Articles by ITALY
Fri, 07/15/2005 - 04:55
Italian cities are having to deal with a 24 hour strike of buses and trains, supported by all the main unions. The strikes have been called after fai…
Fri, 07/15/2005 - 04:34
(ANSA) - Italy stopped for two minutes at noon on Friday to silently commemorate the victims of last Thursday's London bombings and to demonstrate i…
Thu, 07/14/2005 - 05:45
(ANSA) - Raffaele Cutolo, who during the 1970s and early '80s organized The Naples Camorra into a major crime syndicate, has asked Italian President…
Thu, 07/14/2005 - 04:53
(ANSA) - Brussels - Italy will not suspend a European Union accord allowing people to travel freely between some nations, regardless of such steps by…
Wed, 07/13/2005 - 10:29
(ANSA) - Brescia - An Italian judge handed out the nation's first convictions for international terrorism on Wednesday, finding two Islamists guilty o…
Wed, 07/13/2005 - 06:24
(ANSA) - A stone bee, sculpted on a central Roman fountain by Italian baroque maestro Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is the latest victim of the city's statue…
Wed, 07/13/2005 - 05:32
(ANSA) - "Via da casa", roughly translated as "You're outta here", would appear to be the most popular threat Italian mothers use to try to impose dis…
Mon, 07/11/2005 - 14:10
(ANSA) - Cagliari, July 11 - A top-secret British plan to invade Sardinia in 1941 has come to light six decades after it was drawn up, a Sardinian dai…
Mon, 07/11/2005 - 12:27
(ANSA) - Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini reiterated on Monday that the withdrawal of 300 troops from Iraq in September was already scheduled and in…
Mon, 07/11/2005 - 11:10
(ANSA) - Cagliari, July 11 - A top-secret British plan to invade Sardinia in 1941 has come to light six decades after it was drawn up, a Sardinian dai…
Fri, 07/08/2005 - 13:32
(ANSA) - Catania, July 7 - Police in this Sicilian city have smashed a mafia ring accused of murder, extortion, laundering and corruption, judicial so…
Fri, 07/08/2005 - 13:28
(ANSA) - Mondovi, July 8 - In this northwest region better known for its excellent Barolo and Barbaresco wines, the residents here in this hillto…
Fri, 07/08/2005 - 12:59
by Mary Jane CryanVetralla, an hour north of Rome and the airports of Fiumicino and Ciampino, is a small town known for its olive oil, Etruscan s…
Fri, 07/08/2005 - 03:34
(ANSA) - Italy boosted anti-terror precautions in the wake of Thursday's London bombings as politicians of all stripes condemned the attacks and voic…
Thu, 07/07/2005 - 10:17
(ANSA) - The city of Rome will stage a rally here late Friday afternoon to demonstrate its support for London in the wake of the terrorist bomb attack…
Thu, 07/07/2005 - 08:33
(ANSA) - The Italian Senate has suspended proceedings to express solidarity with London, where several explosions occurred on Thursday morning. Ex…
Thu, 07/07/2005 - 05:31
(ANSA) - Rome, July 6 - The famed Tuscan T-bone steak called Fiorentina could soon be thumping back onto Italian tables after a five-year ban.After a…
Thu, 07/07/2005 - 04:48
(ANSA) - The sweetest feet soccer has ever seen will have a new vocation in September when Diego Maradona joins the cast of an Italian dance reality…
Thu, 07/07/2005 - 04:34
(ANSA) - Fiumicino - A new passport scanning device will soon reduce lines of departing and arriving passengers at Leonardo Da Vinci airport here, air…
Thu, 07/07/2005 - 04:25
(ANSA) - Italian Transport Minister Pietro Lunardi has admitted that he loves to drive fast and even breaks the motorway speed limit he himself impose…