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- Clashes at Italian anti-US demonstration
Protesters have pelted riot police with rocks during an American Independence Day demonstration against the $US500 million ($A632.27 million) enlargement of a US military base in Italy. An AFP photographer says youths among hundreds leading a march on
- Italy: Fresh quakes cause panic ahead of G8 meeting
(AKI) - Two earthquakes struck the region of Abruzzo in central Italy early on Friday, only days before the summit of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations is due to be held there. The first quake occurred at 3:14 am local time and had a
- Italy: Migrants 'afraid to seek medical care' due to new laws
(AKI) - Many immigrants are afraid to seek medical care in Italy because they fear they will be expelled from the country, according to a survey by the Italian-based human rights group EveryOne. The group's survey was released on Thursday as the Italian
- Italy: Illegal immigration becomes a crime
(AKI) - Italy's upper house of parliament on Thursday voted into law a controversial security bill making illegal immigration a punishable offence. The law also allows citizen anti-crime patrols in towns and cities and triples the amount of time illegal
- Italy: Police uncover plot to 'sabotage' train line
(AKI) - Italian police have arrested two suspects in a national investigation of an alleged subversive organisation accused of a plot to sabotage a train line in the centre of the country. The two suspects were detained early Friday after nationwide
- Madagascar - Image
DescriptionMadagascar, the world?s fourth largest island, is highlighted in this image, acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument on 30 June 2009. The island boasts an extremely diverse terrain with beaches and
- [HARDCOVER: US] Theres no solution to loves arithmetic
Page 14 I I was fully expecting, purely for reasons of professional envy, to dislike this book. Anyone whose first novel sells more than a million copies worldwide, and goes on to win Italys most prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega, is bound
- US president hopes to promote climate deal at G8 summit
US President Barack Obama is hoping to restore momentum to the search for a global deal on climate change this year when he chairs a meeting of the major economies during the G8 summit in Italy this week. Obama is hoping that the 17-nation meeting X
- Geldof attacks Italy's aid to Africa shortfall
Pop star turned anti-poverty campaigner Bob Geldof on Saturday accused Italy, the host of next week's Group of Eight meeting in L'Aquila, of failing to keep its promises on aid to Africa. 'The credibility' of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi 'is
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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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