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It might not be a national holiday, but March 17th is the most patriotic day of the year in Italy: the National Day of Unity. Here's what you need to know about the history behind the date.

Italy and Germany have reached an agreement over measures for the Fiat 500X diesel model, the emissions of which were contested by Berlin.

Naples finance police on Wednesday executed 69 arrest warrants in relation to a probe into the Zagaria faction of the infamous Casalesi clan of the Camorra mafia.

Italian-Americans in New Orleans and surrounding communities celebrate the feast of St. Joseph (March 19) with parades, a St. Joseph’s altar that travels through the French Quarter, and a 500-pound bowl of pasta covered with 150 gallons of meatless gravy (Mamma Mia!).

Italy on Tuesday set the date for a referendum on two labor issues, including the use of vouchers originally meant to fight the illegal employment of seasonal farm laborers, but later used widely for all temporary workers.

Organized crime has a seemingly insatiable appetite for farm and food businesses, one of the few economic sectors experiencing growth during Italy’s protracted economic crisis.

Researchers have uncovered dinosaur tracks in rural Abruzzo, which reveal that Italy's largest documented dinosaur once roamed the central region. The footprints are between 125 and 113 million years old, and were discovered by a team from Italy's National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology (Ingv). 

A six-year-old girl has returned to Milan five years after being kidnapped by her Syrian father, the Italian foreign ministry has said. Houda Emma Kharat was taken to Aleppo by her father when she was just over one year old, evading border controls when he left Italy in December 2011.

A high-level member of Italy's Camorra mafia group was apprehendedin northeast Mexico on Saturday, after authorities tracked him down on Facebook.

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