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Italian government willing to risk same fate for Mediterranean as Gulf of Mexico
Photo of Abruzzo coastline posted on Flickr by Vito Manzari. The Italian government is pushing ahead with plans to permit offshore drilling just five kilometres off the coastline of the rural region of...
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A badly airbrushed photo backfires on Berlusconi
here for the enlarged version of the photo, if you're suspicious. According to the caption on the upper left-hand corner, the photo was taken on April 18, 2008 at Milan’s Piazza del Duomo, and shows...
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Berlusconi's macho image helps him win elections
One would think Silvio Berlusconi's wife's decision to leave him has put the Italian prime minister in a tight spot only weeks before the European elections. But our Italian Observer Alberto Celani...
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Berlusconi: offensive or hilarious?
A dispute has broken out in Italy after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said the women there are "so beautiful" that the country doesn't have enough soldiers to prevent them from being raped....
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Berlusconi's soldiers walk the streets of Italy
The Italian government has sent soldiers out into the streets of the country's major cities in an attempt to curb crime and prevent terrorist attacks. A tactic usually employed in war time, the...
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Indifferent holidaymakers sunbathe next to dead Roma girls
UPDATE (23.07.08 - 5pm): We contacted the Naples journalist who took the photos. He thinks that the affair has been blown out of proportion. Read his account further down the page. Two girls of Roma...
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Italy’s Roma face fingerprinting
One of our Observers for Italy recently alerted us to the news that as part of a major clampdown on "gypsy" communities the government plans to compile a fingerprint database of the country's entire...
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Elections in Italy: "The only candidate was Veltrusconi"
"Veltrusconi" by associazionebarbarica.org Italian comedian Beppe Grillo called on the Italian electorate to boycott yesterday's parliamentary elections. On his blog, considered by Technorati as one of...
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