Italy News
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Italy's new president is a white-haired Sicilian who might never have got anywhere near the corridors of power but for the Mafia killing of his beloved elder brother.
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Sergio Mattarella, a constitutional court judge from Sicily who has come to symbolise Italy's battle against organised crime, was on Saturday elected the country's president.
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Italy's presidential election will go into a fourth and likely decisive round on Saturday more after two more inconclusive votes on Friday.
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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Thursday backed a little-known Constitutional Court judge, whose brother was slain by the mafia, to be Italy's next president.
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Italy's parliament meets Thursday to begin selecting a new president with the race apparently wide open and much at stake for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who is keen on having a friendly figure installed as head of state.
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Italian police on Wednesday ordered the arrest of more than 160 alleged members of the 'Ndrangheta mafia in what prosecutors and politicians hailed as a historic setback for the group behind much of Europe's cocaine trade.
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Turin -
Italian writer Erri de Luca invoked Gandhi on Wednesday as he began his trial defence against charges of inciting criminal damage to a controversial high-speed rail link through the Alps.
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Bologna -
Law enforcement authorities in Italy have made over 160 arrests after warrants were issued for the apprehension of individuals allegedly associated with the 'Ndrangheta, organized crime syndicate in southern Italy.
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Italian prosecutors called Monday for judges to show "no pity" to Francesco Schettino, the captain of the doomed Costa Concordia, demanding he serve 26 years and three months in jail for a shipwreck which killed 32 people.
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The Italian government said police had seized more than 5,000 ancient artefacts in a record 45-million-euro haul after dismantling a Swiss-Italian trafficking ring.
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Italian police on Tuesday made 31 arrests in connection with an alleged plot by an offshoot of the notorious 'Ndrangheta crime group to take control of Rome's cocaine trade.
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Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said Sunday that nine foreigners had been deported since December as part of efforts to prevent jihadist attacks, with more expulsions to follow.
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Homophobia is apparently alive and well in Italy. A report has surfaced which says that a gay man there was allegedly forced by his restaurateur boss to pay for sex with a prostitute or lose his job, Italian media reported earlier this week.
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Italy on Friday brushed aside reports it had paid off Al-Qaeda to secure the release of two Italian aid workers abducted in northern Syria last summer.
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The Italian prosecutor investigating a deadly fire on the Norman Atlantic ferry on Thursday indicated that at least 27 people had likely perished in the disaster.
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Two Italian women aid workers abducted in Syria last summer have been released, the Italian government said Thursday.
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Italy's veteran President Giorgio Napolitano resigned Wednesday, setting the stage for the election of a new head of state, a thorny process which could prove a political headache for Matteo Renzi's government.
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Strasbourg -
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is to step down "within hours," well before the 2020 expiry of his term, Italy's Premier Matteo Renzi said Tuesday, setting the stage for an uncertain search for a successor.
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On the murky edges of the global shipping industry, decades-old, rusting ships such as those used to smuggle hundreds of people into Italy last week are traded almost as easily as second-hand cars.
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Milan -
Cold, cramped, sick and miserable, aboard an old cargo ship left drifting towards the Italian coast -- this was the "journey of death" some 768 desperate Syrian migrants had embarked on in the hopes of a better life in Europe.
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Milan -
Packed in like cattle and huddled under blankets on the cold, bare floor, this is the scene aboard the Moldovan-flagged Blue Sky M cargo ship which people traffickers left drifting towards the Italian coast last week with 768 desperate Syrian migrants ...
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The man who piloted nearly 770 illegal Syrian migrants aboard the Blue Sky M cargo ship towards Italy has described how he became the "captain" of the human trafficking vessel, according to Italian media.
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Italian authorities disembarked 360 cold and hungry migrants Saturday from a ship left adrift by its crew off the country's coast, with some having paid up to $8,000 to traffickers for the perilous journey.
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The burned-out Norman Atlantic ferry was towed into the southern Italian port of Brindisi Friday, six days after a mid-sea fire led to 13 deaths and forced the rescue of 477 passengers.
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Geneva -
People smugglers likely raked in more than $1.0 million from the hundreds of desperate migrants crammed into just one of the "ghost ships" abandoned off the coast of Italy this week, the International Organization for Migration said Friday.
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Brindisi -
The Italian-owned ferry in which at least 13 people died in a dramatic fire in stormy Mediterranean seas was towed into the Italian port of Brindisi on Friday as investigators try to determine if there are any more bodies on board.
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Italian sailors took control Friday of a merchant ship that had been abandoned by its crew and left to power towards the country's jagged coast with 450 migrants aboard.
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The burnt-out wreck of the Norman Atlantic ferry was Thursday on its way back to Italy, for an inspection aimed at establishing the full scale of the disaster.
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Italy's coastguard said Wednesday it had narrowly averted a catastrophe by intercepting a runaway freighter that was on a collision course with the country's rocky shoreline with 768 people on board.
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Two Albanian seamen were among 13 people confirmed killed in a ferry disaster in the Adriatic Sea, as officials warned the discovery of stowaways on board meant the true death toll could be far higher.
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A huge tornado affected the area near Bologna, Italy on May 4, 2013. YouTube
Carciano, Italy, where a Catholic priest was arrested for alleged drug dealing gilly youner
Tunisian refugee in Sicily. Video screen capture
Rescue mission underway on the shipwrecked Costa Concordia Il Fatto Quotidiano
Lifesavers and paramedics trying to save the life of this 68 years old man from Germany after he lost consciouness in the rough sea of Bibione Beach Italy last Sunday. The man was reported dead at the scene. for more visit www.codognetreviso.com
Pizza Margherita Author - ElfQrin (Valerio Capello)
MUSMA- Four room (IPOGEO) Old works and sculptures of XIX Century.
Villa di Colonnata, near Florence, Italy, the house that inspired the author of the story of Pinocchio. YouTube
Acquapendente, where it’s not advisable to become sick Creative Commons
Helicopter rescue captured on helmet cam. YouTube
Flight of the Angel opens Carnival of Venice 2013 YouTube
The rescue operation underway on the Costa Concordia cruise ship ilfattoquotidiano
View of Vulcano from the island of Lipari. The green islet centre left is Vulcanello, which is connected to Vulcano by an isthmus. The Fossa cone is immediately behind it. Brisk g
Ippo the Zonkey, born of a Zebra father and Donkey mother in Florence, Italy. YouTube
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