(ANSA)- Rome, April 21 – There has been no ransom
request for the Italian tugboat Buccaneer seized off northern
Somalia and which local officials say was transporting toxic
waste, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini told
parliament on Tuesday.
Addressing the House`s Security Committee, Frattini
reiterated that the Buccaneer was not carrying toxic waste to
dump illegally in [...]
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(ANSA) – Rome, April 21 – Italy showed foresight in
boycotting the United Nations Durban Review Conference on
Racism in Geneva, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said
Tuesday.
“We foresaw everything: we were farsighted; what we
imagined would happen did happen,“ the premier said after an
unprecedented walk-out on Monday in protest at Iranian
President Mahmoud Amhadinejad`s description [...]
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(ANSA) – Rome, April 21 – The Colosseum is in an
unacceptable state and restoration work should begin on it as
soon as possible, Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno said on Tuesday
as the city celebrated its 2,762th birthday.
The mayor told Culture Undersecretary Francesco Giro he
hoped the restoration of the ancient Roman monument [...]
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(ANSA) – Rome, April 21 – Foreign Minister Franco
Frattini said Tuesday that laws on assisting illegal
immigrants “must be respected“ after Italy was forced to
rescue seaborne migrants that Malta refused.
Around 140 Africans were left stranded on a Turkish
freighter which had rescued them from the sea as both Italy
and Malta denied it [...]
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(ANSA) – Brussels, April 21 – Italy has carried out 670
search and rescue operations in waters controlled by Malta
since the beginning of 2007, according to a dossier Italy
presented to the European Commission in a dispute between the
two countries Tuesday.
Italy reiterated in the dossier that Turkish freighter
Pinar with 240 migrants aboard [...]
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Silvio Berlusconi appears with a giant pair of wings and little else in a new work of art, an equally scantily clad female minister next to him in the composition that is creating a sensation.
“I did it as a joke!” the artist, Filippo Panseca, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “I’ve been doing all sorts [...]
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L’AQUILA, Italy Powerful aftershocks jolted this crumbling city on Tuesday again, rescue efforts were disturbed and already fragile buildings, including the cupola of L’Aquila’s cathedral, damaged even more. The death toll from Monday’s earthquake rose Wednesday to 250, including a young couple Lorenzo Cinì, 23, and his girlfriend, students whose bodies were pulled from the rubble [...]
Continue reading about Abruzzo Quake Death Toll reaches at 250
April 6th 2009 Abruzzo has witnessed Italy’s deadliest earthquake in almost three decades, killed at least 150 in the region of Abruzzo today, left tens of thousands without shelter and leveled centuries old historical buildings that had stood for many 100s of years.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, speaking in a televised interview late today, updated [...]