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Allegri to meet Milan Wednesday to discuss future
MILAN - AC Milan vice president Adriano Galliani will meet with Massimiliano Allegri on Wednesday to discuss the coach's future at the Serie A club.Allegri steered Milan to third spot and a place in the Champions League qualifiers, but his future remains uncertain, with speculation of a move to Roma after criticism from club owner and former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi.Galliani says ...
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Prosecutors seek 16 years for man on trial for holding Berlusconi aide
Silvio Berlusconi 's accountant and wife in 2012. The prosecutors also asked the court in Milan for prison terms of eight to 10 years each for Leone's three accomplices, all charged with holding Giuseppe Spinelli, 71, and his wife Anna hostage in their home for 11 hours and forcing them to call Berlusconi to try to get 35 million euros (about $46 million) in ransom last October, ANSA ...
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Italy offers grim future for children says report
(By Kate Carlisle) (ANSA) - Rome, May 20 - Italy ranks low among European Union countries when it comes to providing a bright future to its children, Save the Children reported Monday as it launched a national awareness campaign. Trailing behind Greece and Bulgaria, Italy is seventh to last in the 27-member EU according to the NGO's "poverty of future" list, which includes ...
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Angry Siena fans surround Milan team bus after Balotellis controversial penalty – video
Siena fans chant at the Milan team bus, venting their anger at Mario Balotelli after he won a crucial, but highly controversial penalty on Sunday night. The ...
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Italy cries foul over penalty that helped put Milan into Champions League | Paolo Bandini
Siena , a team who had already been relegated and whose fans might even have preferred to lose than to risk doing any favours for their Tuscan ...
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Italian Tax Reforms Have To Wait 100 Days
By the end of the Cabinet meeting on May 17, the new Italian Government, led by Enrico Letta, had only been able to decide on a postponement of the interim payment of the local property tax (IMU), with other tax reforms now being promised within the next 100 days. A draft law decree issued after the meeting confirmed that the interim payment of IMU, which would have been due next month, has ...
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Serena Williams on record streak remains No. 1
World No. 1 Serena Williams, shown in a file photo from the 2012 Olympics, has won a personal record 24 consecutive matches, including a run through last week's Italian Open. UPI/Hugo ...
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Tarek Al Ghoussein to represent Kuwait at the 55th Venice Biennale
Tarek Al Ghoussein's K Files consists of eight photographs, where Al Ghoussein has shot himself inside the stock market, a dilapidated palace, a football field, an old school and besides Kuwaits first oil well with the famous water towers spiking the horizon in the distance. CREDIT: courtesy Tarek Al Ghoussein/The Third ...
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The Gruppetto 24 hours at the Giro dItalia | James Callow
Giovanni Visconti races past a tribute to Marco Pantani painted into the snow on his way to winning stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia. Photograph: Daniel Dal ...
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Milan players targeted in Florence
Milan players were subject to abuse at Campo di Marte station in Florence on Sunday after beating Fiorentina to third place in Serie A.The Milan team bus travelled to Florence to catch a return train home after the side had secured UEFA Champions League football when two late goals, one a controversially awarded penalty, earned a 2-1 success over ...
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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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Bulgarias Hot Top Sprinter Lalova Ties the Knot on Sept 21 in Italy
Ivet Lalova, Bulgaria's top sprinter and one of the hottest athletes in the world, is to tie the knot with Italian colleague Simone Collio on September 21, the happy future bride has revealed."The wedding will take place in Italy because Simone has a really big family," Ivet told 24 Hours daily. During her previous rare public statements about her intimate relations with the ...
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Italy Industrial Orders Rise in March on Foreign Demand
By Christopher Emsden ROME--Italian industrial orders rose in March for the first time in five months, increasing 1.6% from February in a welcome uptick driven entirely by demand from abroad. Foreign orders rose 3.6% from the previous month while domestic orders rose 0.2% in seasonally adjusted terms, national statistics institute Istat said Monday. Orders were still down 10% from March ...
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Biz The Nurse secures Italian Derby
Jockey Andrea Atzeni secured an important big-race success when Biz The Nurse struck in the Derby Italiano at Capannelle. Atzeni has made quite a splash in England this season and carried on the good work when he booted home the Stefano Botti-trained colt by four lengths from stablemate Wish Come True. Ancient King completed the Botti benefit in third. Boite, trained in Newmarket by Peter ...
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Peng Shuai Hsieh Su-wei upset world No 1 for Rome title
Hsieh Su-wei (L) of Chinese Taipei and Peng Shuai of China celebrate winning the WTA Rome Masters women's doubles in Rome, on May 19, 2013. Hsieh and Peng upset the top-ranked Italian pair of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci 4-6, 6-3, 10-8. ...
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New Italian government suggests pension changes
Following the appointment of the new Italian government, welfare minister, Maurizio Sacconi, has announced plans for the Italian pension system which may result in conflict with the country’s trade unions over the coming months. Sacconi appears to have made additions to proposals by the former Prodi-led government, which planned to phase in an increase in retirement ages and number ...
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Italian and Spanish Alpha League Table 2008 published
EDHEC Risk and Management Research Centre (EDHEC) and EuroPerformance fund analysis company have released the Alpha League Table, their 2008 rankings of the top Italian and Spanish asset management companies. The ranking system is based on a measure of alpha intensity, a performance measure that has been adjusted for the risks actually taken, for all active equity management in the ...
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Italian annuity provider selection process met with questions
The Italian Association of Pension funds (Assofondipensione) has agreed to take responsibility on behalf of its pension fund members to look for a common annuity provider, and has chosen an adviser to help with the selection process. However, global consulting firm, Watson Wyatt, has raised concerns because the consultant overseeing the selection process in government-owned agency ...
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NEWS FOCUS Consultants make Italian pension reform predictions
Italian consultants have given their predictions on what Berlusconi’s election as Italian Prime Minister for a third term could mean for the future of the country’s pensions. With a recent study by Euromonitor International revealing Italy’s public debt to be the highest in Europe, Berlusconi’s Government must address the issues affecting this. Pensions currently ...
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Yet more hiccups for Italian reform
IThe recent pension reforms in Italy may have left commentators underwhelmed but they are unlikely to be the final word on the subject. As European Pensions went to press (January) Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi had just resigned following a vote of no confidence against his government in the Italian Senate by 156 votes to 161. This means an end to his centre-left government and ...
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Italian firms make pensions a priority
Eight out of ten Italian companies have said that company pension provision is central to their employee benefit and total reward policy, following recent legislation that removes some of the previous constraints on company pension provision. Until now, companies have been restricted by Italian legislation as to what they can offer employees, which has meant that 60% of Italian ...
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Italy AC Milan dramatically seal CL spot
Paolo Lazzeroni/AP MILAN (AP) -- AC Milan secured third spot and a place in the Champions League after coming from behind to win 2-1 at Siena on Sunday in the final Serie A round of the season. Fiorentina crushed Pescara 5-1 but remained in fourth spot and will play in the Europa League next season. Mario Balotelli leveled for Milan after it was contentiously awarded ...
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U.S. Italian inspectors to fly observation mission over Russia
U.S. and Italian military inspectors this week will conduct observation flights over Russian territory under the Open Skies Treaty, officials said Monday. An Italian Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules military transport aircraft with surveillance equipment certified internationally and approved by Russia will fly over the country May 20-24, RIA Novosti quoted Russian Defense Ministry ...
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Tens of thousands march in Rome against austerity
Tens of thousands took part in a demonstration in Rome on Saturday in protest against theausterity policies of the Italian government. The demonstration was called by themetalworkers federation FIOM, affiliated to the country's largest trade union central, theCGIL (Italian General Confederation of Labour), long affiliated to the Communist Party. Pensioners opposing the undermining of their ...
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Italys streets offer a step through time
A young woman with a flower in her hair stands across from the Ponte Vecchio bridge over the Arno River in Florence, Italy. Florence is among Italy's most popular tourist ...
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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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