(ANSA) – Rome, July 23 – Farmers` association Coldiretti
on Thursday brought dairy cows and pigs into shopping centres
across the country as part of a three-day protest over
foreign products being passed off as Italian.
The cows were brought to “search supermarket shelves
for milk and cheese that are really Italian“, Coldiretti
said, although it [...]
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(ANSA) – Milan, July 23 – Standard & Poor`s rating agency
on Thursday confirmed its BB+ rating and negative credit
watch on Fiat`s long-term debt.
The confirmation came on the same day that the Italian
group announced that it would float a three-year euro bond on
the Irish stock market.
Fiat [...]
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(ANSA) – Milan, July 23 – Inter coach Jose` Mourinho is
“very happy“ that Cameroon striker Samuel Eto`o is coming
to the Milan club, the club`s chairman Massimo Moratti said
Thursday, dismissing rumours of a disagreement with the
Special One in the Italian media.
Inter and Eto`o agreed personal terms Thursday in a move
that paves [...]
(ANSA) – Milan, July 23 – Inter Milan and Samuele Eto`o have
reached a deal that will bring the Cameroon striker from
Barcelona to the Serie A champions, his agent Josep Maria
Mesalles said Thursday after two hours of talks with club
directors.
The news was confirmed by Inter`s technical director,
Marco Branca.
[...]
(ANSA) – Florence, July 23 – Italian fashion houses will
participate for the first time at CPD Dusseldorf, an
international trade fair for womenswear and accessories, from
July 26-28.
A total of 22 Italian collections of women`s fashion,
shoes and accessories will be on show from names including
Bagutta, Re del Mare and Tropez.
[...]
ROME, Italy (CNN) — Pope Benedict XVI preached and greeted well-wishers Sunday, three days after breaking his wrist in a fall.
The pope celebrates mass with his broken wrist in plaster.
He held the text of his speech in his uninjured left hand, then circulated among the crowd who came to hear him in Romano Canavese, pictures [...]
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L’AQUILA, Italy (AP) — George Clooney has toured the ruins of Italy’s recent earthquake and told the survivors he’ll shoot a film in their mountain region.
The actor inspected crumbled buildings during a visit on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in L’Aquila. The April 6 quake left thousands homeless and killed nearly 300 people.
Italy is [...]
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Rome: Italian scooter company Piaggio on Tuesday launched the world’s first hybrid motorcycle, which combines a petrol engine with an electric motor to yield improved fuel consumption, lower emissions, and the ability to run as a zero-emission, electric-only vehicle in city centres.
The MP3 Hybrid is based on the company’s innovative leaning three-wheeler, which is narrow [...]
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L’Aquila, the Abruzzo region’s capital recently devastated by a major earthquake , is the setting for the 2009 G-8 meetings. World leaders will come together for three days of intense meetings July 8-10. Travelers may want to avoid L’Aquila and nearby parts of the Abruzzo region as security will be very high, often making travel [...]
Italy’s tourism authority is asking its hotels to provide hot water in rooms and calling for more signs in Chinese in a bid to encourage extra visitors from China.
While China’s tourism administration reported a record 40.95 million outbound tourists in 2007, Italy was lamenting the fact that only 800,000 were Italy-bound
Italy is the world’s fifth-largest [...]
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