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ROME, Italy—Italy adopted a tough law against illegal immigration on Thursday, including a measure allowing citizens to mount their own patrols, despite fierce criticism from rights groups and the Vatican.
Chinese President Hu Jintao's forthcoming visit to Italy ahead of the G8 summit paves the way for stronger bilateral ties, an Italian expert told Xinhua in an interview. Luca La Bella, a China analyst with Rome's International Studies Center, said that in the past decades, political, economic and cultural relations between Italy and China have improved. "Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to ...
PHILADELPHIA, July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new analysis of the incidence of breast cancer in Italy per 100,000 women between the ages of 0 to 84 from 2000 to 2005 shows a 72 percent spike above official estimates issued by the Ministry of Health, with the sharpest uptick of +28.6 percent found in the youngest group studied (ages 25 to 44). The new results, which rely on hospitalization ...
Italy is using the upcoming Group of Eight summit in quake-devastated central Italy to encourage participating countries to adopt monuments damaged in the temblor and pledge to help restore them.
Italy has invited 40 nations and organisations, representing 90 percent of the world economy, to next week's G8 summit in a bid to make the Group of Eight more relevant as the balance of world economic power shifts.
Tough new measures to fight illegal immigration and crime became law in Italy Thursday after the Senate gave the green light to a bill contested by the center-left opposition and the Catholic Church.
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s state railway company suspended GATX Corp. from transporting freight in the country after a June 29 accident that killed 19 people.
Italy: Northern region looks to expand trade with Libya (AKI) - The northern Italian region of Lombardy is seeking to expand trade with Libya, following a recent visit to Italy by controversial Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Business leaders from the regional capital and financial centre, Milan, intend to expand business links on a visit later this year."In October, we will organise a key ...
Italy: Illegal immigration becomes a crime (AKI) - Italy's upper house of parliament on Thursday voted into law a controversial security bill making illegal immigration a punishable offence. The law also allows citizen anti-crime patrols in towns and cities and triples the amount of time illegal immigrants can be detained in holding centres from two to six months.Senators backed the bill by 157 .
ROME (AP) - Officials in Rome have unveiled 14 artifacts that were looted or stolen from Italy and recently returned by The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Italian officials on Thursday unveiled 14 artifacts spanning from antiquity to the Middle Ages that were looted or stolen from Italy and recently returned by The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Italy's San Patrignano drug rehabilitation facility sparks passion for frame building among recovering addicts. VeloNews' Lennard Zinn and Don Karle visited the facility this spring. To read Zinn's article, you'll have to pick up an August issue of VeloNews, available on newstands this week. Here we are sharing some of Karle's photos that would not fit in the magazine.
ROME (Dow Jones)--Italy's budget deficit widened to its greatest level in a decade, as state spending on unemployment benefits rose and tax revenue dwindled due to the ongoing deep recession, data from statistics office Istat showed Thursday.
Italy: Calabrian mafia 'boss' arrested in south (AKI) - Italian police on Thursday arrested Leone Soriano, a suspected boss of the Calabrian mafia or 'Ndrangheta, outside the regional capital, Catanzaro. Italian paramilitary police or Carabinieri arrested Soriano at his home in Filandri. His arrest warrant was issued by anti-mafia magistrates in Catanzaro.Investigators gave no further details on
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s budget deficit surged in the first quarter to the highest in more than 10 years as the worst recession in six decades prompted a drop in tax revenue.
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