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The final break up between Berlusconi and Fini

di Giorgia Cavera

Troubles never stop in Italian politics for the recent break up between the leader of the Chamber of Deputies and co-founder of the Freedom party Gianfranco Fini and Premier Silvio Berlusconi. Their relationship now has become final with the statement released by the PDL president’s office, which refers three parliamentarians, Italo Bocchino, Carmelo Briguglio and Fabio Granata, to the party’s disciplinary committee. Besides, there were 33 votes in favour and three against from Fini supporters Andrea Ronchi, Adolfo Urso and Pasquale Viespoli.

Categorie: Politica | This is It...aly!
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30 lug
14:21
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Cinema: Venezia film festival about to start

di Giorgia Cavera

Beautiful Venice will be soon the breathtaking scenery of the 67th Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, from the 1st to 11th September 2010 at Venice Lido. The aim of the Festival, directed by Marco Müller since 2004, is to promote various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance.

Categorie: Cinema&Teatro | This is It...aly!
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29 lug
11:57
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Two Italian soldiers killed in Afghanistan

di Giorgia Cavera

Two Italian soldiers were killed yesterday in the north-west of Afghanistan when a roadside bomb hit their armoured vehicle, military sources in Rome told ANSA. The sources said no other Italian personnel were involved in the blast, some kilometres north of Herat.

Categorie: Cronaca | This is It...aly!
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28 lug
12:31
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Members of Parliament decide for a pay cut, but with an “attendance fee”

di Giorgia Cavera

Italian MPs voted to take a pay cut of 1,000 euros a month in their 15,000 euros salary as part of austerity measures aimed at bringing Italy’s budget deficit in line with European Union rules, but we know, all the roses have thorns. Infact as nice as it may seem, once again we have to face the awful truth.

Categorie: Politica | This is It...aly!
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23 lug
14:13
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Marchionne emigrates to Serbia for Fiat and Lancia brands

di Giorgia Cavera

Fiat and Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne announced today that due to labor concerns in Italy, Fiat would produce the next-generation multiperson vehicles for the Fiat and Lancia brands in Serbia, not Italy. Three models will replace the Fiat Multipla, Fiat Idea and Lancia Musa, all currently produced at Fiat’s Mirafiore plant in Italy. They are to go on sale in 2012.

Categorie: Economia & Aziende | This is It...aly!
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22 lug
11:58
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New phone tap bill, Fini exults: “compromise has been reached”

di Giorgia Cavera

One more time we return to speak of the phone-tap bill. A new amendment of the law yesterday destroyed Berlusconi’s hopes while Gianfranco Fini and his supporters have earned a political victory.

Categorie: This is It...aly!
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21 lug
16:23
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Economy: Austerity budget ‘touched bigwigs’

di Giorgia Cavera

Ansa reported today the words of Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti about Italy’s austerity budget: “It has for the first time touched bigwigs”. Referring to protests against salary cuts by diplomats and other high-ranking civil servants, Tremonti also said: “if you ask staff to make sacrifices you have to ask the highest levels to (make them) too”.

Categorie: Politica | This is It...aly!
PA
20 lug
15:00
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Record number of visitors for a “Caravaggio White Night” in Rome

di Giorgia Cavera

More than 20,000 art lovers crowded the Galleria Borghese and the churches of Santa Maria del Popolo, Sant’Agostino and San Luigi dei Francesi for the special itinerary to illustrate Michelangelo Merisi’s masterpieces in a white night out in Rome last week end.

Categorie: Arte & Cultura | Oltre lo Stretto | This is It...aly!
PA
19 lug
16:28
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Palermo: Today the 18th anniversary of Paolo Borsellino’s assassination

di Giorgia Cavera

Today is the day of commemoration for Palermo, for Sicily, for Italy. Eighteen years ago the Sicilian Mafia Cosa Nostra, killed the two most prominent anti-mafia investigators: Giovanni Falcone assassinated on May 23rd 1992 and Paolo Borsellino, on July the 19th of the same year, both with their escorts.

Categorie: Politica | This is It...aly!
PA
16 lug
13:30
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The Vatican hardened its line on paedophilia

di Giorgia Cavera

The Vatican yesterday tightened up its line on paedophilia after recent scandals involved priests having abused minors sexually. It was officially declared that the statute of limitations for paedophilia has been lengthened from ten to twenty years in the updated version of a 2001 list of canon law Delicta Graviora (Major Crimes).

Categorie: Religione | This is It...aly!
PA
14 lug
13:26
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Palermo’s patron saint Santa Rosalia and the tradition of the “Festino”

di Giorgia Cavera

Every 14th of July, the people of Palermo celebrate the festivity of Santa Rosalia, the Patron saint of the city, who is nowadays largely still venerated. The so-called “Festino” is considered for the majority of the inhabitants a “not-to-be-missed night event” made of Sicilian tradition and amusement, with street food and live music.

Categorie: Arte & Cultura | Religione | This is It...aly!
PA
13 lug
11:43
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Dell’Utri and Cosentino probed in “P3 case”

di Giorgia Cavera

Senator Marcello Dell’Utri and Economy Undersecretary Nicola Cosentino were placed under investigation by Italian prosecutors yesterday. They are both suspected of criminal conspiracy and breaking rules, set up after the P2 ’state within a state’ scandal, outlawing secret associations.

Categorie: Politica | This is It...aly!
PA
12 lug
11:23
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Marco Travaglio and his “Promemoria” arrived in Palermo

di Giorgia Cavera

Marco Travaglio was the real protagonist of the show “Promemoria” (transl. Memorandum) which took place at the theatre of Villa Filippina in Palermo last week end.

Categorie: Cinema&Teatro | Politica | This is It...aly!
PA
08 lug
12:09
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Earthquake: L’Aquila inhabitants protest in Rome and get beat up

di Giorgia Cavera

A significant number of citizens coming from the city of L’Aquila and led by the mayor Massimo Cialente (around 5,000 people) arrived in Rome yesterday to protest against the government politics for the situation they are still facing in Abruzzo after the ruinous earthquake that stroke the city and its surroundings on April the 6th 2009.

Categorie: Cronaca | This is It...aly!
PA
07 lug
14:00
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Minister Brancher resigned in court

di Giorgia Cavera

Aldo Brancher, 67, the minister appointed to Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s government last month resigned during an embezzlement trial Monday, after facing criticism inside and outside government that he was only appointed as ‘federalism minister’ to take advantage of a new law allowing ministers to claim a ‘legitimate impediment’ from attending trials.

Categorie: Politica | This is It...aly!
PA
01 lug
16:07
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Today the protest against the new bill on wiretaps, press freedom is at risk

di Giorgia Cavera

This afternoon will start in Rome and in some other Italian cities the protest “anti-gag”. To say “NO” to the new bill made by the government against publishers and journalists who represents a threat to press freedom. Italy’s privacy watchdog authority Francesco Pizzetti in his annual report to parliament said this bill “moves the balance between press freedom and privacy completely in favor of privacy.

Categorie: Oltre lo Stretto | Politica | This is It...aly!
PA
30 giu
12:21
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Berlusconi’s aggressor acquitted

di Giorgia Cavera

Massimo Tartaglia, 42, the man who threw a souvenir of Milan’s Dome at Berlusconi’s face last December the 13th after an outdoor political rally was yesterday acquitted of aggravated assault charges. A preliminary hearings judge acquitted him because he was not of sound mind at the time of the attack on the premier wrote Ansa.

Categorie: Cronaca | This is It...aly!
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28 giu
15:26
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Palermo and the new attraction: the garbage dump

di Giorgia Cavera

The Corriere today has published an article on the situation of the garbage in Palermo. The 2,000 tourists who disembarked yesterday morning from two floating palaces, the Fantastica and the Concordia, to discover Palermo among carriages decked out like carnival floats, they took the route that goes from the harbour to Piazza Politeama along Via Emerico Amari.

Categorie: This is It...aly!
PA
25 giu
12:45
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Defeated and down

di Giorgia Cavera

No legs, no brain, no energy, no determination, no character, no good will, nothing. We expressed nothing at all yesterday and it doesn’t really comfort me what Lippi said during the international press conference in Johannesburg: ”I obviously didn’t prepare the side as I should have, I would never have expected my team to play as they did in the first half.”

Categorie: Mondiali Sud Africa 2010 | Sport | This is It...aly!
PA
23 giu
16:21
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Oldest surviving portraits of Apostles discovered in catacombs of St Thecla

di Giorgia Cavera

The Corriere published today an article about the niche of the Apostles. The fourth-century paintings, the earliest surviving icons of the apostles, were discovered in a two metre-long niche in the catacombs of St Thecla in Rome’s Via Silvio D’Amico, near Via Ostiense and not far from the Basilica of San Paolo fuori le mura.

Categorie: Arte & Cultura | This is It...aly!
PA
22 giu
16:20
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First day of the “Maturità” in Italian high schools

di Giorgia Cavera

Today in Italy the High school graduation examination has started with the first test: the essay on Italian literature or current affairs.

Categorie: This is It...aly!
PA
16 giu
11:55
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Buffon’s world cup at risk for back pain

di Giorgia Cavera

Alarm for Italy at the World Cup after doctors yesterday said that they do not know when goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon will be able to recover from a back problem. Buffon, part of Italy’s 2006 World Cup-winning team, was forced to come off at halftime of the Azzurri’s opening match against Group F rivals Paraguay, which ended 1-1.

Categorie: Mondiali Sud Africa 2010 | Sport | This is It...aly!
PA
11 giu
23:30
4

World cup: Is Italy ready to kick ass?

di Giorgia Cavera

Coach Marcello Lippi and Italy’s 23-man World Cup squad arrived in South Africa two days ago and today has the first match in preparation of the Championship. The Azzurri are in Group F at the finals and have to face New Zealand, Paraguay and Slovakia.

Categorie: Mondiali Sud Africa 2010 | Sport | This is It...aly!
PA
10 giu
14:00
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Andrea Bocelli thanks her mother for not aborting

di Giorgia Cavera

There is a very touching video on you tube, in which famous Italian tenor Andrea Boccelli tells a story about a young woman who one day was taken to hospital with pains that suggest appendicitis. She doesn’t know she was pregnant.

Categorie: Arte & Cultura | Musica | This is It...aly!
PA
09 giu
00:01
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Nurse confesses baby snatch and mother forgives her

di Giorgia Cavera

“My little boy was born a second time”. That were the words of Annalisa Fortunato described her feelings, going on: “She came in. She was very calm. She wasn’t shaking. She was a nurse, in uniform”. The kidnapper was identifiable because she made no attempt to disguise herself. Ms Fortunato said: “She had glasses and a pin in her hair. She was acting normally and spoke normally. She was a very attentive nurse”.

Categorie: Cronaca | This is It...aly!
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05 giu
12:00
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Pope John Paul II: the first musical starts in Rome

di Giorgia Cavera

Ansa reported yesterday that two priests, two dancers and a team of young actors are bringing John Paul II to the stage this month, with a musical version of the pope’s life and work. The musical maps out the key developments in the life of Karol Wojtyla, who led the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005, through acting, dance, music and singing.

Categorie: Cinema&Teatro | This is It...aly!
PA
03 giu
15:54
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Italian activists arrived in Istanbul

di Giorgia Cavera

Angela Lano, Giuseppe Fallisi, the Italian-Palestinian Ismail Abdel-Rahim Qaraqe Awin; Manuel Zani; Marcello Faracci and Manolo Luppichini are the names of the six Italian activists who were on the pacifist fleet in Gaza strip last Tuesday who now are able to tell their shocking stories. They have finally left Tel Aviv headed to Istanbul trying to recover from the violent treatment they received.

Categorie: Cronaca | This is It...aly!
PA
17 mag
10:08
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Inter wins its 18th Scudetto

di Giorgia Cavera

Inter football club secured a fifth straight Serie A title yesterday after winning the match against Siena on Sunday thanks to the only goal of Milito. It was Inter’s 18th scudetto crown and keeps Jose Mourinho’s team on course for a historic treble, having already won the Italian Cup and with the Champions League final against Bayern Munich to come in Madrid this coming Saturday (May 22).

Categorie: Sport | This is It...aly!
PA
14 mag
10:49
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Sabina Guzzanti presented his documentary at the Cannes film festival

di Giorgia Cavera

Great reactions at the Cannes film festival yesterday for a film-documentary based on the Italian government’s and Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s response to the Abruzzo earthquake. The film created by comedian Sabina Guzzanti was presented yesterday and critics the entire handling of reconstruction projects after the April 6 2009 disaster, which killed 308 people, highlighting the political connections of entrepreneurs who won contracts.

Categorie: Cinema&Teatro | Politica | This is It...aly!
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