Tag: Italian

As Italian police use video footage and photos to identify violent protesters from Saturday’s clashes at an anti-capitalist march in Rome, one blog has...

Defending drivers world champion Sebastian Vettel moved within sight of retaining his title with ease on Sunday when he drove to a comprehensive victory...

Italy’s defence ministry said Wednesday that an Italian naval ship off Libya reported that a missile fell into the water nearby, but it was...

Italian police have arrested dozens of suspects in raids to break up a gang smuggling migrants from Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan in life-threatening conditions,...

Afghan authorities said Sunday they had captured 11 people accused of carrying out a deadly attack on an Italian-led reconstruction team in western Afghanistan....

The Afghan government says militants are attacking an Italian base in western Afghanistan as a suicide attacker blew up a bomb-packed car outside the...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi complained to US President Barack Obama about his legal woes during an informal chat at the G8 summit in...

Females from the slum areas of Islamabad got a healthy activity as Youth Development Association organised an Italian floral and jewellery making training workshop...

Thousands of Italian public sector and transport workers took to the streets Friday in a strike which snarled air, rail and roads as Italy’s...

GAZA CITY - A radical group hanged an Italian activist Friday hours after kidnapping him in Gaza, Hamas said, as Rome denounced the murder.
The pro-Palestinian activist was found hanged in a house north of Gaza City, the ruling Hamas government said.
"The government media office denounces the criminal kidnapping and murder of an Italian solidarity activist... who was found by security hanging in an abandoned house in northern Gaza," it said.
Hamas said two suspected

ROME - One minister tells parliament's speaker to "go screw yourself", another hurls his electronic ID card at opposition benches and a coalition legislator calls a wheelchair-bound colleague "stupid cripple". Even by Italian standards, such angry scenes have raised fresh questions about how long Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government can survive and whether the only solution to a parliamentary paralysis is early elections.
"Parliament is in chaos. The president is

ROME - Italy has sold Libya explosives, gun targeting equipment and other military hardware worth tens of millions of euros (dollars) in the past two years, Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on Saturday.
The newspaper quoted an official report from the Italian interior ministry that listed signed contracts as well as ongoing negotiations between Libya and several major Italian defence companies including industry giant Finmeccanica. Missile systems maker Mbda Italia

ROME - Thousands of women took to the streets of Italian cities Sunday calling for "dignity" and greater rights after a series of lurid prostitution scandals involving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. "We are defending the dignity of women," read a placard held up at one of the rallies in Palermo, where thousands of women marched through the city. Thousands more rallied in Bari, Trieste and Venice -- with men also joining.
Solidarity protests by women abroad were also expected,

ALGIERS - An Italian woman tourist travelling with a driver and a tour guide has been kidnapped in the Sahara desert region of southern Algeria, security sources said Friday. The 56-year-old Italian who has not been identified was abducted Wednesday around 6:00 pm (1700 GMT) in Alidena, an area around 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of Djanet, the main town in southeastern Algeria, a security official in the region contacted by AFP said.
The driver and guide who accompanied her

ROME - Italy's judges vowed not to be intimidated and rallied to support Milan colleagues investigating the sex scandal surrounding Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday as the prime minister rounded on the magistrates. The billionaire media magnate has denounced the probe into his sex life as a politically motivated attack and warned last week the judges' behaviour could not go "without adequate punishment."
"The judges will continue to carry out their duties without being intimidated,"

ROME: One of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's best known ministers said on Sunday she will resign after confidence votes next month that could trigger elections.
Equal Opportunities Minister Mara Carfagna told Il Mattino newspaper that she would back the government in the December 14 votes but resign the next day from the cabinet and also from 74-year-old Berlusconi's party.
She said she had been sidelined in the government and criticised Berlusconi for losing control of

PARIS: Italian sprinter Daniele Bennati has signed a two-year deal with the Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project, where brothers Andy and Frank Schleck will carry hopes of winning the Tour de France yellow jersey.
Bennati has joined compatriots Davide Vigano and first-year pro Giacomo Nizzolo, as well as Portugese Bruno Pires in signing for the team. "Bennati is such a classy rider and we are very happy to have him," general manager Brian Nygaard said.
"He is really passionate