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Prosecutors ask for 12-year sentence for ex-Abruzzo governor
Rome :: Italy | 6 days ago
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Prosecutors asked Wednesday for a 12-year prison sentence for the former governor of the Abruzzo region, Ottaviano Del Turco. He was arrested almost five years ago in connection with an alleged public health scam in the eastern Italian region. Del
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Reform-procedures bill to complete first reading by July
Rome :: Italy | 8 days ago
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Parliament Minister Dario Franceschini, said on Tuesday. "There is a commitment to take on the bill and draw up the process for reform," Franceschini said following a government summit. The unprecedented left-right government of Premier Enrico Letta
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Ex-Lazio governor testifies against cops in blackmail case
Rome :: Italy | 21 days ago
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Disgraced former Lazio governor Piero Marrazzo testified for the first time Tuesday in the case against four rogue cops on trial for attempting to blackmail him with a video showing him with a transsexual sex worker in a bedroom with cocaine. "The
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As Italy emerges from crisis, Niccolo Machiavelli shines
Rome :: Italy | 1 month ago
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Lorenzo Bartolini's statue of Niccolo Machiavelli on the facade of the Uffizi in Florence. With Italy just emerging from a long-running government crisis, a show honoring Renaissance political writer Niccolo Machiavelli has opened in Rome celebrating
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5-Star Movement switches candidate ahead of Italy president race
Rome :: NY :: USA | 2 months ago
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Topics Italian soldiers march in front of Quirinale Palace, the headquarters of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, in Rome April 17, 2013. Italy's 5-Star Movement changed its candidate for president on Wednesday after the winner of an online
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Naples 'City of Science' partly reopens after blaze
Naples :: Italy | 2 months ago
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Naples' Citta' della Scienza (City of Science) complex partly reopened to the public on Thursday, five weeks after being almost totally destroyed by fire. Children now have access to a 2,000 square meter area at the interactive science museum that
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Monti says Italy has scope to cut government debt owed to companies
Rome :: NY :: USA | 3 months ago
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Topics Italy's outgoing Prime Minister and leader of a coalition of centre parties Mario Monti (L) gestures as he speaks during a news conference in Rome March 6, 2013. Italy is close to finding a way to pay off huge public sector debts owed to
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Ex-senator De Gregorio put under house-arrest in Rome
Naples :: Italy | 3 months ago
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Italian financial police notified ex-senator Sergio De Gregorio on Friday that he has been put under house-arrest at his home in Rome. The arrest is for alleged financial crimes related to the newspaper L'Avanti!, which De Gregorio once ran with a
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Perugia employees killed remembered for Women's Day
Perugia :: Italy | 3 months ago
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Two women killed by a gunman in the Umbria regional government offices on Wednesday were remembered in their hometown of Perugia on Friday, International Women's Day, as "able women and innocent victims," the regional president said on Friday.
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Northern League offices searched in milk quota probe
Turin :: Italy | 5 months ago
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Italian finance police have raided the Milan and Turin offices of the regionalist Northern League for members who are suspected of taking bribes from dairy farmers. Late Tuesday, police confiscated evidence in connection to an investigation into a
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