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Poor old Vincenzo Nibali. He dominates the cobbles, attacks in the mountains, and becomes the first Italian to win the Tour de France in 16 years; and even then he isn’t the week’s biggest sports story in Italy.
Belgrade, July 28 - Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini on Monday called for the extension of a humanitarian truce between Israel and Gaza, which began on Sunday.
Locals in the home town of Leonardo Sciascia, one of Italy's great 20th-century writers, have expressed outrage over the intended sale of his former house and are appealing to the Sicilian regional authority and the government in Rome to help save it as a national treasure.
As the Costa Concordia shipwreck made its way north on Thursday after successfully departing from Giglio, former captain Francesco Schettino provoked a new furore after accusing people on the island of profiteering from the disaster.
Meriam Ibrahim, a Christian woman who was sentenced to death in majority-Muslim Sudan for apostasy before being released in the face of international outrage, landed in Rome on Thursday.
The Italian authorities have arrested five alleged human traffickers on suspicion of the murder of dozens migrants who were either stabbed or perished of engine fume inhalation inside the overcrowded hold of a smuggling boat.
Palermo, July 22 - The Sicilian Mafia managed to listen into the telephone calls of judge Paolo Borsellino before it slayed him, top boss Totò Riina told a fellow prison inmate in a conversation recorded by the authorities, ANSA sources said.
Thanks to the promotional efforts of his son, the actor Robert De Niro, the painter Robert De Niro Sr. (1922-93) is getting some well-deserved posthumous attention. A documentary in which the son talks movingly about his father was on HBO recently. This beautiful exhibition presents works from five decades.
Italian police have arrested three men suspected of extorting a production company shooting scenes for a television drama about the mafia in a mobster's villa.
The inmates of the penal colony on Gorgona, the northernmost island in the Tuscan archipelago, are not normally allowed to drink alcohol. But prison officials made an exception on a recent sultry summer day, when detainees and guards clinked glasses to celebrate the 2013 vintage of a wine named in its honor.