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Saturday 28 January 2012

Blitz against No TAV incidents Arrests across Italy

As part of the raid on No TAV activists for a series of crimes in connection with incidents at events last summer in Val di Susa, police performed 25 preventive detention measures, 15 measures of compulsory residence, a detention order under house arrest and...

Public needs to back austerity, EU leaders say

Cash-strapped governments in Europe must persuade skeptical citizens to accept severe austerity measures if their countries are to recover and thrive in an...

Italy signs deal for long-term
aid to Afghanistan

Italy signed a pact Thursday aimed at supporting Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw from the country in 2014, while Germany extended its military mission...

Struggling in US, F-35 fighter pushes sales abroad

Detractors say the F-35 stealth fighter, the costliest military plane ever, is destined to go down as one of the biggest follies in aviation history. But it may have found a savior: deep-pocketed U.S. allies hungry to add its super...

Costa offers €11K/passenger
for ruined cruise

Costa Crociere SpA offered uninjured passengers €11,000 ($14,460) apiece Friday to compensate them for lost baggage and...

3 German victims from cruise ship identified

Italian authorities have identified the bodies of three German passengers as divers kept up the search for those still missing from the Costa Concordia cruise ship that...

Family of US couple missing in wreck still waiting

List of dead or missing from Costa Concordia

Official: Would take miracle for cruise survivors

Monti meets Sicily president: "Palermo-Catania takes 4 hours by train?". PM is shocked

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said he was "impressed" by the excessive length of journeys by train from Palermo to Catania "lasting 4 hours," as reported by...

Italy's truck, taxi drivers strike over austerity

Truck drivers in Italy angered by an increase in gas prices introduced as part of the government's austerity measures have blocked highways near Milan in the north and Naples in the south. Also protesting...

Students take the streets with the Pitchforks and set Italian flag on fire - VIDEO

Pitchworks movement, no agreement. The island is paralyzed

The Sicilian Vespers are back. Workers in protest against fuel price

Obama, Monti to discuss financial crisis

President Barack Obama will meet with Italy's prime minister next month to discuss the European financial crisis. Obama and Prime Minister Mario Monti will meet...

Proposal made for sweeping data protection in EU

The European Commission proposed sweeping reforms Wednesday to protect the confidentiality of personal data online including a "right to be forgotten," which would...

Report: Vatican official warns pope of corruption

The Vatican says it has no comment on a media report that an Italian prelate was transferred to Washington as papal ambassador after he wrote to the pope...

Ex-head of French breast implant maker arrested

The former head of a French company at the center of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide was arrested Thursday in southeast...

Sicily, the land of
high quality food

Southern Italy is the land of high quality food. Sicily is at the top with its 27 protected products (11 Protected Geographical Indicationand and 16 Protected Origin...

Lazio defender Dias banned for 3 Cup matches

Lazio defender Andre Dias has been banned for three Italian Cup matches for taking a swipe at the head of AC Milan midfielder Mark van Bommel. The referee missed...

AC Milan beats Lazio 3-1 to reach Italian Cup semi

AC Milan responded well to an early score from Djibril Cisse and edged Lazio 3-1 to advance to the Italian Cup semifinals on Thursday. After Cisse put Lazio in front...

Juventus' supremacy faces a test against Udinese

Juventus was somewhat of a surprise winner of the Italian league's symbolic winter title, and the team's supremacy will immediately be tested when they begin the...

Del Piero's goal helps Juve into cup semifinals

Motta could play last game in Inter shirt

latin lover

How to dispel the myth
of Latin lover

Italians do it better? Tales about Casanova...

valentino

White collection
haunts Paris shows

Is life just a dream? It certainly seemed to be...

architecture

UK's tallest building
adds drama to the sky

Passengers stepping out of London Bridge tube station...

editorial

Berlusconi condemned to oblivion
by his own newspaper

Marcello Veneziani, a right-wing editor - among Silvio Berlusconi's most vibrant admirers (with the exception of Giuliano Ferrara, whose enthusiasm is...

Life is betting. Gambling invades cities and houses

Once upon a time there were pools, State lotteries suitable for anyone, while horse racing, roulette and...

Girl forced to virginity. Has the world changed?

Dear Monti, that’s why Italians do not agree

flag on fire

wine & food

Cinnamon to cut down sugars and fats

(Andrea Busalacchi) Convivial dinners and plenty of food are typical of Christmas holidays. After having...

2012 Irvos’ program: oil comes first

2012 will be full of activities and undertakings for the Regional Institute of Vine and Wine, even though running from 2012 it is going to change...

New doc Sicily wine ready to go

The procedure to enter the new doc Sicily comes true: starting from January 1st, the Tasting...

Bio wines. Cartabellotta: “10 thousand hectare vineyards in Sicily” First event in Palermo

“Bio issue has entered our daily life because of personal or professional interests, political, social, or health...

PDO bread challenging quality,
territorial features and prices

Every day we buy some bread, but we do not know how it is made. Now there is a glimmer of hope to...

VinSicily in San Cipirello, fair-event of Jato valley

Biodynamic wines enter Vinitaly 2012

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