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Italy's economics minister on Friday said he supported Air France-KLM's bid for the troubled national carrier Alitalia and announced the companies would open exclusive talks immediately.
Italian police made one arrest Monday as prosecutors issued warrants for former South American officials accused in crackdowns on dissent in several countries in past decades, news reports said.
Officials in northern Italy are uniting in opposition to Air France-KLM's bid for ailing Alitalia SpA, which would make Rome the nation's only hub at the expense of Milan.
The church where the tradition of celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25 may have begun was built near a pagan shrine as part of an effort to spread Christianity, a leading Italian scholar says.
The ATP suspended Italians Potito Starace and Daniele Bracciali on Saturday for making bets — some as little as $7 — on tennis matches involving other players.
The restored ruins of two opulent Roman villas and private thermal baths will open to the public Saturday, along with a 3-D reconstruction that offers a virtual tour of the luxurious residences discovered in downtown Rome.
Four people were arrested Tuesday in connection with the alleged Mafia-linked slayings of six Italians in a western German town, authorities said.
A court on Monday convicted a Romanian woman of fatally stabbing a passenger in the eye in Rome's subway and sentenced her to 16 years in prison.
Dozens of treasures from the Greek, Etruscan and Roman civilizations will go on display Friday in an exhibition featuring many of the ancient masterpieces recovered in Italy's campaign against illegal trafficking in antiquities.
The jailed American suspect in the slaying of a British student was questioned by prosecutors for six hours Monday and insisted that she was not involved, her lawyers said.
A fugitive Naples crime boss who built one of the most dangerous cartels has been captured, Italian authorities said Saturday.
A French appeals court on Friday ordered the extradition of a former member of Italy's Red Brigades left-wing terrorist group, a judicial official said.
The Dalai Lama said Thursday that China is taking an increasingly harsh stance on Tibet and he appealed for international help during a visit to Rome.
Italy's truck drivers agreed Wednesday to call off a protest that has blocked highways and borders for three days, causing shortages of gasoline, medicine and perishable foods across Italy, government officials said.
Emperor Augustus' frescoed palace atop Rome's Palatine Hill, one of the city's famous seven hills, will partially reopen to the public March 2 after decades of restoration work, officials said Monday.
Daniel Barenboim made a triumphant debut Friday night as principal guest conductor at La Scala's gala opening-night premiere of a new staging of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," receiving 20 minutes of applause, a shower of roses and shouts of "bravi."
An Ivorian wanted in connection with the killing of a British student in Perugia has been extradited to Italy, a German prosecutor said Thursday.
Remnants of the first known surviving Roman throne have been discovered in the lava and ash that buried the city of Herculaneum in the first century, archaeologists said Tuesday.
Lawyers for a Perugia pub owner questioned in connection with the sex slaying of a British college student in central Italy asked a prosecutor Tuesday to clear him of suspicion.
A suspected Mafia boss and scores of alleged mobsters were arrested during raids Tuesday in eastern Sicily, police said.
A man considered one of Italy's 30 most dangerous Mafia fugitives was killed Monday in Sicily while trying to escape police, authorities said.
A key suspect in the slaying of a British college student in central Italy was cleared Monday for extradition from Germany.
A Macau casino mogul bid a record $330,00 at auction Saturday to win a giant white truffle dug up in Tuscany, organizers said.
A general transport strike by workers in Italy demanding more investment in the sector forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights and idled trains, ships and buses across the country on Friday.
For many college students, a year abroad is an experience of a lifetime — an opportunity to learn a new language and live in a new culture. But it's often just as much about partying in a place where alcohol and drugs are readily available.
The Hollywood actress, whose star has been on the wane since a series of embarrassing drunken incidents and spell in rehab, clocked up THREE men in one 24-hour spell during a trip to Capri.
Many Utahns began to complain last month about that familiar feeling of being dumped on. It started with the news reports about Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions asking for a license to import 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy.
One of the world's biggest cement companies, Italcementi, has announced it is closing its subsidiary in Sicily in protest at mafia extortion.
Panic was spreading this August through this tidy village of 2,000 as one person after another fell ill with weeks of high fever, exhaustion and excruciating bone pain, just as most of Italy was enjoying Ferragosto, its most important summer holiday.
Aided by global warming and globalization, Italy suffered the first outbreak of a tropical disease in modern Europe.
If You comes in Umbria in Xmas time you can see The Biggest Xmas Tree in the World ; as You can see in the photos below, this Tree is 'On' the Gubbio's Town.
On 17 December the first transport to France of irradiated fuel still present in Italy was completed. The first two special containers, with 34 of the 1243 fuel rods that will be reprocessed at La Hague, left the shut down Caorso nuclear power plant.
An EU-wide warning has been issued by Italy over Swedish gingerbread, a Christmas speciality. The Italians claim the gingerbread, or pepparkakor as the biscuits are known, contain higher levels of the toxin coumarin than permitted under European rules.
An Islamic cleric who preaches at a mosque in Milan has been convicted on terror charges by an Italian court. Abu Imad was found guilty - along with 10 other men - of being part of a group that encouraged jihad and sought to recruit potential suicide bombers.
For Italians, the collapse of a 16th-century wall on Rome's Palatine Hill was symbolic. Blaming the 2005 cave-in on budget cuts by the center-right Berlusconi government, many felt that the nation's inability to protect its heritage signaled that the country too was crumbling.
A hungry wolf descended from the mountains in Aquila, central Italy, and went to a local bar searching for food, the Italian ANSA new agency said on Tuesday.
A couple named their child Friday and the the courts not only decided that this was not an acceptable name but they actually renamed the child Gregory. Disputing the name is one thing, but renaming is completely wrong. And I love the name Friday.
The Italian government on Tuesday voiced ''great satisfaction'' over the approval of a United Nations resolution for a global moratorium on the death penalty.
What can Utah do to block the disposal of radioactive waste from Italy in Tooele County? Would refusal to accept the waste - 1,600 tons of contaminated ash from imported waste incinerated in Tennessee - be a violation of the U.S.
This evening at the Stadio Sant'Elia Inter edged past lowly Cagliari with two second half goals that leave them seven points clear at the top of Serie A.
Talking' about Renato Carosone is same thing to talk about the story of Italian music. At this time I'm sure that most part of young Italian doesn't know him, but Renato was, really one of most important Italian musicians.
A French court on Friday granted Italy's extradition request for Marina Petrella, a former member of Italy's far-left Red Brigades terrorist movement.
This postcard was going to be about the old men of Italy, but it's turned out to be first about communications and how we've come to take good infrastructure and easy access to information for granted.
Surveillance Report: Eurosurveillance 12-2007. The European Working Group for Legionella Infections (EWGLI) has been collecting data and developing guidelines to help reduce Legionella infections since 1987.
For all of Italy's outside adoration, the country finds itself in an economic, political and social funk.
It's that time of the year again when we dress a girl in white and light her up.
Last week, on December 4th, the Culture Commission of the Italian Parliament's lower Chamber reviewed the new draft law on the ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) and gave its assent to it.
In Italy, in France, in Great Britain, in Germany, the police and other security services have found mosques with false ceilings, in which counterfeit passports and other useful documents have been found. They have found guns, grenades, devices for making explosives.
A Senegalese woman set herself on fire at Rome's city hall on Friday in an apparent protest over a visit to Italy by Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade.
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