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  • September 2007

    • Tenor Luciano Pavarotti Dies

      New York Times  |  Sep 6, 07 1:00 AM CDT

      Tenor Luciano Pavarotti Dies

      (Newser) - Opera star Luciano Pavarotti, one of the greatest tenors of the last century, died early this morning of pancreatic cancer, surrounded by his wife, sister and four daughters, in his hometown villa in Modena, Italy. He was 71. "The Maestro fought a long, tough battle," said his manager. "Fitting with the approach that characterized his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness." More »

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      obituary  • Italy  • singer  • pancreatic cancer  • opera  • tenor  • Luciano Pavarotti  • Metropolitan Opera  • Modena

  • August 2007

    • 11 Top Italian Cooking Schools

      Food & Wine  |  Aug 25, 07 8:46 AM CDT

      11 Top Italian Cooking Schools

      (Newser) - Savor that Italian vacation by taking a short course at one these cooking schools, highly recommended by Food & Wine magazine: Cucina con Vista, Florence Castello Banfi–Il Borgo, Montalcino Italian Food Artisans, Montepulciano More »

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      list  • food  • Italy  • travel  • school  • cooking  • culinary school

    • Germany Wakes Up to Mafia Problem

      Der Spiegel  |  Aug 20, 07 6:13 PM CDT

      Germany Wakes Up to Mafia Problem

      (Newser) - Germany is finding its mafia problem harder to ignore after the murder of six men outside an Italian restaurant in Duisburg last week. The killings were part of a feud between two warring mafia clans, both of which have established major footholds in Germany, Der Spiegel reports. Police are now trying to crack down after years of lax enforcement. More »

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      Germany  • Italy  • Mafia  • organized crime  • mob  • Duisburg

    • Italian Grapes Make Early Debut

      Chicago Tribune  |  Aug 16, 07 4:53 PM CDT

      Italian Grapes Make Early Debut

      (Newser) - This year's grape harvest in Italy will be unlike any one in living memory—for starters because it's happening in August. Because of sky-high temperatures and scanty rainfall, grapes are ripening three to four weeks ahead of normal schedules. Some grape growers blame it on global warming, but scientists warn not to be too hasty. More »

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      climate change  • global warming  • Italy  • weather  • wine  • grapes  • harvest

    • 6 Dead in Mafia Hit in Germany

      Der Spiegel  |  Aug 15, 07 11:03 AM CDT

      6 Dead in Mafia Hit in Germany

      (Newser) - Police are calling the killing of six Italians early today in Duisburg, Germany, a probable Mafia hit job, Der Spiegel reports. Five bodies with gunshot wounds to the head were found outside an Italian restaurant, and a sixth man died en route to the hospital. The incident is one of the largest mass murders in Germany in years. More »

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      Germany  • Italy  • gun  • drug trafficking  • Mafia  • organized crime  • Duisburg

    • Italian Cops Bust Secret Iraqi Arms Deal

      Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 12, 07 11:51 PM CDT

      Italian Cops Bust Secret Iraqi Arms Deal

      (Newser) - A secret transaction providing the Iraqi government with over $40 million worth of weapons was uncovered by Italian police investigating local Mafiosi, the Guardian reports. Without the knowledge of American military commanders, the Iraqi interior ministry had ordered 105,000 rifles from arms traffickers, ostensibly to supply police. Italian police halted the transaction and arrested four people. More »

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      Italy  • gun  • Iraq government  • Mafia  • weapon  • Shia  • militia  • arms deal  • arms trafficking

    • Forget the Pyramids—to the Bat Cave!

      Jaunted  |  Aug 11, 07 7:20 AM CDT

      Forget the Pyramids&mdash;to the Bat Cave!

      (Newser) - To appreciate the earth's natural beauty, sometimes you have to dig under the surface. Jaunted tips you off to the best caves in the world. Waitomo Glow Worms Caves, New Zealand: Abseil down a tiny hole, black-water raft for 3 hours, and then see a glow-worm-studded cave ceiling. More »

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      list  • Mexico  • Italy  • travel  • Lebanon  • New Zealand

    • Getty Sends Looted Art Home

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 2, 07 4:49 AM CDT

      Getty Sends Looted Art Home

      (Newser) - The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles will return to Italy 40 works of art, including some of the finest in the museum's collection, following a decades-long legal battle. The museum has agreed to give up dozens of  masterpieces that Italy claims were looted, including its signature 5th-century marble Aphrodite, the LA Times reports. More »

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      Los Angeles  • Italy  • art  • museums  • J. Paul Getty Museum  • looting  • Getty

  • July 2007

    • Antonioni Dead at 94

      Associated Press  |  Jul 31, 07 9:36 AM CDT

      Antonioni Dead at 94

      (Newser) - Michelangelo Antonioni, one of Italy’s most beloved filmmakers, died yesterday at age 94, after directing 25 films over nearly 50 years. His masterpieces of alienation, known for their nearly wordless, melancholic style, included "Red Desert" and "The Passenger." Immobilized by a stroke that left him mute, he still managed to helm "Beyond the Clouds" in 1994. More »

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      movie  • film  • obituary  • Italy

    • Mama Mia! Italian Foodies Raise a Stink About Garlic

      NPR  |  Jul 9, 07 5:47 AM CDT

      Mama Mia! Italian Foodies Raise a Stink About Garlic

      (Newser) - Rome's trendiest chefs and diners are trash-talking garlic, contending it's time to replace the smelly bulb, and claiming it  overpowers everything it touches, NPR reports. Once the only tool peasant farmers had to flavor their meager meals, garlic should give way to a subtle array of flavors available in an increasingly sophisticated Italy, they argue. More »

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      food  • Italy

    • 7 New Wonders Wear Crown

      Reuters  |  Jul 7, 07 6:26 PM CDT

      7 New Wonders Wear Crown

      (Newser) - The largest online poll ever conducted wrapped up yesterday, and today the results became official. The seven wonders of the modern world, which were announced in Portugal, include an Asian engineering triumph and a South American religious monument, but not the Great Pyramid of Giza—the Egyptian government refused to cooperate with the competition. More »

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      Italy  • Brazil  • statue  • Machu Picchu  • Taj Mahal  • seven wonders  • Chichen Itza  • Great Wall of China

    • Pavarotti's New Album Could Be Finale

      Associated Press  |  Jul 5, 07 6:09 AM CDT

      Pavarotti's New Album Could Be Finale

      (Newser) - Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti is recording songs for what could be his last album as the 71-year-old tenor battles pancreatic cancer. His elder daughter reportedly told a magazine that he "knows he will die soon," but later insisted her words had been twisted. Doctors discovered the cancer last summer during a break in the singer's farewell tour. More »

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      music  • Italy  • theater  • pancreatic cancer  • opera  • tenor  • Luciano Pavarotti

  • June 2007

    • Police Nab 'Ninja' in Italy

      BBC  |  Jun 13, 07 5:42 AM CDT

      Police Nab 'Ninja' in Italy

      (Newser) - A weeks-long manhunt in northern Italy for an elusive "ninja"-styled thief ended yesterday after cops pursued the robber as he fled through cornfields on a bicycle, the BBC reports. The culprit, his head wrapped in a black bandanna, had stolen onto several isolated farms at night and robbed victims with his bow and arrow. More »

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      Russia  • Italy  • robbery  • farms  • thief

    • 'Heresy' Goes Digital

      Wired  |  Jun 8, 07 11:24 AM CDT

      'Heresy' Goes Digital

      (Newser) - Cutting ties with the Catholic Church is, in theory, a relatively simple matter known as "debaptism." More and more Italians who aren't worried about the Vatican's formal stance on what it calls "an act of apostasy, heresy or schism" are finding the documents they need online. Wired considers the digital angle on an ecclesiastical process. More »

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      Internet  • religion  • Italy  • Catholic Church  • Vatican

    • Italy Tries CIA Agents Accused of Kidnapping Terror Suspect

      International Herald Tribune  |  Jun 8, 07 7:32 AM CDT

      Italy Tries CIA Agents Accused of Kidnapping Terror Suspect

      (Newser) - The controversial trial in absentia of 25 CIA operatives and a former head of Italian intelligence opens today in Milan, just as President Bush arrives in Italy. The International Herald Tribune reports on the implications of the case, which centers on the abduction of a Muslim terror suspect who was sent to Egypt for interrogation and, he claims, torture. More »

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      kidnapping  • Italy  • CIA  • terrorist  • trial  • Egypt  • rendition  • Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr

    • Italy Acquits Five in "God's Banker" Murder

      Times (UK)  |  Jun 6, 07 9:17 PM CDT

      Italy Acquits Five in &quot;God's Banker&quot; Murder

      (Newser) - A judge in Rome exonerated five suspects on trial for the 1982 murder of Roberto Calvi, citing a lack of evidence. Calvi—known as "God's banker" for his closeness to the Vatican— was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London in a presumed suicide. Newly discovered forensic evidence led authorities to suspect foul play and reopen the case. More »

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      London  • Italy  • scandals  • fraud  • Vatican  • banking  • Mafia  • Rome  • Freemason

  • May 2007

    • Naples Reeks as Garbage Dumps, Landfills Close

      New York Times  |  May 31, 07 6:31 AM CDT

      Naples Reeks as Garbage Dumps, Landfills Close

      (Newser) - Mounds of smelly garbage are piling up in the streets of Naples, as a shortage of places to dump it has reached a crisis: the last landfill in Naples closed Saturday. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is pleading with politicians and citizens to save the the country's image, the Times reports. More »

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      Italy  • garbage  • trash  • Naples  • landfill  • Giorgio Napolitano

    • German Firm Buys Tuscan Hamlet

      Guardian (UK)  |  May 25, 07 5:21 AM CDT

      German Firm Buys Tuscan Hamlet

      (Newser) - A German company has bought up an entire town in Northern Italy, with plans to convert it into a giant "holiday world" resort. The Guardian reports that Hanover-based tour giant TUI payed upwards of $340 million for the 13th-century Tuscan village of Tenuta di Castelfalfi, whose crumbling ramparts, squares and villas now house just five citizens. More »

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      Italy  • travel  • Tuscany  • Germans  • Northern Italy

    • Rome Deal Creates World's 5th-Largest Bank

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 21, 07 5:23 AM CDT

      Rome Deal Creates World's 5th-Largest Bank

      (Newser) - Italian lenders UniCredit and Capitalia yesterday inked a $29.7 billion deal to create a bank with the world's fifth (and Europe's second) largest market cap. The hurried Rome merger indicates, according to the Wall Street Journal , a rush to consolidate Europe's banking sector, but also the persistent challenges to cross-border deals within the EU. More »

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      European Union  • Italy  • Europe  • merger  • banking

    • Polish Artist Installs Huge Nude Balloon in Italy

      Associated Press  |  May 11, 07 3:51 PM CDT

      Polish Artist Installs Huge Nude Balloon in Italy

      (Newser) - Polish artist Pawel Althamer has placed a 70-foot long nude balloon in a plaza in Milan. It is a self-portrait of the artist.  In Italy such a sculpture is "nothing new."   A passing American commented that it "wouldn't fly" in the U.S. More »

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      Italy  • art  • nudity  • Milan  • hot air balloon

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