauce like theirs anywhere else."You can’t get the Big Al (a chicken cutlet sandwich ...
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Vatican financial watchdog finds ‘suspicious transactions
Email article The new Vatican financial watchdog set up to prevent money-laundering says it uncovered six "suspicious transactions" last year, one involving the Vatican Bank. Two of those cases were forwarded to Vatican prosecutors for further investigation, and the other four may still warrant more formal probes, the Financial Information Agency said in its first annual ...
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Great Gatsby’ Composer on Working With Baz Lurhmann Florence Welch and the xx
, the score was created by Luhrmann's longtime musical collaborator, Scottish composer Craig Armstrong. Luhrmann and Armstrong have developed a working relationship in the same vein as Tim Burton and Danny Elfman, with Armstrong being the director's music man ...
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Telecom Italia puts off network decision to May 30
By Danilo Masoni MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia (TLIT.MI) has pushed to the end of the month a decision on whether to spin off its fixed-line access network, which is proving more complex than expected due to political and ...
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Italian students mark anniversary of anti-mafia magistrate killing
Thousands of Italian students have sailed to Palermo on so-called ';ships of lawfulness'; to mark the 21st anniversary of the killing of an anti-mafia magistrate. Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards were killed when their car was blown up on a road near Capaci in Sicily. Two months later, colleague Paolo Borsellino was killed in another bomb attack in ...
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Italys Berlusconi in tax fraud scheme as PM judges say
Reuters © People of Freedom party member Silvio Berlusconi gestures as he makes an address on stage in Brescia May 11, 2013. REUTERS/Alessandro ...
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Nibali smashes rivals to tighten Giro grip
Italian Vincenzo Nibali took a giant step towards his maiden Giro d'Italia triumph by smashing his rivals on his way to winning a rain-soaked 18th stage uphill time trial from Mori to Polsa on Thursday. Australian Cadel Evans began the day only 1min 26sec behind the Italian with two key mountain stages to go, but flattered to deceive on his way to finishing nearly three minutes behind. ...
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Crisis forces Italys La Scala to cut back on productions
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's opera house La Scala will scale back on productions in the 2013-2014 season because of the economic crisis and lower state support, its general manager said on ...
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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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