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January 2008
- Mediterranean Fishermen Find There's A Catch
  
  Christian Science Monitor | Jan 16, 08 12:48 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Over-fishing is threatening the many species that fill the Mediterranean Sea—not to mention the livelihoods of local fishermen and the diets of the region's populace—but having 21 countries to deal with makes it difficult to wrangle out an agreement that would give stocks a chance to recover, the Christian Science Monitor reports. More »
- Angry Students Block Pope Visit
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jan 16, 08 4:31 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI has scrapped plans to speak at a prestigious Italian university after unprecedented protests by furious students and professors who accused him of justifying Galileo's trial and "affronting" people of science, the Los Angeles Times reports. The pope once described as "reasonable" the 400-year-old heresy trial of Galileo, and Benedict's negative take on science now extends to issues like stem cell research and evolution, critics charge. More »
- Trash Overwhelms Naples
  
  Reuters | Jan 7, 08 2:40 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The Italian army has been brought in to clear away some of the mountains of trash blanketing the area around Naples. The region's garbage crisis, which has festered for years, reached crisis proportions when all waste-collection stopped before Christmas. Meanwhile, protesters are trying, in occasionally violent clashes, to stop the reopening of a dump closed in 1996, Reuters reports. More »
December 2007
- Italy Depressed by News Story Calling Italy Depressed
  
  New York Times | Dec 22, 07 7:12 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - In a self-referential moment, the New York Times interviews its own reporter, Ian Fisher, about the nationwide soul-searching set off in Italy by Fisher's Dec. 13 article that depicts Italians as wallowing in a collective funk. Fisher's description of a dispirited national mood has prompted an impassioned response from all corners. More »
- 'Group Attack' Led to Meredith Slaying: Judge
  
  Times (UK) | Dec 20, 07 12:36 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - An Italian judge yesterday upheld a decision to detain the three suspects in the murder of Meredith Kercher, saying that "none of them can be said to have played a passive role." The Times of London reports that the court in Perugia has seen evidence suggesting that Kercher's roommate Amanda Knox, her Italian boyfriend, and a third suspect all participated in a "group attack" on the British exchange student. More »
- Italian Govt. Renames Baby
  
  Reuters | Dec 18, 07 1:45 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - He was born, registered, and baptized Friday Germano, but the Italian government is calling him Gregory. The Germanos happen to like the name Friday, but 5 months after they gave it to their baby, a court in Genoa ruled that it had to be changed. In Italy, it seems, the law forbids giving children “ridiculous or shameful” first names, Reuters reports. More »
- Collective Funk Settles on Italy
  
  New York Times | Dec 13, 07 8:52 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Italy is in a bad mood, and people from Venice to Naples are worried the current “malessere”—or “malaise—will never lift. On the heels of a Cambridge poll showing Italians to be the unhappiest folks in Europe, Ian Fisher of the New York Times finds a nation whose low-tech charms are wearing thin and whose inhabitants are weary of political corruption, organized crime, and economic doldrums. More »
- Court Indeed a Mickey Mouse Operation
  
  Associated Press | Dec 5, 07 9:10 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - A man is on trial in Italy for counterfeiting Disney and Warner Bros. merchandise, and a surprising set of witnesses has been summoned: Tweety, Mickey Mouse, and Donald and Daisy Duck. Prosecutors in Naples blamed a clerical error for the summons, in which the Italian iterations of the cartoon characters—Titti, Paperino, Paperina and Topolino—were called to testify, the AP reports. More »
November 2007
- Cave of Romulus and Remus Comes to Light
  
  Reuters | Nov 20, 07 3:28 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Archaeologists have found the cave worshiped by ancient Romans as the site where a wolf nursed the infant twins Romulus and Remus, who later founded the city. The cave, called the Lupercale, was found underground in an unexplored site near the palace of Augustus. "You can imagine our amazement, we almost screamed," says the head of the archaeological team. More »
- Berlusconi Makes One Last Push for Power
  
  Independent (UK) | Nov 20, 07 12:27 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Silvio Berlusconi, the richest man in Italy and the longest-serving postwar PM, is pushing for one more shot at the top by founding a new political party, reports the Independent . In a surprise move, Berlusconi is dissolving Forza Italia, the party he built from scratch, and trying to unite the center-right to push Romano Prodi out of office. More »
- Italian Soccer Fans Riot After Shooting
  
  BBC | Nov 11, 07 7:11 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The police shooting of an Italian soccer fan sparked riots and police clashes across the country today, the BBC reports. Hundreds in Rome torched a bus, smashed cop cars, and attacked a police barracks. In Milan, one game was stopped when angry fans tried to storm the field; more violence erupted in southern Italy at lower league games. "It was a tragic error," a police chief said of the killing. More »
October 2007
- Anti-Franco Fights Erupt at Vatican Ceremony
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Oct 29, 07 4:29 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Old wounds were ripped open and fights erupted yesterday as the Vatican beatified 498 priests and nuns killed in the Spanish Civil War. Scuffles between Catholics and leftists broke out near the Vatican's largest-ever beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Square. The Vatican, which supported dictator Francisco Franco during the war, considers the clergy, killed by leftist militias, to be martyrs. More »
- Fraud Probe Pushes Italian PM to Brink
  
  Guardian (UK) | Oct 23, 07 6:48 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Italy's government neared meltdown last night as charges of fraud and embezzlement picked up steam. Prime Minister Romano Prodi and his justice minister are under investigation for diverting funds from the European Union to their own political party in order to shore up support during an election, reports the Guardian . Ministers are trading insults and Prodi's fragile majority is nearing collapse. More »
- Vatican's Fast Action on Gay Priest Could Herald Change
  
  Newsweek | Oct 19, 07 12:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An incident in which a Vatican official was caught on video making advances in his office to a younger man has raised questions about homosexuality in the hierarchy. The immediate suspension of the official also has some convinced that the Holy See has turned a corner in cracking down on priests, reports Newsweek. The video, shown on Italian TV this week, comes as the Vatican is still grappling with pedophile priests. More »
- 'I Was Only Pretending to Be Gay'
  
  Associated Press | Oct 15, 07 11:15 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A high-ranking Vatican official suspended after he was caught on video making advances to a young man said yesterday in an interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica that he posed as a homosexual as part of his work as a psychoanalyst. Monsignor Tommaso Stenico said he is celibately heterosexual and only pretended to be gay to gather information. More »
- Gay Vatican Priest Outed on TV; Ousted by Holy See
  
  Associated Press | Oct 14, 07 6:55 AM CDT