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  • July 2008

    • Rome Cracks Down on Revelers

      Reuters  |  Jul 11, 08 5:50 PM CDT

      Rome Cracks Down on Revelers

      (Newser) - Rome's residents and visitors had best behave themselves for the next 4 months: An experimental ordinance bans eating and drinking in the streets of the Eternal City, and cracks down on hooligans who want to "shout, sing or be noisy," Reuters reports. The newly elected mayor enacted the law, which applies through October in "areas of historic, cultural or artistic value." More »

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      food  • Italy  • wine  • law  • Rome  • singing  • drinks

    • Murder Indictment Sought Against Amanda Knox

      Associated Press  |  Jul 11, 08 10:35 AM CDT

      Murder Indictment Sought Against Amanda Knox

      (AP) - Prosecutors are seeking murder indictments against Amanda Knox and two other suspects in the death of the British college student who was Knox's roomate in Italy, the AP reports. Prosecutors in Perugia requested that Knox, 21, of Seattle; her former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito; and Ivory Coast citizen Rudy Hermann Guede be tried in connection with the death of Meredith Kercher, who was strangled and stabbed in November. More »

    • EU Blasts Italy Over Gypsy Fingerprinting

      Associated Press  |  Jul 10, 08 1:00 PM CDT

      EU Blasts Italy Over Gypsy Fingerprinting

      (Newser) - Italy’s mandatory fingerprinting of its Gypsy minority is "an act of discrimination based on race and ethnic origin" and should be stopped, the European Parliament said in a resolution passed today. The assembly voted 336-220, with 77 abstentions, to condemn the practice—though the resolution is not binding, the AP notes. Italy continues to defend the program as a necessary measure to fight street crime. More »

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      Italy  • homeland security  • fingerprinting  • European Parliament  • Gypsy  • Roma people

    • Italians Impatient With Alitalia Rescue Efforts

      Bloomberg  |  Jul 4, 08 5:33 PM CDT

      Italians Impatient With Alitalia Rescue Efforts

      (Newser) - Fed up with government efforts to resuscitate Alitalia, many Italians think Rome needs to face reality and let the airline die, Bloomberg reports. PM Silvio Berluconi characterizes Alitalia’s survival as “a matter of national security,” but it hasn't turned a profit in nearly a decade. The latest plan for Alitalia is a restructuring scheme by Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s second-largest bank. More »

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      bailout  • Italy  • airline  • bankruptcy  • Silvio Berlusconi  • government  • Alitalia

    • Italy Calls In Shrinks for Garbage Crisis

      Der Spiegel  |  Jul 3, 08 8:50 PM CDT

      Italy Calls In Shrinks for Garbage Crisis

      (Newser) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has a “final solution" to Naples' trash problem—and it includes psychologists, Der Spiegel reports. Naples, whose overflowing landfills have led to intermittently trash-choked streets for years, will soon be invaded by an army of volunteers, including a group of psychologists trained in counseling disaster survivors. Berlusconi has also pledged to clean up the garbage. More »

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      Italy  • Silvio Berlusconi  • garbage  • Naples  • landfill  • psychologist

    • Italy Plan to Fingerprint Gypsies Under Fire

      Associated Press  |  Jul 3, 08 12:31 PM CDT

      Italy Plan to Fingerprint Gypsies Under Fire

      (Newser) - Italy has begun taking fingerprints from members of its Gypsy minority, in what the government calls a “census” of the people living in nomad encampments. The plans to document adults and children lacking an EU passport has brought condemnations from critics, who charge that “census” is the Berlusconi government’s euphemism for a racist practice, the BBC reports. More »

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      Italy  • fingerprinting  • government spying  • minority  • Gypsy  • Roma people

  • June 2008

    • Rumors From Vatican: Bush May Convert

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Jun 14, 08 1:45 PM CDT

      Rumors From Vatican: Bush May Convert

      (Newser) - President Bush visited Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican yesterday, sparking rumors that the president may convert to Catholicism, the Telegraph reports. They spoke in a garden where the pontiff prays daily, not in the library where Benedict greets most world leaders. “What an honor!” said Bush, who has been called the most “Catholic-minded” president since JFK. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Italy  • Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Vatican  • Catholicism  • Jeb Bush

    • 'Unicorn' Deer Spotted in Italy

      Associated Press  |  Jun 11, 08 6:02 PM CDT

      'Unicorn' Deer Spotted in Italy

      (Newser) - A deer with a single horn in the center of its head has been spotted in an Italian nature preserve, triggering speculation that such anomalies may have helped give rise to unicorn myths, the AP reports. Experts say the year-old deer, born in captivity and nicknamed “Unicorn,” likely has a genetic flaw or experienced trauma early in its life.     More »

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      Italy  • animal  • parks  • deer  • mythical creature

    • Controversy Erupts Over Dutch Goal

      Associated Press  |  Jun 10, 08 11:38 AM CDT

      Controversy Erupts Over Dutch Goal

      (Newser) - When Ruud van Nistelrooy scored the Netherlands' first goal in yesterday's Euro 2008 match, Dutch and Italian fans alike waited for the offsides call. It didn't come, leaving the Italians incensed, the Dutch warily pleased, and the officials defiant. UEFA confirmed today that van Nistelrooy wasn't offsides thanks to a little-known rule, AP reports. More »

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      Italy  • soccer  • Netherlands  • Euro 2008  • referee

    • 'Super' Mafia Witness Gunned Down in Naples

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 3, 08 2:18 AM CDT

      'Super' Mafia Witness Gunned Down in Naples

      (Newser) - The boss of a garbage disposal firm with Mafia links who had turned informant was gunned down in a bar near Naples yesterday, the Guardian reports. The murdered man had been helping police target gangs that control waste disposal in the city, currently gripped by a garbage crisis. He had been due to testify this week against an accused gangster who's a member of Italy's ruling party. More »

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      Italy  • Mafia  • Silvio Berlusconi  • organized crime  • garbage  • Naples  • witness

    • Vatican Mulls the Case for St. John Paul II

      Washington Post  |  Jun 2, 08 8:24 AM CDT

      Vatican Mulls the Case for St. John Paul II

      (Newser) - He may have served as the spiritual leader for millions of Catholics for more than 26 years, but the soul of Pope John II is under intense scrutiny in Rome. The Washington Post takes a look at the office charged with determining whether the beloved pontiff is eligible for sainthood—as it sorts through stacks of documents attesting to or refuting his suitability for beatification (prerequisite: one miracle) and finally canonization (prerequisite: one more miracle). More »

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      Italy  • Rome  • Pope John Paul II  • sainthood  • beatification

  • May 2008

    • Damn Straight! Leaning Tower Stabilized

      Times (UK)  |  May 29, 08 3:06 AM CDT

      Damn Straight! Leaning Tower Stabilized

      (Newser) - Italian engineers have stabilized the leaning Tower of Pisa, safeguarding it from toppling over for at least another 300 years, the Times of London reports. The famously off-kilter tower began tilting shortly after construction started in 1173, and was in danger of falling. Engineers didn't try to straighten it completely, as Benito Mussolini once dictated, but succeeded in getting it back to its 19th century angle. More »

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      Italy  • architecture  • engineering

    • Drugged California Tourist Killed by Train in Rome

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 27, 08 4:27 AM CDT

      Drugged California Tourist Killed by Train in Rome

      (Newser) - An elderly American tourist drugged by a thief was killed by a train as he wandered along the tracks in a daze, the Los Angeles Times reports. The 76-year-old traveler and his wife were befriended by a man who gave them drug-laced cappuccin