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Friday, April 11, 2014

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Silvio Berlusconi ally 'flees abroad' ahead of mafia verdict

Sicilian born Mr Dell’Utri has been on trial for acting as a middle man between the Sicilian mafia and Milan companies  
Berlusconi’s closest and long-serving political henchman declared a fugitive having reportedly fled Italy days before a court rules on charges of colluding with the mafia
11 Apr 2014

Italian navy warns of 'biblical exodus’ in Mediterranean

Migrants rescued in the Strait of Sicily arriving in the port of Pozzallo, Italy  
Navy has had to step in simply to stop the thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who make the perilous journey from drowning
10 Apr 2014

Mussolini the musician’s violin to be sold

Benito Mussolini playing an Amati violin, although not the Amati instrument in the Bonhams sale  
Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's 300-year-old violin for sale for £150,000 at Bonhams
10 Apr 2014

Italian court recognises gay couple as married for first time

The couple, named locally as 68-year-old architect Giuseppe Chigiotti and 57-year-old journalist Stefano Bucci, took the municipality of Grosseto to court after its registrar refused to register their overseas marriage  
Campaigners say official recognition of the two men's New York marriage is the start of a "new chapter" for same-sex couples in a country which has previously shunned them
10 Apr 2014

Italy calls for EU help as it pulls 4000 migrants from sea in 48 hours

Migrants rescued in the Strait of Sicily arriving in the port of Pozzallo, Italy  
Interior minister Angelino Alfano says Europe cannot wash its hands of an 'increasingly glaring' crisis
09 Apr 2014

Berlusconi may face community service in care home

Disagraced former Italian PM faces hearing to decide whether he gets nine months of house arrest or social service duties for his tax fraud conviction
09 Apr 2014

Troubled Vatican Bank to remain open: Pope

Pontiff says bank will "continue to serve with prudence and provide specialised financial services to the Catholic Church worldwide"
07 Apr 2014
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Mafia fugitive 'The Professor' rearrested

Domenico Rancadoree, who evaded Italian authorities for 20 years, has been rearrested a month after winning a battle against extradition to his native Italy
05 Apr 2014

Steven Meisel cooks up controversy for Vogue Italia

Vogue Italia tackles the issue of domestic violence against women with a controversy-courting shoot by Steven Meisel
03 Apr 2014

Gauguin owner wants to sell painting worth as much as €30m

The 70-year-old former factory worker says he hopes Italian police will return the artwork he bought at auction in 1975 as he bought it in good faith
03 Apr 2014

Rome’s cracks show – but London is no better

Italy neglects its heritage, but London is diminished too by modern tower blocks, says Joan Bakewell
02 Apr 2014
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Gauguin work resurfaces in Italy after being stolen 43 years ago

Extraordinary discovery of 'Fruits on a Table' painting which hung on a factory worker's wall for decades before being found by Italy's art police
02 Apr 2014

Venice independence movement 'turns to terrorism'

Push for independence for Venice and surrounding region takes bizarre turn after Italian police arrest activists on charges of terrorism and making a home-made tank
02 Apr 2014
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Saudi royal family could pay for restoration of Roman monuments

Deal brokered by mayor of Rome could see Saudi Arabia provide millions of euros to restore neglected sites in exchange for loans of priceless artworks
01 Apr 2014

Ruby's spending spree

As Berlusconi fights appeal against jail sentence for paying for sex with under-age call girl, her lavish lifestyle is raising questions
31 Mar 2014

Con men stopped entering Vatican bank with €3 trillion of fake bonds

Police in the Vatican have prevented a pair of fraudsters from trying to enter the Vatican bank with a suitcase stuffed with trillions of euros of fake bond certificates
30 Mar 2014

Italy's new PM sells state's executive fleet of cars on eBay

Matteo Renzi's cost-cutting exercise is popular with ordinary Italians who see the cars as emblematic of the corruption and profligacy of the government
28 Mar 2014

What it was like to watch Mount Vesuvius erupt in 1944

Ray Small was a wireless operator stationed near Naples when Vesuvius erupted, 70 years ago this month. His daughter shares the gripping letter he wrote to his parents
28 Mar 2014

Italian singing nun audition viewed 31 million times

An Italian nun's rendition of an Alicia Keys hit has been viewed online more than 31 million times in just a week
26 Mar 2014

Tuscany's Michelangelo quarries facing uncertain future

The dusty roads that thread between the quarries were used as a stunning backdrop to the car chase in Quantum of Solace, the 2008 movie starring Daniel Craig as 007
25 Mar 2014
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Prosecutor calls for Dolce & Gabbana to be acquitted in tax evasion case

In an unusual turn, a prosecutor in the Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana tax evasion appeal has argued that the designers are 'not guilty as charged'
25 Mar 2014

Italy angered by foreigners' mafia-themed food

Italy angry over foreign companies producing mafia-themed food and drink, from mafia pasta to Cosa Nostra tomato sauce
24 Mar 2014

Italian gangster breaks house arrest for a slice of pizza

Enrico Terribile was sent back to court after failing to resist the lure of his local pizzeria
23 Mar 2014

'Britain helping the mafia' claim Italian prosecutors

Italy's top anti-mafia prosecutors have been angered by the decision of a British court not to extradite the convicted Cosa Nostra member Domenico Rancadore
22 Mar 2014

Pope attacks 'blood-stained' Mafia

The Pontiff warns mobsters that they will go to hell unless they repent, during a service at a church in Rome attended by hundreds of relatives of those murdered by the Mafia
22 Mar 2014
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