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In Italy, Online Activism Fires Up “No Berlusconi Day”
Region: Italy
On October 9, Italy's highest Court ruled that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's immunity from prosecution while in office — guaranteed by a special law passed by his own center-right government in 2008 — was unconstitutional. This decision has reopened two pending trials that accuse Berlusconi of false accounting and bribery. Since the court decision, the prime minister has launched a campaign accusing &... more
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Abortion drug RU-486 legalized in Italy
Region: ItalyAfter years of fitful and controversial debates, the government of Italy has legalized the use of the abortion drug RU-486. Despite enormous contrariety and threats of immediate excommunication coming from the Vatican. Italy's drug regulating body, the Italian Drug Agency after a long and woeful deliberation ruled the legalization of the said drug. RU-486 is an oral drug that alters pregnancy by preventing the attachm... more
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Ancient Roman Shipwrecks Discovered in Mediterranean
Region: Italy
Archeologists in Rome discovered five well-preserved ancient Roman shipwrecks submerged about 150 meters of Ventone, a small Mediterranean island between Rome and Naples. The shipwrecks dating back from between the 1st century B.C. and the 4th century includes a cargo-full of important finds such as vases, pots, relics, kitchen tools, glass objects, moratoria, large bowls and amphorae -- which serves to hold wine and ... more
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First Wedding after the Earthquake
Region: ItalyAquila, the Italian town recently struck by an earthquake, celebrates its first wedding after the tragedy. Saturday 18th April saw the first wedding conducted in Aquila after the Italian town was destroyed by an earthquake on April 6. The couple who achieved this unique distinction were Massimo Marinelli, a 33 year old architect and Maria Chiara Aio, a 32 year old employee of Transcom. The civil ceremony was conduct... more
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Italian Citizens Report and Reflect on L'Aquila Earthquake
Region: Italyby Bernardo Parrella On Monday April 6th, at 3:32am local time (01:32 GMT), L'Aquila, capital city of the central Abruzzo region, 60 miles northeast of Rome, was stricken by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake [en]. Even if the country is not new to such tragedies, this is Italy's worst earthquake in three decades. The latest figures include more than 250 people dead, 1,000 people injured (100 of them seriously), and over 25,0... more
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Massive Earthquake in Italy- Emergency Declared
Region: Italy
A massive earthquake jolted Italy leaving atleast 50 people dead among which 5 are children.This earthquake struck north of Rome during the night. The worst affected parts were around the medieval city of L'Aquila, 70 miles (110km) away from the capital. It is speculated that more than 15,000 buildings have been damaged leaving score still trapped under rubble. Rescue workers have started the resc... more
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Kaka to stay in Milan
Region: Italy
AC Milan president and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has ruled out transfer deal with Manchester City surrounding Kaka by telling that the 26-year-old Brazilian will be staying at AC Milan. The former World Player of the Year had been amidst many breaking news and controversies of a reported 100 million euro bid from mega-rich Manchester City in a transfer saga that had been picking up pace over the last wee... more
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Google Earth Reconstructs for Ancient Rome in 3D
Region: ItalyEveryone knows Google Earth because it help us a lot .The virtual taveller can now see every building as it stood in Rome at that time in reality may have been in 320 AD.In reality just 300 buildings of classical Rome have survived, in most cases in ruins. The 3D model is visible on the website as a layer.The layer floats a few meters above the satelite image of present-day Rome so that unsers can ha... more
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Italian Christmas Cookie Recipes
Region: Italy
For the Americans, a cookie is a small biscuit that is more of a bread than a pastry.In Italy,biscotto is "a generic term for small, sweet, dry, crumbly and simply made pastries baked at length in the oven." Surprise your family with the best Christmas cookies and their recipes! 1.Italian Cream Cake-Torta biscotti Makes 5 servings 1/2 cup butter 1 cup shortening 2 cups sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 cup but... more
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Ancient Burial ground discovered in Rome.
Region: Italy
Rome: In Rome beneath the ancient Via Labicana in the St Peter and St.Marcellin catacombs bones were discovered recently. Nearly 20,000 to 25,000 bodies where buried in the catacombs during the third and fourth centuries. more
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