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Vatican supports FAO work toward food security
The Vatican representative to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has strongly endorsed the organization's work to provide secure food supplies for all the world's peoples. Archbishop Luigi Travaglino told an FAO conference in Rome that the Vatican especially favors programs to support framing in developing nations, and making resources available to strengthen ...
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Tornado hits city in Italys Piedmont region
A tornado hit the small northern Italian city of Biella, uprooting trees and causing some damage Wednesday morning. The tornado developed during a storm that dumped heavy rain on the area in the Piedmont in the foothills of the Alps in northwestern Italy, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Several buildings lost their roofs and two trees believed to be centuries old were toppled near the ...
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Italian icons find no respite from tax man
FILE -- In this file photo taken on Jan. 12, 2013, Italian fashion designers Stefano Gabbana, left, and Domenico Dolce bow to the audience after presenting their Dolce & Gabbana men's Fall-Winter 2013-14 collection in Milan, Italy. A Milan court convicted fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of tax evasion. The pair were found guilty Wednesday of failing to declare euros ...
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Italys 1st black minister gets death threats ahead of visit to anti-immigrant region
Italian Integration Minister Cecile Kashetu Kyenge speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Press Club in Rome, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Kyenge on Wednesday acknowledged "racist episodes" in Italy but declined to brand the country as a whole racist. (AP/Domenico ...
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Vatican confirms addition of St. Joseph to Eucharistic Prayers
The Vatican has confirmed that the name of St. Joseph will now be included in all of the Eucharistic Prayers regularly used at Mass. In a decree made public on June 19, the Congregation for Divine Worship said that Pope Francis authorized the addition of the name of St. Joseph to Eucharistic Prayers II, III, and IV. It had already been added to Eucharistic Prayer I, the Roman Canon, by Blessed ...
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Italy ratifies Istanbul Convention on violence against women
Italy became the fifth country Wednesday to ratify the Istanbul Convention, which aims to curb violence against women. The Senate held a moment of silence in memory of victims of violence before the vote, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. The treaty must be ratified by at least 10 countries including eight members of the European Council before it takes effect. So far, it has been ...
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Silvio Berlusconi tax fraud appeal rejected
The three-times prime minister was sentenced in October to four years in prison after being found guilty of tax fraud relating to TV rights bought by one of his companies, ...
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Vatican Explains Availability Of Popes Daily Homilies
VATICAN CITY, May 30 (CNA/EWTN News) .- The Vatican is not publishing the full text of the Pope's daily homilies because it wants to avoid giving them a level of authority that is not intended."We must insist on the fact that, in all of the Pope's activities, the difference between different situations and celebrations, as well as the different levels of authority of his words, ...
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Correcting And Replacing Afex Opens Office In Milan Italy
Leading global payment solution provider brings high-touch service model to Italy's main industrial, commercial and financial center AFEX, one of the world's largest non-bank providers of global payment and risk management solutions, with international presence and expertise, today announced the opening of an office in Milan, Italy. Milan is considered the industrial and ...
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Italys Five Stars lose their twinkle as ejection of MP sparks ugly row
Five Star Movement (M5S) was a movement that respected Italian constitutional law," she said. "This is fundamental. I respected my rights to express my opinions."Dramatic though it may have been, Gambaro's parallel between internal party discipline and basic human rights was understandable in the circumstances.the 48-year-old former business consultant from Bologna, who was ...
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Italys 5-Star expels rebel Senator who criticized leader
Leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement Beppe Grillo (C) gestures as Grillo's Senate leader Vito Crimi (R) and Roberta Lombardi, 5-Star leader in the lower house, stand near during a news conference in Rome April 21, ...
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Italy court setback wont affect support for government Berlusconi
Italy's constitutional court on Wednesday that rejected his bid to block a tax-fraud conviction would have no effect on his support for Prime ...
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Italy court jails Dolce Gabbana duo
AN Italian court has sentenced fashion house duo Dolce & Gabbana to one year and eight months in prison for tax evasion of around one billion euros ($A1.41 billion), according to media ...
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Italy court rejects bid to block Berlusconi tax fraud verdict
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's constitutional court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Silvio Berlusconi to block a tax fraud conviction from October, clearing the way for a final verdict this year and deepening the uncertainty facing Prime Minister Enrico ...
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Death threats greet Italys first back minister
Italian Integration Minister Cecile Kashetu Kyenge speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Press Club in Rome, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Kyenge on Wednesday acknowledged "racist episodes" in Italy but declined to brand the country as a whole racist. She has so far tempered her reaction to racist attacks, saying it's for Italians to respond, not her. (AP Photo/Domenico ...
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“It’s A Massacre” – Each Day 134 Retail Outlets Close In Italy
June 19, 2013 If anyone is still not convinced that surging stock bourses in Europe are indicative of anything more than central bank liquidity, carry trade allocation and localized asset bubbles, we present a snapshot of what is actually happening on the ground via Italy’s Ansa: ';It’s a massacre,'; said Confesercenti President Marco Venturi. ';Each day 134 shops, ...
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Italian Court Meredith Kercher Killed in Twisted Sex Game
Amanda Knox (CNN) — Italy’s supreme court on Tuesday explained its earlier ruling that American Amanda Knox be retried in the 2007 death of her roommate, saying the jury that acquitted her didn’t consider all the evidence, and that discrepancies in testimony need to be answered. The high court also said evidence could support prosecutors’ initial argument — that ...
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Japan looking for Italian tonic after poor display against Brazil
Edward Snowden, the fugitive former CIA employee and NSA contractor who leaked secrets about America’s spying operations, often hung out online with foreigners in Japan who shared his interests in anime, video games, martial arts, the stock market and the expat lifestyle. Snowden, who ...
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Italy edges China 10-9 to get quarterfinal berth at FINA worlds
A slim lead over host China 10-9 ensured Italy a quarterfinal berth at Swimming Worlds women's water polo here on Thursday. China trailed 7-3 after first half and almost completed a fully comeback, which being held off by Italy at the crunch time in the final period. In Group B, Canada trounced New Zealand 11-4 to claim first after taking all three matches. Australia was second with 4 ...
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Italian court Amanda Knox appeal ruling was full of illogical conclusions
After Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito were convicted and then acquitted of murdering Meredith Kercher, the Italian court system will now re-try the case, saying more evidence should have been considered. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports. On Tuesday, Italy's high court said the appeals court's acquittal of Amanda Knox in 2011 was filled with ...
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Italy Evidence ignored in Knox trial
Italian high court: Evidence could support a sex-game theory High court: "Significant evidence" was neglected in Amanda Knox's acquittal Knox was convicted in 2009 for a stabbing death in Italy, but was acquitted in 2011 The high court ordered a retrial in March, and released its reasons ...
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Finmeccanica bribery trial begins in Italy court urged to summon Antony as witness
The trial of the former head of Italian defence group Finmeccanica began on Wednesday, with Giuseppe Orsi facing corruption charges over a deal to sell 12 helicopters to the Indian government.Bruno Spagnolini, the former chief executive of AgustaWestland -- the division of Finmeccanica that sold the helicopters -- is being tried alongside Orsi on the same charges.The scandal has raised the ...
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Meredith Kercher killed in sex game gone wrong Knox to be retried rules Italian court
retried for the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher, claiming the trial that acquitted them in March of 2011 presented a few inconsistencies. For their decision The Supreme Court held the previous ruling that Kercher had been killed by more than one person in a "sex game gone wrong" and overturned Knox and Sollecito's acquittal citing that there had been ...
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Former Italy Midfielder Gattuso Named Palermo Manager
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Telecom Italia eyes network deal with regulator by early 2014
ROME (Reuters) - Telecom Italia aims to reach a deal with Italy's telecommunications regulator AGCOM on the spin off of its domestic fixed line network by early next year, the company's chairman said on Wednesday.The board of Italy's biggest phone company approved on May 30 a plan to hive off fixed-line network assets into a new company, a move that could help it raise cash and ...
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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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