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The Citizen.com
April 26, 2018
The Atlanta Calcio Academy Team traveled to Italy recently to participate in the Toscana Football Cup tournament and placed third out of 16 teams. One of the players on the U14 team is Ian Brunet, and eighth grader at Whitewater Middle School. Ryan Brunet is a fifth-grader at Sara Harp Minter ElementaryÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 26, 2018
Alfie's parents - Tom Evans, 21 and Kate James, 20 - are meeting with doctors from Alder Hey Children's Hospital today to discuss taking their young toddler home. They had hoped a final plea to Court of Appeal Judges in London on Wednesday would allow them to fly their son to Italy to the Vatican-linkedÃâà...
Project Syndicate
April 26, 2018
While Italy remains without a new government, it would be foolish to believe that a country where anti-system parties won 55% of the popular vote will continue to behave as if nothing had happened. But political upheavals sometime provide a unique opportunity for addressing seemingly intractableÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
April 26, 2018
ROME ― Workers at Italy's F-35 fighter jet assembly line canceled a planned strike for April 24 following guarantees that more of them will be given staff ... The workers at Cameri Air Base in northern Italy, where Leonardo is assembling jets for Italy and Holland, previously announced a one-day strike toÃâà...
The Business Times
April 25, 2018
Singapore. CROMWELL European Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) is acquiring a freehold office building at Via Jervis 13, Ivrea, Italy, for 16.9 million euros (S$27.3 million). On Tuesday, Cromwell EReit Management, the manager of Cromwell European Reit, said that Perpetual (Asia. GAIN ACCESS TO ALL BTÃâà...
Sky News
April 25, 2018
He decided that Alfie's parents Tom Evans and Kate James could not have medical experts in Italy examine their son, as they had wished. Instead, the judge asked Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool to consider permitting them to take their son home. He advised the couple to "explore" other options,Ãâà...
The Local Italy
April 25, 2018
Progress appeared possible after M5S leader Luigi Di Maio slammed the door on Matteo Salvini's League, which is partnered with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and minor far-right party Brothers of Italy, and said that he would sit down with the PD if they were willing to negotiate over a programme forÃâà...
POLITICO.eu
April 25, 2018
After meeting Roberto Fico, the president of the Chamber of Deputies — Italy's lower house of parliament — the PD's acting leader Maurizio Martina said he would consider discussions with the 5Stars if “there is no longer any possibility of an agreement between the 5Stars, League and the centre right,”Ãâà...
ReliefWeb
April 25, 2018
Appeal history: • 25 April 2015: A DREF allocation was made of 283,305 Swiss francs. • 8 May 2015: Emergency Appeal was launched for 2,710,576 Swiss francs, to assist 85,000 people, with a timeframe up to end February 2016. • 2 November 2015: Emergency Appeal Revision nÃâð 1 was issued toÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 25, 2018
Rome - Italy's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against the seizure of an NGO rescue ship, the Iuventa, impounded in August 2017 following an investigation initiated by the Italian authorities into NGOs in the Mediterranean. Evidence collected as part of that investigation led to the pre-emptive seizureÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 25, 2018
The head of the Bambino Gesu hospital said the Italian Defense Ministry had a plane ready to transport Alfie to Italy if he were allowed to seek treatment. In an interview with Italy's Radio 24, Mariella Enoc, who traveled to Liverpool to personally try to intervene on behalf of the parents, said she spoke to theÃâà...
Stuff.co.nz
April 25, 2018
Q. I went to Italy in my early twenties as part of a Contiki tour and, 20 years later, would like to go back to explore properly. Which regions do you think are worth spending the most time in? I'd prefer to stay away from the crowds if possible. A. Assuming that along with all the Contiki fun, your last tour visitedÃâà...
The Local Italy
April 25, 2018
Judge Anthony Hayden told a High Court hearing in Manchester, northwest England, that the long-running case had now reached its "final chapter" as he turned down a bid to take the 23-month-old to Italy to continue medical treatment. Pope Francis had issued an appeal on Twitter on Monday that theÃâà...
The Local Italy
April 24, 2018
The M5S is Italy's largest single party with 33 percent. M5S MP Fico comes from his party's left-wing but his chances of agreeing a government with the PD look even slimmer than they did with Salvini, as the M5S has heavily criticized the caretaker government led by the PD. Interim PD leader MaurizioÃâà...
The Local Italy
April 24, 2018
Italy granted citizenship to terminally ill British toddler Alfie Evans on Monday, in a bid to facilitate his transfer to a hospital in Rome after the UK Supreme ... The Italian government hopes that being Italian will allow the immediate transfer of the child to Italy," said a statement from the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Atlas Obscura
April 24, 2018
As Luciana Polliotti, curator of the Carpigiani Gelato Museum in Bologna, Italy, puts it: “These were important years because it was like David versus Goliath, and David won. ... Throughout the 1950s, industrial ice cream—already all the rage in the U.S.—also had ambitious plans to corner the market in Italy.
The Guardian
April 21, 2018
A court in Italy has convicted eight men, including mob bosses, police investigators and a close associate of Silvio Berlusconi, over a secret attempt to negotiate with the Sicilian mafia in order to end a bloody bombing campaign in the 1990s. After the verdict, members of the public cheered the prosecutors.
BBC News
April 21, 2018
A national park in central Italy is investigating the death of a rare brown bear during an operation to capture it. Biologists at the park in the Apennine mountains had trapped the animal to fit him with a radio collar so they could track his movements. But the male Marsican bear began to struggle to breathe asÃâà...
CNBC
April 21, 2018
European leaders can build trust and fight populist threats by touting the economic benefits of closer integration, Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said Thursday. In a CNBC Facebook Live interview at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund's Spring Meetings 2018 in Washington,Ãâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 21, 2018
Investigation launched in Italy after one of world's rarest bears dies during capture by rangers. The Marsican brown bear is a ... The Marsican bear, Ursus arctos marsicanus, is the world's rarest sub-species and lives in the Apennine mountains of central Italy. A relative of the Eurasian brown bear, there areÃâà...
Corriere della Sera English
April 21, 2018
Italy has officially asked Switzerland to return a painting, the “Portrait of Isabella d'Este”, found in a bank vault in Lugano and at the centre of a trial regarding the illegal trafficking in works of art that ended with the conviction of a woman from Pesaro. The judgment, which has now become definitive, hasÃâà...
The Local Italy
April 20, 2018
Looking at 150 of the biggest employers in Italy, Randstad identified six that best satisfied employees' criteria. Most attractive overall was Lamborghini: the luxury car maker, headquartered near Bologna, came out top for working environment, benefits, workplace safety, career development, and reputation.
BBC News
April 20, 2018
Authorities in Turin, northern Italy, have refused to register the baby of a lesbian couple. Chiara Foglietta, a Turin councillor, underwent artificial insemination in Denmark and gave birth last Friday to baby boy Niccolo Pietro. Italian law sets strict rules for fertility treatment, making it available only to stableÃâà...
Black Enterprise
April 15, 2018
Italy's new parliament is now the most diverse it has ever been. It has more women. It is younger and for the first time ever, it will have a black face occupying one of its seats in its parliament. Nigerian-born Tony Iwobi made waves around the world last month after his electoral triumph made him the country'sÃâà...
NDTVAuto.com
April 15, 2018
Mahindra's vehicle line-up for Italy has been expanded with the launch of the KUV100. The entry-level Mahindra offering was launched in Rome earlier this week and the company is yet to announce prices for the same. Mahindra executives were in the Italian city for the Formula E Rome e-Prix and alsoÃâà...
WAMC
April 15, 2018
In the '60s, if you were young and had little money, it was difficult to see the world unless (maybe) by hitch-hiking. I had less than a week, and had slept on deck since Istanbul, no meals – and as the ship approached Brindisi I felt that, after the bare dry stretches of Turkey and Greece, Italy might well turn intoÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 13, 2018
Italy has too much history and beauty to bear on your own; you need support from Italians who want to look after you – and they are often such fun. Better still, staying with them ensures that your money stays there and circulates in the community. So here is my selection of 20 of the best city B&Bs in Italy.
The Local Italy
April 13, 2018
The M5S is Italy's largest single party after picking up just under 33 percent of the vote in the March 4th election. Both have repeatedly said that they are ready to work together, but Di Maio has demanded that Salvini break with Berlusconi. The League only picked up 17 percent on its own and Salvini hasÃâà...
The Local Italy
April 13, 2018
In a mural discovered on Friday morning on the Via de' Lucchesi in Rome, a few hundred metres from the Quirinale presidential palace where the heads of Italy's main parties had gathered hours before for talks that ended with little sign of a solution to the deadlock created by last month's election. The workÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 3, 2018
Italy FURY at France SOARS after police INVADE Italian border. ITALY has taken a strong stance against Paris after five French armed officers entered without authorisation a migrant centre across the border, with tensions set to ... EU AT WAR: France and Italy in FURIOUS row as Europe plans to move .
Times Now
April 3, 2018
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced that thousands of African migrants in his country would be resettled in countries including Canada, Germany and Italy as per an agreement reached with the UN refugee agency. Under the deal with the United Nations HighÃâà...
The Local Italy
April 3, 2018
A minimum of 16,250 migrants will be resettled in Western nations including Canada, Germany and Italy under the agreement, according to Prime Minister ... Germany and Italy, however, said they were unaware of any such resettlement deal for African migrants from Israel, although the German interiorÃâà...
InTheSnow
April 3, 2018
Where To Ski or Snowboard in Italy Week Ending April 7th, 2018. Scroll Down. STORY BY ... It has been snowing across most of Italy's mountains over the Easter weekend. The snowfall that ... 25.03.2018. It has been mostly sunny in Italy in recent days, but it's looking like it'll be snowier from the middle.
The Local Italy
April 3, 2018
An American couple were found dead in their home in the Veneto region of Italy on Monday, following an apparent murder-suicide. The man, aged 44, and his wife, 40, were both former soldiers who had previously worked at the US military base in Vicenza, west of Venice. Their bodies were discovered byÃâà...
BBC News
April 1, 2018
Armed French customs officers have provoked widespread anger by entering a migrant clinic at a railway station over the border in Italy. Five officers forced one individual to undergo a urine test at the premises west of the city of Turin on Friday evening, Italian reports say. The facility is located about 1kmÃâà...
ActionNewsJax.com
March 31, 2018
VENICE, Italy (AP) - A museum is opening in the Venetian hometown of Giacomo Casanova, the 18th-century adventurer and bon vivant, in hopes of educating visitors about more than just his notorious womanizing. The Giacomo Casanova Museum and Experience doesn't hide Casanova's libidinous side.
Sputnik International
March 31, 2018
The expulsion of two Russian diplomats from Italy is without a doubt an illegal move and can be abolished by the newly appointed Italian Council of Ministers, political analyst Dr. Maurizio Marrone told Sputnik. Marrone explained that such steps can't be taken by an outgoing government because it isÃâà...
Radio New Zealand
March 31, 2018
Political figures in Italy, which has received over 600,000 migrants in the last four years, condemned the move. The French ambassador, Christian Masset, was called into the Italian foreign ministry in Rome on Saturday to explain what had happened. "French border agents entered - armed - the clinic run inÃâà...
PA home page
March 31, 2018
VENICE, Italy (AP) - A museum is opening in the Venetian hometown of Giacomo Casanova, the 18th-century adventurer and bon vivant, in hopes of educating visitors about more than just his notorious womanizing. The Giacomo Casanova Museum and Experience doesn't hide Casanova's libidinous side.
The Guardian
March 30, 2018
Italy's artisanal Parma ham production became increasingly industrialised after the second world war. Photograph: University of Parma. Over recent years, the industry has grown into a multimillion-euro business producing about nine million legs of Parma ham a year and employing 50,000 people.
euronews
March 25, 2018
LONDON (Reuters) – England approach Tuesday's friendly against Italy grappling with a familiar set of recurring problems that seem to resurface whenever major soccer tournaments approach. An injury to Harry Kane will deny them their most potent weapon at Wembley with concerns over the TottenhamÃâà...
Goal.com
March 25, 2018
Caretaker boss Luigi Di Biagio is expected to make a number of changes to the team that began against Argentina. Gianluigi Buffon is likely to be replaced by Gianluigi Donnarumma, while Antonio Candreva is pushing for inclusion ahead of Federico Chiesa. Probable Italy XI: Donnarumma; De Sciglio,Ãâà...
InTheSnow
March 25, 2018
It has been mostly sunny in Italy in recent days, but it's looking like it'll be snowier from the middle of this week, although, as yet, the snow forecast is relatively modest in volume. Cervina, for example, which has one of the country's deepest bases at 3.m (13 feet) up top and is open in to May, expects 10cm ofÃâà...
The Guardian
March 25, 2018
But their decision to back two parliamentary speakers, including Italy's first female speaker of the Senate, indicates that party leaders – Luigi di Maio of the M5S and Matteo Salvini of the League – are capable of finding common ground. “I am very happy, moved and proud that parliament has started to workÃâà...
Travel+Leisure
March 23, 2018
Consider this a public service announcement, as well as a lesson in cooking 101: to cook pasta, boil water first. Three American students living abroad in Florence, Italy, learned this the hard way this week when they started a fire in their apartment by cooking pasta without the most basic of ingredients.
The Local Italy
March 19, 2018
While the leaders of the US, France and Germany have joined the UK in saying there is "no plausible alternative explanation" to Russian involvement in the attack, Italy's first official statement on the incident made no mention of Russia. "We are very worried by the affair of Sergei Skripal, which put manyÃâà...
The Local Italy
March 19, 2018
The 19-year-old has attracted the interest of clubs including champions Juventus after scoring seven goals in 19 games while on loan to Serie B side Perugia earlier this season -- but his employment in Italy has also attracted criticism and debate in Italian parliament. He has been valued at €20 millionÃâà...
The Local Italy
March 19, 2018
Italy's foreign ministry on Sunday called for swift action over the "atrocious" mob attack of an Egyptian-Italian student in Britain, who died of her injuries last ... Italy's ambassador to the UK, Raffaele Trombetta, spoke to his Egyptian counterpart on Sunday and stressed his "willingness to support every actionÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 19, 2018
In February, just under 3,900 refugees and migrants entered Europe via Italy, Greece and Spain, less than half the number that entered in January. With lower numbers of people crossing from North Africa to Italy by sea compared to last year, the route to Spain experienced the most movement of the threeÃâà...
New York Times
March 19, 2018
POMIGLIANO D'ARCO, Italy — After leading the anti-establishment Five Star Movement to a stunning result in Italy's national elections, Luigi Di Maio returned triumphantly to his small hometown near Naples. Thousands of adoring supporters chanted “Pres-i-dent” and “Lu-i-gi” and gave their local boy aÃâà...
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