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Pontiff Celebrates Sunday Mass with Italian Soldiers and Families
Gathered to Pray for Those Who Have Died or Wounded for the Sake of PeaceBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY, June 04, 2013 (Zenit.org) - On Sunday morning, Pope Francis celebrated Mass in the chapel of Domus Sanctae Marthae with a group of about 80 people led by the Italian military ordinary Archbishop Vincenzo Pelvi, who also concelebrated with the Pope.The group consisted of relatives of ...
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Vatican to announce John Paul II miracle
The Holy See has yet to reveal what the miracle was or where and when it took place but Vatican sources said it would "amaze the ...
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Vatican cardinal Middle East Christians called to love enemies amid persecution
Reflecting on love for enemies, the prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches prayed that God might "render Eastern Christians [in the Middle East] strong and meek, filling them with the consolation of the faith, along with all those who partake in their tragic fate." "When one thinks of the vortex of violence - as unceasing as it is irrational - which has struck our ...
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Club Of Rome Founder Proposed “Global Matrix” Of Manufactured Consent
unearthed documents from the private collection of former diplomat and Bilderberg regular George C. McGhee have revealed (among other things) that the Club of Rome in 1970 wanted to create a "global matrix approach", or G-Matrix approach, as a means of bringing people into an enviro-eugenicist mindset globally. The Club of Rome was an influential think tank, advocating among other ...
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Doping-IAAF denies prior knowledge of Italian Schwazers doping
By Karolos Grohmann June 19 (Reuters) - The world athletics body (IAAF) on Wednesday denied that it had any prior knowledge or evidence of Italian 2008 Olympic race walk champion Alex Schwazer's doping practices before he was caught with a positive test last year. Schwazer, who was one of Italy's big medal hopes, was excluded from last year's London Olympics after testing ...
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Italian Bonds Decline as Spain’s 10-Year Yield Rises to 4.57
Italian 10-year bonds declined, pushing the yield on the securities up two basis points to 4.31 percent at 8:34 a.m. London time. The rate on similar-maturity Spanish bonds also climbed two basis points to 4.57 percent. To contact the reporter on this story: Emma Charlton in London ...
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Edmonton Journal tour group savours Italian pride in country’s fine food
Liane Faulder and Giovanni Varano led a tour of food regions in Italy, which included two cooking classes taught by instructors at the renowned cooking school, ...
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Zaccheroni prepares to lead Japan against native Italy
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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Spain beats Italy 4-2 to retain UEFA European U21 Championship title
Players of Spain celebrate their victory after the UEFA European Under-21 Championship final against Italy at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium on June 18, 2013. Spain beated Italy 4-2 to retain their UEFA European U21 Championship title in Jerusalem on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Yin ...
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Italian sunbathers continue to enjoy themselves on beach despite corpse yards away
Two women sounded the alarm when they noticed the body of the woman in the surf. But the swimmers and sunbathers didn't let it prevent them from having ...
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Japan look to avoid early exit face Italy next
RECIFE, Brazil (AFP) - The task facing both, Asian champions Japan and three-time world champions Italy is clear cut in Recife at the Confederations Cup.An Italian win on Wednesday, on the heels of Sunday's success over Olympic champions Mexico should propel the Azzurri into the semi-finals, while also ending the Blue Samurais' interest in this summer's event.The pressure is off ...
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Spain retains UEFA Under-21 crown
Spain won the 2013 UEFA U-21 soccer championship over Italy with a score of 4-2 on Tuesday evening at the Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem.Spanish captain Thiago Alcantara hit a hat-trick in the first half which ended 3-1 in Spain's favor.After the restart, Spain proceeded their attack and scored through Isco's penalty kick in the 66th minute. In the 80th minute, Fabio Borini pulled one back ...
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Head of Italian antitrust authority calls for more competition in
The president of Italian antitrust authority on Tuesday called for more competition to stimulate the economy both at national and European levels.Returning to growth requires structural reforms that increase competition, Giovanni Pitruzzella said while presenting the annual report of Italian Market Competition Guarantee Authority."Policy for competition constitutes one of the most important ...
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Officials Accused of Covering Up Italian Olympians Doping
Investigators in Italy say officials for track and ...
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Kagawa the Dangerman for Japan Says Italys De Rossi
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California prosecutors Man threw ex-wife off cruise ship in Italy
By Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News A man was arraigned on indictment for murder on Monday by a California grand jury for throwing his ex-wife over the side of a cruise ship, according to the Orange County District Attorney.The indictment against Lonnie Loren Kocontes, 55, includes one felony count of murder for financial ...
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Spain beats Italy to win Euro Under-21 final
Alex Grimm/Getty Images JERUSALEM -- Thiago Alcantara scored a first-half hat trick as Spain turned on the style to beat Italy 4-2 on Tuesday and win the European Under-21 championship for a second consecutive time. Italy started as the brighter side at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium but the Spanish players, captained by Thiago, soon gained control and took the lead after just six ...
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Italian court on reason for Knox retrial Evidence neglected
Amanda Knox spent four years in jail because of murder charges in the death of her roommate Meredith Kercher while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. She and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in 2009 to 25 years in prison (Sollecito got 26 years). The conviction was overturned in 2011. Here's a look at the characters in Knox's ...
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Italian school bomber gets life
A 69-year-old man who placed a bomb in a waste bin outside a school in southern Italy last year, killing a teenage girl and wounding nine other children, has been given a life sentence by a court in Brindisi. Giovanni Vantaggiato gave no motive for the attack, which shocked the country and put security services on high ...
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Italys highest court says Amanda Knox acquittal was flawed
Amanda Knox speaks with her legal team in Perugia's Court of Appeal during the first session of her appeal against her murder conviction on November 24, 2010 in Perugia, Italy. (Oli Scarff, Getty ...
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Heads Up In Milan a Surge of Burger Spots
It is just one of a spate of burger bars and restaurants that have popped up across this refined northern Italian city in recent years, fueled by a fascination with American comfort food and its implicit casualness -- the antithesis of the lingering, multicourse traditional Italian meal. The most intriguing of these new spots use high-end ingredients that are distinctly Italian in provenance but ...
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First Italian jihadi killed in Syria
An Italian fighting with rebels in Syria has been killed. 20 year-old Giuliano Ibrahim Delnevo from Genoa was a convert to Islam from a Catholic family, and is believed to be the first Italian jihadi to die in combat. He was under investigation for terrorist recruitment in Genoa at the time of his ...
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Thirteen arrested in Italian plant-smuggling operation
Thirteen people have been arrested in northern Italy after they tried to smuggle thousands of protected and hallucinogenic plants, police said Tuesday. The suspects face charges including drug smuggling, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Forest guards seized 1,700 protected cactus plants and 600 peyote plants in the arrest, investigators said. Peyote is known to induce hallucinations. ...
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Police arrest alleged prostitute at old folks home
Italian police said they've uncovered a woman who was allegedly turning tricks at an old folks home in Florence. The woman, a 42-year-old Romanian national, was a former employee at the Il Borro assisted living center when she fell on hard luck. Administrators allowed the woman to live there rent-free from 2011 to 2012. What they didn't know is she was a prostitute, ANSA news agency ...
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Italys special group gave everything says Verratti
Italy midfielder Marco Verratti hailed a "truly special group" and could not fault his team-mates who "gave everything" but came up short against a superior Spain in the ...
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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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