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- Italy's Parmalat reports 18 percent drop in 1Q net profit
ROME-Parmalat SpA said Wednesday its first-quarter net profit fell 18 percent as higher production costs and marketing expenses weighed down on core earnings. Net profit fell to ?90.2 million (US$139.26 million) from ?110.3 million (US$170.29
- Gypsy encampments torched near Naples: agency
0 Firefighters had just put out the first blaze in Ponticelli on the fringes of Naples when a second encampment nearby was set alight, Italy's ANSA news agency said. Police said the blazes were meant to scare off the Roma, who had abandoned their huts
- Ivanovic crashes out to qualifier in Rome
ROME - Top-seeded Ana Ivanovic was upset by Bulgarian qualifier Tsvetana Pironkova 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 Wednesday in the second round of the Italian Open. Venus Williams advanced to the third round by defeating Samantha Stosur 6-4, 6-1, and Serena Williams
- Ivanovic loses, Williams sisters advance in Rome
Venus Williams advanced to the third round by defeating Samantha Stosur 6-4, 6-1, and Serena Williams routed Alona Bondarenko 6-2, 6-0. Defending champion Jelena Jankovic defeated Flavia Pennetta 6-1, 6-4. Ivanovic struggled with her consistency and
- Into a U.S. netherworld for travellers
An Italian's experience with the Customs and Border Protection Agency underscores the real and little-known dangers that many travelers from Europe and other first-world nations face when in the United States.
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Italy became a nation-state belatedly - in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula and Sicily were united under King Victor Emmanuel. The Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini that took over after World War I led to a disastrous alliance with Nazi Germany and Italian defeat in World War II. Revival followed. Italy was a charter member of NATO and the European Economic Community (EEC) and joined the growing political and economic unification of Western Europe, including the introduction of the euro in 1999.
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AP - Mob violence against Zimbabweans and other foreigners this week has killed at least two people and injured about 60 in an impoverished Johannesburg neighborhood, authorities said Wednesday.
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