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Italy Has Undeserved Crime Reputation. EU and US Look to Thine Selves!This is a follow up to the rather ignoramus column "Winners at Cannes are hits in Italy too" written by Christine Spolar's, in the Chicago Tribune, "Italy Fights Crime" July 7. and responded to by Rosario A. Iaconis of the Italic Institute."Italy Fights Crime" on July 13, and Reported by me on July 18. Now Chuck Goudie on July 21, in the Chicago Daily Herald displayed his limited Arkie Intellect that once again Rosario A. Iaconis responded to on July 23.
Source : topix.net | 24-Jul-2008 09:41
School trip girl in fall from hotel
A British schoolgirl is in a serious condition in Italy after reportedly falling 30 feet from her hotel window.
Source : topix.net | 24-Jul-2008 08:01
Italy Calls Off 'Gypsy' Fingerprinting Plan
A member of the Red Cross gives milk to a Roma family during the collection of personal data in a... A member of the Red Cross gives milk to a Roma family during the collection of personal data in a camp in the ...
Source : topix.net | 24-Jul-2008 03:41
No consent: Italy finally flips on 'tight jeans' rape ruling
IT is nearly a decade since Italy's top appeals court caused a furore by ruling that a woman wearing tight jeans cannot by definition be raped or sexually molested because the removal of the garment requires ...
Source : topix.net | 23-Jul-2008 23:10
Italy's Berlusconi wins immunity from prosecution
By Phil Stewart
ROME (Reuters) - The Italian parliament approved a law on Tuesday giving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution, a victory for the conservative billionaire who has long complained of being hounded by "biased" prosecutors.
Despite protests from the weakened centre-left opposition, the senate gave final approval for legislation halting criminal trials against Italy's top four elected officials, including Berlusconi, while they are in office.
Critics said the measure was custom-designed to rid the 71-year-old media mogul of legal headaches, including a high-profile graft case against him and British lawyer David Mills in Milan.
Source : topix.net | 23-Jul-2008 18:32
The Annotico Report: Italy's Rossi Wins US Moto Grand Prix at Laguna Seca
Valentino Rossi's 66th career victory finally conquered one of the two tracks he had yet to win on in MotoGP.
Source : topix.net | 22-Jul-2008 11:50
Italian panel gives initial OK to fingerprinting everyone in country
ROME _ An Italian parliamentary panel gave initial approval Wednesday to a plan fingerprint everyone in the country, a move that could defuse criticism over a mandatory program to fingerprint Gypsies.
Source : topix.net | 22-Jul-2008 10:38
Medvedev: RF-Italian humanitarian cooperation developing actively
President Dmitry Medvedev said humanitarian cooperation was developing actively between Russia and Italy.
Source : topix.net | 22-Jul-2008 06:02
Man beats child's head on Rome monument
A man beat his 4-year-old daughter's head against the stone base of a Rome monument in front of tourists and a police officer, leaving the child in a coma, police said Sunday.
Carabinieri Lt. Col. Antonello Casarsa said the man, identified as Frenchman Julien Monnet, 37, repeatedly struck the head of his daughter, Luna, against the stone of the Altar of the Nation _ a towering monument to Italy's war victims in Rome's Piazza Venezia _ after a traffic officer asked to see some identification.
Source : topix.net | 22-Jul-2008 01:23
Naples trash clean-up 'under way'
The Italian prime minister plans to declare Friday that the worst part of a garbage crisis in Naples is over, even though a visit to one neighborhood found residents still living amid huge piles of trash.
Source : topix.net | 21-Jul-2008 20:56
Seattle soldier among 9 killed in Afghanistan
Nine soldiers from eight states were killed in an insurgent raid that penetrated an American outpost in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.
Source : topix.net | 21-Jul-2008 16:32
Italy's New Rock Bands
While Italians may enjoy "pop" music from the outside world, the outside world has more of an inclination to enjoy "pop" music with English/American lyrics.
Source : topix.net | 20-Jul-2008 10:26
Obama Skips Italy in Europe and Mid East Tour
It was disappointing that England, France, and Germany will be on Obama's Europe itinerary, but Italy will not! !!! Each of those three have the three highest GDP, and have the greatest influence in Europe.
Source : topix.net | 19-Jul-2008 12:17
Crimes in US Under Rated, Over Exaggerated in Italy
It is remarkable how myopic and blinded the US is to its Gang Violence problem, and absolutely paranoid about so called domestic terrorism,BUT is so critical about crime in other countries, especially Italy.
Source : topix.net | 19-Jul-2008 12:16
Ronaldinho Signs with Milan AC - Fans Estatic
Ronaldinho scored 91 goals in 200 appearances in five seasons at Barcelona, and helped lead the club to consecutive Spanish league titles in 2005 and '06, and the Champions League trophy in 2006. Milan finished a dismal fifth in Serie A last season and was eliminated by Arsenal in the second round of the Champions League. This season, Milan will play in the second-tier UEFA Cup. This year Milan AC is aiming for a quick rebound, back to the top of European football, now that Ronaldinho has joined Kaka and Alexandre Pato in an all-Brazilian attack.
Source : topix.net | 18-Jul-2008 14:52
Collegian Visits Sicily to Discover Source of Her Pride
Jennifer Imbro, like most Italian Americans, wanted to know why she was so proud of her Italian-American heritage.
Source : topix.net | 18-Jul-2008 14:51
In Italy jobs are created mainly by small and medium firms
It's what comes out from the latest "Rapporto Excelsior", the survey drawn up yearly by the Italian Chambers of Commerce in cooperation with the Labour Ministry.
Source : topix.net | 17-Jul-2008 11:52
Hadrian: Military Mastermind, Master Builder, One of World's Greatest Leaders at the British Museum
Hadrian, it now appears, was a supremely talented political and military strategist .
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 09:25
Italy Women Volleyball Team Wins Bronze at FIVB World Grand Prix Final in Yokohama, Japan
World 2nd Ranked Italy had to settle for Bronze at the FIVB World Grand Prix Women's Volleyball.
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 09:24
Veni, Vedi, Venice: The Three Intriguing Campi
The authenic Spirit of Venice are it's "Campi" , or City Squares, where Live is really lived. Here are the three that will intrique. (1) Campo Santa Maria Formosa, Castello, (2) Campo San Zaccaria, Castello, and (3) Campo San Barnaba, Dorsoduro
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 09:23
Mario Balotelli, Teen Soccer Phenom Chooses Azzurri
Mario Balotelli, born in Sicily of Ghanaian parents,, but adopted by and raised by Sicilian parents, is a Teenage soccer sensation with Inter Milan with his pace and power causing troubles for defences across the Serie A. Mario is eligible for both the Ghanaian and Italian teams, and the Ghanaian had hoped Mario would play for the Black Stars, BUT Mario is intent on playing for the Azzurri.
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 09:22
Sudan will urge UN to block Darfur prosecution
In this Friday, Sept. 14, 2007 file photo, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is seen in Rome, Italy.
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 08:54
Berlusconi Gov't Wins Confidence Vote In Italy
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservative government won a confidence vote in parliament Tuesday over a security package that includes measures to fight crime and a contested proposal to suspend some ...
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 04:29
Forces of Order found guilty of G8 brutality
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 Fifteen Italians including police officers, doctors and prison guards were found guilty of abusing and beating protesters at the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001.
Source : topix.net | 15-Jul-2008 23:53
80,000 payout for driver who was told to retake his test because he was gay
A man who was told to retake his driving test because he is homosexual is to receive 80,000 compensation.
Source : topix.net | 15-Jul-2008 19:24
Italy: the 92.63% of tax evasion discovered is not collected
Even if the 92.63% of tax evasion discovered is not drawn, last year, the takings from tax evasion were roughly 3.46 billion euros, with an improvement in tax collection by 71 per cent from 2006 and by 272 per ...
Source : topix.net | 14-Jul-2008 11:05
Rastas can use cannabis, Italian court rules
Rastafarians have always regarded Ethiopia as the promised land, but Italy could rank a close second after its Supreme Court ruled that smoking or possessing cannabis is not a criminal offence but a religious ...
Source : topix.net | 14-Jul-2008 06:48
Italian wins damages over gay driving test retake
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian court has ruled the government must pay 100,000 euros ($157,700) in damages to a man who was told to retake a driving test because he was homosexual.
When 26 year-old Danilo Giuffrida told doctors he was gay at his medical examination for military service, they passed the information to the transport ministry, who told him he must repeat his driving test or have his license withdrawn due to his "sexual identity disturbance."
Giuffrida agreed to re-take his test, passed it for a second time, but the ministry renewed his license for just one year rather than the usual 10 years because of his homosexuality.
Source : topix.net | 14-Jul-2008 02:19
Bhansali's 'Padmavati' gets a standing ovation in Italy too
By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, July 10: The Italians, past masters at staging and appreciating operas, gave Bollywood filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Padmavati" a standing ovation when it was staged in Spoleto, ...
Source : topix.net | 13-Jul-2008 21:42
White House sorry about Berlusconi bio gaffe
An embarrassed White House apologized on Tuesday for an "unfortunate mistake" -- the distribution of less-than-flattering biography of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi at the Group of Eight summit.
Source : topix.net | 13-Jul-2008 17:14
J-Lo's restaurant closes
Jennifer Lopez attends the press conference where Marc Anthony received the Honorary Award from Milan Town Council held at Palazzo Marino on July 01, 2008 in Milan, Italy.
Source : topix.net | 13-Jul-2008 12:50
Bush takes his green polluter label as a joke
Seems the President of the USA George W. Bush made a remark that may go down in history as the most foolish goof ups made by a leader.
Source : topix.net | 13-Jul-2008 08:09
'A different world'
An executive with one of Canada's major modelling agencies questions whether the agency representing murdered model Diana O'Brien did due diligence before sending her to work in Shanghai.
Source : topix.net | 13-Jul-2008 03:16
Italy's food detectives sniff out the fraud trail
Inspector Giorgio Capovani laid out his array of cheese impostors.
A wedge of 'Parmesansan' made in Lithuania, a container of 'Parmazano Fiorentino' produced in Britain and labeled 'dairy free,' a chunk of German 'Parmezano' sold in Mexico.
The motley assortment of long-expired cheese products he keeps in a refrigerator is proof that rip-offs know no borders nor limits to the imagination. And it's not just cheese. Hams too can be suspect. And basil. And vinegar.
Capovani, whose rotund belly could rival a huge wheel of the cheese officially titled Parmigiano-Reggiano, belongs to a growing breed of food detectives sought out by producers of Italian foods that have earned prestigious European Union protection.
Source : topix.net | 12-Jul-2008 22:18
Pope Benedict leaves for pilgrimage to Australia
Pope Benedict XVI waves before embarking on a flight to Australia for a 10-day pilgrimage, in Rome's Fiumicino airport, Saturday July 12, 2008.
Source : topix.net | 12-Jul-2008 17:43
Italy's crime crackdown called racist
The Italian government knew it was courting criticism when it began fingerprinting and rounding up the oft-targeted minority known also as Roma.
Source : topix.net | 12-Jul-2008 12:55
Topless model turned Italian cabinet minister sues comedian over...
It involves a former topless model and the Italian prime minister, and has all the makings of a risque joke.
Source : topix.net | 12-Jul-2008 08:17
Joel Brinkley: In Naples, Italy, trash rules
This may be the only city on Earth where the nation's prime minister was forced to send a well-armed military regiment to guard the garbage dump.
Source : topix.net | 12-Jul-2008 03:42
Berlusconi wins immunity battle
A proposed law that would leave Italy's four most senior officials, including premier and Mediaset owner Silvio Berlusconi, immune from prosecution came a step closer late Thursday.
Source : topix.net | 11-Jul-2008 23:21
Italian prosecutors seek indictment of US student, 2 others in slaying of British student
Prosecutors on Friday requested the indictments of an American and two other suspects on charges of murdering a British college student in Italy.
Source : topix.net | 11-Jul-2008 18:50
Ancient Rome's she-wolf statue not so ancient?
She suckled Rome's legendary twin founders and fed Benito Mussolini's ambitious dreams of renewed imperial glories.
Source : topix.net | 11-Jul-2008 14:23
EU Lawmakers Press Italy to Stop Fingerprinting Roma
EU lawmakers on Thursday, July 10 urged Italy to stop fingerprinting its Roma and Sinti population as part of a crackdown on crime, sparking an indignant reaction from Rome.
Source : topix.net | 11-Jul-2008 09:48
G-8 tries to be inclusive, but wary of expansion
Despite its name, this year's Group of Eight summit had a cast of more than two dozen -- and leaders said they will keep inviting heads of state from all over the world to give a global spin to its annual ...
Source : topix.net | 11-Jul-2008 05:19
Crude Oil Drops $5 on Speculation G-8 Members Will Support Stronger Dollar
Crude oil fell more than $5 a barrel as the dollar rose to a one-week high against the euro amid speculation that leaders from the Group of Eight industrialized nations will signal support for the currency.
Source : topix.net | 11-Jul-2008 00:53
What's so funny? Experts examine the serious side of humour
FROM the frontiers of laughter research, scholars offer these words of comfort: if you are mortified of dancing for fear of being the butt of jokes, fret not, you are far from alone.
Source : topix.net | 10-Jul-2008 20:18
Berlusconi rivals rally support against new law
Italian opposition parties are planning to demonstrate Tuesday against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's attempt to pass legislation that critics say would protect him in an ongoing court case.
Source : topix.net | 10-Jul-2008 15:35