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 The director said he contacted Italian actor and auteur Nanni Moretti about his idea, but Moretti didn't respond. "He won't be in my film," Kaurismäki said. 

 According to the report on child well-being in the developed world, the third largest eurozone economy ranks 22 among 29 countries. In Italy, 17 percent of children live under the poverty line. This means that 1.8 million children in Italy do not have regular access to basic necessities such as food.  

 Instead the huge palace, built by the Bourbon rulers of Naples to rival the more famous chateau outside Paris, has been branded a disgrace, amid a drastic fall in tourist numbers and accusations of chronic neglect. 

 Italian lawmakers will begin the election of a new president on 18 April as the legislature seeks to end a political impasse that’s left the country without a new government six weeks after elections. 

 In the final event before returning to San Francisco this summer, the America’s Cup will hold their final event of the World Series in Naples, Italy beginning Wednesday and running through April 21.

 The 19th-century brick building that houses theItalian American Museum  in the Little Italy neighborhood of Manhattan radiates an Old World intimacy, with its tin ceiling and its proximity to shops that still sell slices of pink prosciutto and balls of snow-white mozzarella. 

 An Italian court opened a  hearing Monday into whether to hand down indictments against the captain and some crew of the Costa Concordia cruise ship for the 2012 grounding off Tuscany that killed 32 people.

 The golden girl of Italian swimming, Federica Pellegrini, will not be defending the 200 and 400 metres freestyle titles she won in 2009 and 2011 at this year's world championships in Barcelona in August. 

  Umberto Bossi, the former head of the regionalist Northern League, told ANSA on Friday he did not file papers to launch a new political party."What are you talking about? People are running their mouths too much," he said, denying earlier reports. 

 Little Italy was thought by some New Yorkers to be a thing of the past as the neighborhood quickly began to shrink. Today, the neighborhood is on the rebound with a reinvigorating Italian restaurant scene that is back serving al dente spaghetti pasta and Italian dishes that made the neighborhood famous.  

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