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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brussels, 3 July (AKI) - The European Commission says it will probe Italy's new law to make illegal immigration a crime. The controversial law approved on Thursday has drawn criticism from the Catholic church and rights groups including Amnesty international, as well as Italy's centre-left opposition.
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Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thousands of protesters have clashed with Italian police in the first big protest against the upcoming G8 summit of the world’s richest nations in Italy next week. Police in riot gear fired teargas at protesters on Saturday to prevent them from crossing a bridge and moving closer to a controversial US military base in the northeastern [...]
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Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
VICENZA, Italy (Reuters) - Anti-G8 demonstrators clashed briefly with Italian police on Saturday in the first big protest ahead of next week's summit of the world's richest nations.
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | yesterday
Protesters have clashed with police at a demonstration against the planned expansion of an airport and U.S. military base in the northern city of Vicenza.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Protesters have clashed with police at a demonstration against the planned expansion of an airport and U.S. military base in the northern city of Vicenza.
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Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Rome Sunday for a state visit to Italy, where he will also attend the outreach session of the G8 summit scheduled for Thursday in the central city of L'Aquila.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
ROME -- Protesters have clashed with police at a demonstration against the planned expansion of an airport and U.S. military base in the northern city of Vicenza.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
The death toll from a train accident this week rose Friday to 22 after three hospitalized people died.
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Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | yesterday
Twenty-two people are now known to have died after a train exploded as it passed through an Italian town on Monday night. The death toll rose on Friday after two women and a young man died of their injuries, the BBC reported. At least another 10 people remain in a serious condition after the accident in the northern town of Viareggio, officials said. ...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Munich - The axle of a railway tanker car which broke and set off a lethal fireball this week in an Italian coastal town was German-made, a news magazine said Friday in Munich. Focus quoted Alberto Chiovelli, head of Italy's railway safety authority ...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, Minister responsible for FedNor and Member of Parliament for Parry Sound-Muskoka, will attend the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, from July 8 to 10, 2009.
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Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Italy's prime minister has moved next week's G8 summit on the global economy to an Italian city flattened by an earthquake in April. World leaders attending the three-day meeting, including President Obama, will stay in police barracks in L'Aquila. That facility is where the entire international summit on the financial crisis and climate change will take place. The April 6th earthquake killed nearly...
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Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Italy's council of ministers approved imposing a state of emergency on Friday in the Italian town of Viareggio hit by a powerful gas blast late on Monday.
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Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Aftershocks have rocked the Italian town of L'Aquila, where the G8 summit is due to open this week. The tremors, which have reached 4.1 on the Richter scale, have forced the Italians to consider moving the conference and newspapers are reporting that the security concerns for leaders, including Gordon Brown and Barack Obama, could cause the summit to move to Rome In the meantime briefing papers that...
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parisius | 03/03/2009
Big compensation deal between Lybia and Italy - Berlusconi to Gadhafi: "Come to G-8 with your tent!" Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi travelled to Libya for the ratification of a US$5 billion compensation package involving construction projects and student grants. In return, Italy wants Libya to crack down on illegal immigration. The compensation agreement for Italy's pernicious occupation of Libya