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Cease your search for a bathtub overflowing with fettuccine alfredo or even a massive platter of spaghetti and meatballs in Italy — the foods so iconic to Italian American cuisine are nowhere to be seen in pasta's homeland.
Mario Balotelli has admitted he was disappointed not to be called into the latest Italy squad, but he says he is now mature enough to respond in the right way and try to earn a recall in the near future.
LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - Italy’s Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) (BMPS.MI) will meet investors in London on April 4, two sources close to the bank told Reuters, as the Tuscan lender seeks to soothe concerns over its turnaround progress.
ROME (REUTERS) - A parade of European ambassadors passed through Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Friday to receive formal protests and details about Moscow’s plans to expel more diplomats in a deepening crisis with the West.
RUSSIA on Friday gave two Italian diplomats a week to leave the country, Italy's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, amid an increasingly bitter standoff over a nerve attack against a former Russian spy living in England.
On Monday, Italy expelled two Russian diplomats in an expression of solidarity with NATO and European Union ally Britain.
Pasqua — Easter — is considered the second most important religious event of the year in Italy. Bring this joyful celebration of the end of winter and nature’s rebirth to the table with torta pasqualina, a ricotta, sausage and artichoke stuffed pie, and pastiera napoletana, a Neapolitan pie made with wheat berries, ricotta cheese and candied citron.
NEW YORK. - The Columbus Citizens Foundation, located in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, is proud to be in another annual cycle of its acclaimed Scholarship Program. Since its inception, the Foundation has been a proud supporter of Italian-American education and culture, and established its robust Scholarship Program in 1992 to increase educational opportunities for the next generation of Italian Americans.
Nice field of wheat you’ve got there … be a shame if a herd of bulls came trampling over it.
Cops in southern Italy are trying to finally put an end to one of the mob’s oldest forms of intimidation — wild cows, which trample crops, cause train derailments and terrorize local residents.
The Italian legislative election of March 4 had two clear winners: the League and the Five Star Movement. These two parties share euroskeptical views, favor draconian restrictions to immigration and are largely perceived as anti-establishment forces. Taken together, they won about 50 percent of the votes cast. Many interpret this as a populist triumph akin to Brexit and to Trump’s election, driven by economic distress.
Italian police have arrested five people connected to Anis Amri, the Tunisian who carried out the 2016 Berlin Christmas markettruck attack and was later killed in a shootout with police in Italy.
In a statement Thursday, police said one of the five was believed to have procured the fake Italian identity papers that allowed Amri, a failed asylum-seeker, to move around Europe.
An Italian bookseller has been convicted of stealing a first edition Harry Potterbook, signed by J K Rowling, by switching it with a different novel in a shop in central London.