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ROME – It looks like actor and Italy regular George Clooney may be severing his ties with the Bel Paese, at least according to a report from Italian news program TG 24. The report said that Clooney is looking to sell Villa Oleandra, the mansion he bought on the shores of Lake Como 10 years ago, in order to distance himself from the attention of the corps of paparazzi who follow his every move while there.
Italy's health minister is considering the inclusion of a tax on drinks deemed unhealthy in a spending bill due to go before the Italian cabinet later this week, a health ministry official said on Monday. The official confirmed Health Minister Renato Balduzzi may propose a drinks tax of 3 euro cents a bottle to raise revenues of 250 million euros ($312.9 million), but did not clarify which beverages would be affected. Italy's health minister is considering the inclusion of a tax on drinks deemed unhealthy in a spending bill due to go before the Italian cabinet later this week, a health ministry official said on Monday. The official confirmed Health Minister Renato Balduzzi may propose a drinks tax of 3 euro cents a bottle to raise revenues of 250 million euros ($312.9 million), but did not clarify which beverages would be affected.
More than 100 miners have barricaded themselves with explosives inside a carbon mine on the Italian island of Sardinia as they seek to persuade the government to invest in the mine's future. The strike began Sunday night with 40 miners holed up with roughly 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of explosives.
La Casa Italiana is on Amsterdam Avenue, on the same block as the Columbia Univeristy president’s house. With its tan exterior, arched windows and Italian-style roof, it looks as though it was imported from Florence.
Immigration authorities have deported a Brooklyn man back to Italy to face a host of criminal charges.Tommaso Accetta was taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers Thursday from Newark Liberty International Airport to Rome.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who turns 76 next month, on Friday denied a claim by starlet Sabina Began that he had made her pregnant.
MILAN -- Authorities were searching Friday for a gunman who shot and killed an organized crime boss clad in a swimsuit as he walked from a beach to join his family at a hotel in a resort town south of Rome.
LONDON — With each turn of the cycle, it gets more difficult to remember that Italians started the spiral of overspending in soccer.
Teenagers typically turn to fantasy as a means of escaping the rigors and disappointments of adolescence, and many authors specialize in creating universes entirely separate from our own. But in “The Girl With Borrowed Wings,” a frankly spellbinding love story, Rinsai Rossetti shows the power of fantasy when it coincides with, rather than opposes, what may be a grim reality.
Matthew Ianniello, the low-key reputed Genovese crime boss known as “Matty the Horse,” who was convicted of rigging construction bids, skimming union dues and wringing protection money from bar owners, pornography peddlers and topless dancers during a half-century career that, among other highlights, helped transform Times Square into the dingy world capital of peep shows in the 1960s and ’70s, died on Aug. 15 at his home in Old Westbury, on Long Island. He was 92.