Articles by ITALY
Thu, 10/27/2005 - 06:04
(ANSA) - Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said on Wednesday that Silvio Berlusconi could be replaced as leader of the centre right if other coalition…
Thu, 10/27/2005 - 05:51
(ANSA) - An unsung Italian explorer of the American West is to be celebrated in his native city.Costantino Beltrami, an adventurer who found the sou…
Thu, 10/27/2005 - 04:58
(ANSA) - The Calabrian Mafia was hit again on Wednesday when police arrested two mobsters after finding a massive amount of military-style plastic exp…
Wed, 10/26/2005 - 05:31
(ANSA) - Italy's plans to build a bridge linking Sicily to the Italian mainland were hit Tuesday when the European Commission said it might withhold…
Wed, 10/26/2005 - 05:26
(ANSA) - Alitalia flight assistants were up in arms on Tuesday over reports that the company plans to use air hostesses and stewards from China and…
Wed, 10/26/2005 - 05:22
(ANSA) - Tens of thousands of university students took to the streets of Rome on Tuesday to protest against higher education reforms planned by the g…
Tue, 10/25/2005 - 05:25
(ANSA) - Trieste is playing host to the 2005 edition of a film festival that has become one of Europe's top celebrations of South American culture.…
Tue, 10/25/2005 - 05:21
(ANSA) - In a string of coordinated raids across Italy, police on Monday smashed an organized crime ring which dealt in the illegal disposal of tra…
Tue, 10/25/2005 - 04:17
(ANSA) - With a family of five feared dead after torrential rains demolished a bridge in southern Italy, public officials sounded the alarm on Monday…
Mon, 10/24/2005 - 05:15
(ANSA) - Torrential rain and storms have claimed the lives of at least five people in southern Italy over the past 24 hours. Civil protection authori…
Mon, 10/24/2005 - 05:09
(ANSA) - Controversy over a hit new TV show on state broadcaster RAI were reignited on Sunday when Premier Silvio Berlusconi accused the programme of…
Mon, 10/24/2005 - 05:03
(ANSA) - Cabinet ministers made a show of tucking into chicken for lunch here on Saturday in a bid to allay consumer fears over bird flu. Economy Min…
Mon, 10/24/2005 - 04:26
(ANSA) - A major anti-terrorism drill in Naples left five people injured for real on Saturday when two ambulances involved in the exercise collided wi…
Sat, 10/22/2005 - 05:07
Italian politics are extremely hard to understand without solid references to the main events in Italian history of the past century. Stefano Rossini,…
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 06:11
(ANSA) - Italian families, which were willing to buy a flat in the city, had to spend their earnings for nine years in 2004, while in 1995 the average…
Fri, 10/21/2005 - 06:08
(ANSA) - A controversial bill increasing the powers of the premier and Italy's 20 regions was approved by the House on Thursday amid heated protests…
Thu, 10/20/2005 - 07:06
(ANSA) - Two drunken youths entered the grounds of Premier Silvio Berlusconi's luxurious Sardinian villa this summer and took a dip in his swimming…
Thu, 10/20/2005 - 06:16
(ANSA) - Premier Silvio Berlusconi firmly denied on Wednesday that his government had abandoned the widow of a southern politician murdered at the we…
Thu, 10/20/2005 - 06:12
(ANSA) - Parole judges rejected on Wednesday a bid to obtain softer prison conditions by jailed 'boss of bosses' Salvatore (Toto') Riina. The judges…
Thu, 10/20/2005 - 05:59
(ANSA) - Excavations in Cremona have confirmed a legendary description of the city's destruction in December 69 AD by the Latin historian Tacitus. Arc…