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15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi was kidnapped in 1983. And now in a controversial statement, Father Gabriele Amorth has claimed that the girl's kidnapping was a "crime of a sexual nature."
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A different view on the situation with illegal immigrants in Italy. People escaping from war-torn countries have nowhere else to go.
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Italian Parliamentarians’ receive a record-breaking €16,000 ($20,000) gross monthly remuneration. Italy’s deputies and senators cost from 20% to 400% more than their colleagues abroad.
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The authorities in Rome, concerened with the thousands of pieces of chewing gum discarded onto the streets and stuck onto buildings, have launched a volunteer-based drive to clean up the city and remove the unsightly, sticky blobs.
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A letter bomb was sent to a tax collection agency in Rome, Italy. The letter bomb exploded and left the organization’s director wounded.
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Moments of awe had engulfed me once I set foot on this tiny enclave from where radiates man's temporal and spiritual powers over hundreds of millions of people the world over.
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In life, in full glory and in its fall, Rome is beauty and magnificence personified, as can be gleaned from the ruins of many monuments to its greatness.
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A Baptist university in Rome, Georgia, in the US has demanded that its employees sign a statement pledging they are not gay. Any employee who fails to sign risks losing his employment at the University.
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Archaeologists working at the "Archaeological Park Carnuntum" in lower Austria claim to have located and excavated a huge amphitheatre used to train gladiators.
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The Italian authorities unveiled a marble statue found in the district of Ostia which experts believe depicts infamous Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula.
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Thousands of cyclists pedal in Rome to demand more respect, safer streets
Italy will not fund Rome's bid to host the 2020 Olympics because it would be "irresponsible" in the current financial climate, PM Mario Monti announces.
Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell will take on compatriot Usian Bolt at the Golden Gala in Rome in May, meeting organisers confirm.
 The streets of Rome were a rare shade of white Saturday after a snowfall blanketed the Italian capital, while heavy snow added to the misery of Eastern Europe's deadly cold snap.
Were Roman children under too much pressure to succeed?
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NARM opens its 2012 Convention in Los Angeles. As a trade association that serves the music and entertainment content...
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For as long as man has existed, there has been religion. In Denmark at the time of the Vikings, we had Odin and Thor....
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They say in Italy we are "sailors saints and poets", according to a widely used and abused cliche: this is not true at...
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Boston College professor Franco Mormando has written a new biography on the life of Renaissance artist extraordinaire...
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About James Mace Since I can remember I have always had a passion for history. My love of Roman history started when...
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