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(ANSA) - Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said on Wednesday that Silvio Berlusconi could be replaced as leader of the centre right if other coalition…
(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…
(ANSA) - The Calabrian Mafia was hit again on Wednesday when police arrested two mobsters after finding a massive amount of military-style plastic exp…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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.…
(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…
(ANSA) - With a family of five feared dead after torrential rains demolished a bridge in southern Italy, public officials sounded the alarm on Monday…
(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…
(ANSA) - Controversy over a hit new TV show on state broadcaster RAI were reignited on Sunday when Premier Silvio Berlusconi accused the programme of…
(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…
(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…
Italian politics are extremely hard to understand without solid references to the main events in Italian history of the past century. Stefano Rossini,…
(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…
(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…
(ANSA) - Two drunken youths entered the grounds of Premier Silvio Berlusconi's luxurious Sardinian villa this summer and took a dip in his swimming…
(ANSA) - Premier Silvio Berlusconi firmly denied on Wednesday that his government had abandoned the widow of a southern politician murdered at the we…
(ANSA) - Parole judges rejected on Wednesday a bid to obtain softer prison conditions by jailed 'boss of bosses' Salvatore (Toto') Riina. The judges…
(ANSA) - Excavations in Cremona have confirmed a legendary description of the city's destruction in December 69 AD by the Latin historian Tacitus. Arc…