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Italy sends police reinforcements to Milan after pickaxe attacks
Scores of police reinforcement are being sent to Milan to calm crime fears after a Ghanaian immigrant killed three people, Italy's interior minister ...
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World Briefing | Europe Vatican Financial Watchdogs Report Is Released
The Vatican took a step on Wednesday to show greater financial transparency by publishing the first report from its financial watchdog agency and announcing new regulations to fight money laundering and terrorism financing. The report from the Financial Intelligence Authority showed the agency received six internal reports on suspicious transactions in 2012, up from one a year earlier, and that ...
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San Francisco Italian consulate clerk wife sentenced in housekeeper abuse case
SAN FRANCISCO -- An Italian consulate clerk and his Brazilian wife were sentenced in federal court in San Francisco Wednesday after pleading guilty last month to the misdemeanor charge of using an unauthorized document for a Brazilian woman to work as the couple's servant. Giuseppe Penzato, 56, and his wife Kesia Penzato, 34, of San Francisco, both appeared in court late Wednesday morning. ...
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Millions of Italians sliding into poverty say reports
Lest anyone had any doubts, two reports in the last two days indicate the devastating impact of recession and austerity in Italy. In its annual report yesterday, national statistics agency ISTAT offers up a scenario of relentlessly negative economic statistics that suggests Italy is headed for some very troubled ...
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The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession Spain France Italy Finland Netherlands Portugal Cyprus Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German govern
The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession: Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German government of Angela Merkel is sinking Europe. Eurostat data was released on Wednesday (15th) and are relative to GDP in the euro area in the first ...
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Foreign buyers flock to Sicily for bargains
/enpproperty--> Foreign buyers are swooping on deserted villages in Sicily to snap up homes for as little as 10,000 euros ($13,000), propping up a property market in freefall as Italy suffers its longest-ever recession. "When you go to the pizzeria now, you often meet more foreigners than Sicilians," said Salvatore Sansemi, mayor of Cianciana, near the southern city of ...
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Nobel Prize Winner Participates at Vatican Conference
Development Biologist Says He Hopes to Bring Stem Cell Research to PublicBy Ann SchneibleVATICAN CITY, April 12, 2013 (Zenit.org) - In order for adult stem cell research and therapy to progress, says Nobel Prize winner Dr. John Gurdon, it is essential to promote awareness and understanding of this complex science.Dr. Gurdon was one of the keynote speakers of today's session of the Second ...
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Italian Judge Orders Criminal Trial for Costa Concordia Captain
An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia to stand trial for the deaths of 32 passengers. Captain Francesco Schettino has been charged with manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, and abandoning ship before all the passengers were safe. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. The Costa Concordia struck rocks and capsized off the coast of ...
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Vatican releases first report of financial watchdog
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Under pressure from global financial circles, the Vatican has published its first annual report from its financial watchdog agency.It also announced new regulations to fight money laundering and terror financing.The Vatican created the oversight agency in 2010 in an effort to shake its image as a secretive tax haven and improve its reputation in global financial ...
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Captain of Italian shipwreck not frightened of prison
The captain of the cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of Italy more than a year ago, said Wednesday that he's not frightened by the prospect of going to ...
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Silvio Berlusconi returns to his cruise ship crooner roots
, who worked as an entertainer on cruise liners in the Mediterranean in his youth, took up a microphone once again for the dinner, which was held for Gianni Alemanno, the conservative mayor of ...
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President Mujica Begins Tour to China Spain Italy and Vatican
Montevideo, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, on Saturday will begin a four-day official visit to the Republic of China. Accompanied by a government and a business delegation, the president, who left here at 14:00 hours (local time) to Paris, where he will make a stop over for Beijing, he will Sunday travel by train to the city of Tianjin to hold meetings with Chinese ...
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PSGs Ibrahimovic misses Italy
."All the times [in the past] that I have said that I would be staying, at the end I changed clubs. This time I am not going to say anything."I still have two more years left on my contract but anything can happen. I have changed teams several times and then I planned to stay at a single club for a long time but it did not happen."I miss Italy. It's my second home. The clubs ...
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Giro dItalia lead unchanged as Giovanni Visconti wins 17th stage
Italy Italian Giovanni Visconti soloed to victory in the 17th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday to hand his Movistar team its fourth win of the race.Overall race leader Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) retained the pink jersey with a one minute, 26-second lead on Australian rival Cadel Evans (BMC) intact after the 214km ride from Caravaggio to Vicenza.It is Visconti's second stage win ...
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Fiat Industrial’s tax move a blow to Italian government
This Feb. 1, 2012, file photo, shows an aluminum rim in a car dealership to Dresden, Germany. Capital goods maker Fiat Industrial SpA said Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, that it has sweetened its offer for a full merger with its U.S. subsidiary, the farm equipment maker CNH Global N.V., raising the value of the deal by more than 25 percent. (Joern ...
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Judge in Italy orders trial for captain in shipwreck of Costa Concordia
This Jan. 11, 2013 photo shows the cruise ship Costa Concordia leaning on its side, near the shore of the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Paolo ...
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Still pushing the boat out The Venice Art Biennale is the wackiest cultural show in the world
Remember the paradise island of Tuvalu, the small Commonwealth territory where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge danced in native costumes during the Jubilee tour last year? Tavalu's entry for the Venice Art Biennale next week will see artist Vincent J F Huang raising awareness of the climate crisis engulfing the island with his massive oil pump interactive/slaughter machine. People fill up ...
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Berlusconi Could be Maneuvering to Make New Italy Govt Collapse
, Italy’s controversial media tycoon and three-time prime minister, could be maneuvering to instigate the collapse of Italy’s government for the second time in less than six months, while pollsters say Berlusconi would likely emerge victorious from a new round of ...
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Vaticans Financial Information Authority issues report cites strides toward transparency
The Vatican's Financial Information Authority (FIA) has released its first annual report, documenting the effort to tighten controls on financial transactions and to guard against money-laundering. During 2012 the FIA uncovered 6 suspicious financial transactions by Vatican officials or agencies. Two of those cases were forwarded to Vatican prosecutors for further investigation, and the ...
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Pontiff Congratulates President of the Italian Republic
Giorgio Napolitano, 88, Re-elected During Parliamentary ElectionsBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY, April 22, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Pope Francis congratulated Giorgio Napolitano on the occasion of his re-election as president of the Italian Republic.Napolitano's re-election comes at a difficult time in Italian politics as February's government elections ended in a stalemate. Despite ...
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Neo-Catechumenal Way Evangelizing Rome in Easter Season
Kiko Arguello on Preaching Christ in '100 Squares'By Salvatore CernuzioROME, April 22, 2013 (Zenit.org) - During the Sundays of Easter in this Year of Faith, the Neo-Catechumenal Way is carrying out an evangelization initiative called "100 Squares."One hundred squares, or plazas, situated nearby Roman parishes, are being used for evangelization, with people from around the ...
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American tourist stabbed in main square of Florence
By Claudio Lavanga, Correspondent, NBC News ROME, Italy - An American tourist underwent emergency surgery after being stabbed in the Italian city of Florence on Tuesday, a hospital doctor and media reports said.The 68-year-old was in front of the city’s famed Duomo cathedral listening to a street musician with his wife when someone tried to mug him and he ...
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Visconti claims stage 17 win Nibali in pink
Italian Giovanni Visconti soloed to victory in the 17th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Wednesday to hand his Movistar team their fourth win of the race. Overall race leader Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) retained the pink jersey with a 1min 26sec lead on Australian rival Cadel Evans (BMC) intact after the 214 km ride from Caravaggio to Vicenza. Nibali won the Tour of Spain in 2010, was a ...
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Italian machines reject euro
Italy , people are having trouble using its newest note to make some payments.Brought into circulation on 2 May, the new EUR5 note was praised for its enhanced security features, which the European Central Bank (ECB) said would help combat forgery. The other denominations in the Europa series of notes will be introduced over the next few years.However, in Italy, the new note is reportedly being ...
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Coppola to make film about Italian-American family
Director Francis Ford Coppola arrives at the 63rd annual Directors Guild of America Awards (DGA) in Los Angeles on January 29, 2011. UPI/Jim ...
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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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