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Video Italian man scales St. Peters Basilica in economy protest
Italian business owner Marcello Di Finizio protests at the government and over the economy from his perch on the dome of Saint Peter's Basilica. Lindsey Parietti ...
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Giro dItalia Cadel Evans still behind Vincenzo Nibali Benat Intxausti wins 16th stage
Italy Astana's Vincenzo Nibali kept possession of the Giro d'Italia race leader's pink jersey for another night after a strong showing in Wednesday morning's 16th stage.Benat Intxausti of Spain, riding for the Movistar team, won the stage, a 238km ride from the French resort of Valloire, in 5hr 52.48min.Intxausti beat Estonian Tanel Kangert into second in a sprint finish, ...
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La Dolce Vita gets a Cannes update
Italian director Paolo Sorrentino presented a lush portrait of decadence and excess in contemporary Rome at Cannes Tuesday in a film reviewers said echoed the classic "La Dolce Vita". "The Great Beauty" (La Grande Bellezza) tells the story of ageing writer-dandy Jep Gambardella, played by the much-praised Toni Servillo. Orgiastic parties hosted by Jep in his fabulous ...
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Vatican Museum celebrate restoration of Michelangelos Pieta
The Vatican Museums are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the completion of restoration work on Michelangelo's Pieta. The Pieta, which stands in the nave of St. Peter's basilica, was badly damaged on May 21, 1973, by a disturbed man, Laszlo Toth, who attacked the sculpture with a hammer. Painstaking restoration work was completed a year later. To mark the 40th anniversary, the ...
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Telecom Italia mulls mobile unit spinoff sources
By Stefano Rebaudo and Alberto Sisto MILAN | Tue May 21, 2013 4:30pm EDT MILAN (Reuters) - Telecom Italia is mulling spinning off its mobile unit along with its fixed-line network to bring new investors on board, three people, including a senior political source, told Reuters on Tuesday. "The three-way split would allow the company to reduce debt and staff costs and favor the entry ...
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Popes Telegram to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano
VATICAN CITY, April 21, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Here is a translation of the telegram sent by Pope Francis to the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, congratulating him on the occasion of his reelection.* * *To his Excellencythe Honorable Giorgio NapolitanoPresident of the Italian RepublicQuirinal PalaceOn the occasion in which you have again accepted, with great openness and a ...
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Telecom Italia denies possible company break-up
MILAN | Tue May 21, 2013 3:52pm EDT MILAN May 21 (Reuters) - Telecom Italia denied on Tuesday that a company break-up was under consideration. "Telecom Italia points out that speculations about a possible break-up are groundless," a spokesman for the company said in an emailed statement. Earlier on Tuesday three sources told Reuters the Italian phone company was mulling a ...
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Viva Italia Crowdfunding Leader Of The Pack
The following guest post is by equity crowdfunding expert David Drake, founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a New York City private equity firm, and of The Soho Loft, a global financial media company with divisions in conference and ...
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Vatican Pope did not perform exorcism after Pentecost mass
Pope Francis did not perform an exorcism on a young man in a wheelchair who attended mass at the Vatican on Pentecost, a spokesman said Tuesday. The ...
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Italian Prime Minister Demands Europe Assists Growth
Rome, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta demanded today that the European Union (EU) prioritize regional growth and employment instead of focusing on austerity policies. During his speech to the Senate, before attending the EU Summit to deal with tax evasion and other current topics, Letta insisted on the need to agree on policies to fight unemployment, especially among ...
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Sorrentino Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes
CANNES, France -- La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui.Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great Beauty" and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's "A Castle in Italy" both feature wealthy characters whose lives have an emptiness at their center.Bruni Tedeschi - the only woman among the 20 directors competing for ...
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Chiurazzi Foundry of Italy and Geoffrey M. Curley + Associates of the USA to Co-Develop Museum Exhibition The Lost ...
Chiurazzi Foundry of Italy and Geoffrey M. Curley + Associates of the USA to Co-Develop Museum Exhibition, The Lost Wax Method: Preservation of Italian ...
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St Peters Basilica protester blasts Italys social massacre
24/11/2012 15:07 CET An Italian beach resort manager has been spending a second day perched on a ledge of St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican demanding the end to what he calls Italy’s social ';massacre'; and ';political horror show';. It is the third time in a year that Marcello De Finizio has climbed the dome to protest against the government and EU-imposed ...
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Marchionne apologizes to Italian-Americans for offensive remark
Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has apologized to Italian-Americans for using the ...
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Vatican denies video footage shows pope exorcism
In this image made from video provided by APTN, Pope Francis lays his hands on the head of a young man on Sunday, May 19, 2013, after celebrating Mass in St. Peter's Square. The young man heaved deeply a half-dozen times, convulsed and shook, and then slumped in his wheelchair as Francis prayed over him. The television station of the Italian bishops' conference said it had surveyed ...
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Chrysler CEO apologizes for Italian-American slur
Chrysler and Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has apologized to the Italian-American One Voice Coalition for using a term offensive to Italian Americans during an interview during the North American International Auto Show last January in ...
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Italian investors to sell stake in grid operator Terna
MILAN | Tue May 21, 2013 1:04pm EDT MILAN (Reuters) - A group of Italian investors are looking to sell a 5.36 percent stake in Italian power grid operator Terna (TRN.MI), UniCredit said on Tuesday. The stake is worth about 379 million euros ($488 million) at current market prices. The sellers, led by Italian businessman Romano Minozzi, will place 107.7 million shares in an accelerated ...
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Italian lawyer issues appeal over his removal from Euro roll
The named partner of Italian firm Giambrone Law, Gabriele Giambrone, is fighting the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) over the decision to remove him from the SRA's register of European ...
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Frances Bruni gets personal at Cannes
Franco-Italian director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi relived a painful chapter of her family history in a film presented at Cannes Tuesday in which she cast her real-life mother and ex-lover. Bruni Tedeschi, the elder sister of France's former First Lady Carla Bruni, said her work on "A Castle in Italy" (Un Chateau en Italie) helped heal old wounds. "For me work is a form of ...
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Vatican Museums Hosts Study Day on Pietas Reconstruction
Today, 41 years later, the Vatican Museums are dedicating a study day to the sculpture's reconstruction entitled: ';Michelangelo's Pieta: In Memory of 21 May 1972 – A Restoration Story';. During the course of the day's planned events, the complex and delicate task of restoration that took place between 1972 and 1973 in the Vatican Museums under the care of ...
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Petrol bombs thrown in central Milan watch robbery
MILAN (Reuters) - Six people armed with clubs robbed a luxury watch shop in central Milan on Tuesday, throwing petrol bombs in the street as they made off with their loot, Italian police ...
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UPDATE 1-Armani sees no slowdown even in China
Tue May 21, 2013 12:36pm EDT * Revenue up 16 pct to 2.091 bln euros in 2012 * Net cash at 565 mln euros * Says planned succession but won't give details By Astrid Wendlandt and Isla Binnie PARIS/MILAN May 21 (Reuters) - Italian fashion house Giorgio Armani on Tuesday said it had not seen a slowdown, even in China, the industry's main engine of growth, where rivals noted more muted demand ...
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Molotov cocktails in Italy jewellery heist
A GROUP of armed and masked robbers have looted a jewellery shop in broad daylight in Milan's luxury shopping quarter, thowing Molotov cocktails in the street and wounding two people in their escape. Wielding baseball bats and pickaxes, between six and 10 men burst into the Franck Muller shop on the northern Italian city's famous Via della Spiga and smashed the glass cabinets, grabbing ...
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Italys Intesa Sanpaolo says names Stefano Del Punta as new CFO
MILAN | Tue May 21, 2013 11:50am EDT MILAN May 21 (Reuters) - Italian biggest retail bank Intesa Sanpaolo said on Tuesday it named Stefano Del Punta as its new chief financial officer. The nomination was approved by the management board which also appointed Carlo Messina, general manager deputy to the chief executive, head of retail banking division. (Reporting by Jennifer Clark; ...
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Vatican marks anniversary of 1972 attack on Michelangelos Pieta
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A combo photo shows a detail view of the damaged Michelangelo's Pieta and it after restoration works at the Vatican. Forty-one years ago, a crazed Hungarian named Laszlo Toth jumped an ...
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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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