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- Demonstrators gather for G8 protest in Italy
VICENZA, Italy (Reuters) - Anti-G8 demonstrators gathered on Saturday in an Italian city which is home to a contested U.S. military base in the first big protest ahead of next week's summit of the world's richest nations. Organisers expect 10,000 people
- Three Indian children to attend J8 summit in Rome
New Delhi, July 4 : The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has picked three children to represent India at the J8 summit, a confluence of young people from countries participating in the G8 summit. Sanjukta Pangi, a 16-year-old girl from Orissa,
- Pope urges G8 leaders to act on crisis
(AP)
AP - Pope Benedict XVI has urged G-8 leaders meeting next week in central Italy to rewrite global financial rules and defend the world's poor from the effects of the economic downturn.
- No US Bases in Vicenza, Italy Please!
?No Dal Molin? Vicenza, Italy Dear President Obama, Your victory sent a wave of hope across the world and we, too, now believe that change is possible. Our hope is that you will know how to demonstrate, in no uncertain terms, that the rights of the
- 10%-15% cut 'likely' at Copenhagen
- As major economies prepare to discuss their greenhouse gas targets at a meeting in Italy next week, an Australian expert says on present data a global agreement for developed countries to cut emissions by 10%-15% is the likely outcome of UN talks in
- Rudd promises to match Italy earthquake fundraising
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised to match funds raised by the Italian community in Australia to help victims of the disastrous earthquake which devastated the city of L'Aquila in April. Addressing the Italian-Australian Fundraising Dinner in
- Spain police foil radio control zeppelin jailbreak
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police said on Friday they had foiled an Italian drug trafficker's plan to break out of jail in the Canary Islands using climbing equipment and a four-metre-long zeppelin. 'The plan consisted of using a remotely controlled
- Spainish police foil zeppelin jailbreak
MADRID: Spanish police said on Friday they had foiled an Italian drug trafficker's plan to break out of jail in the Canary Islands using climbing equipment and a four-metre-long zeppelin. 'The plan consisted of using a remotely controlled zeppelin to
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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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