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Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano has asked Matteo Renzi, the mayor of Florence, to form a new government.
Enrico Letta resigned as prime minister on Friday, after he was ousted in a vote called by Mr Renzi at a meeting of their centre-left Democratic Party.
The Italian male deference to their mothers may be seen from afar as an endearing trait – as joyously traditional a part of their heritage as pizza, pasta and Prosecco.
But the Catholic Church has issued a grave warning that "mammismo" – the classic attachment between Italian men and their mothers – is one of the biggest risks to marriage in the country today.
Organizers of Expo Milano 2015, as well as local and national politicians, sounded an optimistic tone Thursday, suggesting that the event - to be held from May to October next year - will help jumpstart Italy's economy and beat the organizers' own expectations in terms of visitor numbers.
Prime Minister Enrico Letta of Italy, whose weak coalition government has come under increasing criticism, announced his resignation on Thursday night after his own Democratic Party staged a dramatic insurrection and voted to replace him with the party’s new leader, Matteo Renzi.
Italy's Constitutional Court on Wednesday threw out as "illegitimate" a 2005 law that equates the possession of soft drugs to heavy drugs and has been blamed as a contributing factor to severe overcrowding in Italian prisons.
Amanda Knox has again insisted that she and her ex-boyfriend had nothing to do with the murder of Meredith Kercher, posting online a photograph in which she holds a placard with the words “We are innocent” written in Italian.
In the photograph, which Miss Knox posted on her website and sent out by Twitter to supporters, friends and family, the words “Siamo innocenti” are written on a piece of white card.
Officials described Gambino associate Franco Lupoi, 44, as the linchpin of the unholy alliance with ’Ndrangheta through his father-in-law, Nicola Antonio Simonetta, and a cousin, Francesco Ursino. Both are members of the group that in recent years has eclipsed the Sicilian Mafia and Neapolitan Camorra in influence and wealth.
Simonetta and Ursino were among those busted in Italy.
Lupoi, a co-owner of the Royal Crown Bakery in Bensonhurst, hatched a global drug-trafficking scheme with Alexander Chan, 46, and Jose Alfredo (Freddy) Garcia, 47, that originated in Brooklyn and stretched its tentacles to South America and the boot of Italy, according to court papers.
OTTAWA -- 2013 was the year the rise of the plutocrats made it to the top of the international agenda. Witness the remarkable consensus at the year's end of the world's centers of faith, power and money: Pope Francis published an apostolic exhortation
An Italian police diving team will be returning to the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise liner after a diver lost his life there on February 1.
ROME — Italian President Giorgio Napolitano faced fierce criticism on Monday over reports that he asked Mario Monti about replacing Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister months before his government fell at the height of the euro zone crisis in 2011.