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Abbiati extends Milan deal
The 35-year-old has played 322 games for Milan since joining the club from Monza in 1998, while also spending time on loan at Juventus, Torino and Atletico ...
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Ohio University Band Gives Vatican Taste Of America
VATICAN CITY, May 10 (CNA/EWTN News) .- Priests and Vatican employees opened their office windows this afternoon to find out why they were hearing trumpets and drums, and in the piazza below them they discovered the University of Ohio marching band."We thought it would be a very epic way to perform, you know. And a lot of people came to watch us," 22-year-old trumpet player Jenna Smith ...
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Joint Vatican City State and Argentina Stamps Presented to Pontiff
Stamps Dedicated to Beginning of Pope Francis PontificateBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY, April 30, 2013 (Zenit.org) - Pope Francis was presented with the stamps issued jointly between the Vatican City State and Argentina, which are dedicated to the beginning of his pontificate. The presentation was made this morning in the Library of the Vatican Apostolic Palace.The four stamps in the set, ...
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Pope Francis Makes Telephone Call to Italian President
Expresses Gratitude and Admiration to Newly Re-elected Head of StateBy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY, April 25, 2013 (Zenit.org) - The Holy Father made a telephone call yesterday to Giorgio Napolitano, the newly re-elected president of the Italian Republic. Napolitano had recently sent a telegram to Pope Francis, wishing him well during the Feast of St. George on Tuesday.St. George is the ...
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Three More Teams Caught Up in Italys Racism Crisis
(Reuters) - AS Roma and Inter Milan have been fined 50,000 euros after fans chanted racist abuse on the final day of Serie A on Sunday, hours before Fiorentina supporters heckled AC Milan's black striker Mario Balotelli. The three racism incidents have underlined Italy's serious problem with discrimination in football, which shows no sign of being eradicated despite renewed efforts from ...
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Reid wins wheelchair tennis event in Rome with victory over singles world number two
May 20 - British wheelchair tennis star Gordon Reid claimed a superb victory at the Internazionale d'Italia in Rome by beating singles world number two Stphane Houdet 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the final. The 21-year-old from Scotland, who is ranked sixth in the world, lost the opening set to his French rival but battled back superbly to take the next two sets and win his third tournament of the ...
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Prandelli Racism is everyones problem not just Italys
Manchester City striker, and Prandelli insists more must be done to combat the issue as it is prevalent beyond the borders of Italy."This is not just a problem ...
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Pops Italian Beef Sausage to open 2nd Orland Park operation
A popular southside beef sandwich shop will be the first tenant in a multi-business development on the former Mobil gas station property at 159th Street and 94th ...
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Denver Cops Arrest Italian Shotgun Manufacturer as a Terrorist
Prison Planet.com May 20, 2013 Daniele Perazzi was arrested on Saturday after a cab driver turned him into police as a terrorist. The Perazzi Shotguns executive was taken into custody by Adams County Deputies outside of the Denver Merchandise Mart where the ...
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Italian industrial orders plunge 10
Industrial orders in Italy plunged by 10 percent in March on a 12-month comparison but rose by 1.6 percent from February, data showed on Monday, as Italy suffers its longest-ever recession.Foreign orders increased by 3.6 percent from February but fell 6.1 percent year-on-year, while domestic orders were up 0.2 percent over the month and down 13.2 percent for the year.Italian industrial ...
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Italian Nicola Rizzoli to referee Champions League final
Dan Rowley/Icon SMI LONDON (AP) -Nicola Rizzoli of Italy will referee the Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich. The match at Wembley Stadium on Saturday will be the 41-year-old Rizzoli's highest-profile fixture since becoming an international referee in 2007. Rizzoli will be assisted by compatriots Renato Faverani and Andrea Stefani, ...
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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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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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